Newslaundry Interviews Shashi Tharoor

How about asking him if he was enjoying his sweat equity?

Well I am new to this website thanks to WSJ post, and have watched only two interviews on this site, Subramanyam Swami and of course Shashi Tharoor. I think your interviewer needs to research more, and should make his points more boldly, it looks as if someone has given him a list of questions to ask, he fails in cross questioning, he repeats same points instead of making some genuine arguments. Although he is really makes interviewer and audience comfortable making it more of a talk or discussion, so it’s overall good to watch.

Check out from minute 27: Tharoor is wrong: Keynes said govt must spend when pvt sector refuses to spend because markets are shrinking in a recession. Austerity in India was for govt expenses on ministers & bureaucrats on LPG, diesel, phone bills and foreign trips. Again he is wrong when he says difference between Economy & Business class is marginal.

So, Govt must spend on projects, Dig a hole and cover it up using labor. He might not have meant go have a holiday using business class tickets or have an office in a 5 star hotel for months on end because the External affairs ministry was not good enough.

Finally on Indian MP’s being among the lowest paid, If Mr. Tharoor ever worked in pvt sector he would know somehting called CTC (cost to the company) Indiam MP’s cost to the country is very very high. Whether when the parliament is in session or not.

Smart alec! Hope this is the last time he is anywhere near government.

“A Secretary General who might appeal above the Heads of Governments to public opinion” and “somebody who could go on television to appeal to people“!!!

Whatever Mr.Tharoor’s qualities are -and I am sure he has many -humility is not one of them.

People in this country were -’were’ because it didn’t take long for the people of this country to see hyper-inflated ‘consultancy fees’ and mythical ‘sweat equity’ for what they were – enamoured by Tharoor as they perceived him to be a breath of fresh air in a field largely dominated by inarticulate village idiots and mindless thugs.Add to this his exceptional academic credentials – exceptional when contrasted with that of his peers whose median education level today stands at matriculation pass – and the people (read the English speaking people of this country) thought that Tharoor was cut from different cloth and hence merited their support.Tharoor, for his part mistook the deference extended to him by a pliant media as proof positive of ability to charm.

As all good things,Tharoor’s charmed existence too had to end; and while Tharoor will no doubt be crestfallen at what happened to him, he can draw solace from the fact that had the theatre of his activities been anywhere but “Mera Bharat Mahaan” his omissions and commissions would have meant curtains for his nascent political career.

Tharoor Congress ka chamcha….!!!