Shashi Tharoor Tweetstream

Status :@Saptarshi77 the cartoon didn't create controversy when it 1st appeared in 1947. This is more about today's political sensitivities
Created at : 05/17/12 2:29 PM

Status :@ramdasrocks not any longer. It's been killed by the Left. The Commies still control the municipality of Thiruvananthapuram
Created at : 05/17/12 2:25 PM

Status :@sprasanths well, in that case I'll have to hope you netizens are convinced enough to campaign for me amongst the uninformed!
Created at : 05/17/12 2:24 PM

Status :Launched a3rd book of historical fiction set in Ancient India, after @amisht &Ashwin Sanghi: AnuragAnand's riveting The Legend of Amrapali
Created at : 05/17/12 9:44 AM

Status :And here's the second part of my Parliament speech on comm&industry: http://t.co/o0srcE4Y (link to PartI in previous tweet)
Created at : 05/17/12 7:33 AM

Status :For the diehards who asked4my Parl speech on Commerce&Industry, here it is in two parts: Part I: http://t.co/utreM1VI
Created at : 05/17/12 7:32 AM

Status :Amazing: @amisht 's ShivaTrilogy has now sold 600,000 in 2 years, w/gross retail sale of Rs 14.7 crores. So some writers can make a living! 
Created at : 05/17/12 6:06 AM

Status :@Netapedia i will when you get your facts right. Not impressed by my own entry, for instance.
Created at : 05/17/12 5:29 AM

Status :@_ashwin_patel there's already one, in Kozhikode. We won't get another.
Created at : 05/17/12 5:27 AM

Status :Transcript of my remarks on d 60th Anniversary of Parliament's 1st sitting, delivered impromptu at Sunday's Sp.Session: http://t.co/d120aiXZ
Created at : 05/17/12 5:07 AM

Status :This is the President's week for Kerala newspapers. After Deepika's 125th anniversary yesterday,she commemorated KeralaKaumudi's 100th today
Created at : 05/17/12 4:53 AM

Status :Joined Kerala MPs in a visit to the prime Minister to ask for an IIT for Kerala &help for legislation to introduce a minimum wage for nurses
Created at : 05/17/12 4:51 AM

Status :@IndieTharoorian thanks. Hugely impressed by @syedfaizan87 's eloquence &idealism. http://t.co/jifLtjnO Inspiring
Created at : 05/16/12 1:25 PM

Status :@kamalupa @MPNaveenJindal @milinddeora Sez who? i was there for most of the day,&part of zero hour. Not always of compelling interest!
Created at : 05/16/12 1:23 PM

Status :@akrishnamraju @wadhwa would be glad to meet. Have read some of his stuff. Good work!
Created at : 05/16/12 7:35 AM

Status :@dineshdasa1 not in the slightest!
Created at : 05/16/12 3:58 AM

Status :@DKMahant @quizderek @milinddeora It's a superb piece by Suhas Palshikar on the whole cartoon controversy. http://t.co/RohkDvRa
Created at : 05/16/12 3:57 AM

Status :@sudhanshu128 @Yanindia @janlokpal @thekiranbedi I did say it in my Lok Sabha speech on the LokPal Bill, citing Supreme Court judgements
Created at : 05/16/12 3:51 AM

Status :@ajitraner_10 @cricketicc Missed @sachin_rt &Rekha at the photo session of MPs which took place today!
Created at : 05/16/12 3:12 AM

Status :@DelhiLovesBuses in my student days, often.
Created at : 05/16/12 3:06 AM

Status :(2/2)@MariyamNatasha He stressed most parties wouldn't agree since they are not ready4elections now. Earliest constitutional date:July 2013
Created at : 05/16/12 3:04 AM

Status :(1/2)@MariyamNatasha I've spoken2the President who explained it's constitutionally impossible. To demand elections now would be2call4a coup.
Created at : 05/16/12 3:02 AM

Status :A 2008 interview on spirituality. I still stand by all of it despite the tribulations i've endured since! http://t.co/xNsWXFzQ
Created at : 05/16/12 2:59 AM

Status :My Special mention in the Lok Sabha yesterday on the Thiruvananthapuram garbage crisis: http://t.co/MzwfPRj8
Created at : 05/16/12 2:07 AM

Status :@akrishnamraju @IndieTharoorian how would you see anything on the screen? We have 23 languages recognized by the Constitution!
Created at : 05/15/12 1:56 PM

Status :@akrishnamraju that requires constituency contact on frequent visits. I spent 16 days in Thiruvananthapuram in April,meeting ppl throughout
Created at : 05/15/12 12:54 PM

Status :@Satishshekar yes it has. The UK had two general elections in the same year in the early 1970s
Created at : 05/15/12 9:18 AM

Status :@sachi_bbsr not easy & not recommended. There's more to life. Any1 with normal professional& family obligations can't do it
Created at : 05/15/12 9:16 AM

Status :@drsumitdubey right now it's more important to focus on educating the ones already born. If not, they could become a danger to India
Created at : 05/15/12 9:12 AM

Status :@vijaygkg while the scruff of my neck is always available, I wonder what authority you think I have to do anything about #Rinkle
Created at : 05/15/12 8:42 AM

Status :@Mr_Siddharth I think he's provided a valuable service to our society & proposed specific actions to resolve them. Way to go!
Created at : 05/15/12 8:37 AM

Status :@elluranand I joined the Congress of 2009, not the Congress of 1976.
Created at : 05/15/12 8:32 AM

Status :@aksh_juneja agree
Created at : 05/15/12 4:42 AM

Status :@kamalupa obviously not! I think they can be a useful pedagogical tool
Created at : 05/15/12 4:40 AM

Status :@Dayamaitreya @arunr_sms yes, someone said that the principal cause of death is birth!
Created at : 05/15/12 3:03 AM

Status :@dineshdasa1 @smritiirani we need to triple or quadruple that to get the benefit of their contribution to our society ["women r 11% ofParl]
Created at : 05/15/12 3:00 AM

Status :RT @arunr_sms The worst part of getting old is remembering when you were young. [ST:&worst part of being young is forgetting u will be old!]
Created at : 05/14/12 9:23 PM

Status :@revs_urmi no, already sensitized by @RahulBose1 to CSA, including the 53% figure. But hadn't seen a show like this before. Powerful.
Created at : 05/14/12 9:19 PM

Status :@Satvik Spiritual messages of brotherhood, carried across borders by individuals, can promote goodwill&harmony, yes.
Created at : 05/14/12 9:15 PM

Status :@panchyat one more media falsehood, alas. My book is on Indian foreign policy!
Created at : 05/14/12 2:41 PM

Status :@JithuCheriyath been to Kannur, driven through Mahe!
Created at : 05/14/12 12:16 AM

Status :@dataindiatweets Thanks. None of the print media seems to have noticed it, though. Probably enjoying their afternoon siesta when I spoke.
Created at : 05/14/12 12:04 AM

Status :@akashvr I think that's usually decided by majority vote!
Created at : 05/14/12 12:01 AM

Status :@AbduSays i believe the episodes are all made already. Not much point in proposing new ideas now. Curious as to which issues he will takeup
Created at : 05/14/12 12:00 AM

Status :@sobertooth link not working
Created at : 05/13/12 11:59 PM

Status :(2/2) @AnkitPilania @quizderek @HelloMantriji delays in administrative sanction&pace of work of implementing agencies,&there4lower spending
Created at : 05/13/12 11:53 PM

Status :(1/2) @AnkitPilania @quizderek @HelloMantriJi These are deeply misleading stats.My funds are 100% allocated. But there have been
Created at : 05/13/12 11:50 PM

Status :@dteoh If invited by the appropriate authorities and if my schedule permits, yes indeed
Created at : 05/13/12 11:36 PM

Status :@Yanindia @janlokpal @thekiranbedi I'm in favour of operational independence for CBI, but administrative responsibility with Government
Created at : 05/13/12 9:59 PM

Status :@akrishnamraju they were growing faster for the 1st 40 of those 60 yrs. We've grown faster since 1991. Unlikely we will catch up with them
Created at : 05/13/12 2:53 PM

Status :Having seen 2episodes of #SatyamevJayate, I'm sure @aamir_khan is making a real difference2Indian society. Solid research, gr8 prodn,humane
Created at : 05/13/12 2:34 PM

Status :@dineshdasa1 yes, amazing to see those living links to out history!
Created at : 05/13/12 8:52 AM

Status :@kruti2004 I respectfully suggested an end to disruptions in my speech today.We must again live up to the standards of our founding fathers
Created at : 05/13/12 8:51 AM

Status :@INCSupporter sorry, there's a jammer in Parliament &i didn't see this. Only stepped out for a minute to announce my speech (about 3.30pm)
Created at : 05/13/12 8:42 AM

Status :@arusha6 wow, you have a great memory! Yes, that "hard talk" went rather well, thanks
Created at : 05/13/12 8:37 AM

Status :Unexpectedly invited to speak towards the end of the discussion on 60th anniversary of Parliament. Should be taking the floor in 10 minutes
Created at : 05/13/12 4:40 AM

Status :@YanIndia 95% of the tweets I reply to don't come with constituency information! Haven't seen your questions, alas.
Created at : 05/13/12 12:27 AM

Status :@kailashmaharash all democracies are not necessarily republics(eg UK,Sweden)&all republics are not necessarily democracies (eg North Korea)
Created at : 05/13/12 12:24 AM

Status :@AKumar4u wrong. I was the 1st to speak up for #Rinkle 2 weeks ago thanks to info from @marvisirmed. Met Home Minister on it. @dranandjee
Created at : 05/12/12 10:44 PM

Status :@kailashmaharash all it means is a sovereign nation with its own Constitution that is neither a monarchy nor a Dominion of the Brit Empire
Created at : 05/12/12 10:27 PM

Status :@veenapani_s I am in favour of FDI in retail but have not published my views in detail.Waiting to express them 1st in the real Parliament!
Created at : 05/12/12 9:42 AM

Status :Commemorated Nurses' Day by intervening amicably in dispute between striking nurses in Faridabad &CMD of Asian Medical Institute Hospital
Created at : 05/12/12 9:40 AM

Status :@ileena14 yes
Created at : 05/12/12 9:31 AM

Status :RT @JanaS: @ShashiTharoor Why did we forget Alex Menon's dead bodyguards? Good Question asked by the writer .. http://t.co/v0nbSSMc
Created at : 05/12/12 6:58 AM

Status :@rajivhtc @long_laugh @mayaadvaita I have seen far more anatomically explicit nudity in Hindu temple sculptures than in Husain's paintings.
Created at : 05/12/12 3:49 AM

Status :@kailashmaharash these are innovative textbook styles 2keep easily-bored children engaged. Cartoons are meant2serve as tools for discussion
Created at : 05/12/12 1:52 AM

Status :@akshatbhartiya I'm against. Depressed 2c how easily offended we are&how quickly politics descends2the lowest common denominator of outrage
Created at : 05/12/12 1:50 AM

Status :@rajivhtc @long_laugh @mayaadvaita that may well have played a role in his not getting the award. I am a believing Hindu&I was not offended
Created at : 05/12/12 12:57 AM