Beyond Borders - India in the 21st Century - BBIF 2015

[@robinccc]

His novel 'The Great Indian Novel' is a masterpiece.

[@ImranAli-qj4ir]

Two of the persons I admire the most.

[@GauravKumar-mc2es]

It is a treat to listen to this man

[@harshageorge5712]

This has been an eye-opening interview for me, personally. Thank you William and Dr. Tharoor.

[@timwright4676]

Eloquent and informative across many subjects. Congratulations to interviewer and to interviewee.

[@harleenarneja5049]

Listening to Shashi Tharoor is always an immensely educative experience. Great chat, enjoyed thoroughly!

[@anuj18]

One of the finest brains India has! Should have been the UN Secretary-General, but dirty 'world politics' stepped in. I actually went to the Hague during my exams last year just to get a glimpse of him!! Only famous personality (Or celeb :P), I really love. ))

[@saumadeepmukherjee9135]

two finest examples of creativity and an immense intellectualism..both are my favrts

[@whiskeyandice7236]

@Rhutwij Tulankar how can a criminal who killed someone not be in jail.....he hasn't been convicted yet......and by your logic..how do u justify Modi during Gujarat riots

[@HIROLLER9]

@Rhutwij Tulankar : Modi is one better he just denied he was married. Among the countless lies - from being a Tea Boy in a railway station that did not exist to holding a degree made out of whole cloth. Ghati's have always been sour grapes the only hero they have is Shivaji, & they have named everything in Bombay, Parks, Airports & Railway stations after him. How about naming public toilets after good old Shivaji Maharaj. Then there is the infamous RSS with the 'Gavar' Ghati Godsey's being the Thuggish extension of this lawless extremist Neo Nazi's

[@HIROLLER9]

@Rhutwij Tulankar: please comment or opine when you have a better grasp of English. Ghati's are people who come from the Ghat's. Being "based in America" you are probably unfamiliar with India's Geography. Your last name suggests you maybe a Ghati - Hill dweller, Pahadee or a peasant.

[@MyKarur]

Intelligence plus articulate, Tharoor is an inspiration and a gift to India

[@adnaanwaheed6729]

Mr.Tharoor is an intelligent man, speaks well

[@queenstreetsystems]

23rd September 2021. I learned so much from this video about politics in India. Thank you so much for posting

[@priyojitchatterjee6164]

you saw a person from the opposition party calling the ruling party as chauvinists, fascists and nazis while glossing over the crimes of his own party that got them rejected twice as of 2019. keep listening to him and indian politics will continue to confuse you because he is disconnected from the ground reality.

[@kunjbhardwaj48]

Railways also carried troops to and fro during wars. throughout India.

[@HIROLLER9]

what's your point. They also carried Ghati's & Bengali's!!!!

[@faisal1582]

@@HIROLLER9 The major reason behind installing the railways were to transport weapons as fast as feasible after the war in 1857. All those Anglophilic ideas of 'because they oh so wanted to do good to India' is just a lame rationalisation. And it was paid for by the Indians through heavy taxation.

[@Junaidbalakot]

In the fog of utopian ideas and radicalism, we need such good people more and more.

[@HimanshuSingh-xk9od]

Amazing talk by two equally marvelous Authors! PS- Shahi Tharoor has *Majnu Bhai* wale glasses.

[@narkelnaru2710]

At 6:20 but really at 6:30 , Mr. Dalrymple doesn't challenge Mr. Tharoor's claim that the thumbs of Indian / Bengali weavers were smashed to prevent them from weaving "woven air." But he does claim it to be wrong later in discussions about his book "The Anarchy." Watch for that.

[@laurieellis3946]

Two of the greatest minds alive today. Brilliant! 🙏🏻🙏🏻

[@onekhalilmiah5650]

Boy,Mr tharoor can talk.

[@fahds2583]

I came here to improve my English

[@bhumiworld5080]

Looking back at this now and Mr Modi has gain won with a landslide

[@rajeshkumarbhagat]

Dr. Tharoo is Dr. Manmohan Singh plus baijpai

[@mayarao5861]

26:17 and now 7 years later 😀

[@nihalpathak3407]

Ease of doing business has now improved significantly after 3 years of Modi rule. India is now placed on 100th position from 144 th as referred by Mr. Tharoor in his talk.

[@HIROLLER9]

Yes as long as it lines Modi's & BJP pockets, Demonetization, Vande Bharat Mission to cheat poor Indians stranded abroad during the Pandemic. His shenanigan's on Independence Day parading around in saffron clothes pretending to be religious like Trump holding a Bible outside St Johns Church _ The Two CON ARTIST's

[@HIROLLER9]

It is like patting yourself on the back & celebrating after a race where you were coming last but finished 2nd last because the person in front of you tripped.

[@harshlakhani781]

Hi shashi Ease of doing business now at 60 from 146

[@vvnn2633]

Aiwaaa...one among those...😧😞but i missed

[@sereanaduwai8313]

William Dalrymple needs to have certain information on hand about his guest especially when he is introducing him to the audience- do you home work please?

[@ImranAli-qj4ir]

Noo, that's part of his charm.

[@nitikshukla]

39:00

[@call6060842]

Five years on this cosy talk is rather redundant now as Mr M is TCB as Elvis once said till 2024 they are very much in the past construct of petty concerns that should no longer concern the landscape of India in current climate where post brexit post nations protecting their beaten economies as they are seeing what is coming in the next 20 years. These guys live firmly in the past, it's great Congress party is outed as the draining on resources as they were for decades.

[@sunilprinja9913]

Where Cash is King, corruption is Queen....

[@DipakBose-bq1vv]

Shashi Tharoor never said about the pro-Muslim attitude of the Congress party.

[@shivamdave684]

predicted about china

[@sandeepvk]

Rahul Gandhi very good looking ?43:14 A bit “rich” of you to say that Mr Tharoor ?

[@HIROLLER9]

ST was stating the obvious, just because you dislike someone don't envy their looks, that is petty.

[@sandeepvk]

@@HIROLLER9 Rahul Gandhi is a short puny looking unkept wanna be politician. I really wished we had a better gene in him but the reality is that he doesn't have it and this is fact. Since this interview he has gone from bad to worst politically too. He is just a clown who needs to get the fuck out of politics

[@brinthadevi3459]

I LOVE YOU MY DARLING HANDSOME AND BRILLIANT SHASHI THAROOR❤

[@harir3628]

William Darymple controls many literary festivals in India, why should a British national own and run Indian educational events. We are still colonized after all these years.

[@user_ar6332]

He lives in India, he is a writer . so why should he not do it? Indians also are in many think tanks in the US as well as in many sphers in leadership roles. would you say US is colonised by Indians?

[@harir3628]

Have you read his books? He views through a western lens. Indian in the US think tanks view from the US lens. Read Breaking India by Rajiv Malhotra, you will realize his real intentions.

[@yusuf.k.m]

He doesn't own many of them. He co founded the first one,the Jaipur Literature Festival. It's success led to all the other major cities start one. We should be thankful to him for setting it off. He's a self described Indophile.

[@nimi8386]

Because we are busy saving cows

[@Dreamia69]

Everyone knows that Rahul is a fool.

[@kp32kumar]

wow he is so wrong. India has jumped 50 already ( ease of doing bussiness)

[@gustofzephyr947]

This was uploaded in 2015. So he has been proven wrong 4 years later. Also it was 70 ranks jump I think.

[@abhisheksah]

the video is 5 years old also india is at 69 wink wink

[@victor256in]

Shashi is as erudite and scholarly about History as he is clueless about Indian politics and foreign policy. Every word he said about Modi and his outcome turned out false 7 years later.

[@Adi300594]

I respect this chap to be a well learned person, but it beats me why he endorses a dimwit like Rahul Gandhi and in guise supports nepotism by pushing him up the pedestal which Mr. Rahul, clearly doesn't deserve.

[@fizzybacon2388]

That's the problem. It beats me why all the memebers of the party don't clamour for a change when the country clearly is. But I understand why Tharoor alone can't openly not support Rahul Gandhi. If he has to be in power he needs a party ticket because independents rarely win and when they do it is precarious and at the mercy of some other alliance that they have to ally themselves with. Now since he has to be in a party it has to be Congress because the other one with a national presence is the far right bjp. So yeah. All this will continue till maybe another loss makes the problem of having Rahul pressing enough for them to find a better leader.

[@rakhimukerji7937]

I n politics you need a base Sashi Tharoor did not..have.that

[@nimi8386]

Tanwisha because the “family” owns the party treasury. Like a car without fuel cant run, similarly a national political party can’t run without cash. Hence they all need to side with the Gandhi lot.

[@rakhimukerji7937]

Unfortunate but any party needs somebody to gather round snd Sashi sticked to present leadership

[@civilianaire]

ugh

[@michealcurrie8272]

Writer's without political borders. JLF.

[@rupeshkumardalavi4872]

Anchor thumped Tharoor very badly😂

[@DavidGS66]

The British get criticized because the Indian economy stagnated; however, the modern Indian govt. has harmed its economy using protectionism. Imported cars are charged 60% & 100% tariffs. Build cars within India you say. Well, that can be less efficient. GM, Ford, & Harley Davidson all tried & had to give up. This drives up costs for consumers, drives down wages, & over the long run, hurts the people you intend to protect. If we all hand weave clothing like Ghandi did, we will all be poor, because of low productivity.

[@priyojitchatterjee6164]

western cars are garbage. they are big, expensive and fuel inefficient. they were driven out by local competition. automobile industry in india is growing rapidly. we dont need to entertain trash companies backed by governments with deep pockets.

[@tmk5]

Please prounce it Shshi, not Sha shi.. small a.. 😆

[@rasat4829]

Bullshit Dr. Shashi! Its 45 Trillion and they should pay for it!!

[@ishrirampersad8809]

First of all, you write as if we were friends at a time in the past, forty eight years ago. And secondly am not sure if being a Trotskyist is a compliment or a stigma. As to your question about whether all BJP are angels, to be brief, is a posture only the reckless would adopt. So my answer to that part of the discussion is an absolute No. I take it that ST is no doubt Shashi Tharoor? As to being a politician that I am not and have no aspirations to be, ever. Therefore you are ascribing to me a category of being convenient politician, and by suggestion you'd like me to be one that supports a particular political philosophy, I am not. I assure you I am a Civic Nationalist as you have chosen to describe it. But my theocratic leanings are my private business, not up to be discussed in the same breath with my political pursuit. I trust you are clearer about some aspects about me you have chosen to examine.

[@vijay-1]

How wrong on Modi's chances

[@shilpa3032]

Shashi tharoor has lost credibility when he supported Rahul gandhi, simple example of bootlicking

[@HIROLLER9]

Dalrymple is a poor interviewer constantly interrupting Tharur with inconsequential questions.

[@GauravKumar-mc2es]

I disagree. He knows exactly when to switch because Shashi would go on

[@HIROLLER9]

@@GauravKumar-mc2es I would much rather listen to ST as you may learn something. Dalrymple is an apologist for his kind, falsely justifying British intentions.

[@GauravKumar-mc2es]

Ohh that's big mate! Honestly don't know much about William. But will read the anarchist book by him. May I know why do you say that?

[@ishrirampersad8809]

Sometimes the wisest of us throughout our early years support s certain political party and stick with it regardless. But ST is too learned to support an unreliable no good like Rahul Gandhi. He does not need to be seen among crooks and deceitful characters like the top Congress big boys.

[@HIROLLER9]

Ishri Rampersad : Is it your contention that the BJP are all honest, truth loving, decent people? ST said it best to Dasgupta during the Independence day debate. When we met on a train in 1972, you sir were a Trotskyite but since the BJP came to power you conveniently switched to the BJP, that sir, makes you a convenience politician. I (ST) on the other hand have been a secular, liberal congress supporter following the examples of the great Indian Stalwarts who fought & gained India its Independence, Gandhi, Tilak, Patel & Nehru, that makes me a conviction politician. ST is clear he is a civic nationalist who cannot reconcile with theocratic, Hindu Nationalism which denies the rights of minorities based on arbitrary categorizing of citizenship by religion or caste.

[@lordx4641]

I am disappointed by shashi tharoor in this vid he didnt represent india as a whole but was always putting party agendas

[@tstanmoysamanta]

Totally Bashed Modi...It was not needed....I never seen any person from Other country Demeaning his own country.Other than Trump but Modi is not any way comparable to Trump

[@Critic224]

Tanmoy Samanta ... is Mr Modi a god or what that he cannot be criticized? And The common refrain is that he is the Prime minister hence should not be criticized, well, so was Mr. Man Mohan Singh , and he was a fair game for criticism.... then why not Mr Modi ?

[@tstanmoysamanta]

Critic224 Have you ever heard anything bad about chinese president and any chinese saying that..so all chinese president might be god according to you.There is a thing called perception building about your country in the world..because the world works on perception....do you know in other part of the world what is the perception of India..I tell you its dirty poor...rape culture..and no toilet...now go try to change any ones mind ...if you have the power

[@Critic224]

Tanmoy Samanta Chinese Presidents are not democratically elected while our prime minister is, and in a democracy, we are allowed to ask questions or criticize within a framework of respect, which is what Dr Tharoor did. He did not bad mouth the PM, he criticized within a framework of reasoning and respect. And yes, I know perception of India beyond its borders is very important, but you know what, perception is not made by lying in front of a foreign audience but actually by doing good deeds. If India is gaining a bad name due to rape cases in the country, then it is because rapes are taking place in the country, not because some Indian politician is admitting to them taking place in front of a foreign audience! If India is called an open toilet then it is because of the fact that till now more than 50% of our people still don’t have access to safe sanitation. Fix all this and we will change the perception of our country in eyes of the world!

[@fizzybacon2388]

@@tstanmoysamanta because if you say anything against the chinese president being a chinese you would get into a lot of trouble. Compare India with real democracies and not bad democracies and socialist countries where freedom of speech and expression are poor. Not like he said anything that wasn't a fact about Modi. And not like people abroad don't read the news and don't know about what's going on in India.

[@tstanmoysamanta]

@@fizzybacon2388 Still they are much developed than India...if you want to build a road in India it takes a decade because people have right to block it being built, they will go to court and try how many ways it can not be built.Thats why they are 11 trillion dollar economy and we are 2.6 trillion dollar economy.

[@asisbagchi8118]

Well well. Bharatbarsha has a Hindu heritage. Christians and Muslims belong to the invading cultures (outsiders who invaded Bharatbarsha). It is in the greater interest of the nation that we appreciate our naturalness. Our naturalness is "Hinduness" (Hindutwa). But this word Hindutwa has been used negatively to undermine our culturally rich Dharmic heritage. Which is Hindutwa. Congress Party has followed appeasement and vote bank politics. Which is being rightfully ignored by the ruling government.

[@someshdevkar5387]

Yes, i am a hindu... and i absolutely agree that hindu culture should flourish, but what about the situations in which it is apparently used as a tool to capture and encapsulate political power and then subsequently risk a totalitarian regime upon India.

[@asisbagchi8118]

@@someshdevkar5387 yes it is all true that is bothering...however you need to make protests at the very onset. Then take it seriously with the people who are actively involved with the project. We need vigilance and persistent approaches to defeat and destroy the anti-Bharat and anti-Hindu elements from Bharatbarsha. Identify them. Then destroy them.

[@someshdevkar5387]

@@asisbagchi8118 but in that process, would it be fair enough to exterminate all others and would it be obligatory to impose on ourselves an autocratic repressive regime in order for hindu culture to flourish ? Does it make me a less hindu if i do not support the political ambitions of certain leaders ?

[@asisbagchi8118]

@@someshdevkar5387 preservation of good over evil this is our duty, our responsibility. This is how we develop ourselves. Our naturalness as Bharatbasi is our Hinduness (Hindutwa). We must behave naturally. Which means we display our naturalness in our acts, deeds and our relationships. It does not mean that we must tolerate the intolerant. It does not mean we display any odd behaviour in order to be multicultural, liberal or adopt appeasement policy and vote bank politics. It means simply we behave as we should .... normal, natural and not support or encourage any anti-Bharat and anti-Hindu activities. Our aim is to develop ourselves as Bharatbasi "Savka Sath Savka Vikash" (not by changing our naturalness or through appeasement policy). We must defeat all breaking India forces. We must defeat all naysayers. Bharatbarsha is known as Hindustan meaning "land of the Hindus". Due to our magnanimous attitude and extreme generosity we welcomed many outsiders over the centuries to come over here and settle down. Many of them have come here and settled down peacefully. Zoroastrians when pushed out of Iran (Persia) have come here settled and prospered. They do not have problems or issues! Only certain people find it difficult, and to them I say if you find it hard you may choose to leave we have no objections. We also say do not create problems here by showing your displeasure. Why? Simply your behaviour will not be allowed. You will not be tolerated if you are not complying. We will never tolerate the intolerant people, we never did, not now and never. Bharatbarsha is for Bharatbasi. Who believe that this nation is their Janmabhumi, Matribhumi, Pitribhumi and Punyabhumi Bharatbarsha. Nothing personal. Stay safe.

[@tube.brasil]

He could have said what he said in half the time. Very confusing and disorganized talk.

[@HIROLLER9]

just listen to half the program TUBE

[@narayaneebiman7262]

1>I am a STAUNCH BJPite and am delighted with Dr SHASHI THAROOR's (except for his complicity in his wife's murder) book-The Inglorious Empire. 2>INDIA is proud of both MODI and THAROOR and needs both of them. 3>My only wish is that DR SHASHI THAROOR gets a bigger role in the MODI GOVT and plays a more important role in straightening out INDIA’s world affairs.