Topic: Shashi Tharoor

MP Shashi Tharoor appeared as a panellist to discuss “The Future of the Nation-State and National Identity” at Doha Debates Town Hall held during the Bradford Literature Festival 2025 earlier this year. On stage with academics Dr Wael Hallaq and Dr David Engles, and a diverse group of students from Qatar and the UK, the debate saw a nuanced interrogation of belonging, sovereignty, and identity. Yet what transpired revealed a fundamental tension at the heart of Tharoor’s much-vaunted civic nationalism: a philosophy that is rhetorically inclusive but substantively fragile when confronted with objections.

A political row erupted on Monday after Congress MP Shashi Tharoor was named the recipient of the “Veer Savarkar International Impact Award” by NGO HRDS India, which he declined, even as the organisation claimed he had earlier agreed to accept it.

Congress MP Shashi Tharoor has come under sharp criticism for a social media post praising Bharatiya Janata Party veteran L.K. Advani, a politician long accused of spreading Islamophobia and fuelling anti-Muslim violence through his political career.

Congress chief Mallikarjun Kharge on Wednesday said that while his party believed in putting India first, “some people” placed Prime Minister Narendra Modi before the country.

Congress leaders took to social media to criticise party colleague and Lok Sabha MP Shashi Tharoor for his recent statements on Operation Sindoor in Panama, accusing him of acting as a “spokesperson for the BJP.”

After a marathon discussion on The Waqf (Amendment) Bill 2025 that lasted over 12 hours during the day, Union Home Minister Amit Shah moved...