But trust this politician to have a solution for everything. Tharoor is deeply hurt to see his country become something that many from his generation fail to recognise. I'm proud of my own college and I would love to study there again, but I think we'll all need to raise our voices to ensure that the values we grew up taking for granted are restored again.” ![]() "It is a very difficult question to answer," says Tharoor, adding, "A lot of things weren't how they used to be. Tharoor has always been critical of the rising intolerance and the Hindutva ideology, and that got us wondering if this St Stephen's alumnus would consider studying there had he been an 18-year-old in 2018. The country was tolerant to change and harmony still existed. The socio-political situation and the values were different. The India he grew up in was absolutely different. St Stephen's again? Not without raising my voice Idea flow: Tharoor feels that the Hindutva ideology has distorted the Hindu faith Their government didn't have any interest in educating Indians." A critic of the British rule in India, who lashed out through his book, An Era of Darkness, Tharoor, who considers the term ‘Macaulayputra’ an insult, says, "The British certainly didn't do us any favours by teaching us English. Even though this Member of Parliament is an ardent lover of the language and its literature, he doesn't consider it to be the passport to success. Having said that, if you think that Tharoor belongs to that section of society that considers proficiency in the English language as a bar to assess one's social status, you're wrong. 'The British didn't have any interest in educating Indians' That is how my vocabulary grew," says Tharoor, who believes that proficiency in a language is always important to appreciate certain things like humour and smiles. When you encounter the same word in three different places, you learn how it is used. As a result, I acquired a lot of words simply by reading. So, I read obsessively, widely and indiscriminately. On top of that, I was an asthmatic child, which meant that I couldn't go out and play. "I grew up in an India where I had no computer, no television, no Nintendo and no mobile phones. He even jokes that he may have deliberately used some uncommon words in his tweets thanks to these memes.īut did Tharoor spend hours as a child memorising all the words in the Oxford dictionary? Absolutely not! His logophilia (the love of words) is definitely a result of extensive reading. But did you know that these memes don't exasperate Shashi Tharoor himself? In fact, they crack him up, just like the rest of us. Most of you may have even laughed out loud at them. ![]() ![]() On a scale of one to Shashi Tharoor, how good is your English? Unless you're new to the internet and the world of memes, it is quite unlikely that you've not come across this question and the memes related to it.
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