Two reasons
First: To be filed in the Hey eshwar category. Someone please immediately withdraw this moron’s writing privileges.
And he does not forget to mention that his twins went to Yale. Oh, how nice!
Second: I will give to Ram Chandra Guha. He is a remarkable man who can write thousands of words and never make anything but the most obvious point. Hell, he wrote a 700 page book without contributing anything to Indian historicity. Now, that is a remarkable feat.
But I digress. Coming back to the his Outlook essay, he explains why India can’t be a superpower or why it should not be a superpower. But he never bothers explaining how exactly he defines superpower. Economic powerhouse? Regional hegemon?
Reading Guha is like reading Mills & Boons. No. Seriously.
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Craptacular
@ First : I am confident that a majority of our political leaders did go to the primary school, managing eternally dripping nose and loose chaddi (Indian Boxer with a long thread trailing past)…Laloo – the quirky politician, without gathering the celebral dust at the ivy league becamse a case study in IIMs (for his work in the ministry)
India has been surviving with a few legacy families and Trucks full of Rubber stamps. Shashi will be rendered Kaput Clown Theater
@ Second : That Cave guy (Guha) should participate in SRK’s Kya Aap Paanchavi Pass Se Tez Hain !
I just cant believe that this Shashi Tharoor guy was a contender for UN Sec Gen post….
yes Rippu
Shashi is the same guy who wrote on the disappearance of the sari
there’s a considerable slip in his erstwhile high-quality thinking patterns/articles
1. I think Shashi did do a few columns while he was with the UN or running for that post, I remember the pretty pedestrianism of “Mallu and his Mundu (dhoti)” that was already underwhelming way back then.
2. Well, Guha is “one of the 100 most influential public intellectuals in the world”.
Lets just be thankful the remaining 99 are silent yet…
rgds,
Jai
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