Why I disagree with Shashi Tharoor

I have great respect for Shashi's intellectual credentials, but there is one issue on which we disagree. It is not an acrimonious disagreement, but one of a point of view. In all his speeches and presentations on India's soft power and civilisational strengths, Shashi dwells at great length on the diversity of India. He did the same in a recent article co-authored by him. I agree that we are, at one level, a diverse people, but I have a problem with being mesmerised by our diversity without emphasising the essential unity underlying it.

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