Modi Praises Shashi Tharoor Oxford Speech

Shashi Tharoor gets praise from PM Narendra Modi after Sonia Gandhi’s rebuke

A day after he got a reprimand from his party chief Sonia Gandhi, Congress MP Shashi Tharoor on Thursday received handsome praise from Prime Minister Narendra Modi for his debating skills, creating flutters in political circles about the timing of his remarks. ....... "What Shashi ji said (at the Oxford debate recently) has now gone viral on YouTube," the PM said praising the passionate argument in Oxford put forward by Tharoor in demanding reparation payments from the UK to India for 200 years of its colonial rule. ........ Tharoor's speech gelled with the feelings of patriotic Indians on the issue and also shows what impression one can leave with effective arguments by saying the right things at the right place, Modi said. ...... Seated in the front row, Tharoor, who was pulled up by Gandhi on Wednesday for leaking his remarks against Congress' stalling tactics in Parliament on the issue of scams, acknowledged the Prime Minister's praise for him with a smile.

India’s Modi praises MP for reparations speech at Oxford

The 15-minute video of his speech to the Union has more than 1.2 million hits on YouTube and has been shared hundreds of times on Twitter and Facebook....... “India’s share of the world economy when Britain arrived on its shores was 23 percent. By the time the British left it was down to below four percent,” Tharoor said in the May 28 debate. ..... “Why? Simply because India had been governed for the benefit of Britain. Britain’s rise for 200 years was financed by its depredations in India,” he said. ..... Tharoor added that Indians had “literally paid for our own oppression,” as by the end of the 19th century they were the world’s biggest purchasers of British goods as well as providing employment for highly paid civil servants. ..... Tharoor has often faced flak from Congress president Sonia Gandhi for praising Modi and his initiatives, and was removed as a party spokesman last October........ “I am very touched and grateful,” the 59-year-old said after the compliments on his oratory skills.

Shashi Tharoor: Impressive Speech At Oxford

The curious thing is, the only way the Congress party can get competitive again in the next 20 year timeframe is if Shashi Tharoor runs for and becomes Congress party president. His state right now feels like the last Congress stronghold.

Shashi Tharoor

Lalit And Vyapam: Time Waste "Scams"

It is a media dynamic. They think they built Modi up, and now they will spend a year breaking him down. That is how they sell newspapers. It is a low, cheap way to do business. Lalit And Vyapam: Time Waste Scams. I still don't know what the accusations are in the two "scams." That Chouhan guy is an excellent Chief Minister. Why would he resign? The media wants these individuals to resign more than the Congress does. Because if someone resigns, that is news. Man bit dog. That will sell newspapers. न्यूज़ चैनल्स के पास २४ घंटे के लिए खबरे नहीं मिल रहे तो सिर्फ १२ घंटे चलाओ, लोगों को आराम से सोने दो।

This is why Larry Page, the CEO of Google, basically just avoids media people. He feels like he operates in a very different domain from what the media people are interested in. The media people are interested in fights, even where none exist. They want drama from small fights. Whereas Larry Page wants to think about true innovation, about what he calls "moonshot projects."

मैंने अभी तक व्यापम के बारे में एक भी आर्टिकल नहीं पढ़ी। क्यों टाइम waste करूँ अपना? अरे यार मीडिया वालों, there are plenty of genuine stories. Both the land bill and the labor bill are controversial. उसके बारे लिखो। I would love to read detailed viewpoints of those who oppose those bills. I want to know what their detailed reasons are. So it is not like I am a blind Modi supporter.

First of all, no, you did not build Modi. The Indian voters elected him. Second, you can't break him. The Indian people will have the option to unelect him in 2019. तो आप बीच में क्या नौटंकी कर रहे हो? Very likely he will stay in power for 20 years. So what are you going to do? Build him up and break him down every other year? तब तक में सोशल मीडिया आप को चबा के खा जाएगी। उसके बारे में लिखो।

अब मेरे को पता चला नेपाल में #GoHomeIndiaMedia और उसी समय भारत में #DoNotComeBackIndiaMedia क्यों ट्रेंड करने लगी।

Viewpoint: Britain must pay reparations to India

At the beginning of the 18th Century, India's share of the world economy was 23%, as large as all of Europe put together. By the time the British departed India, it had dropped to less than 4%. The reason was simple: India was governed for the benefit of Britain. Britain's rise for 200 years was financed by its depredations in India. By the end of the 19th Century, India was Britain's biggest cash-cow, the world's biggest purchaser of British exports and the source of highly paid employment for British civil servants - all at India's own expense. We literally paid for our own oppression.......

As Britain ruthlessly exploited India, between 15 and 29 million Indians died tragically unnecessary deaths from starvation.

...... The last large-scale famine to take place in India was under British rule; none has taken place since, since free democracies don't let their people starve to death. ..... upholding iniquity through institutionalised racism. ....... No Indian in the colonial era was ever allowed to feel British; he was always a subject, never a citizen. ...... no effort was made to ensure that supply matched demand for mass transport. ..... the Indian Railways were a big British colonial scam. .... British shareholders made absurd amounts of money by investing in the railways, where the government guaranteed extravagant returns on capital, paid for by Indian taxes...... Thanks to British rapacity, a mile of Indian railways cost double that of a mile in Canada and Australia........ "private enterprise at public risk". Private British enterprise, public Indian risk. ..... British aid, which is far from the amounts a reparation debate would throw up, is only a fraction of India's fertiliser subsidy to farmers ...... the banishing of the last Mughal emperor on a bullock cart to Burma....... India contributed more soldiers to British forces fighting the First World War than Australia, Canada, New Zealand and South Africa combined. ...... Two and a half million Indians also fought for British forces in the Second World War