I have heard about him earlier as an Indian origin English writer.All that Indian in him possibly was that his parents were Indian.He has spent almost three decades of his career outside India with practically nothing to do with India.
India is such a complex country with different languages,cultures,faiths and so much differences but still with some sort of bond that unites every one in spite of all differences.A person born and brought up in India will naturally find it difficult to understand the diversities and complexities of India.Then how can Dr.Tharoor who lived all of his career life outside India,can understand India?
Possibly due to better personal connections or rapport with people who matter at the top echelons of Congress party he got a seat to contest parliament elections from capital of Kerala,Trivandrum after failing in his attempt to become UN Secretary General.
People in general have so much hatred for politicians of all hue and cry.Naturally Dr.Tharoor who looked new and clean in the political spectrum got elected from Trivandrum as member of Parliament not withstanding propaganda that he does not even know Malayalam the language of Kerala properly,which is true.
With the right connections at Delhi,he could become a Minister at Central government that too with a portfolio which allowed him to do what he was so familiar doing in all those years in U.N-globe trotting.He was enjoying it thoroughly without bothering much about what he can do for the people of Kerala,whom he might have simply forgotten having became a Member of Parliament in spite of all odds against him.
About a month back I met him in a function conducted by Kerala Management Association.What I could notice is that he talked well in English and he talked fast without bothering much about what all he was talking possibly correcting mistakes with a smile.An Indian politician need to learn to talk carefully weighing each words properly before uttering it.But Dr.Tharoor did not bother about it.Naturally it landed him in many controversies.Luckily he could escape all those through Dr.Manmohan Singh who described comments of Dr.Tharoor as mere jokes.
But when it came to dangling with cash rich IPL cricket ,I could not help suspecting why a so called close friend of Dr.Tharoor has to be there in the deal.So far nobody has explained about the great work she did for IPL Kochi.And why she alone could do such a work which called for free “sweat equity”?
Naturally we poor people at the bottom level without any hope of any political dream wonder what Dr.Tharoor did for IPL,Kochi with the help of his “close friend”
And in the one year of his minister ship at Delhi what did Dr.Tharoor do differently compared to all those not so intelligent educated,capable ministers?
So there cannot be anyone shedding a tear for this fall of Dr.Tharoor from among the ordinary people of Kerala
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