A Quote by Shashi Tharoor

India is more than a sum of its contradictions, any truism about India can be contradicted with another truism. There is no fixed stereotype. But even thinking about India makes clear the immensity of the nation-building challenge.

Shashi Tharoor

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Shashi Tharoor
Indian - Public Servant
Born: March 9, 1956

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