Dr Shashi Tharoor is not a politician really. He has certain noble objectives like making his country better if possible: economically, culturally, and intellectually too – for all rather than a select few. That is why he keeps making statements like “The nation is more important than politics.” His party, the Congress, cannot understand such notions because its leaders are all politicians. And politics is all about power and little else. Politics is pursuit of power. It has nothing to do with serving the people. If you want to serve people, become a useful professional like a doctor, a teacher, an engineer, and so on, and contribute to the welfare of the people. Politics is all about dominating, controlling, and influencing others and wilfully working to have your way against the opposition of others. That is why politicians spend huge sums of money on propaganda and self-publicity. They resort to all sorts of strategies to ensure that their domination is as total as it possi...
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