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Full text and summary of Shashi Tharoor’s talk titled “Why Nations Should Pursue “Soft” Power” at TED conference.
TRANSCRIPT:
As an Indian, and now as a politician and a government minister, I’ve become rather concerned about the hype we’re hearing about our own country, all this talk about India becoming a world leader, even the next superpower.
In fact, the American publishers of my book, “The Elephant, The Tiger and the Cell Phone,” added a gratuitous subtitle saying, “India: The next 21st-century power.”
And I just don’t think that’s what India’s all about, or should be all about.
Indeed, what worries me is the entire notion of world leadership seems to me terribly archaic. It’s redolent of James Bond movies and Kipling ballads.
After all, what constitutes a world leader?
Soft power india shashi tharoor biography
If it’s population, we’re on course to top the charts. We will overtake China by 2034. I