And what is th only cause do you think Tharoor supports ? Some ‘For Profit’ NGO called Dimensions. Anyone who has read or closely know Tharoor from his UN days will describe him as one who is full of ‘I’s, second-hand insights and tacky witticisms which he uses to floor the unsespecting victim with breathtaking conviction.

Added to this is his his hypocrcy. Everything he says and does smacks of double standards. Some of his recent onces…..

While he walks around in western attire with a western wife, In India he recently advised women journalists at a political press conference to wear only saries !!!.

Then at another function he ask us to ape Americans while singing the National Anthem.

Last year he became resident of Dubai (instead of India) and registered his co there to evade taxes on the new business Afras ventures. But addressing the golf club members he advises them not be eglatarian.

Another example is a a piece supporting free speach which he wrote in 2007 to support MF Husain, he refused to stand up for the Danish cartoonists. I am pasting an excerpt of what he wrote

” I’d like to deal with those who’ve questioned my own record: many have written to ask whether I have spoken out in favour of freedom of expression elsewhere (I have, for decades, and continue to do so); whether I have publicly defended Salman Rushdie over The Satanic Verses (I have, widely, and in writing as well as in person); and whether I have spoken in favour of the Danish cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed (I have not, because I consider them a needless provocation). The last line of questioning, I must say, irritated me; those who draw a parallel between Husain’s art and a bunch of cartoons have not begun to understand the first thing about either.

This excerpt makes clear, of course, that Tharoor does not understand the first thing about free speech — as if it was only allowed to those whose expression has the approval of tasteful commissars like Tharoor, what meaning would freedom have at all? Now he says he wants to become MP to serve the people of Trivandrum. You know and I know he will only use the free perks and publicity he gets to travel the world and grow his business. Will the wise keralites get fooled ? only time will tell.