Well...Sashi Tharoor is definitely not an impulsive idiot...if his previous UN representation was anything to be considered. So..If he still says something despite knowing the resulting storm it's going to create, wht i suspect is he is one hell of a cunning at the same time brilliant politician..who speaks his mind and on a later date just mumbles his supposed-to-be-an-apology-but-not !! India definitely needs such politicians who dares to speak their mind..irrespective of others' popular beliefs. It's a healthy trend. Nehru or Gandhi or Indira..they may be great in their own right..but let's not forget that they were also humans and there was every possibilities for them to err!

I echo the sentiment expressed by Umbs!! A democratic system gives the right to all to express one's mind. The Gandhian or the Nehruian way of functioning may not be w/o flaws. With the benefit of hindsight it is quite likely that intelligent people will detect them and be vocal about it. Individuals are not important the nation is !!
We have to be open to criticism and quit hero worship.
Shashi Tharoor is a forthright person with a mind of his own. He needs to be given the liberty to speak as long as it makes sense. His performance has to be appraised and not the salvos that he fires occasionally.

@santosh
"He needs to be given the liberty to speak as long as it makes sense. "---> I really appreciate this one but the question is does he make sense at all. I feel there is no greater sin in a democracy than to brag in public to hide one's incapacity. if he is so concerned about the policies (i m referring to his Twittemic (twitterized polemics)on VISA policy) then why he keeps mum on the ministerial deliberations. If he thinks the policy is so bad and his heart is against it then he should follow the great democratic parliamentary norm to resign stating that he could not compromise with his thinking. After this he can do whatever he wants. I am not getting personal. This applies to anybody in public sphere from Manmohan Singh to Barak Obama. The greatest sin a person in a government can commit is to vindicate the very government itself. Now talking about the Nehru-Gandhian policies, anybody can criticize them but there is a way of doing so. On one hand he considers those policies as moral commentaries (nehruvian foreign policy is how liberal we know and many say we suffer for that) and on the other hand he criticizes government for a stringent VISA policy. I fail to understand what he really wants. I think may be my mental inability. Sir, Please enumerate Mr Tharoor's performance to enlighten my idiot brain.


Now, talking about hero worship. Santosh Sir, "Veera bhogya vasundhara" we dont worship Heros. Heros' deeds command that.

@Umbrella
I don't want to comment on your comment. But i should so there is hell lot of a difference between a politician and a diplomat and there is heaven-hell difference between a UN diplomat and a battle hardened bureaucrat of Indian bureaucracy. three decades of international diplomacy---> created neither a political paradigm nor can it develop one. Politics and for that matter governance is culture bound. You cant impose some continental scholisticism on Indian prismatic administrative sub-system.

I wish to dwell only on the utterances of Mr. Tharoor or rather his subscribing to some viewpoint. I do not wish to be drawn into a debate of Shashi Tharoor the person for I will have precious little to contribute.
However one needs to clearly bifurcate between the intent to do things better and the action plan laid out for the same. We love our leaders for their intent which was undoubtedly noble. The policies are always open to criticism for there is always a better way to do things. It is certainly time for us to grow beyond heroes and their heroics.