Tharoor and Aiyar. Birds of the same feather?

June 09, 2014 11:32

'Tharoor has either been ignorant of Modi's previous record or has deliberately missed it. Like many others in New Delhi -- a classic power city, with time-serving, sycophantic instincts written into its DNA -- he now claims Modi has changed. Is it Modi who has changed or has Tharoor's gaze?

'Indeed, when Aiyar implies Tharoor is being sycophantic, he fails to notice his own CV in politics, embellished largely by supplying encomia to various generations of the Nehru-Gandhi family and harking back to an India of privilege that no longer exists.

'Aiyar and Tharoor typify the two ends of the Congress predicament. Trapped between an ostrich and a chameleon, between attributes of obduracy and fickleness, how can the party reinvent itself?'

Writing in NDTV.com, Ashok Malik says Shashi Tharoor and Mani Shankar Aiyar are two sides of the same coin, here.

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