That is correct. In my opinion, his 'Great Indian Novel' would have made him a candidate back in the '90s when he first started appearing on British TV screens causing ladies- including my g.f at the time- to swoon. He was also very well spoken and an all round credit to the South Indian race! His Hindi is good too, so he could be an all India figure- evan a P.M.

Furthermore, the Keralites in the Administration (traditionally the brainiest and most efficient- as per the old saying 'to get things done in Delhi you have to run from Pillai to Pillai!)- even retired ones- will rally round to ensure he succeeds. However Tharoor writes too much and too thoughtlessly. 'Era of Darkness' is atrocious. Read Tirthankar Roy's critique of it here-https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/09557571.2018.1439321?journalCode=ccam20



The sad fact is, Tharoor's Party is now the ally of the only openly and RACIALLY Fascist party in India- viz the Shiv Sena- which has expressed contempt for South Indians (including people from Tharoor's Kerala), Biharis and Muslims. They have often threatened to throw out such people and, on occasion, have been as good as their word. By contrast, though the BJP is considered anti-Muslim, it has never been anti South Indian or Bihari or Bengali or whatever.



It is important that people in foreign countries understand that Indian Muslims have lower probability of getting involved in Terrorism than White British people from Chrisian families! As Pakistani Muslims readily admit, Indian Muslims are most law-abiding, sober, hard working, educable and innovative etc. Thus they are utterly vital to the industrial transformation of India. If you can say 'my client is opening a factory employing only Burqa clad Muslim women' in such and such tehsil- you can get finance because the character of Muslim women is known. False propaganda of the West is spoiling the image of the young Muslim man.

But for Indian economy, thanks to its Muslim population, to take off, a gangsterish type of 'Muslim' leader must be disintermediated. So must the 'caste' based gangster. Or the Teamster gangster or the Campus gangster.



Smart people like Tharoor, who has praised Modi within India while attacking him here, should not mislead the world on this point.



Britian could have cracked down on criminals and lumpen extremists within its Muslim community. Indeed, respectable community leaders begged the Police to take action. But 'vote bank politics' caused British politicians to encourage the nutters and the sociopaths. British Muslims - including the London Mayor or the Home Secretary- condemn this type of nonsense. I myself have heard them do so. Sadly the 'Brown Man's burden' is to have to accept an exoticized stereotype of the Orient imposed on 'Brown rednecks' by 'White Liberals'.