FB LIVE: Shashi Tharoor, Gurcharan Das on Patriotism & New India
“A patriot loves one’s country irrespective of flaws. Nationalists say we’re better than rest,” says Shashi Tharoor
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The panel discussed what patriotism meant to them.
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Once could not have asked for a better finish to this year’s edition of the ‘Penguin Spring Fever’, which – over the course of six days – saw a bevy of new and veteran literary minds come together in the capital.
The very last session of the literary meet saw Shashi Tharoor, Gurcharan Das, Sonu Bhasin, and Sanjeev Sanyal share the stage to discuss ‘The Rise of the Elephant’ (hint: India) and needless to say, the discussion travelled the range of a debate to an argument to a semblance of reconciliation.
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