Handsome is as HANDSOME DOES

Member of Parliament Shashi Tharoor is very much in the news these days for sundry reasons. Mostly positive, unless you are a Congress Party member deeply suspicious about this star parliamentarian from Kerala stealing the party’s thunder.

- SURESH SUBRAHMANYAN

His party bosses are not taking very kindly to his singing hosannas to the ruling dispensation, and Narendra Modi. And, of our defence forces for the way the recent conflict with Pakistan has been handled.

This is being viewed as the ‘unkindest cut of all,’ tantamount to sleeping with the enemy.

To be clear, Tharoor’s praise for our doughty men (and women) in uniform is fine. It’s the other comments that rankle. To make matters worse, Tharoor is leading one of many delegations across the world to present India's side of the Indo-Pak conflict and to put right the canards that our neighbours have been so mendaciously spreading about Bharat. The umbrage taken by the Congress in Tharoor’s selection is to do with the fact that he is not the party’s first, second, or third choice. Anyhow, Tharoor and his colleagues have reached foreign shores and their eloquent presentation of India’s case is there for all to see.

This is where I move on to the nub of my narrative. Tharoor happens to be good looking. While I am in no position to corroborate the general view that women swoon over him, it will come as no surprise if that was the case.