Does Shashi Tharoor have a future in the Congress party?

Popular Indian parliamentarian Shashi Tharoor's above the partisan fray stance in the aftermath of the April 22 Pahalgam terrorist killings and the subsequent near warlike India-Pakistan conflict has a political trajectory that could eventually land him outside his own Congress Party.

- MAYANK CHHAYA

Even though Tharoor, a former UN diplomat, a junior minister in a previous Congress government, an author of 22 books and a versatile public speaker, continues to profess his commitment to Congress, the party does not seem to be in the mood to return the love. It is obvious that he is at a political crossroads as he leads a multi-party delegation of Indian lawmakers to Guyana, Panama, Colombia, Brazil and the United States as part of the Indian government's outreach across the world. He said before embarking on the five-

nation tour that India needs to "speak up with clarity and conviction for our country, our response and to give the world the message that we will not be silenced by terrorism and we don't want the world to look away either."

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