Congress MP Shashi Tharoor has taken a swipe at the Centre in connection with what he claimed was the near silence of the government on South African jurist Navanethem “Navi” Pillay winning the Nobel Peace Prize this year.
Shashi Tharoor in a post on X, aiming at the government, said the missing congratulatory messages for the Indian-origin Nobel Peace Prize winner was “deplorable”
“It’s been six days since this remarkable woman of Indian origin won the Nobel Peace Prize. You should be awarded with that title,” a user on X, Priyanka, said alluding to Tharoor’s perceived attempt at friendship with the Congress’s rivals after he lost the party president’s electoral race. And the government of India, her ancestral homeland, hasn’t so much as congratulated her? “So her community pooled their money to send her to university. She graduated, but white law firms wouldn’t hire her. She defended political prisoners, exposed torture, and fought for prisoners on Robben Island, including Nelson Mandela, to have access to lawyers. Even her own husband was detained, but she refused to back down. Tharoor’s post, however, received comments from the general public that punched holes in his criticism of the government. “They should carve out an award for Nobel Hypocrisy. Until then…”
So in 1967, she opened her own and started fighting the very system that tried to keep her down. For 28 years she practiced law in a country that wouldn’t let her enter a judge’s chambers…
Tharoor in a post on X, aiming at the government, said the missing congratulatory messages for the Indian-origin woman was “deplorable”. Shame on the petty men who have made such a deplorable decision,” Tharoor said without naming anyone in the post about the woman whose ancestors were from Tamil Nadu, currently a state where the BJP is not in power. Another X user, Nalini Rathnam, said, “Waiting for your leader to say a few words about Captain Smit Machchar.
