Congress MP Shashi Tharoor was subjected to an intense rapid fire round of questioning about his views on politics and issues that are highly relevant to the country today.
NDTV: One word to describe parliament? Tharoor: Dysfunctional. I have to say that. We are not doing everything that a parliament should be doing. Tharoor: I think we should be obliged to speak to some of them too and that’s delulu. The government is delulu sometimes. I must say the young thrilled me with their resort to humour and satire during the protests. I had had humour beaten out of me in my very first year in politics. I realised that my kind of humour did not translate very well in a multilingual democracy. What the Gen-Z did with their various posters and memes and cartoons and jokes and even their slogans was so effective. I think it has one important lesson for all of us in politics, not to take ourselves too seriously. Humour can deflate the most arrogant, most pompous balloon that there is out there in politics. There are a lot of those balloons that need deflating.
During an interaction at the NDTV World Summit, he described his party as “aspirational” when asked to explain what was its core quality. “Aspiring for power and working for the aspirations of the other,” the Congress leader who is also the chairperson of the Parliamentary Standing Committee on External Affairs told NDTV.
