Overview
- Tharoor attended at The Indian Express’s invitation and said on X he was glad to be in the audience despite a bad cold and cough.
- He highlighted the Prime Minister’s call for a 10-year mission to shed a colonial mindset and restore pride in Indian heritage, languages, and knowledge systems.
- He cited Modi’s framing of India as an “emerging model” for the world and the claim of being in “emotional mode” rather than perpetual “election mode.”
- Tharoor added that he wished Modi had noted how Ramnath Goenka used English to champion Indian nationalism.
- Reports placed Tharoor’s praise in the context of past run-ins with his party, including over Operation Sindoor, remarks on dynastic politics and L. K. Advani, and the timing days after the NDA’s Bihar landslide.