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Shashi Tharoor's Oxford Union speech

2015 speech

During a debate at the Oxford Union on 28 May 2015, the Indian Member of Parliament, diplomat and writer Shashi Tharoor delivered a speech supporting the motion "Britain owes reparations to her former colonies". Tharoor was the seventh speaker in the debate, the final speaker from the proposition, and spoke for about fifteen minutes. While criticising the opposition, he argued that British colonial rule damaged the Indian economy.

Tharoor began his speech by arguing that the economic progress of Britain from the 18th-century onwards was financed by the economic exploitation and de-industrialisation of British India. He cited other negative effects of colonial rule on India, such as famines and the mandatory contribution of Indians toward the British war effort during the First and Second World Wars. Tharoor argued that supposed benefits of British colonialism, such as railways and democracy, were either constructed for the purposes of furthering economic exploitation or devised by Indians themselves. He ended his speech by s

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Shashi Tharoor

Indian politician, diplomat, and author (born 1956)

Shashi Tharoor (Malayalam pronunciation:[ʃɐʃit̪ɐɾuːr]; born 9 March 1956) is an Indian politician, writer, and former diplomat, who has been serving as Member of Parliament for Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, since 2009. He is currently the Chairman of Committee on External Affairs. He was formerly an Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations and unsuccessfully ran for the post of Secretary-General in 2006. Founder-Chairman of All India Professionals Congress,^[1] he formerly served as Chairman of the Parliamentary Standing Committee on External Affairs and on Informational Technology. He has about two dozen titles to his credit and was awarded by World Economic Forum as "Global Leader of Tomorrow".

Born in London and raised in Mumbai, Tharoor graduated from St. Stephen's College, Delhi, in 1975 and culminated his studies in 1978 with a doctorate in International Relations and Affairs from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University. At the age of 22, he was the youngest pers

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Shashi Tharoor

The Shashi Tharoor keynotes focus on topics such as leadership and cultural influences. Tharoor has an extensive and rather impressive resume; he is a former Minister of State for External Affairs, a United Nations peace-keeper, author, refugee worker, human rights activist and currently an elected member of the Indian Parliament.

In 1978, he joined the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees in Geneva, which was the starting point of his career. He was responsible for peace-keeping after the Cold War, as well as acting as a senior adviser to the Secretary-General.Dr. Tharoor holds a Ph.D from the the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University. He is also an accomplished and award-winning author of twelve books, and hundreds of op-eds, articles, and book reviews, as featured in publications such as the Washington Post, TIME and the New York Times. He has received numerous awards and recognition; in 1988 he was named the 'Global Leader of Tomorrow' by the World Economic Forum.

Tharoor is an internationally renowned speaker on the topic of In