New Delhi : Congress MP Shashi Tharoor on Tuesday praised PM Modi’s call for India to shed the 200-year British legacy of a slave mentality, urging the nation to be restless for progress. Tharoor has been in the spotlight for his open criticism of dynastic politics, which many Congress leaders saw as a dig at the party’s top brass.
The rift between Tharoor and the Congress was further exposed when the Narendra Modi government sent the Congress MP to lead an Operation Sindoor delegation abroad, much to the party’s displeasure. Now, braving a cough and cold, Tharoor attended PM Modi’s address at the Ramnath Goenka Lecture and, in a detailed post on X, highlighted the Prime Minister’s appeal for the nation to free itself from the “mindset of slavery.”
A significant part of the speech was dedicated to overturning Macaulay’s 200-year legacy of ‘slave mentality’. PM Modi appealed for a 10-year national mission to restore pride in India’s heritage, languages, and knowledge systems, he wrote. Tharoor welcomed PM Modi’s focus on post-colonial transformation in the national consciousness throughout his address at the sixth Ramnath Goenka Lecture.
Tharoor also noted how PM Modi highlighted India’s transformation on the global stage. “The PM emphasised that India is no longer just an emerging market’ but an ’emerging model’ for the world, noting its economic resilience, he went on. He spoke of India’s ‘constructive impatience’ for development and strongly pushed for a post-colonial mindset,” Tharoor recounted.
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