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# ![@ShashiTharoor Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:26/cr:twitter::24705126.png) @ShashiTharoor Shashi Tharoor

Shashi Tharoor has been engaging in various diplomatic and literary activities, including meetings with Russian officials, discussions on terrorism and international relations, and promoting his books. He also expressed pride in an Indian astronaut heading to the International Space Station and congratulated a friend on a by-election victory in Kerala. Additionally, he raised concerns about NEET-PG exam issues in Kerala and US tariffs' impact on the Indian economy.

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**Social category influence**
[countries](/list/countries)  [fashion brands](/list/fashion-brands)  [currencies](/list/currencies) 

**Social topic influence**
[india](/topic/india), [has been](/topic/has-been) #828, [laid](/topic/laid) #29, [china](/topic/china), [world of](/topic/world-of), [discussions](/topic/discussions) #156, [pakistan](/topic/pakistan) #2412, [oman](/topic/oman), [women](/topic/women), [monk](/topic/monk)
### Top Social Posts [#](/creator/twitter::24705126/posts)
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Top posts by engagements in the last XX hours

"My analysis of the operational geopolitical and diplomatic lessons we can derive from #OperationSindoor:"  
![@ShashiTharoor Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:16/cr:twitter::24705126.png) [@ShashiTharoor](/creator/x/ShashiTharoor) on [X](/post/tweet/1943967554713555017) 2025-07-12 09:35:56 UTC 8.5M followers, 419.8K engagements


"Inaugurated and addressed the second anniversary celebrations of the Council for Community Cooperation a philanthropic initiative in Kochi that brings together leaders of different communities for projects that promote communal harmony in Kerala. Its Founder Dr P. Mohammed Ali of @Galfar_OM has been an inspirational figure and a leading light of business in Oman while retaining strong connections to his motherland"  
![@ShashiTharoor Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:16/cr:twitter::24705126.png) [@ShashiTharoor](/creator/x/ShashiTharoor) on [X](/post/tweet/1946991787597537714) 2025-07-20 17:53:10 UTC 8.5M followers, 27.7K engagements


"1/2 Only XX Muslim women have made it to Parliaments LokSabha since Independence a startling fact laid bare in a fascinating new book Missing from the House by @RasheedKidwai and @AmbarKumarGhos1 to which I have written a Foreword"  
![@ShashiTharoor Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:16/cr:twitter::24705126.png) [@ShashiTharoor](/creator/x/ShashiTharoor) on [X](/post/tweet/1946892758259556834) 2025-07-20 11:19:39 UTC 8.5M followers, 30.6K engagements


"Happy Guri Purnima and pranaams to all those from whom i have learned"  
![@ShashiTharoor Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:16/cr:twitter::24705126.png) [@ShashiTharoor](/creator/x/ShashiTharoor) on [X](/post/tweet/1943246609212674154) 2025-07-10 09:51:10 UTC 8.5M followers, 132.3K engagements


"Enjoyed an hour-and-half long interaction with students from XX different Kochi schools. Great questions"  
![@ShashiTharoor Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:16/cr:twitter::24705126.png) [@ShashiTharoor](/creator/x/ShashiTharoor) on [X](/post/tweet/1946991814839525594) 2025-07-20 17:53:16 UTC 8.5M followers, 14.5K engagements


"On the 98th anniversary of his death I recall the sterling contributions of Keralas only Muslim chief minister CH Mohammed Koya a consensus-builder who showed that progress and development need not be held hostage to the limitations of partisan politics: @mathrubhumieng @mathrubhumi"  
![@ShashiTharoor Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:16/cr:twitter::24705126.png) [@ShashiTharoor](/creator/x/ShashiTharoor) on [X](/post/tweet/1945001064719073429) 2025-07-15 06:02:44 UTC 8.5M followers, 19.9K engagements


"Today X July the 14th Dalai Lama Tibets highest spiritual leader turned XX. Recalling my tribute to him on his 80th birthday: @DalaiLama Anything But "A Simple Buddhist Monk""  
![@ShashiTharoor Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:16/cr:twitter::24705126.png) [@ShashiTharoor](/creator/x/ShashiTharoor) on [X](/post/tweet/1809580629375480078) 2024-07-06 13:30:17 UTC 8.5M followers, 210.5K engagements


"3/3 Our scepticism about the quality & sincerity of Pakistani actions against terrorism reflects our own experience with those terror agencies that are directed against us rather than those that the US deems hostile such as ISISKhorasan. This is a step towards bridging the gap in perceptions between the US and us on this. It will help in our efforts to list TRF at the @UN as well"  
![@ShashiTharoor Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:16/cr:twitter::24705126.png) [@ShashiTharoor](/creator/x/ShashiTharoor) on [X](/post/tweet/1946437288399192290) 2025-07-19 05:09:47 UTC 8.5M followers, 105.8K engagements


"I raised this issue some four years ago and was told about two years ago by the then leadership of @XCorpIndia that there was an algorithmic glitch. I was shown daily figures for a three month period which showed my follower count going up by about a thousand a day while my total kept dropping by a larger amount I was assured that the attention of @X headquarters had been drawn to the problem. Clearly two years later the problem hasnt been fixed. They seem to have other priorities. And frankly so do i"  
![@ShashiTharoor Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:16/cr:twitter::24705126.png) [@ShashiTharoor](/creator/x/ShashiTharoor) on [X](/post/tweet/1947984695377252421) 2025-07-23 11:38:37 UTC 8.5M followers, 28.1K engagements


"Amazing courage and competence on display by Forest Officer Roshni Calling on the Kerala Govt to recognise her exemplary service appropriately. Thanks for pointing this out @Rajan_Medhekar Such bravery in the line of duty too often is taken for granted and remains unappreciated"  
![@ShashiTharoor Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:16/cr:twitter::24705126.png) [@ShashiTharoor](/creator/x/ShashiTharoor) on [X](/post/tweet/1942295138442830192) 2025-07-07 18:50:21 UTC 8.5M followers, 123.7K engagements


"The Pakistan-China Embrace And Why India Can't Afford To Ignore It: my opinion piece in @ndtv"  
![@ShashiTharoor Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:16/cr:twitter::24705126.png) [@ShashiTharoor](/creator/x/ShashiTharoor) on [X](/post/tweet/1941052385301795275) 2025-07-04 08:32:06 UTC 8.5M followers, 613.8K engagements


"My article in @TheHinduComment makes the case for strengthening relations with Europe at a time when the EU is finding itself again and asserting itself as an autonomous pole in global geopolitics"  
![@ShashiTharoor Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:16/cr:twitter::24705126.png) [@ShashiTharoor](/creator/x/ShashiTharoor) on [X](/post/tweet/1945060644618645600) 2025-07-15 09:59:29 UTC 8.5M followers, 33K engagements


"Why is our government so obsessed with tonne-mann-dhan First it was the X million tonne economy from the HM. Then the 3350 tonne reserve gold from UP which turned out to be merely XXX kgs. The Govt must really tone down the tonne-tana-tonne talk a bit"  
![@ShashiTharoor Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:16/cr:twitter::24705126.png) [@ShashiTharoor](/creator/x/ShashiTharoor) on [X](/post/tweet/1231463740299784192) 2020-02-23 06:20:09 UTC 8.5M followers, 7994 engagements


"Delivered a lengthy address on India at 2047 to a glittering packed audience of 250+ at Londons Inner Temple through whose portals Mahatma Gandhi Pandit Nehru and Jinnah had passed as young lawyers. Always a pleasure to be surrounded by the opulence of wood walls historic portraits and fine china even as one is served inedible British food"  
![@ShashiTharoor Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:16/cr:twitter::24705126.png) [@ShashiTharoor](/creator/x/ShashiTharoor) on [X](/post/tweet/1943247025585221717) 2025-07-10 09:52:49 UTC 8.5M followers, 34.7K engagements


"What a joy it always is to fly @airindia The service is outstanding. And the team on my flight to Kochi today not only surprised me with this wonderful note but asked for a photo too (Thanks too to the pilots for the smooth takeoff and landing marvellous handling in monsoon weather and a ten-minutes early arrival on a wet runway Shabash to my favourite airline)"  
![@ShashiTharoor Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:16/cr:twitter::24705126.png) [@ShashiTharoor](/creator/x/ShashiTharoor) on [X](/post/tweet/1946494976273358997) 2025-07-19 08:59:01 UTC 8.5M followers, 199.7K engagements


"Its good that this Chinese propagandist has laid out overtly what many of us had surmised lay behind Beijings evident belligerence. I hope those who still harbour illusions about the PRCs intentions are suitably advised. Please weigh in @Chellaney @BharatKarnad @VijayGokhale59"  
![@ShashiTharoor Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:16/cr:twitter::24705126.png) [@ShashiTharoor](/creator/x/ShashiTharoor) on [X](/post/tweet/1944040743149904050) 2025-07-12 14:26:46 UTC 8.5M followers, 74.1K engagements


"Inaugurated the new Muthoot Business School in Kochi yesterday. Spoke about the importance of forward-looking education in a world of dizzying change and also stressed the importance of businesses learning to look beyond the bottom line of profit to the triple bottom line of people planet and profit social impact environmental effects and economic viability"  
![@ShashiTharoor Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:16/cr:twitter::24705126.png) [@ShashiTharoor](/creator/x/ShashiTharoor) on [X](/post/tweet/1946978655407915471) 2025-07-20 17:00:59 UTC 8.5M followers, 44.5K engagements


"The full video playlist from my lectures last week in the UK conducted under the auspices of @JindalGlobalUNI :"  
![@ShashiTharoor Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:16/cr:twitter::24705126.png) [@ShashiTharoor](/creator/x/ShashiTharoor) on [X](/post/tweet/1943324615926792702) 2025-07-10 15:01:08 UTC 8.5M followers, 28.1K engagements


"Oops Is Indonesia to become the only legatee of the historically resonant name our rulers wish to abandon Or should we urge them too to rename themselves Bharatdwipa"  
![@ShashiTharoor Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:16/cr:twitter::24705126.png) [@ShashiTharoor](/creator/x/ShashiTharoor) on [X](/post/tweet/1699135690426974287) 2023-09-05 19:01:31 UTC 8.5M followers, 237.7K engagements


"@ajay43 I dictated it in haste. The voice transcriber rendered asked an as asking and i failed to proofread since i was arriving at my next engagement. The perils of tweeting in haste Mea culpa"  
![@ShashiTharoor Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:16/cr:twitter::24705126.png) [@ShashiTharoor](/creator/x/ShashiTharoor) on [X](/post/tweet/1946770366174834707) 2025-07-20 03:13:19 UTC 8.5M followers, 6289 engagements


"In Kochi today I was asking inevitable question by a high school student. While I have been steering clear of such political discussions in public I felt a student deserved a response:"  
![@ShashiTharoor Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:16/cr:twitter::24705126.png) [@ShashiTharoor](/creator/x/ShashiTharoor) on [X](/post/tweet/1946571057529557223) 2025-07-19 14:01:20 UTC 8.5M followers, 365.9K engagements


"Yesterday MPs submissions under rule XXX could not be spoken aloud because of the disruption of the Lok Sabha but were laid on the table for the record. This was my submission about the Indian Institute of Space Science & Technology which ought to become a lodestar of our 21st century educational system"  
![@ShashiTharoor Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:16/cr:twitter::24705126.png) [@ShashiTharoor](/creator/x/ShashiTharoor) on [X](/post/tweet/1947528250126749698) 2025-07-22 05:24:52 UTC 8.5M followers, 83K engagements


"The autobiography of a former Vice-President of the Maldives A pleasure to meet you @Ahmedsaail"  
![@ShashiTharoor Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:16/cr:twitter::24705126.png) [@ShashiTharoor](/creator/x/ShashiTharoor) on [X](/post/tweet/1947981484800782719) 2025-07-23 11:25:52 UTC 8.5M followers, 12K engagements


"Asked an. Not asking. i dictated it and did not proofread what was transcribed"  
![@ShashiTharoor Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:16/cr:twitter::24705126.png) [@ShashiTharoor](/creator/x/ShashiTharoor) on [X](/post/tweet/1946657978255642874) 2025-07-19 19:46:43 UTC 8.5M followers, 78.9K engagements


"Wonderful to catch up with the distinguiahed members of the Muthoot family and a young man who had sketched me to rather good effect"  
![@ShashiTharoor Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:16/cr:twitter::24705126.png) [@ShashiTharoor](/creator/x/ShashiTharoor) on [X](/post/tweet/1946979346113314970) 2025-07-20 17:03:43 UTC 8.5M followers, 16.9K engagements


"My column for a global audience on the lessons for India and the world of the Emergency on its 50th anniversary @ProSyn"  
![@ShashiTharoor Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:16/cr:twitter::24705126.png) [@ShashiTharoor](/creator/x/ShashiTharoor) on [X](/post/tweet/1942834857047998754) 2025-07-09 06:35:00 UTC 8.5M followers, 46.6K engagements


"Mourning the passing of former Chief Minister V.S. Achuthanandan (here releasing my book "The Elephant the Tiger & the Cellphone" in Kerala 2008). A giant of Kerala's Communist movement "VS" rose from humble origins to become a hugely popular mass leader and Chief Minister 2006-11 where he earned the respect of all. He will be mourned by millions of his devoted followers. Om Shanti"  
![@ShashiTharoor Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:16/cr:twitter::24705126.png) [@ShashiTharoor](/creator/x/ShashiTharoor) on [X](/post/tweet/1947251806842831215) 2025-07-21 11:06:23 UTC 8.5M followers, 75.5K engagements


"1/3 I welcome the US @StateDepts designation of TheResistanceFront the Lashkar proxy that claimed credit for #Pahelgam as a terrorist organisation adding pressure on Pakistan to curb its activities& bring it to heel"  
![@ShashiTharoor Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:16/cr:twitter::24705126.png) [@ShashiTharoor](/creator/x/ShashiTharoor) on [X](/post/tweet/1946436965454500173) 2025-07-19 05:08:30 UTC 8.5M followers, 54.5K engagements


"Inaugurated and addressed the golden jubilee celebrations of the Kerala Senior Secondary School in Vikaspuri Delhi yesterday. Congratulated the school on XX years of accomplishments built upon humble beginnings and its willingness to adapt to the demands of a world in change by introducing AI and digital learning for students from classes X to XX. Wished them continued success and growth over the next XX years"  
![@ShashiTharoor Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:16/cr:twitter::24705126.png) [@ShashiTharoor](/creator/x/ShashiTharoor) on [X](/post/tweet/1947148863342514327) 2025-07-21 04:17:19 UTC 8.5M followers, 29.3K engagements


"2/3 In my private conversations in Washington when I asked people bluntly why the US were still allowing Pakistan to get away with providing a safe haven to terrorist organisations I was pointed to Pakistans alleged cooperation with the US on counter-terror operations notably the recent surrender of the individual allegedly responsible for the Abbey Gate bombing that had killed XX US marines at Kabul airport"  
![@ShashiTharoor Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:16/cr:twitter::24705126.png) [@ShashiTharoor](/creator/x/ShashiTharoor) on [X](/post/tweet/1946437019229704528) 2025-07-19 05:08:43 UTC 8.5M followers, 901.7K engagements


"It was wonderful to see leaders of every faith united in their mission to rise above religious and communal differences in a common cause"  
![@ShashiTharoor Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:16/cr:twitter::24705126.png) [@ShashiTharoor](/creator/x/ShashiTharoor) on [X](/post/tweet/1946991801321312688) 2025-07-20 17:53:13 UTC 8.5M followers, 24.6K engagements


"Mourning the passing of my friend Shahryar Khan diplomat & cricket administrator scion of the Bhopal royal family and my co-author on Shadows Across the Playing Field a history of India-Pakistan cricket from Partition to 2009. A fine human being a refined intellect and a genuine advocate of good neighbourly relations between our countries he will be deeply mourned in India. (pics show us with Indias late Sports Minister MS Gill in Delhi in 2009.)"  
![@ShashiTharoor Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:16/cr:twitter::24705126.png) [@ShashiTharoor](/creator/x/ShashiTharoor) on [X](/post/tweet/1771438015577219415) 2024-03-23 07:25:09 UTC 8.5M followers, 28.9K engagements


"My article on the tragic case of #NimishaPriya who faces execution in Yemen and the need for solidarity & compassion with our diaspora exemplified by the efforts of the Grand Mufti of India Ustad Kanthapuram Abubacker Musaliar to save her life:"  
![@ShashiTharoor Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:16/cr:twitter::24705126.png) [@ShashiTharoor](/creator/x/ShashiTharoor) on [X](/post/tweet/1945702692904415503) 2025-07-17 04:30:46 UTC 8.5M followers, 86K engagements