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Sandip Roy: One speech to bind them all

Shashi Tharoor

It’s not a kitten video or an on-air blooper or a wardrobe malfunction. Who would have thought a 15 minute debating society speech could go viral? 

And even more astonishing, who would have thought that in our fractious polarized political climate, there could be one speech that could bring everyone together. One speech to bind them all.

That’s what Indian politician Shashi Tharoor has achieved in India perhaps even to his own surprise.