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Shashi Tharoor on India in Today’s Networked World at IIMBUE 2015

It did seem like IIMBUE brought out the candid best in all the speakers. Lok Sabha MP Shashi Tharoor, as articulate and expressive as always, began his talk on ‘India in a Networked World’, declaring that the country had spent the first four-and-a-half decades after independence on subsidizing unproductivity, regulating stagnation and trying to distribute fault! “The most desi thing is suspicion of anything foreign!” Emphasizing that there was a paradox in the forces of globalization, he argued that the forces of globalization that brought the world together also pushed it apart, and created new divisions. “However, this is the time for diversity, where leaders need to learn to imbibe change and live with contradictions; the possibilities and complications of globalization have to be accepted. The challenge is to make the world safe.” Describing the world as “a complicated networked place”, he said: “It is time to set aside old stereotypes of who can or who can’t excel in a globalized world. The era of US/West dominance is coming to an end. Today, the country with the highest per capital income is not the United States but Singapore. Today, Americans speak of the IITs with the same reverence they use for MIT.”