 "Congress MP Shashi Tharoor, who is leading a multi-party delegation to Brazil, being welcomed by an Indian Embassy official upon his arrival in Brasília on Sunday. (Photo: X:@shashItharoor)")
Once hailed in the West as “India’s Rasputin” and considered the de facto number two to Jawaharlal Nehru, former defence minister V K Krishna Menon embodied the paradox of being a global citizen who struggled to belong within his own party.
Menon’s eventual exile from the Congress mainstream remains a study in political alienation — one that, increasingly, observers in Kerala now see echoed in the trajectory of Shashi Tharoor, a member of the Lok Sabha from Thiruvananthapuram.
Tharoor, like Menon, is internationally popular, and seen as independent-minded. And like Menon, he is now grappling with a widening gulf between
