[Assam] Blue bloods for UN Chief - UN reform?? Tharoor=MahatmaGandhi=Nehru

[Barua25]

>Gautum Buddha was one, Nehru was another as was Ashoka and also somewhat Mahatma Gandhi ---but they all >displayed a streak common to all. Later in their lives they lived among the common man -shoulder to shoulder-in >slums and amongst poverty and even through violence?

Good observation. What is also common to these people none of them were orthodox Hindus but were supporters of the secular path and none of them believed in the so called popular Hinduism. 
RB 
----- Original Message ----- 
  From: umesh sharma 
  To: assam at assamnet.org 
  Sent: Saturday, June 24, 2006 3:37 PM
  Subject: [Assam] Blue bloods for UN Chief - UN reform?? Tharoor=MahatmaGandhi=Nehru


  Hi,

  I checked the bio fo Shashi Tharoor -India's nominee for UN Chief post. Seems like a blue blood (like Rajiv Gandhi or Rahul Gandhi) born in London raised in India and US. Which Indian can afford to have children in UK -even now?

  Well, we must not be biased against blue bloods -after all Gautum Buddha was one, Nehru was another as was Ashoka and also somewhat Mahatma Gandhi ---but they all displayed a streak common to all. Later in their lives they lived among the common man -shoulder to shoulder-in slums and amongst poverty and even through violence?

  As United Nations Chief -  these are the qualities the candidate should have -besides a knack for organizational reform. Does Shashi Tharoor have them? Has he engaged in dramatic organizational reform, has he suffered poverty or developed empathy for the poor and the oppressed by staying for long stints in his life/career among them. His life and career seems to have started in country's capitals or metros (London [birth] to Mumbai and Delhi [education] to Boston [education] to Geneva[work at UN] etc) and ended therein

  http://www.un.org/News/ossg/sg/stories/tharoor_bio.htm

  http://www.shashitharoor.com/about.html

  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shashi_Tharoor

  Any comments ?

  Umesh


  Umesh Sharma
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