Twitter-happy junior foreign minister Shashi Tharoor has told his friends he feels he is being unfairly targeted by a section of the media. Though not taking any names, he feels that at least one newspaper has been told to “dig out dirt” on him and his personal life to embarrass him politically.
Tharoor says he came to India at the invitation of the political leadership and imagined with his international background he could make a difference and contribute to the effective championing of its foreign policy and the Indian point of view.
But in the days since reports accusing him of an extravagant lifestyle and indiscreet tweeting have hit the headlines, Tharoor has learnt the hard way that India’s political culture is different from the US where he has lived for so long.
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