Impressive advice. On a social network, the twittering or tweeting should be on social issues and not on official matters which are still under consideration of wise elders.
He should continue tweeting on matters like women's rights, poverty etc.

Being junion to SM Krishna what else Taroor can do? till today we are trying to find out what is SM Krishna's contribution to his ministry? if big boss is useless you don't expect his junior to be any better.

being a minister imposes certain responsibilities. Mr Krishna is correct that no discussion can be done on decisions taken. Till the issue is open only connecting with public can be done.If he doesnt succumb to the feeling he should say something everyday , the inanities will come down.

This is a very believable diagnosis of why Tharoor's doing what he's doing and the way he's doing it. The other unlikely possibility being, he's lost his marbles.

And yes, good advice too. If he's trying to be sarcastic by tweeting the way he is, the possibility that the majority of the people reading his tweets concluding that he's really lost it, is greater than the possibility of them understanding the sarcasm behind it all.

We should use technology to the max of its potential. It was a refreshing idea to be closer to the higher ups in the government hierarchy, where a commoners voice - if merited - would be heard without the hassles involved in physical meets. A lay man could get his views across to the sarkar.
Shashi Tharoor who single handedly marketed Twitter in India was doing really well when he was engaging in frank exchanges with his followers.
He over-stepped, definitely, when he tweeted against his own ministry. Then, as if in protest, he is tweeting inane things.
In both the cases, his use of twitter is diminished off its potential. Instead tweeting can be used to address people at large who cannot access him directly.
Example, I had tweeted to him about a delay in my passport delivery and he directed me to the right people who helped me out.
Technology is there for everyone to use, not brag about being anti-establishment or sulk when reprimanded for letting internal matters out.
He can tweet a lot better than acronyms of TWITTER

IMO he should only tweet about inanities, coz the moment he tries to sound profound, he ventures into uncharted territory and ends up in a soup.

Being a minster is just another job, which, we hope desperately, calls for some aditional degree of skill and talent, though of course, this is hardly ever the case. It is a myth about the nature of democratic government. Another myth is how a minister is not allowed to be banal. He is always supposed to think Big Thoughts. Be the shiny special one. Why?Why should we create gods out of men-- we did that enough when we lived in monarchies-- let us, instead, treat our elected representatives as one of us. Which includes giving them the right to be inane. Ordinary, egotistical, whatever.

Remove Octrai

Hi all,
As an Indian , I feel maharastrians are apart from India, because everywhere Octrai[Tax] had been removed but still only No 1 business state is applying octrai[Tax] all over state,
As I am tamilan , we are getting many facility but here not even single facility for poor people, at least this octrai should be removed .
If not ,then how other states are getting gain without octrai .Think other way. Always state is thinking to pick from people’s money.
If not at all possible , pl remove octrai for only farmer .

I think you are crediting him with much more intelligence that he has ever shown.

This is a man who drops pearls like these on TV -- "India has ancient relations with Iran" and "a stable and prosperous Pakistan in in India's interest".

The truth is this --- after the Persians were driven out / converted to Islam, the only significant interaction between India and Iran was Nadir Shah's brutal invasion of1739 ....... See More

and the first thing pakis do when they get some respite from their own mess, is something like 1993 or mumbai train blasts or 26/11.

it is actually not surprising that a man with such intellectual depth was hand-picked by Sonia gandhi to be india's phaaren minishturr afer having spent 40 years outside india....and only months after having fought the election for the UN Sec Gen's post on an "I'm not Indian" platform.

"discuss with the Prime Minister, or even the modern face of the party, Rahul Gandhi himself" --- do you think Maha Moorkh Singh of Sharm el Sheikh or "I couldn't sleep becasue a terror suspect doctor with a muslim name was arrested in Australia" fame can give any kind of sane advice to anyone?
And Rahul Baba? "modern face"? Advisor? He isn't really the brightest bulb around, is he? Less said the better.

The [Congre]gation of [S]pineless [S]ycophants is not capable of anything better, I suppose.

"Tharoor resorts to banal, juvenile, almost idiotic stuff in his tweets, he is protesting"? no, not at all....no surprises here...he was going to be exposed sooner or later for the cheap fake that he is. the man has the depth of a puddle in the middle of a Delhi road.

"beginning of some sort of megalomania"? megalomania requires a man to have a brain and a spine --- intelligence and arrogance --- both of which all those who enter kaangrayce are required to leave at the main gate of 10 janpath.

"Have you seen the quality of tweets from your country’s candidate for UN’s t

MrTharoor plays a sort of game with today`s young generation who are net addict.Net access instantaneous,reachable and communicable to the person you want to hit on the head.It is extremely handy,useful and in a way entertaining like a new toy.Another plus of Net is that middle class can afford it and below middle class can also go to cyber cafe those who have computer knowledge.Vast majority who are not computer literate by reading in newspaper about Shashi Tharoor and his tweets becoming curious that what is great MrTharoor is writing in twitter that to prevent him MrKrishna has to issue public statement admonishing MrTharoor.This is all seems to be red herring and the crucial issue of poverty,education to poor people,water problem in villages,food prices going high,electricity becoming costly,commonman woes in living etc are by passed.MrTharoor should write about India`s problem of poor people almost 33 crores living below poverty line.This is UNO`s statistics confirmed by the government.Sensation created in young juvenile mind is by tweets doesnt hold water.

Shashi Tharoor presumably is not happy with his ministerial job. Tweeting is his way of teasing his bosses and humiliating the people of India. I wonder how a responsible Minister affords to squeeze this much of leisure time from his responsible commitments. He had been with the UN and one cannot underestimate the good work done by him during his tenure with UN. Perhaps Indian polity is too little for him. I remember a comment from the late Italian journalist Oriana Fallaci, when she was asked about the Kuwait-Iraq imblogio : Hell with this stinking question! I need big big stories to cover! (If my memory goes correct, Ramesh Chandran had reported this for The Times of India from Amman). So it is nice for his party to assign some heavy task on Tharoor such that he never gets time to Tweet anymore.

Twitter is a global platform, and Tharoor's tweets only make him a popular global leader. Being a world-class diplomat with extra-ordinay networking ability, Tharoor has poven that he has over half-a-million followers already, compared to S.M Krishna who has barely a few thousands. This is also a reliable scale to measure how democratically popular a leader is.

I think Shashi has some personal agendas. Maybe his relatives are miffed over the tourist visa withdrawals. He has to do his work. and not tweet around like a twit. He has a superficial, flippant approach to his job. He has no power inside and is trying to get some cheap thrills outside. If he doesnt like his job, let him quit. Shashi, stop twitting and start quitting, man. This country can do without niTWITs like him holding public office.

"I expect them to be qualitatively superior..."

Let's put twitter in perspective. It is meant to share inane stuff. If people follow it, it is their business. But to expect qualitatively superior tweets is bit too much. It is not a service Tharoor's providing. He's a Minister in a responsible position. I'm not interested in follow his twittering to find out what he thinks about government policies. (Doesn't anybody get it? Twittering means making little chirping noises..don't take them seriously!)

Why should Tharoor the person take a back seat to Tharoor the diplomat ? He has as much right as anyone else to use Twitter to air all his opinions, important or not. Twitter is a medium for doing exactly that. People get the ministers they deserve, and perhaps India is not ready for the kind of quality a Tharoor brings to the job. We the people belong to an age where our ideal neta wears just a loin cloth, travels cattle class and always quotes scriptures while talking. Tharoor doesnt fit the bill, he is just a well qualified human being.

Junior ministers in India just twiddle their thunmbs as they are given anything by their seniors. So what should Tharoor, an accomplished man, do except fiddle with his Tweet?

it's good to communicate with the people in whatever manner it's possible. isn't it more important to look after official work with excellence? what are we doing to save our students' community getting injured, and worst of all, killed in other countries like australia?

Tweeting by Tharoor is his right. At the same time it is important for Tharoor as well as all of us to note that THAROOR IS EXPRESSING HIS IDEAS OR THOUGHTS LIKE ALL OTHERS ON THE FORUM BUT MORE IS EXPECTED OUT OF A LEADER. A LEADER IS SUPPOSED TO ENSURE THAT HIS THOUGHTS AND IDEAS ARE FORMULATED AS A POLICY AND EFFECTIVELY IMPLEMENTED FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PEOPLE OF THE COUNTRY HE REPRESENTS. IF THAT IS NOT THE CASE THEN HIS TWEETS ARE NO MORE THAN POSTURING AND PREACHING FROM A HIGH MORAL GROUND WHICH, AT BEST, SHOULD BE IGNORED IF NOT RIDICULED!

PM should create a Ministry of Tweeting, and give Tharoor independent charge of the same

It is a fact that Mr. Tharoor is a little bit different person from the so called general politician class belonging to all party. I do agree, there may be some more elements in his group but don't dare to outburst. He is free, honest & doesn't bother establishment.May be he is a future to our young generation. My best wishes to him.

In keeping with Mr Tharoor's interest in acronyms, I'm adding my one paisa's worth:-

Shashi mon: Try Working Instead (of) Twiddling Thumbs (to) Earn Rupees!

Are you insane?
twitter is not meant to give diplomatic statements.Its something where you share your personal feelings.What do you expect of a person who has become a minister? He should have no personal life?
And what image are you talking of? To talk personal noway spoils image, it makes us close to mr. tharoor who likes to share his feelings with us.

Tharoor's tongue-in-cheek in some sense puts this austerity show in its context. We shouldn't let this austerity thing fool us into being satisfied that our so called leaders are experiencing a bit of what we do everyday. It is irrelevant. What we should demand is real transparency, honesty, sincerity in deed and good performance from them. Not this put-on austerity.

Tweet or no Tweet Mr. Tharoor should try to get more popular not because of tweets but for his performance. Dr. Manmohan Singh, Mr. Chidambaram, Mr. Jairam Ramesh etc. are also equally as competent and intellectually no less superior than Mr. Tharoor but instead of venting out their frustrations through tweets or other means they have tried to drive things and bring about a change by staying within the system. Thanks

Tharoor is right about Nehru.congress always had wrong foreign policy.He was a weak man did not know what was he was doing.Evan to look what we are. we are mass no proper policy about country.
no proper policy about china or Pakistan.China and Pakistan keep abusing us but we can not do anything about them.we need a government who can make quick decision and not worried America or Britain. we talk big but there is nothing big about us. WE are a mess and nothing going to change for another 1000 Year. We are never going to strong as china because we do not have strong will. we talk about Great India but there is nothing great about India other than corrupt politician.

One needs to comply with the code of conduct of federal ministries. Like all instituitions have one sure they do too. Any communication from a person holding such high chair would be construed as the governments stance and hence agree with the author - in his best interests shashi should stop tweeting or may tweet to raise awareness against social nuasances like power theft, bribary etc., and should induce patriotism