Dhaka, Aug. 23 -- Shashi Tharoor, my former boss at the United Nations, is in trouble for pointing out a hard truth plain to most of the world. He had commented last year at a public meeting in Kerala that if Narendra Modi returned to power for a second term, India would turn into 'Hindu Pakistan'. Finding his comments offensive, a court in Calcutta recently issued an arrest warrant for him surmising that his comments were 'harmful to national harmony'. Luckily, this was a bailable warrant and he was spared the torture of spending time in a dingy Calcutta prison cell.

Shashi Tharoor, a former United Nations Under-Secretary-General, is now an esteemed parliamentarian of the opposition Congress Party. Today's Congress is a vastly depleted ...