India, Aug. 14 -- Congress leader and former minister Shashi Tharoor has reacted to a top US official's comment that India has been "a bit recalcitrant" in trade talks.

"I hear some people are accusing India of being 'recalcitrant'. I say, far better to be recalcitrant, than to be tractable, submissive or acquiescent to injustice," read an X post by Shashi Tharoor, a former global diplomat who recently led a multi-party delegation from India to the US after Operation Sindoor.

US treasury secretary Scott Bessent's remarks last week calling India recalcitrant - the word 'means having an uncooperative attitude' - came just days after 25 per cent tariffs on Indian exports to the US came into effect, and President Donald Trump threatened ano...