Shashi Tharoor may have entered Parliament on a Congress ticket,but he does not seem to be conversant with the partys unwritten rules. Few Congressmen discuss party president Sonia Gandhis foreign origin,but Tharoor has no such qualms. Earlier,his not-so-generous references to the Nehru-Gandhi family in one of his books,in which he also called Sonia Cinderella of Orbassano,had caused much unease in the Congress. Last week,speaking at a seminar in the Capital on Globalisation: The Human Imagination,Tharoor emphasised his point by citing how a Roman Catholic of Italian origin has become the Congress president,a Sikh is the Prime Minister and a Muslim is the Vice-President. His reference to Sonias foreign origin was greeted with complete silence from the audience,which also comprised party leaders like Kamal Nath,Digvijay Singh and Sachin Pilot.
