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'Modi offered all help in developing Kochi team'

'Modi offered all help in developing Kochi team'

Rediff.com13 Apr 2010

Kerala Cricket Association secretary T C Mathew says the public spat between the IPL commissioner Lalit Modi and Minister of State for External Affairs Sashi Tharoor is the result of forces trying to sabotage the Kochi IPL team.

No need to ban Jaswant's book: Tharoor

No need to ban Jaswant's book: Tharoor

Rediff.com23 Aug 2009

Union Minister of State for External Affairs Sashi Tharoor on Sunday said that it was not proper to ban the book authored by Jaswant Singh for his references on Muhammad Ali Jinnah. Talking to reporters, Tharoor said that in a democratic country like India, people have the right and freedom to speak and write. "If a person is not interested in reading the book, let him not read it," he said.