Brief by Shorts91 Newsdesk / 11:19am on 10 Dec 2025,Wednesday Politics
HRDS India — a group linked to Vinayak Damodar Savarkar — named Tharoor as one of six recipients of their inaugural 2025 award. Tharoor responded that he only learned of the honour via media reports while in Kerala; he had neither given consent nor accepted the award. He described the public announcement of his name without his approval as “irresponsible,” and said he would not attend the award ceremony. Tharoor also criticised the lack of clarity about both the award’s nature and the organisation behind it. (PC: NDTV)
