A society as “plural” as India cannot be sustained by uniformity of opinion, Congress MP Shashi Tharoor said in his convocation address at St Xavier’s University on Saturday. Tharoor, the chief guest at the convocation, received an honorary doctorate. Tharoor lauded St Xavier’s University for upholding love, freedom, liberty, justice, equality and fraternity. “St Xavier’s University, Kolkata, has from the start upheld the conviction that the true purpose of learning is not only professional advancement, but the cultivation of ethical judgment and social awareness. Underscoring the importance of education, Tharoor said, education “asks us to linger with evidence, to wrestle with nuance, and to recognise that truth is often layered rather than linear”.

Source: The Telegraph February 22, 2026 01:48 UTC