Goenka Lecture: Et tu, Tharoor?

Why Shashi Tharoor’s praise of Narendra Modi’s lecture raises deeper questions about truth, history, and the health of Indian democracy. IT CAME AS a surprise—though perhaps it should not have—that Prime Minister Narendra Modi was invited to deliver the sixth Ramnath Goenka Lecture, as if the people of India had been waiting, breathlessly, to hear…