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The result was: promoted by Yoninah (talk) 20:33, 20 June 2020 (UTC)

Shashi Tharoor's Oxford Union speech

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Shashi Tharoor

• ...that Indian politician Shashi Tharoor (pictured) compared himself to Henry VIII's last wife in his Oxford Union debate? Source: "Indian politician Shashi Tharoor uses the example of Henry VIII's wife in his Oxford debate on whether Britain owes reparations to India..."(Chapter 5.4), I rather feel like Henry VIII's the last wife.
  • ALT1:... that Prime Minister of India Narendra Modi appreciated Shashi Tharoor's Oxford Union speech despite both being in rival political parties? Source: "Indian prime minister praises opposition MP Shashi Tharoor’s call for UK to pay compensation for centuries of economic destruction" (The Gaurdian), Even Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who hails from Tharoor's rival political party, praised him for the speech. "It shows the importance of saying the right thing at the right time," Modi said. In India it is rare for a leader to praise a member of a rival party.(DW)
  • ALT2a:... that in 2015 during a speech at Oxford Union Indian politician Shashi Tharoor (pictured) claimed Great Britain owes reparations to India and her former colonies?
  • ALT2b:... that in 2015 Indian politician Shashi Tharoor (pictured) stated that the Great Britain owes reparations to India and her former colonies?"
  • ALT3:... that the viral response to Shashi Tharoor's Oxford Union speech was the motivation behind a book? Source:Inglorious Empire arose from a speech given by Dr Shashi Tharoor in May 2015 at the Oxford Union in support of the motion (....) The Union then posted the speech on the web. Tharoor ‘promptly tweeted a link to it and watched in astonishment as it went viral’, swiftly accumulating millions of hits on hundreds of sites. In various forms it currently has almost seven and a half million hits on YouTube alone.
  • ALT4a:... that a book by Shashi Tharoor began as an Oxford Union speech? Source:Tharoor wrote, ‘this book, somewhat unusually, began as a speech.’ The motivation for writing this book was an invitation’s outcome.
  • ALT4b:... that a book by Shashi Tharoor began as an Oxford Union speech about Britain owing reparations?

• Reviewed: A Few Words About Breasts

Created by DiplomatTesterMan (talk). Self-nominated at 11:22, 17 May 2020 (UTC).

The Oxford Union debating chamber

• Alternate image on right. DTM (talk) 11:22, 17 May 2020 (UTC)

• Swapped image of Shashi Tharoor with a crop. The Squirrel Conspiracy (talk) 09:40, 26 May 2020 (UTC)

• This article is new enough and long enough. The hook facts are cited inline and any of the hooks could be used (but I don't care for "India and her former colonies" because it is ambiguous). The images are suitably licensed, the article is neutral and I detected no copyright issues. A QPQ has been done. Cwmhiraeth (talk) 18:07, 16 June 2020 (UTC)

• @Cwmhiraeth: IMO the only hook worth considering is ALT2a; ALT1 is too wordy and ALTs 3-4 are mundane. Would ALT2a work better if we drop the former colonies?
• ALT2a-1: ... that during a 2015 speech at Oxford Union Indian politician Shashi Tharoor (pictured) claimed Great Britain owes reparations to India? Yoninah (talk) 19:48, 20 June 2020 (UTC)

• Sure, ALT2a-1 is better. Cwmhiraeth (talk) 19:52, 20 June 2020 (UTC)

• Thanks. Restoring your tick. Yoninah (talk) 20:30, 20 June 2020 (UTC)