Shashi Tharoor

Shashi Tharoor @ShashiTharoor

Paid my respects at the historic St Joseph’s at Mannanam, the “mother church” of the first male Indian Catholic Saint, Kuriakose Elias Chavara. Performed pushparchana at the saint’s tomb. He was pioneer of the Kerala renaissance, the first to educate Dalit children in the 1830s https://t.co/nLIobFFXHO — PolitiTweet.org

Shashi Tharoor @ShashiTharoor

Addressed the media at the church to remind them that in addition to teaching Sanskrit to children of all castes, St Chavara was the first to institute mid-day meals at school for poor children 190 years ago, while some debate credit for such programs in the late 20th century! https://t.co/AyImiaR2Va — PolitiTweet.org