Smita Tharoor Motivational Keynote Speaker

“Build from what you believe in. The rest can be learned.” From pluralistic India to building a global unconscious-bias practice — I chose dialogue over hierarchy, purpose over fear, sustainability over burnout. foundedbywomen.org/women-who-lead… #Leadership #DEI #WomenWhoLead #FounderLife

Warning on DMs that ask you to vote. They come from writers & journos & other premium account holders who are active on X- I received1 from @tunkuv &@SalmanSoz & it seems you received requests from me. Do not click or engage. This is how I was hacked. @ShashiTharoor @SmitaTharoor

Delivered a “Human First” workshop at Indian Institute of Cerebral Palsy, Kolkata exploring emotional intelligence, bias awareness & empathy in action. Thoughtful reflections “Pause before reacting.” “See the person before the disability.” Real change starts within.

if it's after April 14 it's not from her. She has had NO access to her account.

@ShashiTharoor And the scary part - it asked for my @x and/or @Google handle and password- that I gave twice but somehow smelled the rat and changed my passwords. Sir, you and @ShobhaTharoor didi both please inform people she follows. @Support

Thrilled to see this announcement from @AlephBookCo that my haiku picture book will soon be on the shelves. These are ‘songs’ from the heart. These are lines full of observation & emotional expression. Hope you enjoy Haiku, Me and You. Pick up your copies.

She lost both her parents in 5 months.Grief changes you. What she created next is powerful. In my latest interview on Stories Seldom Told with Alison Boyle, we explore grief, creativity, and the stories hidden in everyday objects. open.spotify.com/episode/1eE85E…

Loved it. Completely agree.

Jesus having a rave with his Hindu and Muslim colleagues on Easter day after his resurrection. 😂 Scene from Kerala.

Join bestselling author @shrabanibasu_ for Liberté – a powerful talk on Noor Inayat Khan, the first female radio operator sent into occupied France, whose bravery earned the George Cross. 📅 Wed 8 April, 7.30pm 📍 Riverhouse Barn #Walton 🎟️ £4 👉 ow.ly/7iR950YC8Eb

Tickets are now on sale for my talk on #WWII heroine #NoorInayatKhan Do come along if you are in the area. The Royston Pike Lecture Series 8 April 7.30 p.m. Riverhouse Barn Walton on Thames riverhousebarn.co.uk/events/153424

@CauveryMadhavan @IrishArtsCenter @mnutty @IrishStewCast Great going!!

Books take you on amazing journeys and my novel, #TheInheritance, has me headed to NewYork’s legendary @IrishArtsCenter on April 16th to chat with @mnutty of @irishstewcast fame! Do join if you are in the #BigApple🍎🇮🇪🙋🏽‍♀️

@PadmashaliAkkai my brother is continuing to do all he can to question this.

Many happy returns to the illustrious @ShobhaTharoor—National Award-winning voice artist, painter, poet, author, and a communicator par excellence. May the year ahead be as vibrant as her talents, continuing to inspire us with grace, creativity, and quiet brilliance. Much love!

Some stories are hard to hear—but necessary. In my latest Stories Seldom Told episode, @NehaKirpal1 shares her brother’s journey and what suicide really is, not a moment, but a process. “Everybody is waiting for somebody else to talk about it.” open.spotify.com/episode/09LW6s…

I've just seen a moving short film by @varunt5. It says a lot in just 26 minutes. Love, loss, understanding & more. Don't want to give the story away. Thanks @ShobhaTharoor for recommending. youtube.com/watch?v=hjYTPh…

@Kewlonez @ShashiTharoor @itschahatmishra @GreatLakes_MBA Completely agree.

@SmitaTharoor @ShashiTharoor @itschahatmishra @GreatLakes_MBA People resist to changes because they are afraid of risking it. Not everyone take a chance!

I recently spoke on #ChangeManagement & leadership during transformation in an interview with @itschahatmishra of @GreatLakes_MBA The hardest part of change isn’t strategy—it’s staying human while leading it. It clearly resonates as it has over 53k views youtube.com/watch?v=w8QqCs…

Someone asked me why I care about Muslim people. Let me be brutally clear and utterly frank: I don’t care about Muslims, Christians, Hindus, Jews, or atheists as categories. I care about people. I care about human beings. I care about children: their laughter, their terror, their right to wake up without bombs stealing their tomorrow. Whatever their faith, whatever god they call to in the dark, whatever language their prayers take. I measure no one by their dress, their rituals, or the name they give the divine. I measure you by your humanity: by whether your heart breaks at a child’s broken body, whether your conscience revolts at families turned to ash and memory. Right now, my humanity rages. It grieves. It revolts. For Gaza. For Iran. For every obliterated home, every survivor clutching scraps of life in plastic bags. I haven’t seen those bodies with my own eyes, but the images sear into my soul. What a grotesque luxury our lives are: safe beds, full plates, quiet nights. We are not them. Thank God we are not them! Yet we are. By the simple miracle of shared breath, shared blood, shared vulnerability we are. This isn’t “West vs. Muslim.” Maybe it is to some. If it is, then I know exactly which side I stand on: humanity’s. I will pray beside you. I will honor your dress, your customs, your grief, not out of political correctness, but because respect is the bare minimum we owe each other as fellow humans. As a child, I remember watching news clips of a boy hurling a rock at a tank. I thought, “What’s wrong with them? Why do they have to be so uncivilized?” Do you remember Michael de Morgan reading the news? (Jeepers, I’m giving my age away!) The news never showed the tank’s shadow over his home, the theft of his land, the daily humiliation. I didn’t question why the tank was there at all. I just saw what we were shown! Fast forward to October 7th. I was in Mauritius. My husband woke me: “Hamas has attacked people.” My first words? “Oh God, what is their problem?” Even as a journalist, I understood nothing then. I reacted to the violence, not the decades that birthed it. Resistance can be violent. Unforgivable. Horrific. But if we condemn resistance, we must condemn everything that breeds it: occupation, siege, erasure, starvation. We cannot clutch our pearls at the explosion while ignoring the fuse. I am not “for” Muslims or against Jews. I am not picking teams in a holy war. I am for life. For children. Always children. As a Hindu woman, I stand unapologetically, without reservation, for the Muslim children of Gaza and beyond because a child’s cry knows no scripture, no border, no exception. A child’s cry is universal… a child’s lifeless body screams to the soul of every human being! If my compassion offends you, ask yourself why. Because in the end, when the dust settles and the cameras leave, history will not ask what faith we claimed. It will ask only: Did we choose humanity when it mattered most? I am Vanessa and I choose humanity first! ✌🏾🙏🏾❤️ #IsraeliOccupation #Humanity #Children #PalestineGenocide

@emarbe1954 @sbeyad @JohnLewisRetail Completely agree @emarbe1954 . @JohnLewisRetail envisions that British women should wear whatever they want to wear. It's hardly Islamification @lucyjaynewhite1 There's another word- #Inclusion & celebration of diversity. Bravo John Lewis

Your outrage shows your Islamophobic bigotry — & ignorance of the free market. If customers want modest fashion and JL sells it, that’s demand shaping supply. Women of many backgrounds choose modest clothing. That’s economics, not ideology. @sbeyad @SmitaTharoor @JohnLewisRetail

It was fun recording for this documentary on #QueenVictoria Do watch! Saturday 14 March 9.15 p.m Channel 5 #VictoriaAndAbdul @TheHistoryPress

@shylaja_c @itschahatmishra @GreatLakes_MBA Thank you for watching!

@SmitaTharoor @itschahatmishra @GreatLakes_MBA Wonderful insights,Smita ! Glad to have watched this video