"Didn't your blood boil?" S Jaishankar explains why he says some of the things he does. He was speaking at an event in Karnataka's Mysuru last week.
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00:00I would strongly urge my good friend Jai to cool it a bit.
00:03Honestly, tell me, if you saw it, didn't your blood boil?
00:06I think we need not be so thin-skinned.
00:09Absolutely, I have a thin skin.
00:30I think we need not be so thin-skinned.
01:01Dr. Shashi Tharoor said you must not have such a thin skin
01:04and must cool it.
01:06Would you agree?
01:07Or do you feel we have had a thick skin for too long towards western hypocrisy
01:13and now it's time to shed it and stand up for it?
01:20You know, I actually on certain matters have a thick skin,
01:25on certain matters have a thin skin.
01:28When people say, you can say like personal stuff,
01:33I tend to have, I'm trying to develop a thick skin,
01:37it's part of my political incarnation.
01:41So I don't respond to some tweets, as you notice.
01:46But on certain matters, I don't think it's a thin skin issue.
01:54I ask you a question because I think the Shashi Tharoor issue came out of that.
02:01Actually, I was in Bangalore that day.
02:06I landed in Delhi.
02:09Like everybody, immediately switch on your phone the moment the plane touches down.
02:14And I saw that picture of that guy climbing up the flagpole
02:18and pulling down a national flag.
02:20Honestly, tell me, if you saw it, didn't your blood boil?
02:24You know, do you want me to have a thick skin on that?
02:28So I think there are issues.
02:31I mean, if somebody sort of, I would say,
02:36insults your country or dishonors what you hold dear
02:43or attacks your core positions,
02:47absolutely, I have a thin skin.
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