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Sashi Tharoor optimistic about emerging world order

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THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Writer-diplomat Sashi Tharoor has said that the 21st century born with the terror of 9/11 could as well turn into a century in which terror would have no chance to flourish in the world. Delivering a talk on `Globalisation, Terrorism and Human Imagination,' under the auspices of the Mathrubhumi daily here on Wednesday, he struck an optimistic note about the world order that might evolve during the course of the century.

He said that a world in which no people or culture would feel marginalised, with no opportunity for terrorism, could be the most hopeful legacy of the horror that had given birth to the century. He said the present-day world was defined by the converging forces of globalisation and Information Technology on the one hand and the disruptive forces of terrorism on the other. Terrorism could not be dealt through a law and order approach anywhere. It was the excluded feeling of certain people and cultures, the fear and rage over being marginalised, which provided the breeding ground for terrorism.

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