New Delhi: American journalist Ishaan Tharoor, son of Kerala Congress MP Shashi Tharoor, has reminded religious history while responding to a controversial comment on social media. He said that Christianity had reached India in America about 1500 years before its arrival in America. Let us tell you, the controversy started when a user named Jessie Hue shared a picture of a statue of Hanuman ji and wrote, “When we win, we are going to demolish it.”

Shashi Tharoor gave a befitting reply to America

Ishaan Tharoor has reacted to this comment. He wrote that this person probably did not know that Christianity was established in India long before it came to America. There are thousands of churches in India, yet America is unable to afford a single Hanuman idol. He further stated that religious nationalists are often the weakest and lowest self-esteem people in the world.

Ishaan Tharoor was born in Singapore

Let us tell you, Ishaan Tharoor was born in Singapore in 1984, who is a journalist in America. His twin brother is Kanishka. He writes mainly on international affairs and global politics. Ishaan, who recently started the Global Notes Nam Koo column in the New Yorker, previously worked at the Washington Post for nearly a decade, where he wrote the World View column. Before this, he had been a senior editor and correspondent at Time Magazine for eight years.

Received Arthur Ross Media Award

Along with this, he has received the American Academy of Diplomacy's Arthur Ross Media Award in 2021 and Ted Sorenson Award in 2024. He is currently the 2026-27 Edward R. Maro is a press fellow. Ishaan, who completed his studies from Yale University in 2006, also taught the Global Affairs in the Digital Age course at Georgetown University between 2018 and 2020. Ishaan's statement has become a topic of discussion on social media, where different opinions are emerging on religious tolerance and interpretation of history.