The COP in Warsaw appeared doomed from the start, almost collapsed midway, and nearly broke up in acrimony towards the end. The conference was rescued from total failure by Burhan Gafoor and TS Tirumurti with no small help from a third Tamilian, Vivian Balakrishnan 

Guterres sent letters this week requesting these in-person meetings to try to regain the initiative for the UN, which has been largely marginalised from the crisis since Russia invaded Ukraine on February 24

It would be unfortunate if the Congress, especially the Gandhis, choses to marginalise Shashi Tharoor merely because he decided to battle it out against the ‘official’ nominee in the presidential election