Minister of State for External Affairs Shashi Tharoor has said that he wanted to change the Indian political culture, which "sadly" doesn't welcome discussions. In an interview to a private TV channel, he however, said that he does not have "rank, or the authority or the background" to do so. <br/><br/>Admitting that some of the controversies relating to him were due to language used by him, the minister said that he was brought down by a section of people, but he was not going to make any bones about it. He also observed that Indian political culture was not the one which "welcomed" public discussion of issues requiring debates. <br/><br/>The minister also justified his tweeting about the government policies, saying everybody else is doing it. Even the Prime Minister of Australia tweets. Foreign Secretary of Britain David Miliband tweets and US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton tweets. In fact, when she was in Delhi there were a dozen tweets a day about all her activities and her