India's participation in world affairs has been as per the dreams of Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, who believed in sharing responsibility among nations, Minister of State for External Affairs Shashi Tharoor said on Sunday.

"I always believe with Nehruji's that India is a country that since millenia has felt the sense of responsibility not only to itself but for the world," he said at a function organised by Rotary International to bid farewell to a batch of Ugandan children who underwent heart surgery in New Delhi.

"His famous midnight speech when India accomplished independence

and was engulfed at the same time by the feeling of partition and violence, even at those troubles, Nehruji was speaking his dreams for India. Those dreams were not only for India but for the world," Tharoor said.

"That is the spirit that shows India's foreign policy and participation in world affairs as a global citizen," hesaid. Some months back, Tharoor was accused of criticising Nehru's foreign policy, which he strongly denied. He harped on the philosophy of world being a family and said the barriers and divisions of borders were official creations that human beings impose on each other.