Talking to reporters, Tharoor said that in a democratic country like India, people have the right and freedom to speak and write.

"If a person is not interested in reading the book, let him not read it," he said.

Tharoor added, "In 1991, I wrote about Congress chairperson Sonia Gandhi, which later created controversy. The same Sonia Gandhi allotted a seat for me to contest in the Lok Saba polls and after that I became a minister. Opinion differs during the course of the period".