SHASHI THAROOR
SHASHI THAROOR
Tharoor is also an
acclaimed writer, having authored 16 bestselling works of fiction and
non-fiction since 1981, all of which are centred on India and its history,
culture, film, politics, society, foreign policy, and more. He is also the
author of hundreds of columns and articles in publications such as The New York Times, The Washington Post, TIME, Newsweek,
and The Times of India. He was a
contributing editor for Newsweek International for two
years. From 2010 to 2012, he wrote a column in The Asian Age/Deccan Chronicle and, for most of
2012, until his appointment as Minister, a column in Mail Today;
he also writes an internationally syndicated monthly column for Project
Syndicate. He also wrote regular columns for The Indian Express (1991–93 and
1996–2001), The Hindu (2001–2008),
and The Times of India (2007–2009).Tharoor is a
globally recognised speaker on India's economics and politics, as well as on
freedom of the press, human rights, Indian culture, and international affairs.
Shashi
Tharoor is
an Indian politician and a former diplomat who is currently serving as Member of Parliament, Lok Sabha from Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala since
2009. He also currently serves as Chairman of the Parliamentary Standing
Committee on External Affairs and All India Professionals Congress
of the Indian National Congress.
He was previously
Minister of State in the Government of India for External Affairs (2009–2010)
and Human Resource Development (2012–2014). He is a member of the Indian National Congress and served
as an official spokesperson for the party from January to October 2014. Until
2007, he was a career official at the United Nations, rising to the rank
of Under-Secretary General for
Communications and Public Information in 2001. He announced his retirement
after finishing second in the 2006
selection for U.N. Secretary-General to Ban Ki- moon.
Tharoor is also an
acclaimed writer, having authored 16 bestselling works of fiction and
non-fiction since 1981, all of which are centred on India and its history,
culture, film, politics, society, foreign policy, and more. He is also the
author of hundreds of columns and articles in publications such as The New York Times, The Washington Post, TIME, Newsweek,
and The Times of India. He was a
contributing editor for Newsweek International for two
years. From 2010 to 2012, he wrote a column in The Asian Age/Deccan Chronicle and, for most of
2012, until his appointment as Minister, a column in Mail Today;
he also writes an internationally syndicated monthly column for Project
Syndicate. He also wrote regular columns for The Indian Express (1991–93 and
1996–2001), The Hindu (2001–2008),
and The Times of India (2007–2009).Tharoor is a
globally recognised speaker on India's economics and politics, as well as on
freedom of the press, human rights, Indian culture, and international affairs.
Tharoor was
born in London to a Malayali family of Lily and Chandran Tharoor of Palakkad,
Kerala. His father worked in various positions in London, Bombay, Calcutta and
Delhi, including a 25-year career (culminating as group advertising manager)
for The Statesman.
His paternal uncle was Tharoor Parameshwaran, the founder of Readers
Digest in India. After his parents returned to India,
Tharoor boarded at Montfort School, Yercaud, in 1962,
subsequently moving to Bombay (now Mumbai) and studying at the Campion School (1963–68). He
spent his high school years at St. Xavier's Collegiate School in
Calcutta (1969–71). He graduated with a bachelor of arts (honours) degree in
history from St Stephen's College, Delhi.
In 1975 he moved
to the United States to pursue graduate studies at The Fletcher School of Law and
Diplomacy at Tufts
University, where he obtained his MA and MALD and was awarded
the Robert B. Stewart Prize for Best Student and completed his PhD at the age
of 22. At Fletcher he also helped found and was the first editor of the
Fletcher Forum of International Affairs.
He has also been
awarded an honorary D.Litt by the University of Puget Sound and a doctorate honoris causa in history by
the University of Bucharest.[1
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