Background
Tharoor, Shashi was born on March 9, 1956 in London. Son of Chandran and Lily (Menon) Tharoor. came to the United States, 1989.
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Presents the story of the turbulent cricketing relations between India and Pakistan and celebrates the talent of many of their great cricketers.
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( Shashi Tharoor delivers an incisive biography of the gr...)
Shashi Tharoor delivers an incisive biography of the great secularist whoalongside his spiritual father, Mahatma Gandhiled the movement for India’s independence from British rule and ushered his newly independent country into the modern world. The man who would one day help topple British rule and become India’s first prime minister started out as a surprisingly unremarkable student. Born into a wealthy, politically influential Indian family in the waning years of the Raj, Jawaharlal Nehru was raised on Western secularism and the humanist ideas of the Enlightenment. Once he met Gandhi in 1916, Nehru threw himself into the nonviolent struggle for India’s independence, a struggle that wasn’t won until 1947. India had found a perfect political complement to her more spiritual advocate, but neither Nehru nor Gandhi could prevent the horrific price for independence: partition. This fascinating biography casts an unflinching eye on Nehru’s heroic efforts for, and stewardship of, independent India and gives us a careful appraisal of his legacy to the world.
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In this award-winning novel, Tharoor has masterfully recast the two-thousand-year-old epic, The Mahabharata, with fictional but highly recognizable events and characters from twentieth-century Indian politics. Nothing is sacred in this deliciously irreverent, witty, and deeply intelligent retelling of modern Indian history and the ancient Indian epic The Mahabharata. Alternately outrageous and instructive, hilarious and moving, it is a dazzling tapestry of prose and verse that satirically, but also poignantly, chronicles the struggle for Indian freedom and independence.
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( This touching and funny collection of stories showcases...)
This touching and funny collection of stories showcases Tharoor’s daunting literary acumen, as well as the keen sensitivity that informs his ability to write profoundly and entertainingly on themes ranging from family conflict to death. In the title storywritten in a lonely hotel room in Geneva soon after the author began his work with the United Nationsa young Indian orphan is on his way to visit America for the first time, and his anguish and longing in the airplane seem hardly different from those of any American child. Tharoor’s admiration for P. G. Wodehouse makes How Bobby Chatterjee Turned to Drink” a delightful homage, while The Temple Thief,” The Simple Man,” and The Political Murder” bring to mind O. Henry and Maupassant. His three college stories, Friends,” The Pyre,” and The Professor’s Daughter,” are full of youthful high jinks, naïve infatuations, and ingenious wordplay. The Solitude of the Short-Story Writer” is a smart, self-aware, Woody Allen-esque exploration of a writer’s conflicted relationship with his psychiatrist.
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( At the stroke of midnight on August 15, 1947, a new nat...)
At the stroke of midnight on August 15, 1947, a new nation was born. It has seventeen major languages and 22,000 distinct dialects. It has over a billion individuals of every ethnic extraction known to humanity. It has a population that is 32 percent illiterate, but also one of the world’s largest pools of trained scientists and engineers. Its ageless civilization is the birthplace of four major religions, a dozen different traditions of classical dance, and three hundred ways of cooking a potato. Shashi Tharoor’s India is a fascinating portrait of one of the world’s most interesting countriesits politics, its mentality, and its cultural riches. An eloquent argument for the importance of India to the future of America and the industrialized world, the book flows with the energy and erudition that distinguished his prize-winning novels. A New York Times Notable Book, this work of remarkable depth and startling originality combines elements of political scholarship, personal reflection, memoir, fiction, and polemic, all illuminated in vivid and compelling prose.
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The author of India: From Midnight to the Millennium provides a close-up portrait of Jawaharlal Nehru, India's first prime minister, the influential politician who led his newly independent nation from colonialism into the modern world, and his lasting legacy in terms of India's history and world ro
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( Shashi Tharoor is once again at his provocative best. I...)
Shashi Tharoor is once again at his provocative best. In the title essay, we learn the steep price paid by some Iraqis just to obtain a book; what does it mean when selling books, essentially selling culture, out of one’s own library is the only way to put bread on the table? Later, Tharoor reminisces about growing up with books in India and the central position of classics like the Mahabharata in developing his own literary identity. The poignant homage to Chilean poet Pablo Neruda recalls his incendiary deathbed challenge as an oppressive military regime invaded his home: There is only one thing of danger for you heremy poetry!” The defining features of today’s world,” Tharoor writes of the global stage, are the relentless forces of globalizationthe same forces used by the terrorists in their macabre dance of death and destruction.” His astute views on Salman Rushdie, India’s love for P. G. Wodehouse, Rudyard Kipling, Aleksandr Pushkin, John le Carré, V. S. Naipaul, and Winston Churchill make for fascinating reading. His insightful takes on Hollywood and Bollywood will intrigue even the most demanding cinephile. Together, these thirty-nine pieces reveal the inner workings of one of today’s most eclectic writers.
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('A fluid and powerful writer, one of the best in a genera...)
'A fluid and powerful writer, one of the best in a generation of Indian authors' (New York Times Book Review), Shashi Tharoor, the acclaimed author of six books, all published by Arcade, is once again at his provocative best. Supremely personal, yet always probing and analytical, this brilliant collection is part memoir, part essay and literary criticism. In the title piece, we learn what Iraqis go through in their beleaguered land merely to get hold of a book, and how selling books from their own libraries on the street helps some put bread on the table. Tharoor reminisces about growing up with books in India and discusses the importance of the Mahabharata in Indian life and history. There is also a poignant homage to Chilean poet Pablo Neruda, whose home was raided by the oppressive military regime while he lay on his deathbed, and who famously said: 'There is only one thing of danger for you here-my poetry!' Pondering world affairs, Tharoor declares that 'the defining features of today's world are the relentless forces of globalization-the same forces used by the terrorists in their macabre dance of death and destruction.' Tharoor's astute views on Salman Rushdie, India's love for P. G. Wodehouse, Kipling, Pushkin, le Carr, V. S. Naipaul, and Winston Churchill make for fascinating reading. His insightful takes on Hollywood and Bollywood will intrigue even the most demanding cinephile. Together, these 39 pieces reveal the inner workings of one of today's most eclectic writers.
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(Interest in India has never been greater. Here Shashi Tha...)
Interest in India has never been greater. Here Shashi Tharoor, one of the subcontinentÕs most respected writers and diplomats, offers precious insights into this complex, multifaceted land, which despite its dazzling diversity of languages, customs, and cultures remainsÑmore than 60 years after its foundingÑthe worldÕs largest democracy. He describes the vast changes that have transformed this once sleeping giant into a world leader in science and technology, a nation once poverty-stricken that now boasts a middle class of over 300 million peopleÑas large as the entire population of the United States! Artfully combining hard facts and statistics with opinion and observation, Tharoor discusses the strengths and weaknesses of his rapidly evolving homeland in five areasÑpolitics, economics, culture, society, and sportsÑand takes a fresh look at the worldÕs second most populous country.
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Tharoor, Shashi was born on March 9, 1956 in London. Son of Chandran and Lily (Menon) Tharoor. came to the United States, 1989.
Bachelor with honors, Delhi University, 1975. Master of Arts, Tufts University, Medford, Massachusetts, 1976. Master of Arts in Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University, Medford, Massachusetts, 1977.
Doctor of Philosophy, Tufts University, Medford, Massachusetts, 1978. Doctor of Letters (honorary), University Puget Sound, 2000. Doctor (honorary), University Bucharest, 2008.
External affairs officer United Nations High Commission for Refugees, Geneva, 1978-1981, head sub-office and representative Singapore, 1981-1984, deputy chief of secretariat Geneva, 1984—1987, executive assistant to the deputy high commissioner, 1987-1989. Special assistant to under-secretary general for peace-keeping United Nations, New York City, 1989—1996, principal officer department peace-keeping operations, 1995-1996, executive assistant to the sec-general, 1997-1998, director communications and special projects, Office of Secretary-General, 1998—2001, interim head of department of public information, 2001—2002, under-secretary general for communications & public information, 2002—2007. Minister of state for external affairs Parliament of India, 2009—2010.
Fellow New York Institute Humanities.
(The author of India: From Midnight to the Millennium prov...)
( Shashi Tharoor delivers an incisive biography of the gr...)
( This touching and funny collection of stories showcases...)
('A fluid and powerful writer, one of the best in a genera...)
( In this award-winning novel, Tharoor has masterfully re...)
(The Great Indian Novel takes its title not from the authe...)
(Presents the story of the turbulent cricketing relations ...)
( At the stroke of midnight on August 15, 1947, a new nat...)
(India : From Midnight to the Millennium by Shashi Tharoor...)
( Shashi Tharoor is once again at his provocative best. I...)
(Interest in India has never been greater. Here Shashi Tha...)
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Co-founder, managing trustee Chandran Tharoor Foundation. Board trustees Aspen Institute, Colorado. Patron Dubai Modern School.
Member advisory board American India Foundation. Advisor International Committee of Red Cross, Geneva. Board overseers Fletcher School Law & Diplomacy, Tufts University.
Member advisory board Indo-American Arts Council, Virtue Foundation.
Married Tilottama Mukherii, 1977 (divorced 2000). Children: Ishaan, Kanishk. Married Christa Giles, 2007.