Shashi Tharoor
Indian politician and author
Shashi Tharoor is an Indian politician, author and former United Nations official. He has written both novels and nonfiction, and has sat in India's Lok Sabha since 2009.
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Indian Born 1956 in London, United Kingdom
About Shashi Tharoor
Shashi Tharoor was born on 9 March 1956. He has belonged to the Indian National Congress, and since 2009 he has been the Lok Sabha member for Thiruvananthapuram in Kerala. Earlier he worked as a diplomat and served as a United Nations Under-Secretary-General. In 2006 he ran for the post of United Nations Secretary-General and finished second. As a writer, he published the novel The Great Indian Novel in 1989 and the novel Riot in 2001. His book An Era of Darkness (2017) examines British colonial rule in India. Why I Am a Hindu is also among his books in our catalog.