Shashi Tharoor, Mihir Swarup Sharma |

#Tharoorisms: Shashi Tharoor & Mihir Swarup Sharma

Shashi Tharoor, a third-term Member of Parliament for Thiruvananthapuram, is the bestselling author of 20 fiction and non-fiction books. He is a former Under Secretary-General of the United Nations and a former Minister of State for Human Resource Development and for External Affairs in the Government of India. He has won numerous awards, including the Pravasi Bharatiya Samman, a Commonwealth Writers’ Prize and the Crossword Lifetime Achievement Award. In 2019, Dr. Tharoor was also awarded the Sahitya Akademi Award for his book An Era of Darkness. He chairs Parliament’s Standing Committee on Information Technology.
Awards: Sahitya Akademi Award (2019), Commonwealth Writers Prize (1991)
Bestselling/ popular Books: The Great Indian Novel, An Era of Darkness: The British Empire in India

Mihir S. Sharma is Senior Fellow and Head, Economy and Growth Programme, at the Observer Research Foundation in New Delhi. He is the author of Restart: The Last Chance for the Indian Economy and in 2019 co-edited What the Economy Needs Now.

#Tharoorisms
Prolific writer and popular politician Shashi Tharoor has a predilection for long words and telling phrases. His unerring sense of humour lightens up the serious oeuvre of his work which includes a powerful indictment of colonialism, a philosophical appreciation of the Hindu religion and hard-hitting political critiques. In conversation with Mihir Swarup Sharma, he speaks of the personal and the political and the beliefs and ideas that have anchored him in his public life and literary career.
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Links to the other session by Shashi Tharoor:    • Shashi Tharoor, Pavan K. Varma, Sreen...  
Links to the other session by Mihir Swarup Sharma:    • Karin Pettersson, Martin Gelin, Mihir...  

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