Pride Prejudice & Punditry: The Essential Shashi Tharoor

Pride Prejudice & Punditry: The Essential Shashi Tharoor
Shashi Tharoor in conversation with Pallavi Aiyar

Award-winning writer and politician, Shashi Tharoor, is the author of 22 books of fiction and non-fiction. His unerring sense of humour lightens the substance of his work, which includes a powerful indictment of colonialism, a philosophical appreciation of the Hindu religion, and hard-hitting political critiques. The recent Pride, Prejudice & Punditry is a collection of essays and pieces that range from the political to personal. In conversation with author and journalist Pallavi Aiyar, Tharoor discusses his ideas, insights, convictions and the many levels at which he engages with the world.

Shashi Tharoor- a third-term Member of Parliament for Thiruvananthapuram, is the bestselling author of twenty-three books, both fiction and non-fiction, besides being 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 in the category of ‘English Non- Fiction’ for his book An Era of Darkness. He chairs the Indian Parliament’s Standing Committee on Information Technology.

Pallavi Aiyar - An award winning reporter and columnist, Pallavi Aiyar has worked as a foreign correspondent for over two decades reporting from China, Europe, Indonesia and Japan. She is the author of several books including China-memoir, Smoke and Mirrors, Chinese Whiskers and Jakarta Tails, and an exploration of contemporary Europe's challenges, New Old World. Her latest book is Orienting: An Indian in Japan.
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