Who is an Indian - Shashi Tharoor | MBIFL 2020

Who is an Indian - Shashi Tharoor

Shashi Tharoor author, politician, and former international civil servant, Shashi Tharoor straddles several worlds of experience. Currently a third-term Lok Sabha MP representing the Thiruvananthapuram constituency and Chairman of the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Information Technology and All India Professionals Congress, he has previously served as Chairman of the Parliamentary Standing Committee on External Affairs and as a Minister of State in the Government of India. He has also served as the Under-Secretary General of United Nations. Tharoor is an award-winning author of works of both fiction as well as non-fiction. He has written hundreds of articles, op-eds, and book reviews in a wide range of international publications including the New York Times and Washington Post. Hugely popular on social media platforms, Tharoor is an excellent orator too. His latest books include Why I am a Hindu, The Paradoxical Prime Minister and The Hindu Way. Tharoor in 2019 received the Sahitya Academy Award for his book 'An Era of Darkness' in a non-fiction category in English language.

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