Shashi Tharoor

Dr Shashi Tharoor, Member of Parliament for Thiruvananthapuram, is the bestselling author of 19 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. ShashiTharoor is the author, most recently, of The Hindu Way. He chairs Parliament’s Standing Committee on Information Technology. He has won numerous awards, including the Pravasi Bharatiya Samman, a Commonwealth Writers’ Prize, the Crossword Lifetime Achievement Award and most recently, the Sahitya Akademi. 

Attending Session

January 22, 2020 ● 1:50 pm
When The Lions Write-Colony in Indian Ink - Shashi Tharoor and Sudeep Chakravarti in conversation with Manu Pillai