Good Innings: The Extraordinary, Ordinary Life of Lily Tharoor

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Tharoor, Shashi (2003). Nehru: The Invention of India. p.282. ISBN 1-55970-697-X. Archived from the original on 16 May 2013 . Retrieved 11 August 2015. {{ cite book}}: |work= ignored ( help) Sternberg, Andy (20 February 2007). "Top 5 Candidates for USC Annenberg Dean". LAist. Archived from the original on 3 April 2007 . Retrieved 16 January 2016.

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Tharoor, Shashi (1 September 2020). Tharoorosaurus. Penguin Random House India Private Limited. ISBN 978-93-5305-951-4. Archived from the original on 3 December 2021 . Retrieved 23 November 2021. Education Qualifications: B.A. (Hons), M.A., M.A.L.D, Ph.D., D.Litt. (Honorary), Dr. Honoris Causa Educated at St Stephen`s College, Delhi University, New Delhi and Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University, U.S.A. Shashi Tharoor and his ladies". m.abplive.in. 10 January 2015. Archived from the original on 5 July 2019 . Retrieved 5 July 2019.Like many in her generation, Lily voices concern about the state of the family unit and its disintegration as she recalls her struggles with the divorces of Shashi and Smita. Later in life, Lily had concerns with Shashi joining politics, believing (as many of us do) that it is not a good fit for a “highly educated scholarly man.” But he was keen to be of service to the nation, and she has been a strong supporter, joining him on his campaigns. The Elephant, the Tiger, and the Cell Phone: Reflections on India – The Emerging 21st-Century Power (2007) [131] Meet literary hotshots and squad of two—Ishaan and Kanishk Tharoor". Vogue India. 10 March 2016. Archived from the original on 29 November 2021 . Retrieved 29 November 2021.

Book Review: Good Innings: The Extraordinary, Ordinary Life

She hopes that her mother’s story will prompt conversations in others and encourage them to reflect on and write their own stories. On 18 August 2021, a Delhi court discharged him from all charges, including abetment to suicide, in Sunanda Pushkar's death case. [2] The Hindu Shashi Tharoor says no intention of becoming PM in 2019, asks to withdraw petition". The Financial Express. 17 March 2017. Archived from the original on 29 November 2021 . Retrieved 29 November 2021. Used to bully them when we were younger but now...: Shashi Tharoor on his equation with his sisters". India Today. 10 October 2021 . Retrieved 29 November 2021.His book The Great Indian Novel carried off the Commonwealth Writers' Prize for the Best Book of the Year in the Eurasian Region in 1991.

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In regards to Tharoor's removal from the post of congress spokesperson, Kolkata's The Telegraph opined, "For an Opposition MP to have and to exercise the freedom to appreciate a good thing done by the government and for a ruling party MP to speak and vote against the party line is not just legitimate parliamentary practice, it is the very essence of parliamentary democracy. Shashi Tharoor, from the ranks of the Congress has tried to do that; there is not one BJP MP who has matched him. Blind conformism is not loyalty, nor independent thinking, dissent." [40] As Member of Parliament for Thiruvananthapuram, Tharoor became the first elected representative in India to issue annual reports on his work as MP, including furnishing accounts of his MPLADS expenditure. In 2012 he published a half-term report followed in 2014 by a full-term report. Ray, Mohit K., ed. (1 September 2007). The Atlantic Companion to Literature in English. New Delhi: Atlantic Publishers & Distributors. p.524. ISBN 9788126908325.

In March 2017, Tharoor called for the Victoria Memorial in Kolkata to be converted into a museum on the effects of British colonial rule in India. Tharoor wrote in an Al Jazeera article that the British "conquered one of the richest countries in the world (27 per cent of global gross domestic product in 1700) and reduced it to, after over two centuries of looting and exploitation, one of the poorest, most diseased and most illiterate countries on Earth by the time they left in 1947. ...Nor is there any memorial to the massacres of the Raj, from Delhi in 1857 to Amritsar in 1919, the deaths of 35 million Indians in totally unnecessary famines caused by British [policies]". [46] Shashi Tharoor biographical note" (PDF). UNESCO. Archived (PDF) from the original on 25 March 2014 . Retrieved 17 March 2014. Excelsior Award for excellence in literature, Association of Indians in America (AIA) [ citation needed] and the Network of Indian Professionals (NetIP). [106] The prologue to the book is written by Shashi Tharoor, with characteristic graciousness and diplomacy. On the occasional skirmish between him and his mother, he writes “My mother and I have not always had the easiest of relationships… When others feel the whiplash of her tongue, I shrug apologetically: “Welcome to the club!” A Tharoor kind of life Five lessons we learned about India from Shashi Tharoor's Oxford speech". FirstPost. 22 July 2015. Archived from the original on 23 July 2015 . Retrieved 22 July 2015.

‘Grew up thinking of my mother as critical and temperamental

Tharoor's father, originally from Kerala, worked in various positions in London, Bombay, Calcutta and Delhi, including a 25-year career (culminating as group advertising manager) for The Statesman. Tharoor's parents returned to India when he was 2-years old, where he joined the Montfort School, Yercaud, in 1962, subsequently moving to Bombay (now Mumbai) and studying at the Campion School (1963–68). [13] Tharoor and Tilottama were divorced at some point. In 2007, Tharoor married Christa Giles, a Canadian diplomat working at the United Nations. [94] This marriage was short-lived and childless. Tharoor next married Dubai-based businesswoman Sunanda Pushkar at his ancestral home in Elavanchery village in Kerala's Palakkad district on 22 August 2010. He became her third husband, and step-father to her son Shiv Menon, born of a previous marriage. On 17 January 2014, Pushkar (aged 51) died at The Leela Hotel in Chanakyapuri, New Delhi, under mysterious circumstances. [95] In May 2018, Tharoor was charged with encouraging the suicide of his wife and marital cruelty under sections 306 and 498A of the Indian Penal Code. [96] [97] On 18 August 2021, a court in Delhi discharged Tharoor from all the charges. [98]Although there was significant support for Tharoor to contest as the Prime Minister candidate in 2019 General Elections, he has disowned, downplayed, and distanced himself from any such online campaigns run by his large number of followers. [47] [48]