Shashi on Shashi: Shashi Tharoor & Michael Dwyer

Shashi Tharoor is an author, politician and former international civil servant. Dr. Tharoor straddles several worlds of experience. Currently a third-term Lok Sabha Member of Parliament (MP for India’s Lower House of Parliament) representing the Thiruvananthapuram constituency, he has previously served as Minister of State for Human Resource Development and Minister of State for External Affairs in the Government of India. He currently chairs the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Information Technology. During his nearly three-decade long prior career at the United Nations, he served as a peacekeeper, refugee worker and administrator at the highest levels, serving as Under-Secretary General during Kofi Annan’s leadership of the organisation. He is also an award-winning author of over 20 books of both fiction as well as non-fiction, including The Great Indian Novel, The Paradoxical Prime Minister, The Hindu Way and The New World Disorder. He has won numerous literary awards, including a Commonwealth Writers’ Prize, the prestigious Crossword Lifetime Achievement Award and the Sahitya Akademi Award in the category of ‘English Non-Fiction’ for his book An Era of Darkness. Dr. Tharoor's 22nd book will be out in November and is titled The Battle of Belonging. His other awards include the Pravasi Bharatiya Samman, India’s highest honor for overseas nationals, the Encomienda de la Real Order Espanola de Carlos III from the King of Spain, ‘New Age Politician of the Year’ from NDTV, the Hakim Khan Sur Award for National Integration, and the Priyadarshini Award for Excellence in Diplomacy. He was a pioneer in using social media as an instrument of political interaction. Till 2013, he was India’s most-followed politician on Twitter, until being overtaken that year by the current Prime Minister, Narendra Modi. He was the first Indian to reach 10,000 and 100,000 followers on the platform, and currently has over 7.7 million followers.

Michael Dwyer is publisher and managing director of Hurst Publishers in London, where he has worked for more than 30 years. A graduate of SOAS, University of London, his firm publishes around 100 non-fiction titles a year, specialising in history, politics and religion, with a particular focus on South Asia, the Middle East and Africa.

Writer, politician and public intellectual Shashi Tharoor is the award-winning author of 20 books of fiction and non-fiction. A third-term Member of Parliament, representing Thiruvananthapuram, Dr. Tharoor has served as Minister of State in the Government of India and also as Under-Secretary General of the United Nations. His unerring sense of humour lightens up the serious oeuvre of his work, which includes a powerful indictment of colonialism. His predilection for long words and telling phrases has created a sub-genre of #Tharoorisms, and his recent attempts at stand up comedy have won him a constituency of admirers. In conversation with Michael Dwyer, he speaks 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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