Upfront shashi tharoor biography
Indian MP Shashi Tharoor talks to Jon Snow on Channel 4 News about British colonial misdeeds and their echoes today.
Every significant episode from childhood humiliations in Maharashtra to his eve-of-death public renouncing of Hinduism and embrace of Buddhism is covered here..
Biography
An author, politician and former international diplomat, Dr.
Shashi Tharoor straddles several worlds of experience. At present a fourth-term Member of Parliament, he represents the parliamentary constituency of Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, in the Lok Sabha. A proud member of the Indian National Congress (INC), he has served as a Minister of State for External Affairs and Minister of State for Human Resource Development in the Government of India during the second term of the United Progressive Alliance.
At present the chairperson of the Parliamentary Standing Committee on External Affairs, he has previously chaired the Parliamentary Standing Committees on External Affairs (2014-19), Information Technology (2019-21) and Chemicals & Fertilizers (2021-24).
Before joining Indian politics, Dr. Tharoor worked for nearly three-decades at the United Nations, serving as a peacekeeper, refugee worker and administrator at the highest levels, including as Under-Secretary-General d