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Shashi Tharoor
Dr Shashi Tharoor is a fourth-term Member of Parliament (Lok Sabha) for Thiruvananthapuram and the Chairperson of the Parliamentary Standing Committee on External Affairs. He is the bestselling author of twenty-seven 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. He has won numerous awards, including the Pravasi Bharatiya Samman, a Commonwealth Writers’ Prize and the Crossword Lifetime Achievement Award. In 2019, Dr. Tharoor was also awarded the Sahitya Akademi Award in the category of ‘English Non-Fiction’ for his book An Era of Darkness. He has previously chaired the Parliament’s Standing Committee on Chemicals and Fertilisers as well as the Committee on Information Technology.
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Shashi Tharoor: A Wonderland of Words
Join acclaimed writer, politician, and wordsmith Shashi Tharoor on a whirlwind journey through the English language, diving into his latest book, A Wonderland of Words.
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