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‘I agree with that’: Congress leader Pawan Khera’s dig at Shashi Tharoor over praise for Modi govt • May 29, 2025, 4:27 AM ET (The Indian Express)
Udit Raj targeting Tharoor at Rahul Gandhi's behest for keeping national interest above party: BJP • May 28, 2025, 4:36 PM ET (The Hindu)
No one can walk across border, kill our citizens with impunity: Shashi Tharoor in New York • May 28, 2025, 5:36 AM ET (The Hindu)
Shashi Tharoor slams Kerala government for aid to Turkiye in 2023, John Brittas responds • May 26, 2025, 3:40 AM ET (The Hindu)
Shashi Tharoor-led all-party delegation to visit Panama on May 27 • May 26, 2025, 3:26 AM ET (The Hindu)

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Born March 9, 1956 (age 69) • London • England
Political Affiliation Indian National Congress
Notable Works “The Great Indian Novel”

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Indian writer Khushwant Singh in his study
Khushwant Singh
Indian writer
Rabindranath Tagore
Rabindranath Tagore
Bengali poet
Kocheril Raman Narayanan
president of India
Bana
Indian writer
Photo of Sarojini Naidu
Sarojini Naidu
Indian writer and political leader
Ansari, Mohammad Hamid
Mohammad Hamid Ansari
vice president of India
Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit
Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit
Indian politician and diplomat
Sir Samuel Hoare, 2nd Baronet.
Sir Samuel Hoare, 2nd Baronet
British statesman
Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st earl of Lytton
Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st earl of Lytton
British diplomat and poet
1st Marquess of Dufferin and Ava, detail of a portrait by George Frederic Watts; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
Frederick Temple Hamilton-Temple-Blackwood, 1st marquess of Dufferin and Ava
British diplomat
Sir Olaf Caroe
British administrator
Earl Amherst, detail of an oil painting after A. Devis; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
William Pitt Amherst, lst Earl Amherst
British diplomat
Allan Octavian Hume
British colonial official
Sri Aurobindo
Sri Aurobindo
Indian philosopher and yogi
J.N. Dixit
Indian diplomat
Muhammad Zafrulla Khan
Sir Muhammad Zafrulla Khan
Pakistani politician
Baron Hardinge, oil painting by Sir William Orpen, 1919; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
Charles Hardinge, 1st Baron Hardinge
viceroy of India
Rufus Daniel Isaacs, 1st marquess of Reading
British statesman
V.K. Krishna Menon.
V.K. Krishna Menon
Indian political figure
Kavalam Madhava Panikkar.
Kavalam Madhava Panikkar
Indian statesman