Shashi Tharoor Biography 
Shashi Tharoor is an Indian politician who served as the Minister of State for Human Resource Development. He was elected as the Member of Parliament from the Thiruvananthapuram constituency of Kerala. He is also an author and a columnist.
He was born on 9th March 1956 in London in United Kingdom. His father’s name is Chandran Tharoor and his mother’s name is Lily. His parents returned to India and he completed his schooling at Mantfort School in Yercaud in Tamil Nadu, Campion School in Mumbai and St. Xavier’s Collegiate School in Kolkata. He got his Bachelor of Arts degree in history from St. Stephen’s College in Delhi. He completed his M.A. at The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University in 1976, M.A.L.D. in 1977 and completed his Ph.D in 1979.
He first married Tilottama Mukherji and after divorcing her married Christa of Canada. He divorced her and married Sunanda Pushkar on 22nd August 2010. He has two children Ishaan and Kanishk. He started his career in 1978 as a staff member of UN High Commissioner for Refugees in Geneva. He headed the UNHCR office in Singapore when the boat people crisis took place. He worked as the special assistant to the Under Secretary General for Special Political Affairs.
He was nominated as the UN Secretary General by the Government of India in 2006. He resigned his post of UN Under Secretary General on 9th February 2007. He won the online poll conducted by the BBC News. He contested in the General Elections in 2009 as the candidate of the Indian National Congress party at Thiruvananthapuram and won. He assumed the post of the Indian Minister of State of External Affairs on 28th May 2009.
When he was charged for misusing his office to get the IPL cricket franchise of Cochin, he resigned his post of the Minister of State for External Affairs on 18th April 2010. The Lok Sabha Speaker Meira Kumar nominated him as the member of the Parliamentary Standing Committee for External Affairs on 2nd May 2010.
He has written many books in his lifetime including The Great Indian Novel, The Five Dollar Smile and Other Stories, Show Business, Reasons of State, India: From Midnight to the Millennium, Bookless in Baghdad, Nehru: The Invention of India and Pax Indica: India and the World of the 21st Century and has written in the columns of many newspapers including The Hindu, Deccan Chronicle, Times of India, Washington Post, New York Times and Los Angeles Times.
He served as the Fellow of the New York Institute for the Humanities, as a member of the Advisory Board of the Indo American Arts Council and on the Board of Directors of Breakthrough. He founded the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy in 1976.
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Updated: September 25, 2017
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