Shashi Tharoor

Quick Facts

Full Name	Shashi Tharoor
Occupation	Politician
Date Of Birth	Mar 9, 1956(1956-03-09)
Age	68
Birthplace	London
Country	United Kingdom
Birth City	England
Horoscope	Pisces

Shashi Tharoor Biography

Shashi Tharoor is one of the most popular and richest Politician who was born on March 9, 1956 in London, England, United Kingdom. Notable as a politician and writer, Tharoor served in the Indian Lok Sabha (lower parliamentary house) as the Minister of State responsible for External Affairs and Human Resource Development and wrote several novels and non-fiction books such as The Great Indian Novel (which was awarded the Commonwealth Writers Award).

In the 1990s In the late 1990s, he was Executive Assistant to the then-United Secretary General of the United Nations In the late 1990s, he served as Executive Assistant to then-United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan…

Shashi Tharoor was born on 9 March 1956 in London, United Kingdom to Chandran Tharoor and Sulekha Menon, a Malayali couple hailing from Palakkad, Kerala. Tharoor has three sisters. His father, originally from Kerala, worked in various positions in London, Bombay, Calcutta and Delhi, including a 25-year career (culminating as group advertising manager) for The Statesman. His paternal uncle was Tharoor Parameshwaran, the founder of Reader’s Digest in India. Tharoor’s parents returned to India when he was 2 years-old, where he joined the Montfort School, Yercaud, in 1962, subsequently moving to Bombay (now Mumbai) and studying at the Campion School (1963–68). He spent his high school years at St. Xavier’s Collegiate School in Kolkata (1969–71).

Shashi Tharoor (born 9 March 1956) is an Indian politician, writer and a former international diplomat who is currently serving as Member of Parliament, Lok Sabha from Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, since 2009. He was formerly Under-Secretary General of the United Nations, and contested for the post of Secretary-General in 2006.

Three of his children were that were born to Chandran as well as Lily Tharoor, he spent his early years in England as well as India. His first marriage to Tilottama Mukherji – gave him twins named Kanishk and Ishaan and ended with divorce. He later got married to Christa Giles. He was then followed by businesswoman Sunanda Pushkar.

Shashi Tharoor Net Worth

Shashi Tharoor is one of the richest Politician from United Kingdom. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Shashi Tharoor 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

After completing his bachelor’s program in the St. Stephen’s College in Delhi and obtaining his doctorate from Tufts’s Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy.

A journalist, as well as an author and politician He wrote articles in The Times of India, The Washington Post, The New York Times and Newsweek International, among other notable publications.

Victor Mallet in the Financial Times said Tharoor “wants us to understand the origins of the difficulties that confronted India after 1947”, attributing most of that to colonialism. New Statesman said it was especially important to read as sardonic talk of “Empire 2.0” came up post-Brexit. Tharoor has called for Britain to pay reparations to India for the lasting toll that colonial rule exacted on the country.

Height, Weight & Body Measurements

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Who is Shashi Tharoor Dating?

According to our records, Shashi Tharoor married to Sunanda Pushkar. As of December 1, 2023, Shashi Tharoor’s is not dating anyone.

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Tharoor’s first wife was Tilottama Mukherji, a half-Bengali and half-Kashmiri academic, and the granddaughter of politician Kailashnath Katju. Tharoor and Tilottama had been college sweethearts and were married in 1981. After their marriage, Tilottama took her husband’s last name and began teaching English at the Ngee Ann Polytechnic university and also worked as a freelance writer. Their twin sons, Kanishk and Ishaan, were born prematurely in 1984 at the KK Hospital in Singapore. Ishaan is a former senior editor at Time magazine, and now writes on foreign affairs for The Washington Post. Kanishk is a former editor at Open Democracy and is the author of the highly praised short story collection Swimmer Among The Stars. Tilottama is currently a professor of humanities at New York University.

Facts & Trivia

Shashi Ranked on the list of most popular Politician. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United Kingdom. Shashi Tharoor celebrates birthday on March 9 of every year.

Tharoor has been a columnist in each of India’s three best-known English- language newspapers, most recently for The Hindu (2001–2008) and in a weekly column, “Shashi on Sunday,” in the Times of India (January 2007 – December 2008). Following his resignation as Minister of State for External Affairs, he began a fortnightly column on foreign policy issues in the Deccan Chronicle. Previously he was a columnist for the Gentleman magazine and the Indian Express newspaper, as well as a frequent contributor to Newsweek International and the International Herald Tribune. His op-eds and book reviews have appeared in the Washington Post, the New York Times and the Los Angeles Times, amongst other papers. His monthly column, “India Reawakening”, distributed by Project Syndicate, appears in 80 newspapers around the world.

What is Shashi Tharoor famous for?

Tharoor was a pioneer in using social media as an instrument of political interaction. He was India’s most-followed politician on Twitter until 2013, when he was overtaken by Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

How many languages does Shashi Tharoor speak?

Languages

What does Shashi Tharoor wear around his neck?

If you have seen Congress MP Shashi Tharoor or Bollywood actor Yami Gautam wearing a gadget around their neck, do not mistake it for a smartphone as it is a wearable air purifier to protect people against airborne viruses and air pollution.

How old is Shashi Tharoor?

66 years (March 9, 1956)

Why is Ima a Hindu book?

Why I Am a Hindu is a 2018 book by Indian politician Shashi Tharoor. In the book, Tharoor writes about the history of Hinduism and its core tenets, as well as socio-cultural developments in India that relate to the religion, while elucidating his own religious convictions.