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- Height5′ 10″ (1.78 m)
- Shashi Tharoor was born on March 9, 1956 in London, England, UK. He is a writer, known for Bollywood (1994), U.N. Me (2009) and 8 Billion Angels (2019).
- SpousesSunanda Pushkar(August 22, 2010 - ?) (her death)Tilottama Thanoor(1977 - ?) (divorced, 2 children)
- Having been United Nations Under Secretary General for Communications and Public Information since 2002, he campaigned to succeed Kofi Annan as Secretary-General, but finally withdrew his candidacy.
- Authors of successful novels such as "The Great Indian Novel" (1989), "Show Business" (1992), which was made into the film Bollywood (1994), and "Riot" (2001).
- Completed a Ph.D at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University between 1975 and 1978.
- The British are the only people in history crass enough to have made revolutionaries out of Americans.
- One strength of Indian mind is that it knows some problems cannot be resolved and it learns to make best of them. That is the Indian answer to the insuperable difficulty. One does not fight against that by which one is certain to be overwhelmed; but one finds the best way, for oneself, to live with it. This is our national aesthetic. Without it, India as we know it could not survive.
- The vehicles of human politics seem to run off course, but the site of the accident turns out to have been the intended destination.
- Ultimately, what matters in determining the validity of a nation is the will of its inhabitants to live and strive together.
- Bureaucracy is simultaneously the most crippling of Indian diseases and the highest of Indian art forms.
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