Shashi Tharoor is listed as Lok Sabha MP for Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala.
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Read the source ↗Ph.D. in Law and Diplomacy from Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University, USA in year 1978
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Read the source ↗Lok Sabha · Kerala · INC · 326,725 recorded votes. This event comes from the matched historical general-election archive.
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Read the source ↗Lok Sabha · Kerala · INC · 297,806 recorded votes. This event comes from the matched historical general-election archive.
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Read the source ↗Lok Sabha · Kerala · INC · 416,131 recorded votes. This event comes from the matched historical general-election archive.
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Read the source ↗Publisher reference: Minister CP John, MP Shashi Tharoor discusses key development projects for Thiruvananthapuram This marks the latest dated record available here, not necessarily the latest activity in public life.
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| Election | Seat & party | Outcome | Votes |
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| 2009 · Lok Sabha ↗ | THIRUVANANTHAPURAMKerala · INC | Won | 326,725 |
| 2014 · Lok Sabha ↗ | THIRUVANANTHAPURAMKerala · INC | Won | 297,806 |
| 2019 · Lok Sabha ↗ | THIRUVANANTHAPURAMKerala · INC | Won | 416,131 |
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The cited biography records Shashi Tharoor’s date of birth as 9 March 1956. The birthplace is recorded as London (England).
The educational qualifications recorded in the cited source are: B.A. (Hons), M.A., M.A.L.D, Ph.D., D.Litt. (Honorary), Dr. Honoris Causa Educated at St Stephen`s College, Delhi University, New Delhi and Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University, U.S.A.. The professional background is listed as AUTHOR.
The earliest dated entry in the cited service history is 23 May 2009 - 18 Apr. 2010: Union Minister of State, External Affairs. A later recorded entry is June 2024: Elected to 18th Lok Sabha. This identifies the earliest entry available in that source, rather than establishing the start of the entire political career. Historical and open-ended positions retain their source periods.
Non Fiction (i) Reasons of State: Political Development and India’s Foreign Policy under Indira Gandhi, 1966-1977 (1982); (ii) Nehru: The Invention of India (2003), a Biography of India’s First Prime Minister; a collection of literary essays; (iii) Shadows Across the Playing Field: 60 Years of India-Pakistan Cricket (1997); (iv) Bookless in Baghdad (2005), an essay collection; (v) The Elephant, the Tiger and the Cellphone: Reflections on India; The Emerging 21st Century Power (2007); (vi) India: From Midnight to the Millennium and Beyond (2009), with Shaharyar Khan; (vii) Pax Indica: India and the World of the 21st Century (2012); (viii) India: The Future is Now (edited) (2013); (ix) India Shastra: Reflections on the Nation in our time (2015) (x) An Era of Darkness: The British Empire in India (2016); (xi) The Paradoxical Prime Minister (2018) (xii) Why I Am a Hindu (2018) (xiii) Inde (French); (xiv) Tharoorosaurus; (xv) Ambedkar, a life ; (xvi) The Battle of Belonging; (xvii) The Less You Preach The More You Learn: aphorisms for our age, Co authored with Joseph Zacharias Fiction: (xviii) The Great Indian Novel (1989); (xix) The Five-Dollar Smile and other short stories (1990); (xx) Show Business (1992) which received a front page accolade in the ‘New York Times’ Book Review and has since been made into a motion picture, “Bollywood”; (xxi) Riot (2001); Illustrated books: (xxii) Kerala: God’s own Country (2002), with text by Shashi Tharoor and paintings by the renowned M.F. Husain; also translated in French, German, Italian, Malayalam, Marathi, Polish, Romanian, Russian and Spanish; (xxiii) India (2008), a photo book in collaboration with photographer Ferrante Ferranti
Served The United Nations for 29 year career(1978-2007) Under-Secretary-General, Communications and Public Information, U.N., 2001-2007; Executive Assistant, Secretary General, U.N.,1997-2000; Special Asstt.,USA/UN for peacekeeping, 1989-1996; Deputy Chief, Secretariat, UNCHR, 1985-89; Head, Singapore Office, UNHCR, 1981-84; and Public Information Officer, UNHCR, 1978-81;served (i) Board of Overseers, Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, the board of trustees of the Aspen Institute; (ii) Advisory Boards of the Indo-American Arts Council, the American India Foundation, the World Policy Journal, the Virtue foundation and the human rights organization `Breakthrough`;appointed an International Adviser to the International Committee of the Red Cross, Geneva, 2008-11; Fellow,New York Institute of the Humanities and the Patron of the Dubai Modern School; Awards (i) The Pride of India Award, the Zakir Husain Memorial Foundation, Nagpur; and (ii) The Hakim Khan Sur Award for National Integration, presented by Maharana of Udaipur; Member, Sree Chitra Tirunal Institute for Medical Sciences and Technology, Trivandrum, 2010-12.
Chairperson of the Committee on External Affairs
Source ↗Elected to 18th Lok Sabha
Source ↗Chairperson, Standing Committee on Chemicals and Fertilizers
Source ↗Member, Standing Committee on Communications and Information Technology
Source ↗Member, General Purposes Committee, Lok Sabha
Source ↗Member, Consultative Committee, Ministry of External Affairs
Source ↗Chairperson, Standing Committee on Communications and Information Technology
Source ↗Re-elected to 17th Lok Sabha (3rd term)
Source ↗Member, General Purposes Committee
Source ↗Member, Consultative Committee, Ministry of External Affairs and Overseas Indian Affairs
Source ↗Member, Rules Committee
Source ↗Chairperson, Standing Committee on External Affairs
Source ↗Re-elected to 16th Lok Sabha (2nd term)
Source ↗Union Minister of State, Human Resource Development
Source ↗Member, Consultative Committee, Ministry of Defence
Source ↗Member, Standing Committee on External Affairs
Source ↗Union Minister of State, External Affairs
Source ↗Elected to 15th Lok Sabha
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| 2024 | 40 | 15 |
| 2025 | 53 | 23 |
| 2026 | 42 | 11 |
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B.A. (Hons), M.A., M.A.L.D, Ph.D., D.Litt. (Honorary), Dr. Honoris Causa Educated at St Stephen`s College, Delhi University, New Delhi and Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University, U.S.A..
Read the supporting source ↗23 May 2009 - 18 Apr. 2010: Union Minister of State, External Affairs. This is the earliest dated entry in the cited record, not necessarily the first public role.
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Read the supporting source ↗Shashi Tharoor is listed as Lok Sabha MP for Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala.
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