Shashi Tharoor
Member of Parliament and Chairman, Parliamentary Standing Committee on External Affairs, India
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162,107
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520
Average comments per post
63
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Every 55 weeks
Profile figures as of October 2026.
About
Dr Shashi Tharoor is a fourth-term Member of Parliament (Lok Sabha) for Thiruvananthapuram and the Chairperson of the Parliamentary Standing Committee on External Affairs. He is the bestselling author of twenty-six books, both fiction and non-fiction, besides being a former Under Secretary-General of the United Nations and a former Minister of State for Human Resource Development and for External Affairs in the Government of India. He has won numerous awards, including the Pravasi Bharatiya Samman, a Commonwealth Writers’ Prize and the Crossword Lifetime Achievement Award. In 2019, Dr. Tharoor was also awarded the Sahitya Akademi Award in the category of ‘English Non-Fiction’ for his book An Era of Darkness. He has previously chaired the Parliament’s Standing Committee on Chemicals and Fertilisers as well as the Committee on Information Technology. For the full biography, please visit - https://shashitharoor.in/biography
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