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Shashi Tharoor

Shashi Tharoor

DOB: March 9, 1956

Shashi Tharoor is an Indian politician serving as Member of Parliament, Lok Sabha from Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, since 2009. He is a former career international diplomat. He is a member of Indian National congress and at present serves as Chairman of the Parliamentary Standing Committee on External Affairs and All India Professionals Congress. Tharoor was a former Minister of State in the Government of India for External Affairs during the period of 2009-2010. Tharror as a writer have authored eighteen best selling works including fiction and non fiction both and he is also author of hundreds of columns and articles in publications such as The New York Times, The Washington Post etc.Tharoor was appointed as Director of Communications Executive Assistant to Secretary-General Kofi Annan in 1996. Tharoor became Under-Secretary-General for Communications and Public Information (UNDPI) on 1 June 2002. Tharoor was in controversy when her wife Sunanda was found dead in room number 345 of the Leela Palace hotel in Chanakyapuri, New Delhi.

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Karnataka tired of 40% commission, wants 100% commitment: Shashi Tharoor takes jibe at BJP

Elections | Apr 09, 2023, 05:32 PM IST

Karnataka Polls 2023: Senior Congress leader Shashi Tharoor took a jibe at BJP and said that the people of Karnataka are tired of 40 per cent commission and want 100 per cent commitment.

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Urge my friend Jai to cool a little bit, Tharoor on Jaishankar's 'West has a bad habit' remark

India | Apr 03, 2023, 07:20 PM IST

EAM S Jaishankar said that the West has had a "bad habit" for a long time, of commenting on others, and it thinks it has a "God-given right" to speak about the internal matters of other countries.

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Rahul Gandhi's disqualification generated 'surprising wave of Opposition unity' says Shashi Tharoor

Elections | Apr 02, 2023, 02:53 PM IST

Lok Sabha Election 2023: Lok Sabha MP Shashi Tharoor on Monday encouraged the smaller parties to play convenor of the Opposition alliance to wrest BJP in the 2024 polls.

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Rahul Gandhi disqualification row: Shashi Tharoor calls it BJP's "political message" to Opposition

India | Mar 26, 2023, 11:15 PM IST

Notably, his critical remarks came nearly two days after Gandhi was disqualified from the Lok Sabha Friday, a day after a court in Gujarat's Surat convicted him in a 2019 defamation case

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'Not my business to tell leadership what to do': Shashi Tharoor rules out contesting CWC polls

India | Feb 16, 2023, 04:08 PM IST

Congress leader Shashi Tharoor contested the Congress presidential polls last October but lost to Mallikarjun Kharge.

Reacting to the development, Tharoor wrote,

MP Shashi Tharoor takes dig at Animal Welfare Board for withdrawal of 'Cow Hug Day' appeal

India | Feb 11, 2023, 04:41 PM IST

Tharoor's dig came a day after the Animal Welfare Board of India (AWBI) said it withdrew the appeal to celebrate February 14 as 'Cow Hug Day.'

Man asks ChatGPT to write 'leave of absence' at work in Shashi Tharoor's style, Cong MP responds

Trending | Jan 16, 2023, 08:47 PM IST

User Nishanth Vijayan took to Twitter to share a screenshot of his interaction with the bot. In the screenshot, the user was seen asking the bot to write a paragraph explaining his absence at work in the style of Shashi Tharoor.

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Not ready to be Kerala Chief Minister, says Shashi Tharoor

India | Jan 14, 2023, 11:14 PM IST

Shashi Tharoor on Kerala CM post: "I am not prepared for the role of the chief minister. I will continue doing what I have been doing for fourteen years," Tharoor told media in Kannur.

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Entirely possible for BJP to lose majority in 2024, says Shashi Tharoor

India | Jan 14, 2023, 07:42 AM IST

Lok Sabha 2024: The Thiruvananthapuram MP, who was speaking at the Kerala Literature Festival, said while he concedes the BJP's dominance, it is also a fact that they have lost many states and them losing the central government is not impossible.

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'What status do they have?' Chhattisgarh CM, Tharoor after Pak minister statement against PM Modi

India | Dec 18, 2022, 07:45 PM IST

The BJP held protests across the country against Pakistan Foreign Minister Bilawal Bhutto's "uncivilized and distasteful" personal attack on Prime Minister Narendra Modi as the party sought to rally support over the issue.

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'Well done'! Tharoor applauds India's abstention of vote in UNSC on humanitarian concerns

India | Dec 11, 2022, 05:48 PM IST

Veteran Congress leader Shashi Tharoor hailed External Affairs Minister Dr S Jaishankar for India's abstention from the vote in the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) on a resolution that exempts humanitarian aid efforts from sanctions.

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Unity need of hour in Congress, petty 'group politics' not needed: Shashi Tharoor

India | Dec 04, 2022, 05:54 PM IST

Tharoor on Congress: The former UN diplomat said the party needed to be united and there was no need for 'A' and 'I' groups in the Congress of Kerala.

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Sunanda Pushkar death case: Delhi Police moves HC against Tharoor's discharge

India | Dec 01, 2022, 12:50 PM IST

Sunanda Pushkar death case: The high court also issued notice and sought response from Shashi Tharoor on an application by police seeking to condone the delay in filing the revision petition against the trial court's August 18, 2021 order.

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About chameleons & ‘snollygosters’: Tharoor’s sharp-witted swipe at political defectors

India | Nov 18, 2022, 02:57 PM IST

Tharoor’s post on Twitter showed a video of the chameleon crawling up the stick with these words: "The changing colours of political defectors in India, brilliantly illustrated by this actual chameleon! Snollygosters’ role model!"

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Shashi Tharoor reacts after party ignores him for Gujarat campaign, says 'Congress knows...'

Elections | Nov 16, 2022, 06:30 PM IST

Gujarat Assembly Election 2022: Leaders like Sachin Pilot and Rajasthan CM Ashok Gehlot were included in Congress' star campaigners list, but Shashi Tharoor was ignored by the party.

Shashi Tharoor slams trolls over comments on pic with woman

'This young girl suffered for an innocent picture': Tharoor shuts trolls over pic with woman

India | Nov 16, 2022, 03:03 PM IST

Taking to Twitter, Shashi Tharoor said trolls should realise there are real human beings involved in their abuse.

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Caste consciousness in society is greater today than in 1950s: Shashi Tharoor

India | Nov 12, 2022, 05:23 PM IST

Shashi Tharoor on caste consciousness: “Ambedkar wanted to completely destroy the caste system and he will probably be horrified to realize that, if anything, the caste system is more and more entrenched in the political parties,” he said.

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'Not a single Muslim MP...': Tharoor takes a swipe at BJP as UK gets first Indian-origin Hindu PM

India | Oct 25, 2022, 08:09 PM IST

Shashi Tharoor on UK PM: While taking a jibe at BJP, Tharoor said the country should be prepared to look beyond caste, religion, class and language.

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Mistry goes ballistic on Tharoor's Congress prez poll irregularity charge: 'You had one face...'

India | Oct 20, 2022, 04:41 PM IST

Tharoor Vs Mistry: It seems that all is not well in Congress post party election for president post in which Mallikarajun Kharge defeated Shashi Tharoor as poll in-charge Mistry slammed the second contender for raising irregularities in the counting of votes.

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'No party worker big or small': Congress president-elect Kharge; Tharoor says 'revival has begun'

India | Oct 19, 2022, 11:26 PM IST

Congress President election result: A Dalit from Karnataka, 80-year-old Kharge trounced his 66-year-old rival, Shashi Tharoor, in a historic election seeking to steer the beleaguered party out of its current crisis. He bagged over 84 percent of the votes in the presidential election.