Author

• Shashi Tharoor

  
  Shashi Tharoor

  Shashi Tharoor worked for the United Nations in various humanitarian, peace-keeping and management roles for nearly thirty years and was Under-Secretary-General for Communications and Public Information during the tenure of Kofi Annan. Currently a Lok Sabha MP representing the Thiruvananthapuram constituency, he is an acclaimed novelist, author and newspaper columnist. His non-fiction titles include An Era of Darkness (2016), The Paradoxical Prime Minister (2018) and The Battle of Belonging: On Nationalism, Patriotism, and what it means to be Indian (2020). He has an encyclopaedic knowledge of Indian cricket, which he has followed avidly from afar, and has played in such cricketing hotbeds as Singapore and Geneva.