Dr. Shashi Tharoor, a Member of Parliament
since 2009, has won the Lok Sabha Elections four
times from Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala. A
member of the Indian National Congress, Tharoor
is a former diplomat and was formerly an Under-
Secretary-General of the United Nations. Tharoor
graduated from St. Stephen's College, Delhi, in
1975 and was conferred a doctorate in
international relations and affairs from the Fletcher
School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University a
few years later in 1978. At the age of 22, he was
the youngest person at the time to receive such an
honour from the Fletcher School. During the
Manmohan Singh Government, Shashi Tharoor
served as the Minister of State for External
Affairs. An erudite scholar and intellectual, an
acclaimed public speaker, Dr Tharoor is a Sahitya
Akademi Award winner, who has authored many
works of fiction and non-fiction since 1981. He is
presently the Chairperson of the Parliamentary
Standing Committee on External Affairs.
