A conversation between Dr Shashi Tharoor MP and Manu Joseph on "The Prime Minister: Accidental Or Paradoxical" at MBIFL 2019.
Dr Shashi Tharoor (born 9 March 1956) is an Indian politician, writer and a former career international diplomat who is serving as Member of Parliament, Lok Sabha from Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, since 2009. He also currently serves as Chairman of the Parliamentary Standing Committee on External Affairs and All India Professionals Congress
He was previously Minister of State in the Government of India for External Affairs (2009-2010) and Human Resource Development (2012-2014). Tharoor is a member of the Indian National Congress and served as an official spokesperson for the party from January to October 2014. Until 2007, he was a career official at the United Nations, rising to the rank of Under-Secretary-General for Communications and Public Information in 2001. He announced his retirement after finishing second in the 2006 selection for U.N. Secretary-General to Ban Ki-moon.
Tharoor is an acclaimed writer, having authored 18 bestselling works of fiction and non-fiction since 1981, which are centred on India and its history, culture, film, politics, society, foreign policy, and more related themes. He is also the author of hundreds of columns and articles in publications such as The New York Times, The Washington Post, TIME, Newsweek, and The Times of India. He was a contributing editor for Newsweek International for two years. From 2010 to 2012, he wrote a column in The Asian Age, Deccan Chronicle and, for most of 2012, until his appointment as Minister, a column in Mail Today; he also writes an internationally syndicated monthly column for Project Syndicate. He also wrote regular columns for The Indian Express (1991-93 and 1996-2001), The Hindu (2001-2008), and The Times of India (2007-2009).
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Manu Joseph (born 22 July 1974) is an Indian journalist and writer. He is the former editor of Open magazine. Joseph was born in Kottayam, Kerala, and grew up in Chennai. He is a graduate of Loyola College, Chennai, and dropped out of Madras Christian College to become a staff writer at Society magazine. He is a former editor of OPEN magazine and a columnist for The International New York Times and The Hindustan Times. In 2007, he was a Chevening Scholar. He currently lives in Delhi. His debut novel Serious Men (2010) won The Hindu Literary Prize and the PEN/Open Book Award. The PEN jury described him as "...that rare bird who can wildly entertain the reader as forcefully as he moves them." Serious Man was first adapted to stage in 2013 by Nikhila Kesavan of The Madras Players.
His second novel, The Illicit Happiness of Other People, was published in September 2012. The semi-autobiographical novel was described by The Wall Street Journal as a work that "injects dark, rueful laughter into an immensely touching story of loss". He also wrote the screenplay of Love Khichdi (2009). On January 2014, Joseph resigned as editor of OPEN magazine.
Source: Wikipedia as on March 27, 2019.
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