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It’s Tharoor Time at the IAAC Literary Festival in New York
By Lavina Melwani on October 1, 2016 |
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| can you ever have too much Tharoor? For avid readers, it can never be enough. Happily, the upcoming IAAC Lit Fest has not one, not two but three Tharoors! It’s being billed as a Trio of Tharoors and promises to make for some intriguing conversations: Shashi Tharoor and his twin sons Ishaan and Kanishk Tharoor at the NYU Kimmel Center on October 9. It is just one of many literary encounters during the three day fest. |
| Shashi Tharoor is the Member of Parliament for Thiruvananthapuram and the Lok Sabha Chairman of the Parliamentary Standing Committee on External Affairs. He has previously been the Minister of State for External Affairs and before that was the Under-Secretary General of the UN. Through all this he has always managed to write, being the author of several books including ‘Reasons of State,’ ‘The Great Indian Novel’, ‘Show Business’ and ‘Midnight to the Millennium’. He’s also written numerous articles, short stories and commentaries, and won several awards including the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize. |
| Both the younger Tharoors have formidable writing careers at a young age: Kanishk is a writer and broadcaster and his debut collection ‘Swimmer Among the Stars: Stories’ has created quite a buzz. His short fiction has won several prizes and been nominated for the National Magazine Award. He is the presenter of ‘Museum of Lost Objects’, a 10 part BBC radio series on the cultural destruction in Iraq and Syria. |
| Ishaan is a foreign affairs writer at Washington Post, where he heads the WorldViews blog and writes on many issues. Earlier he was a writer and editor at Time Magazine, first in Asia and then in Hong Kong. You can always expect something thought-provoking and insightful from his pen. |
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| Shashi Tharoor with Ishaan and Kanishk |
| There’s an endearing picture from Shashi Tharoor’s album of the beaming father with his twins, when they were just a year old. Did he whisper writing magic spells and literary chants into their ears? Or is writing just in their genes? |
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