About Shashi Tharoor
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Shashi Tharoor (Malayalam pronunciation: [ʃɐʃi t̪ɐɾuːr]; born 9 March 1956) is an Indian author, public intellectual, former diplomat, bureaucrat and statesman. A member of the Indian National Congress, he has represented Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, in the Lok Sabha since 2009. He was formerly an Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations and ran for the office of Secretary-General in 2006, coming second. Born in London and raised in Mumbai and Kolkata, Tharoor graduated from St.