Even the harshest critic has to admit that Dr. Tharoor in spite of his fair share of controversies is an impeccable painter with words. The short & witty biography of literally a legacy is by no means an easy task. There is always a risk of misrepresentation or even worst omission of certain fact...
Tharoor's Show Business gives an interesting composition of the Indian entertainment industry's links to society and politics. The book reflects the old saying that what you get is not what you want and what you want is not what you get. The book indeed delivers some very strong messages of integ...
I think the best part about this book, apart from the fact that it is written by Shashi Tharoor, is that it contains everything a good book should contain-love, hate, violence, endearing characters as well as a few losers and a tragedy that moves you deeply. A reader undergoes a huge transition o...
There is now a widespread consensus in Indian policy-making circles that, whoever wins, India–US relations are more or less on the right track. Democrats and Republicans in the White House have both been responsible for this development. President Obama’s successful visit to India in 2010 and his...
Motilal was weighed down by personal tragedy. Married as a teenager, in keeping with custom, he had soon been widowed, losing both his wife and his firstborn son in childbirth. In due course he had married again, an exquisitely beautiful woman named Swarup Rani Kaul. She soon blessed him with ano...
chortled my friend the literary agent. “Apparently, eighty-one percent of Americans feel they should write a book.” She wasn't kidding. Eighty-one percent of the citizenry of the land of the free and the home of the brave think they have a book in them. That's according to a survey of 1,006 adult...