Good Innings: The Extraordinary, Ordinary Life of Lily Tharoor

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It is about Lily Tharoor – mother to stalwarts Shashi Tharoor, Shobha Tharoor Srinivasan and Smita Tharoor. Shashi Tharoor was one of the first nine celebrities nominated in 2014 by the Prime Minister Narendra Modi to spread awareness regarding cleanliness, hygiene and good sanitation and make Swachh Bharat Mission a people's movement. Thereafter, the stage was handed over to Tharoor Srinivasan, who has excelled as a children’s book author, poet, translator, editor and model, alongside her interviewer Nimisha Agarwal, founder at Brand Fashion. Smita Tharoor, a motivational speaker, says her father Chandan Tharoor, who was one of the Club's founding members, had a lot of fun stories about the place which he frequented as a bachelor, including one about "a bar lady who would refuse to serve drinks to men she thought were drunk". K. Narayanan felt that Tharoor's candidacy would demonstrate India's willingness to play a larger role at the United Nations.

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citation needed] His monthly column, "India Reawakening", distributed by Project Syndicate, appears in 80 newspapers around the world. Tharoor Srinivasan also regaled the listeners with the story of how she had been the first Amul baby when she was only 10-months old, and how Shyam Benegal, then a mere photographer, had taken her pictures. Previously he was a columnist for the Gentleman magazine and the Indian Express newspaper, as well as a frequent contributor to Newsweek International and the International Herald Tribune. Jaishree will be interviewing Monica Ali at the inaugural session of JLF London at the British Library on 10 June 2022 6. In April 2019, Tharoor had an accident when praying during a Thulabharam ritual at a temple in Thiruvananthapuram.In October 2022, he contested the Congress party’s presidential polls; however, he lost to his rival, Mallikarjun Kharge, by more than eight times votes.

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Tharoor wrote in an Al Jazeera article that the British "conquered one of the richest countries in the world (27 per cent of global gross domestic product in 1700) and reduced it to, after over two centuries of looting and exploitation, one of the poorest, most diseased and most illiterate countries on Earth by the time they left in 1947. Aishwarya Rai cuts birthday cake at an event with daughter Aaradhya Bachchan, refuses to eat as she is observing Karva Chauth. Born in pre-independence India, Lily moved to London in the early 1950s after marriage, where she taught herself English by listening to the BBC. Fiercely independent and ambitious, she pushed her children, including her son Shashi, to always think outside the box.Reasons of State (1985), India: From Midnight to the Millennium (1997), Nehru: The Invention of India (2003), Bookless in Baghdad (2005), The Elephant, the Tiger, and the Cell Phone: Reflections on India – The Emerging 21st-Century Power (2007), Shadows Across the Playing Field: Sixty Years of India-Pakistan Cricket (2009) (with Shaharyar Khan), Pax Indica: India and the World of the 21st Century (2012), India: the Future is Now, Wisdom Tree (Editor)(2013), India Shastra: Reflections on the Nation in our Time (2015), An Era of Darkness: The British Empire in India (2016), Inglorious Empire (2017) are some books based on Reality.

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Some of his popular books include Why I Am A Hindu, Inglorious Empire, and more recently Ambedkar: A Life. The book showcases her love for poetry and introduces children to multiple poetic forms, and to the rhythm and music in words. During his tenure at the UNDPI, Tharoor reformed the department and undertook a number of initiatives, ranging from organizing and conducting the first-ever UN seminar on Antisemitism, the first-ever UN seminar on Islamophobia after the 11 September attacks, and launching an annual list of "Ten Under-Reported Stories the World Ought to Know about", which was last produced in 2008 by his successor.Speaking about the format of her book, Tharoor Srinivasan explained that “every chapter begins with an aphorism or a quotation, which informs the chapter. The chandeliers, Formica tables and straight-backed chairs of the Club have remained largely unchanged since it was set up more than 70 years ago. Shashi Tharoor, from the ranks of the Congress has tried to do that; there is not one BJP MP who has matched him. I dedicated my 2001 novel, Riot, to her: ‘tireless seeker who taught me to value her divine discontent’.