Member of Parliament
for Thiruvananthapuram
Paperback: 192 pages
Publisher: Roli Books Pvt Ltd (September 1, 2009)
ISBN-10: 8174367187
ISBN-13: 978-8174367181
Shadows across the Playing Field tells the story of the turbulent cricketing relations between India and Pakistan through the eyes of two men – Shashi Tharoor and Shaharyar Khan – who bring to the task not only great love
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Paperback: 432 pages
Publisher: Arcade Publishing (April 1993)
Language: English (also available in German and French)
ISBN-10: 1559701943
ISBN-13: 978-1559701945
In this award-winning novel, Tharoor has masterfully recast the two-thousand-year-old epic, The Mahabharata,with fictional but highly recognizable events and characters from twentieth-century Indian politics.
Nothing is sacred
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Paperback: 320 pages
Publisher: Arcade Publishing; 1st North American Ed edition (September 20, 1993)
Language: English (also available in Italian)
ISBN-10: 1559702273
ISBN-13: 978-1559702270
A rollicking novel about the razzle-dazzle of the Hindi film industry, know as Bollywood. "Exuberant and clever . . . both affectionately
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Hardcover: 256 pages
Publisher: Arcade Publishing; 1st edition (August 15, 1997)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1559703849
ISBN-13: 978-1559703840
One of the best in a generation of Indian authors shows how the challenges facing the world's largest and most diverse democracy will also affect America and the West
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Hardcover: 272 pages
Publisher: Arcade Publishing; 1st edition (September 10, 2001)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1559706058
ISBN-13: 978-1559706056
A powerful novel--set in and around a riot in India in 1989--about love hate, cultural collision, religious fanaticism, the ownership of history, and the impossibility of knowing the truth
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Hardcover: 175 pages
Publisher: Arcade Publishing (June 25, 1993)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1559702257
ISBN-13: 978-1559702256
This touching and funny collection of stories showcases Tharoor’s daunting literary acumen, as well as the keen sensitivity that informs his ability to write profoundly and entertainingly on themes ranging from
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Hardcover: 438 pages
Publisher: Stosius Inc/Advent Books Division (January 1981)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0706912756
ISBN-13: 978-0706912753
"Reasons of State", written in 1982, is a Political Development and also India's Foreign Policy Under Indira Ghandi. In this non-fiction of Tharoor's Nehru's contradictions are slurred over as if
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Paperback: 416 pages
Publisher: Harper Perennial (September 1, 1998)
Language: English, German and Malayalam
ISBN-10: 0060977531
ISBN-13: 978-0060977535
Amazon.com Review
Author Shashi Tharoor has spent half of his life outside of India, yet his position as a "NRI" (Non-resident Indian) has given him the distance and perspective
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Hardcover: 256 pages
Publisher: Arcade Publishing; 1 edition (November 14, 2003)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 155970697X
ISBN-13: 978-1559706971
An incisive new biography of the great secularist who—alongside his spiritual father, Mahatma Gandhi—led the movement for India’s independence from British rule and ushered his newly independent country into
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Paperback: 498 pages
Publisher: Arcade Publishing (October 15, 2008)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1559708948
ISBN-13: 978-1559708944
Over the past 25 years, India has moved from a largely impoverished, underdeveloped country to an innovative, fast-changing society. This entertaining and informative book shows how and why.
Interest in India has
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Hardcover: 288 pages
Publisher: Arcade Publishing (July 11, 2005)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1559707577
ISBN-13: 978-1559707572
Supremely personal, yet always probing and analytical, this brilliant collection of essays is part memoir, part literary criticism.
“A fluid and powerful writer, one of the best in a generation of Indian
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