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Shashi Tharoor is certainly the right candidate
The qualities that an MP must have to represent this great city are clear. He or she must:
* be well educated;
* possess a broad and humane national vision;
* be able to communicate to the outside world;
* reveal a global mindset open to new ideas and attuned to the needs of the 21st century;
* and display the record of a pragmatic problem-solver.
Why are these qualities necessary? Because of the challenges and possibilities that lie ahead for Thiruvananthapuram, for Kerala and for India.
* Shashi Tharoor is highly qualified, having earned four degrees, including a PhD., by the age of 22, and been awarded two subsequent honorary doctorates by prestigious foreign universities.
* He has led a global life at the United Nations that has been about reconciling the differing positions and attitudes of people from different parts of the world.
* In his writings he has displayed a profound patriotism, deep insights into the problems facing India, and a passion to help the nation overcome them.
* In his UN career he has repeatedly proved himself a reformer witha remarkable ability to address and solve problems. At the same time, he is "one of us":
* He has experiences like any other Malayali who has left home to travel to some foreign land to make a living.
* His success is anchored in his Malayali up bringing and the cultural parameters instilled in him, including by annual visits to his ancestral village in Kerala:hard work, self-respect and eagerness to move forward.
* He is determined to use his considerable skills and energies to bringing the best to the people of Thiruvananthapuram.
As Shashi Tharoor says:
"To represent the great citizens of this wonderful city would be an honour, but it is more important for Thiruvananthapuram's own sake that the people study all the candidates and vote for the person who can help them the most to improve their daily lives." |
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Chairman of Dubai-based Afras Ventures and former Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations, Dr. Shashi Tharoor was the official candidate of India for the succession to UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan in 2006, and came a close second out of seven contenders in the race. His career began in 1978, when he joined the staff of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) in Geneva, and included key responsibilities in peace-keeping after the Cold War and as a senior adviser to the Secretary-General, as well as the United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Communications and Public Information.
Dr. Tharoor is also the award-winning author of nine books, as well as hundreds of articles, op-eds and book reviews in a wide range of publications, including the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, the International Herald Tribune, Time, Newsweek and The Times of India. He has served for two years as a Contributing Editor and occasional columnist for Newsweek International. Since April 2001 he has authored a fortnightly column in The Hindu and since January 2007 in The Times of India.
His five non-fiction books include: Reasons of State (1981), a study of Indian foreign-policy making; India: From Midnight to the Millennium (1997), which was cited by President Clinton in his address to the Indian Parliament; Nehru: The Invention of India (2003), a biography of India's first Prime Minister, and a collection of literary essays, Bookless in Baghdad (2005). His three novels are the classic The Great Indian Novel (1989) which is required reading in several courses on post-colonial literature; Riot (2001), a searing examination of Hindu-Muslim violence in contemporary India, and Show Business (1992) which received a front-page accolade in the New York Times Book Review and has since been made into a motion picture, "Bollywood". Shashi Tharoor’s books have been translated into French, German, Italian, Malayalam, Marathi, Polish, Romanian, Russian and Spanish.
Born in London in 1956, Dr. Tharoor was educated in India and the United States, completing a Ph. D. in 1978 at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University, where he received the Robert B. Stewart Prize for Best Student. At Fletcher, Shashi Tharoor helped found and was the first Editor of the Fletcher Forum of International Affairs, a journal now in its 31st year. A compelling and effective speaker, he is fluent in English and French.
In January 1998, Dr. Tharoor was named a "Global Leader of Tomorrow" by the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. He is the recipient of several awards, including a Commonwealth Writers’ Prize, and was named to India’s highest honour for Overseas Indians, the Pravasi Bharatiya Samman, in 2004. He serves on the Board of Overseers of the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, the board of trustees of the Aspen Institute India, and the Advisory Boards of the World Policy Journal, the Virtue Foundation and the human rights organization Breakthrough. He is also a Fellow of the New York Institute of the Humanities.
He is married to Christa, a Canadian who is Deputy Secretary of the United Nations Disarmament Commission, and is the father of twin sons Ishaan and Kanishk. |
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