Shashi Tharoor was born in London and brought up in Bombay and Calcutta. He has written for the New York Times, the Washington Post, the International Herald Tribune, the Times of India, and Foreign Affairs. A human rights activist and winner of a Commonwealth Writers Prize, he is currently a member of the Indian Parliament and lives in New Dehli, India.
28 Ebooks por Shashi Tharoor
Afaf Mahfouz & David E. Scharff: Future of Prejudice
Established psychoanalytic/psychodynamic researchers and theorists bring the exploration of prejudice to a new level by examining how psychoanalysis might elucidate strategies that will eliminate pre …
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Shashi Tharoor: Monsoon Feast: Short stories to celebrate the cultures of Kerala and Singapore
Across the seas, the winds blow between two lands, whispering back and forth what is seen, heard, tasted, smelt, felt in each place: the green trees, the tropical heat, the lush rain, the peoples of …
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Shashi Tharoor: Why I Am a Hindu
Hinduism is one of the world’s oldest and greatest religious traditions. In captivating prose, Shashi Tharoor untangles its origins, its key philosophical concepts and texts. He explores everyday Hin …
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Shashi Tharoor: Why I Am a Hindu
Hinduism is one of the world’s oldest and greatest religious traditions. In captivating prose, Shashi Tharoor untangles its origins, its key philosophical concepts and texts. He explores everyday Hin …
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€17.21
Shashi Tharoor: Inglorious Empire
Inglorious Empire tells the real story of the British in India – from the arrival of the East India Company to the end of the Raj – and reveals how Britain’s rise was built upon its plunder of India. …
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Shashi Tharoor: Why I Am a Hindu
Shashi Tharoor offers a profound re-examination of Hinduism, one of the world’s oldest and greatest religious traditions. Opening with a frank and touching reflection on his personal beliefs, he lays …
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Shashi Tharoor: Elephant, the Tiger and the Cellphone
For more than four decades after gaining independence, India, with its massive size and population, staggering poverty and slow rate of growth, was associated with the plodding, somnolent elephant, c …
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€12.91
Shashi Tharoor: India
India: From Midnight to the Millennium and Beyond is an eloquent argument for the importance of India to the future of the industrialized world. Shashi Tharoor shows compellingly that India stands at …
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Shashi Tharoor: Pax Indica
In this lively, informative and insightful book, Shashi Tharoor brilliantly demonstrates how Indian diplomacy has come of age and forecasts where it will need to focus in the new millennium. He surve …
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Shashi Tharoor: Nehru: The Invention of India
The author of India: From Midnight to the Millennium provides a close-up portrait of Jawaharlal Nehru, India’s first prime minister, the influential politician who led his newly independent nation fr …
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€11.56
Shashi Tharoor: Five-Dollar Smile
The Five-Dollar Smile is a collection of stories of young love and disaffection, adolescent high spirits and youthful traumas; there are also stories, written with the energy and passion of youth, wh …
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Shashi Tharoor: Riot
Who killed twenty-four-year-old Priscilla Hart? And why would anyone want to murder this idealistic American student who had come to India to volunteer in a women s health programme? Was she the inno …
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Shashi Tharoor: Show Business
Critically ill, Bollywood superstar Ashok Banjara lies suspended between life and death in a Bombay hospital, a prisoner of the technicolour film that plays inside his head. As if for the first time, …
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Shashi Tharoor: Great Indian Novel
The Mahabharata meets modern Indian history in an intellectual roller coaster ride of a novel In Shashi Tharoor s satirical masterpiece, the story of the Mahabharata is retold as recent Indian histor …
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Shashi Tharoor: Inglorious Empire
The Sunday Times Top 10 bestseller on India’s experience of British colonialism, by the internationally-acclaimed author and diplomat Shashi Tharoor’Tharoor’s impassioned polemic slices straight to t …
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Shashi Tharoor: Riot
Who killed twenty-four-year-old Priscilla Hart? This highly motivated, idealistic American student had come to India to volunteer in womens health programs, but had her work made a killer out of an e …
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Shashi Tharoor: Nehru
Shashi Tharoor delivers an incisive biography of the great secularist whoalongside his spiritual father, Mahatma Gandhiled the movement for Indias independence from British rule and ushered his newly …
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Shashi Tharoor: Five Dollar Smile
This touching and funny collection of stories showcases Tharoors daunting literary acumen, as well as the keen sensitivity that informs his ability to write profoundly and entertainingly on themes ra …
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Shashi Tharoor & Shaharyar Khan: Shadows Across the Playing Field
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 ta …
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Rasheed Kidwai: Leaders, Politicians, Citizens
BALASAHEB THACKERAY. SHEILA DIKSHIT. A.P.J. ABDUL KALAM. NAMDEO DHASAL. S. JAIPAL REDDY. These are just some of the 50 dynamos whose lives and times are captured in this collection of profiles of som …
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Shashi Tharoor: Nehru
This short biography examines a great figure of twentieth-century nationalism from the vantage point of the beginning of the twenty-first. Deftly weaving personal facets with historical events, it te …
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Shashi Tharoor: Tharoorosaurus
Shashi Tharoor is the wizard of words. In Tharoorosaurus, he shares fifty-three examples from his vocabulary: unusual words from every letter of the alphabet. You don’t have to be a linguaphile to en …
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Shashi Tharoor: B. R. Ambedkar
A household name throughout India, B. R. Ambedkar is one of the country’s most important figures, second only to Mahatma Gandhi. He played a major role in drafting the constitution for a newly indepe …
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Shashi Tharoor: Nehru. Inventarea Indiei
În 1919, Jawaharlal Nehru s-a alăturat Congresului Național Indian, care lupta pentru eliberarea de sub stăpânirea britanicilor. El a fost puternic influențat de liderul organizației, M. Gandhi. În t …
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Shashi Tharoor: Zeit der Finsternis
Die unrühmliche Wahrheit über die britische Herrschaft in Indien – erstmals erzählt aus indischer Sicht. Das Britische Kolonialreich präsentierte sich nach außen hin als aufgeklärter Despotismus im N …
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Stephen Barker: Flying Sikh
The Flying Sikh tells the unique story of the only Sikh airman to fly with the RFC and the RAF during the First World War. It is the remarkable account of one man’s struggle to enlist, against discri …
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Stephen Barker: Flying Sikh
The Flying Sikh tells the unique story of the only Sikh airman to fly with the RFC and the RAF during the First World War. It is the remarkable account of one man’s struggle to enlist, against discri …
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