Why I Am a Hindu
Shashi Tharoor served for twenty-nine years at the United Nations, rising to the post of Under-Secretary-General. Tharoor, who has also been Minister of State for External Affairs in India, is presently a Congress MP. The author of sixteen previous books, he has won numerous literary awards, including a Commonwealth Writers’ Prize. His Inglorious Empire: What the British Did to India was a Sunday Times bestseller and was named as a Financial Timesbook of the year.
Date: 6 June 2018, 17:00
Venue: St Antony's College, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Venue Details: Investcorp Lecture Theatre
Speaker: Shashi Tharoor (Lok Sabha)
Organising department: Asian Studies Centre
Organiser: Faisal Devji (University Reader in Modern South Asian History, University of Oxford)
Organiser contact email address: asian@sant.ox.ac.uk
Booking required?: Not required
Audience: Public
Editor: Maxime Dargaud-Fons