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Author
Shashi Tharoor
SHASHI THAROOR is the author of three novels, Riot, Show Business,and The Great Indian Novel, and two works of nonfiction, India: From Midnight to the Millenniumand Nehru:A Biography, all published by Arcade. He has written for the New York Times,the Washington Post,the International Herald Tribune,the Times of India,the Indian Express,and Foreign Affairs.He was born in London and educated in India and the United States. Winner of a Commonwealth Writers Prize, Tharoor is the United Nations undersecretary of communication and public information. He lives in New York City.
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The Elephant, the Tiger, and the Cell Phone
India: The Emerging 21st-Century Power
Shashi Tharoor
2007 Edition
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.
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The Five Dollar Smile
And Other Stories
Shashi Tharoor
2007 Edition
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 family conflict to death.
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Bookless in Baghdad
Reflections on Writing and Writers
Shashi Tharoor
2005 Edition
Supremely personal, yet always probing and analytical, this brilliant collection of essays is part memoir, part literary criticism.
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Nehru
The Invention of India
Shashi Tharoor
2003 Edition
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 the modern world.
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Riot
A Love Story
Shashi Tharoor
2001 Edition
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 by the award-winning author of The Great Indian Novel.
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India
From Independence to Today
Shashi Tharoor
1997 Edition
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 in the 21st century—now available in paperback, with a new preface by the author.
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Show Business
Shashi Tharoor
1992 Edition
A rollicking novel about the razzle-dazzle of the Hindi film industry, know as Bollywood. "Exuberant and clever . . . both affectionately and fiercely done."--New York Times Books ReviewNotable book of the year
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The Great Indian Novel
Shashi Tharoor
1991 Edition
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.
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