Biodata |
Nama Lengkap | Shashi Tharoor |
Pekerjaan | Diplomat, Indian Politician, Writer |
Party | Indian National Congress
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Political Journey/Diplomatic Career | • Tharoor's Career in the United Nations started in 1978 as a staff member of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) in Geneva. • He was head of the UNHCR office in Singapore from 1981 until 1984. • In 1989 he was appointed as the special assistant to the Under-Secretary-General for Special Political, the unit that later became the Peacekeeping Operations wing in New York. • Tharoor was appointed the director of communications and special projects and executive assistant to the then Secretary-General Kofi Annan in 1996. • He became Under-Secretary-General for Communications and Public Information, and as Head of the Department of Public Information (UNDPI) in 2001. • In 2006, the Government of India nominated Shashi Tharoor for the post of UN Secretary-General. Tharoor finished second, behind Ban Ki-moon. • On 9 February 2007, Tharoor resigned from the post of UN Under-Secretary-General and left the United Nations on 1 April 2007. • In 2009 Parliamentary Elections, Tharoor was the MP candidate for Congress Party from Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala. Tharoor won the election by the margin of about 100,000. • Under the Govt. of Manmohan Singh, he was sworn in as Minister of State for External, in charge of Africa, Latin America, and the Gulf on 28 May 2009. • In May 2014 Tharoor won his re-election from Thiruvananthapuram, defeating O. Rajagopal of the Bharatiya Janata Party by a margin of around 15,000 votes, and got the membership of the 15th Lok Sabha, sitting in Opposition. He was named Chairman of the Parliamentary Standing Committee on External . • Shashi Tharoor was removed from the post of Congress spokesperson on 13 October 2014 after he praised his party's opponent, Narendra Modi. |
Awards/Nominations | • Rajika Kripalani Young Journalist Award for the Best Indian Journalist under 30 in 1976. • Federation of Indian Publishers' Hindustan Times Literary Award for the Best Book of the Year for The Great Indian Novel in 1990. • His book The Great Indian Novel carried off the Commonwealth Writers' Prize for the Best Book of the Year in the Eurasian Region in 1991. • Excelsior Award for Excellence in the literature by the Association of Indians in America in 1998. • Global Leader of Tomorrow by the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland in 1998. Awards won by Tharoor in early 21st Century • The Honorary degree of Doctor of Letters in International from the University of Puget Sound in 2000. • Prestigious Pravasi Bharatiya Samman, India's highest honor for non-resident Indians in 2004. • Doctorate Honoris Causa by the University of Bucharest, Romania in 2008. • Zakir Hussain Memorial "Pride of India" Award in 2009. • GQ's Inspiration of the Year Award at its Man of the Year Awards in 2009. • Sarva Deshiya Prathibha award by the Pazhassiraja Charitable Trust, Kozhikode in 2010. • "New Age Politician of the Year" Award by NDTV at its Indian of the Year awards in 2010. • Fifth IILM Distinguished Global Thinker Award in New Delhi in 2010. • Digital person of the year at the first ever Indian Digital Media Awards (IDMA) for popularizing the digital medium in India in 2010. • First Sree Narayan Guru Global Secular and Peace Award at Thiruvananthapuram in 2013. • PETA's "Person of the Year" in 2013. |
Ukuran Bentuk Badan Profil Lengkap |
Tinggi Badan | dalam centimeter - 175 cm dalam meter - 1.75 m dalam Feet Inci - 5’ 9” |
Berat Badan | dalam Kilogram - 75 kg dalam Pound - 165 lbs |
Warna Mata | Hazel Green |
Warna Rambut | Salt & Pepper |
Kehidupan Pribadi |
Tanggal Lahir | 9 March 1956 |
Umur (di Tahun 2018) | 62 Years |
Tempat Lahir | London, England |
Bintang Zodiak | Pisces |
Kebangsaan | Indian |
Alamat Tempat Tinggal | Kerala, India |
Pendidikan | Montfort School, Yercaud, Tamil Nadu Campion School, Mumbai |
Perguruan Tinggi | St Xavier's College Calcutta, St Stephen's College, Delhi, Tufts University, USA |
Kualifikasi Pendidikan | B.A in History M.A M.A.L.D Ph.D |
Debut | 1978 |
Keluarga | Ayah - Chandran Tharoor Ibu - Lily Tharoor
 Saudara Laki laki - N/A Saudara Perempuan - Smita Tharoor,
 Shobha Tharoor-Srinivasan
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Agama | Hinduism |
Kasta | Nair |
Kontroversi | • In September 2009, Shashi Tharoor was at the center of a controversy for staying at a five-star hotel for over three months at a time when the Government was talking about austerity. • Again in 2009, Tharoor commented on Twitter that he would travel “cattle class” in solidarity with all our “holy cows.” He was alleged to equate the travelling public to cattle. • Once on the occasion of Gandhi Jayanti, he said people should work rather than staying at home taking a holiday, thereby paying real homage to Mahatma Gandhi. • In January 2010, Tharoor disdained Nehru for his vision on Indian foreign policy by the Indian media. The critique angered his party, the Indian National Congress. After the controversy, he held a press conference describing the report as "inaccurate" and "tendentious". • In February 2010, he accompanied then Indian PM Manmohan Singh to Saudi Arabia where he said "We feel that Saudi Arabia has a long and close relationship with Pakistan, that makes Saudi Arabia, even more, a valuable interlocutor for us. When we tell them about our experience, Saudi Arabia listens as somebody who is not in any way an enemy of Pakistan, but a friend of Pakistan and, therefore, will listen with sympathy and concern to a matter of this nature". • In 2014, Tharoor backed up Swachh Bharat Abhiyan, a social campaign initiated by Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Following this, the Kerala Pradesh Congress Committee lodged a complaint against him to the Congress high command for his pro-Modi stance. Following this, Tharoor was dropped as the official spokesperson of the party. • In 2016, while speaking at JNU on nationalism, Tharoor compared Kanhaiya, a student charged with sedition, with Bhagat Singh, an Indian independence fighter. This comparison generated a great controversy, even the party distanced itself from Tharoor's views. • In May 2017, the Delhi police added Shashi Tharoor's name in the suspicious accuse in the death of his wife Sunanda Pushkar. |
Hubungan Pasangan Pacar Istri |
Status Pernikahan | Widower |
Pacar | Mehr Tarar
 |
Istri / Pasangan | Tilottama Mukherji Christa Giles
 Sunanda Pushkar
 |
Anak-anak | Putra - Ishaan, Kanishk
 Putri - N/A |
Penghasilan |
Kekayaan bersih | 23 Crore INR |