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Imposition of one Indian language in different part of country will be disuniting: Shashi Tharoor • Apr. 10, 2025, 7:49 PM ET (The Indian Express)
41 min to Manipur at 2 am in Parliament, Congress urges: ‘President’s Rule necessary but not sufficient’ • Apr. 2, 2025, 8:31 PM ET (The Indian Express)
Shashi Tharoor recites poem in Parliament to critique taxation • Mar. 25, 2025, 12:15 AM ET (The Hindu)

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Born March 9, 1956 (age 69) • London • England
Political Affiliation Indian National Congress
Notable Works “The Great Indian Novel”

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president of India
Indian writer Khushwant Singh in his study
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Indian writer
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Rabindranath Tagore
Bengali poet
Bana
Indian writer
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Sarojini Naidu
Indian writer and political leader
Ansari, Mohammad Hamid
Mohammad Hamid Ansari
vice president of India
Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit
Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit
Indian politician and diplomat
Sir Samuel Hoare, 2nd Baronet.
Sir Samuel Hoare, 2nd Baronet
British statesman
Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st earl of Lytton
Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st earl of Lytton
British diplomat and poet
1st Marquess of Dufferin and Ava, detail of a portrait by George Frederic Watts; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
Frederick Temple Hamilton-Temple-Blackwood, 1st marquess of Dufferin and Ava
British diplomat
Sir Olaf Caroe
British administrator
Earl Amherst, detail of an oil painting after A. Devis; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
William Pitt Amherst, lst Earl Amherst
British diplomat
Allan Octavian Hume
British colonial official
Sri Aurobindo
Sri Aurobindo
Indian philosopher and yogi
J.N. Dixit
Indian diplomat
Muhammad Zafrulla Khan
Sir Muhammad Zafrulla Khan
Pakistani politician
Baron Hardinge, oil painting by Sir William Orpen, 1919; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
Charles Hardinge, 1st Baron Hardinge
viceroy of India
Rufus Daniel Isaacs, 1st marquess of Reading
British statesman
V.K. Krishna Menon.
V.K. Krishna Menon
Indian political figure
Kavalam Madhava Panikkar.
Kavalam Madhava Panikkar
Indian statesman