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Shashi Tharoor (born 9 March 1956) is an Indian politician, writer, public intellectual and former diplomat who has served as Member of Parliament from Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala since 2009. He was previously Minister of State in the Government of India for External Affairs〔http://pib.nic.in/newsite/erelease.aspx?relid=88790〕 (2009–2010) and Human Resource Development (2012–2014).〔 He is a member of the Indian National Congress and served as an official spokesperson for the party from January to October 2014. Until 2007 he was a career official at the United Nations, rising to the rank of Under-Secretary General for Communications and Public Information in 2001. After 29 years within the UN, Tharoor announced his departure after finishing second in the 2006 elections for the Secretary-General to Ban Ki-moon.〔http://indiatoday.intoday.in/story/shashi-tharoor-candidate-for-united-nations/1/180465.html〕 Tharoor is also a writer, having authored 15 bestselling works of fiction and non-fiction since 1981, all of which are centered on India and its history, culture, film, politics, society, foreign policy, and more. He is also the author of hundreds of columns and articles in publications such as the New York Times, Washington Post, TIME, Newsweek, and The Times of India. He was a contributing editor for Newsweek International for two years. From 2010 to 2012, he wrote a column in The Asian Age/Deccan Chronicle and, for most of 2012, until his appointment as Minister, a column in Mail Today; he also writes an internationally syndicated monthly column for Project Syndicate. He also wrote regular columns for the Indian Express (1991–93 and 1996–2001), The Hindu (2001–2008), and The Times of India (2007–2009). Tharoor is also a globally recognized speaker on India's economics and politics, as well as on freedom of the press, human rights, Indian culture, and international affairs. ==Childhood and education== Tharoor was born in London to Lily and Chandran Tharoor of a Nair family in Palakkad, Kerala. His father worked in various positions in London, Bombay, Calcutta and Delhi, including a 25-year career (culminating as group advertising manager) for The Statesman. His paternal uncle was T. Parameshwar, the founder of Readers Digest in India, through whom Tharoor is also related to the artist Anjolie Ela Menon. After his parents returned to India, Tharoor boarded at Montfort School in Yercaud (1962), subsequently moving to Bombay (now Mumbai) and studying at the Campion School (1963–68).〔http://www.campionschool.in/alumni/distinguished-alumni.asp?fw=7 Notable Alumni | Campion School〕 He spent his high school years at St Xavier's College in Calcutta (1969–71). He then went on to graduate with a bachelor of arts degree in history from St Stephen's College, Delhi, (1972–75), where his contemporaries included the historian Ramachandra Guha; politician Salman Khurshid; the documentary film-maker Rajiv Mehrotra; the quizmaster Siddhartha Basu; the novelists Amitav Ghosh, Rukun Advani and Anurag Mathur; the theatre impresario Amir Raza Husain; the editor and politician Chandan Mitra; the columnist Swapan Dasgupta; the economist and media crusader Paranjoy Guha Thakurta; the IAS officer-turned social activist Harsh Mander; the television personality Sunil Sethi; the diplomat Jayant Prasad; the World Trade Organization executive Harsh Vardhan Singh; and the advertising guru Piyush Pandey. A theatre buff in his school days, he played Antony to Mira Nair's Cleopatra in a 1974 production of ''Antony and Cleopatra''.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title= Shashi Tharoor was my Antony: Mira Nair interview )〕 At St. Stephen's in the early 1970s he founded the Quiz Club; he also revived the Wodehouse Society, which is no longer in existence. Upon election as President of the College Union he relinquished the Secretaryship of the History Society as well as the editorship of the campus humour magazine ''Kooler Talk''. He was invited by St. Stephen's College to deliver the college's 125th Anniversary Jubilee Lecture in 2005. In 1975 he moved to the United States to pursue graduate studies at The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University,〔http://tuftsalumni.org/who-we-are/alumni-recognition/tufts-notables/public-service-education-5/#tharoor〕 where he obtained his MA and MALD and was awarded the Robert B. Stewart Prize for Best Student and completed his PhD at the age of 22. At Fletcher he also helped found and was the first editor of the Fletcher Forum of International Affairs. He has also been awarded an honorary D.Litt by the University of Puget Sound and a doctorate honoris causa in history by the University of Bucharest.〔http://www.prsindia.org/mptrack/shashitharoor〕 Tharoor has two sons from his first marriage: Ishaan and Kanishk Tharoor. Both are graduates of Yale University and are fondly remembered for starting the Yale Gingerbread House Study Break,〔http://gsas.yale.edu/event/smores-gingerbread-house-study-break〕 which helps students get into the holiday spirit during the stress of fall finals. Tharoor has two sisters, Shobha Tharoor-Srinivasan, who lives in the United States, and Smita Tharoor, who lives in London. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Shashi Tharoor」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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