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Shashi Tharoor (born 9 March 1956) is a former Indian international diplomat, politician, writer, and public intellectual who has served as a Member of Parliament, Lok Sabha, representing Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, since 2009. He previously served as Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations and stood for Secretary-General in 2006. He is also the Chairman of the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Information Technology and the President of the All India Professionals Congress. He formerly chaired the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs (2014 to 2019). Shashi Tharoor earned the Sahitya Academy Award in the non-fiction category in English for his book An Era of Darkness in 2019.
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