Good Innings: The Extraordinary, Ordinary Life of Lily Tharoor

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Shashi Tharoor is a politician, a former officer at the United Nation and a an author par excellence. Although there was significant support for Tharoor to contest as the Prime Minister candidate in 2019 General Elections, he has disowned, downplayed, and distanced himself from any such online campaigns run by his large number of followers.

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He was appointed a special assistant to the Under-Secretary-General for Special Political Affairs, the unit that later became the Peacekeeping Operations Department in New York.Jaishree Misra has written eight novels published by Penguin and Harper Collins and a non-fiction account of building a beachside house in Kerala. During his tenure at the UNDPI, Tharoor reformed the department and undertook a number of initiatives, ranging from organizing and conducting the first-ever UN seminar on Antisemitism, the first-ever UN seminar on Islamophobia after the 11 September attacks, and launching an annual list of "Ten Under-Reported Stories the World Ought to Know about", which was last produced in 2008 by his successor. His words, “to her divine discontent”, pointed to the fact that it was “discontentment that pushed her to do more things”.

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In 1996, Tharoor was appointed Director of Communications and Special Projects and Executive Assistant to Secretary-General Kofi Annan. Her strength in coping with such an early bereavement, independence of mind and body, faith in herself and determination to face life on her own is an extraordinary lesson. The only ground firm enough to stand on, she told them, is the one written into existence by your own hand. Shobha won the 68th National Film Awards for Best Narration Voice Over for the film Rhapsody of Rains- Monsoons of Kerala in 2022.

Each tastes different, and does not necessarily mix with the next, but they belong together on the same plate, and they complement each other in making the meal a satisfying repast".

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In October 2022, he contested the Congress party’s presidential polls; however, he lost to his rival, Mallikarjun Kharge, by more than eight times votes. A Sahitya Akademi Award winner, Tharoor has authored many works of fiction and non-fiction since 1981. Federation of Indian Publishers' Hindustan Times Literary Award for the Best Book of the Year for The Great Indian Novel.a b c "Appointment of Shashi Tharoor as Under Secretary General for Communications and Public Information confirmed by Secretary General". It was one of the few places that served affordable Indian food in central London," she says, adding that the India Club is like the city's "hidden secret", and she loves taking friends and family who visit from India there. It has been compounded by a deep-seated revival of love for her that distance and difference had reduced to dormancy… I grew up thinking of my mother as critical and temperamental.

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The story is framed from the perspective of a young narrator and there are two narrative threads in the book. Reports say that India's freedom activists initially used the Club as a meeting space, but later it became a place for people from the South Asian community to forge friendships over shared meals and events. In both India and the United States, her voice has been used in documentaries, educational and journalistic projects, and audio books. Shobha Tharoor Srinivasan's book Good Innings: The Extraordinary, Ordinary Life Of Lily Tharoor is an amazing homage to her mother and a must-read for this Mother's Day. Ex-Union minister Shashi Tharoor today tied the knot with Dubai-based entrepreneur Sunanda Pushkar in a Malayali wedding ceremony at his ancestral home in Elavanchery village in Kerala.However, what does seem to set Lily apart from many other women of her generation is her fearlessness, her endlessly seeking spirit of adventure and an almost reckless ambition, as demanding of herself as of her children.