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"Licence to write" Interview with Shashi Tharoor
Shashi Tharoor

Mr. Shashi Tharoor, is perhaps the youngest Under-Secretary-General appointed in the history of the United Nations. Apart from being highly skilled and a fine diplomat, he got his Ph.D. from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University at an early age of 22, Mr. Tharoor is also a successful author of 8 novels and has more than a thousand articles published to his credit all over the world. (Washington Post, International Herald Tribune, Newsweek). Mr. Tharoor, when did you…

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Shashi Tharoor : Reflections on a changing United Nations
Shashi Tharoor

SHASHI ON SUNDAY (1 April 2007) April Fool’s Day 2007 is actually a rather serious day for your columnist. Yesterday I ended my career as an international civil servant, just one month shy of what would have been 29 years at the United Nations. Today is the first day of the rest of my life, and yet I can’t help looking back a bit at the Organization I’ve just left behind. I joined the UN in 1978 as an…

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