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National TV and radio campaign 3 city author tour: Houston TX, Dallas TX, and New York NY.

Why I Am a Hindu offers a profound reexamination of Hinduism, and cautions against its politicisation.

Co-op available Advance reader copies National radio campaign National print and online campaign General tour info: 4-city national tour

Co-op available Advance reader copies National radio campaign National print and online campaign General tour info: 4-city national tour

From the internationally acclaimed author comes his bestselling account of India's experience of British colonialism.

In this lively, informative and insightful book, Shashi Tharoor brilliantly demonstrates how Indian diplomacy has come of age and forecasts where it will need to focus in the new millennium. He surveys India's major international relationships in detail, evokes the country's soft power and offers his thoughts on a new 'grand strategy' for the nation, arguing that India must move beyond non-alignment to multi-alignment. Stimulating, reflective,...

A wickedly funny satire, sparing no one, not even Mahatma Gandhi . . . Just thinking about it makes me want to go back and reread it."-Fareed Zakaria, New York Times Book ReviewIn this award-winning novel, Shashi Tharoor has masterfully recast the two-thousand-year-old epic, The Mahabharata, with fictionalized but highly recognizable events and characters from twentieth-century Indian politics. Blending history and myth, Tharoor directs his sa...

Indian diplomacy, " a veteran told Shashi Tharoor many years ago, "is like the love-making of an elephant: it is conducted at a very high level, accompanied by much bellowing, and the results are not known for two years." In this lively, informative and insightful work, the award-winning author and parliamentarian brilliantly demonstrates how Indian diplomacy has become sprightlier since then and where it needs to focus in the world of the 21s...

»Indien ist nur ein geographischer Ausdruck, es ist so wenig Land wie der Äquator«, sagte Winston Churchill über diesen riesigen Subkontinent. Shashi Tharoor unternimmt, wie er selber sagt, dennoch den Versuch, sich diesem Land zu nähern, in dem achtzehn Hauptsprachen und zweiundzwanzigtausend Dialekte gesprochen werden, das über eine Milliarde Einwohner unterschiedlichster ethnischer Herkunft hat, in dem die Mehrzahl der Menschen ihre Nahrung...

Bei Ausschreitungen zwischen Hindus und Muslimen in einer indischen Kleinstadt verliert auch die 24jährige Amerikanerin Priscilla ihr Leben. War sie wirklich nur zur falschen Zeit am falschen Ort, wie die US-Botschaft bekanntgibt? Oder hat ein erzürnter Ehemann den Aufruhr genutzt, um sich unerkannt zu rächen? Denn Priscilla war Mitarbeiterin einer Hilfsorganisation und klärte indische Frauen über Geburtenkontrolle und ihre elementaren Rechte ...

Seine Laufbahn scheint klar vorgezeichnet zu sein. Doch der junge Ashok Banjara, Sohn des Ministers für Textilproduktion, entzieht sich dem Lebensplan, den seine Eltern für ihn entworfen haben. Anstatt nach dem Besuch der Elite-Universität wie sein Vater die politische Laufbahn einzuschlagen, versucht er, seinen Traum vom großen Leinwandstar zu verwirklichen. Und tatsächlich: Während sich eine solche Idee normalerweise schnell erledigt, eröffn...

On-screen and off-screen reality intertwine seamlessly to weave a tapestry of power, privilege, seduction, betrayal, and intrigue.

At the stroke of midnight on August 15, 1947, a new nation was born. It has seventeen major languages and 22, 000 distinct dialects. It has over a billion individuals of every ethnic extraction known to humanity. It has a population that is 32 percent illiterate, but also one of the world's largest pools of trained scientists and engineers. Its ageless civilization is the birthplace of four major religions, a dozen different traditions of clas...

He writes elegantly and often colorfully. The New York Times Book...

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Who killed twenty-four-year-old Priscilla Hart? And why would anyone want to murder this highly motivated, idealistic American student who had come to India to volunteer in women's health programs? The author chronicles the mystery of Priscilla Hart's death through the often contradictory accounts of a dozen or more characters.