Shashi Tharoor, Pavan K. Varma, Sreenivasan Jain | Jaipur Literature Festival

The Theatre of the Political: Shashi Tharoor, Pavan K. Varma & Sreenivasan Jain
Shashi Tharoor, a third-term Member of Parliament for Thiruvananthapuram, is the bestselling author of 20 fiction and non-fiction books. He is a former Under Secretary-General of the United Nations and a former Minister of State for Human Resource Development and for External Affairs in the Government of India. He has won numerous awards, including the Pravasi Bharatiya Samman, a Commonwealth Writers’ Prize and the Crossword Lifetime Achievement Award. In 2019, Dr. Tharoor was also awarded the Sahitya Akademi Award for his book An Era of Darkness.
Bestselling/ popular Books: The Great Indian Novel, An Era of Darkness: The British Empire in India
Pavan K. Varma is an award-winning writer-diplomat and now in politics, where he was till recently an MP in the Rajya Sabha, and earlier Advisor to the Chief Minister of Bihar. He is the author of over a dozen best-selling books, including Ghalib: The Man, The Times, The Great Indian Middle Class, The Book of Krishna, Being Indian, Becoming Indian and Chanakya’s New Manifesto. He is currently the National General Secretary and National Spokesman of the Janata Dal (United). In 2018, he was conferred an Honorary Doctorate by the Sri Sharada Institute of Indian Management for his book Adi Shankaracharya: Hinduism’s Greatest Thinker. His latest book is Chanakya’s View: Understanding India in Transition
Sreenivasan Jain is the Managing Editor of NDTV. He currently anchors the award-winning weekly ground reportage and investigative show, Truth vs Hype. He also presents Reality Check, a daily show that aims at debunking official myths and government propaganda in a post-truth environment. Jain was selected as Journalist of the Year by the Ramnath Goenka Awards in 2014, by the Red Ink Awards in 2015 and Anchor of the Year at the 2016 ENBA Awards.
The Theatre of the Political
Two eminent writers and politicians talk about our understanding and daily encounters with the political. Shashi Tharoor will speak in the context of his recent book The Paradoxical Prime Minister as well as the just re-issued biography of Jawaharlal Nehru, Nehru: The Invention of India. Pavan K. Varma will discuss his experiences with political life as a writer, columnist, politician and retired diplomat.
Presented by Patrika Game Changer Series
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[@abhishekprincerohta]

That's me at the 50th minute I so badly need a litfest❤️

[@nishant7780]

Waah princy bawa.

[@xdfckt2564]

Did you give Shashi head too?

[@raghuvirgupta3174]

Eagerly waiting for this panel.

[@bharatbhumi101]

SHASHI AS A LEADER IS POMPOUSLY GUIDED BY THE HOLIER THAN THOU ATTITUDE

[@kashpatel7955]

This festival is so liberal that they didn't invite any BJP or RSS spokesperson to know their views as well ! This shows how much they are biased and hate modi !

[@ShekharSircar]

I RSS they should organise a debate in Gausala

[@A_PROUD_INDIAN810]

@@ShekharSircar you need to debate inside karl marx' ass!

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@@ShekharSircar rss ideologue inhtellectuals are the professors of best universities iNDIA and abbroad , counter them rather mocking because you all are being mocked since2014

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@@ShekharSircar gaushala gives nourishing milk which runs economy of County gives nutrition to people what do you intellectuals who fart from mouth give this country. China and Singapore do better than India because mouth farters aren't taken seriously there

[@Desi.Superman]

@@ShekharSircar lmao, no guts to debate?

[@Desi.Superman]

No guts to have an open conversation with indic wing

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