Good Innings: The Extraordinary, Ordinary Life of Lily Tharoor

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As Member of Parliament for Thiruvananthapuram, Tharoor became the first elected representative in India to issue annual reports on his work as MP, including furnishing accounts of his MPLADS expenditure. In 2012 he published a half-term report followed in 2014 by a full-term report. Why I am a Hindu". 28 December 2017. Archived from the original on 25 May 2018 . Retrieved 15 May 2018. I.I.M.U.N.

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Opinion: Tharoor Explains His Tweets on Ancient Indian Science". NDTV.com. Archived from the original on 29 December 2019 . Retrieved 26 November 2019. As I close the book, marvelling at the PhDs and other qualifications and achievements carried by Lily’s large, multi-talented family, I feel a curious surge of admiration and regret for a whole generation of women like Lily who, by the simple fact of not being born at a different time and place, could never rise to their own potential. Not that it would for a moment trouble a positive person like this protagonist who simply made sure her children and grandchildren did.Once on the occasion of Gandhi Jayanti, he said people should work rather than staying at home taking a holiday, thereby paying real homage to Mahatma Gandhi. Five lessons we learned about India from Shashi Tharoor's Oxford speech". FirstPost. 22 July 2015. Archived from the original on 23 July 2015 . Retrieved 22 July 2015. Why I am a Hindu". Aleph Book Company. 28 December 2017. Archived from the original on 29 November 2018 . Retrieved 19 November 2018. Inglorious Empire: What the British Did to India (2017), [134] first published in India as An Era of Darkness: The British Empire in India (2016). [135] Tharoor, Shashi (24 October 2004). "No great sheiks". Los Angeles Times. Archived from the original on 20 February 2014 . Retrieved 10 July 2013.

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Dr Shashi Tharoor receives the Fifth IILM Distinguished Global Thinker Award, 2010". India PR Wire. Archived from the original on 10 March 2012 . Retrieved 9 March 2010.Statements". Campaign for a UN Parliamentary Assembly. Archived from the original on 26 September 2017 . Retrieved 28 September 2017. Shobha Tharoor Srinivasan writes of her mother, “She was driven by hope and excitement rather than by anxiety or anger.” I enjoyed reading about her can-do attitude and enthusiasm for new experiences that seem intrinsic to her nature. As an example, Lily’s life took an unexpected turn soon after her wedding. Just as they were planning their life together in Kolkata for Chandran’s job at Amrita Bazar Patrika, he was offered an opportunity to work in London. Shashi Tharoor removed as Congress spokesperson". India Today. 13 October 2014. Archived from the original on 12 March 2017 . Retrieved 9 March 2017.

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Through a combination of personal observations, life lessons, and philosophical insights, the author chronicles her mother Lily's 'amazing, everyday' story. The end result is a collection of educational vignettes designed to inspire a new generation to grow and act. Every chapter begins with an anecdote that will spark dialogues and transform the reader's life. Good Innings is an intimate chronicle of the life of a loving matriarch with a humble upbringing and an iron will—a lady who learnt from life's lessons and now has her own to offer.

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Tharoor's father, originally from Kerala, worked in various positions in London, Bombay, Calcutta and Delhi, including a 25-year career (culminating as group advertising manager) for The Statesman. Tharoor's parents returned to India when he was 2-years old, where he joined the Montfort School, Yercaud, in 1962, subsequently moving to Bombay (now Mumbai) and studying at the Campion School (1963–68). [13] A man who courts controversy". Gulf News. Archived from the original on 15 April 2017 . Retrieved 15 April 2017. Tharoor, Shashi (31 January 2015). The Five-Dollar Smile: Fourteen Early Stories and a Farce in Two Acts. Penguin Books Limited. ISBN 978-93-5118-099-9. Tharoor, Shashi (1982). Reasons of state: political development and India's foreign policy under Indira Gandhi. p.438. ISBN 0-7069-1275-6. Archived from the original on 3 December 2021 . Retrieved 11 August 2015. {{ cite book}}: |work= ignored ( help)

Shashi Tharoor". United Nations. Archived from the original on 22 December 2015 . Retrieved 16 January 2016. He has also written multifarious columns for articles in publications such as The New York Times, The Washington Post, TIME, Newsweek, and The Times of India. He also wrote regular columns for The Indian Express (1991–93 and 1996–2001), The Hindu (2001–2008), and The Times of India (2007–2009).