U.N. Under-Secretary General for Public Communications, Shashi Tharoor: a reading and discussion on Nehru

Shashi Tharoor will be reading from his new book, Nehru: The Invention of India. The reading will be followed by a discussion led by panelists Prof. Akhil Gupta of Stanford University, Prof. Vasudha Dalmia of UC Berkeley, and Prof. Ben Crow of UC Santa Cruz.

Dr. Tharoor is an accomplished author and diplomat. His books include Reasons of State (1982), a scholarly study of Indian foreign policy; The Great Indian Novel (1989), a political satire; The Five-Dollar Smile & Other Stories (1990); a second novel, Show Business (1992), which received a front-page accolade from The New York Times Book Review and was made into a motion picture titled Bollywood; and India: From Midnight to the Millennium (1997), published on the 50th anniversary of India's independence. He is the winner of numerous journalism and literary awards, including a Commonwealth Writers' Prize in 1991.

Since 1978, he has worked for the United Nations. He currently serves as the Under-Secretary-General for Communications and Public Information.

This event is sponsored by Sanskriti and the Office of the Dean of Humanities and Sciences.