Former Diplomat Shashi Tharoor: India in the Global Economy
Dialogue with Marcia Franklin
English - January 10, 2021 05:30 - 29 minutes - 27.3 MBBooks Arts History historians idaho authors bestsellers books fiction history idahopublictelevision marciafranklin nonfiction Homepage Download Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Marcia Franklin talks with Indian politician, author and former U.N. Under-Secretary-General Dr. Shashi Tharoor. They discuss his revealing look at India's role in the global economy, The Elephant, The Tiger, and The Cell Phone: The Transformation of India in the 21st Century. After talking with Franklin, Tharoor was elected to the Indian Parliament in 2009 to represent the Thiruvananthapuram constituency in the Indian state of Kerala.
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Originally Aired: 12/11/2008
The interview is part of Dialogue’s series, "Conversations from the Sun Valley Writers' Conference," and was taped at the 2008 conference. Since 1995, the conference has been bringing together some of the world’s most well-known and illuminating authors to discuss literature and life.