Talk: Why I Am a Hindu

Convener: Faisal Devji

Speakers: Shashi Tharoor, Shruti Kapila (respondent)

Shashi Tharoor served for twenty-nine years at the United Nations, rising to the post of Under-Secretary-General. He has also been Minister of State for External Affairs in India, is presently a Congress MP. The author of sixteen previous books, Tharoor has won numerous literary awards, including a Commonwealth Writers’ Prize. His Inglorious Empire: What the British Did to India was a Sunday Times bestseller and was named as a Financial Times book of the year.

Further Information

Jointly organized by the Asian Studies Centre of St Antony’s College, the Oxford Centre for Hindu Studies and the University of Oxford India Society. Enquiries: asian@sant.ox.ac.uk or 01865-274559