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Shashi Tharoor (Malayalam: ശശി തരൂര്‍)(Hindi: शशी थरूर) (born 9 March 1956) is a member of the Indian Parliament from the Thiruvananthapuram constituency in Kerala. He previously served as the United Nations Under-Secretary General for Communications and Public Information and as the Indian Minister of State for External Affairs.

He is also a prolific author, columnist, journalist and a human rights advocate.

He currently serves on the Board of Overseers of the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University. He serves as an adviser to the International Committee of the Red Cross in Geneva and a Fellow of the New York Institute of the Humanities at New York University. He also serves as trustees of the Aspen Institute, and the Advisory of the Indo-American Arts Council, the American India Foundation, the World Policy Journal, the Virtue Foundation and the human rights organization Breakthrough. He is also a Patron of the Dubai Modern High School and the managing trustee of the Chandran Tharoor Foundation which he founded with his family and friends in the name of his late father, Chandran Tharoor.

Shashi Tharoor was born in London to Lily and Chandran Tharoor. Tharoor studied at Montfort School in Yercaud and Campion School in Mumbai. He attended high school at St. Xavier's Collegiate School in Kolkata and obtained his Bachelor of Arts degree in history from St. Stephen's College, Delhi[1] .

He went on to win a scholarship to study at The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University and earned three degrees in three years - a Ph.D. and two master's degrees At the age of 22, Tharoor is the youngest person in the history of the Fletcher School to be awarded a doctorate. His doctoral thesis, "Reasons of State", was a required reading in courses on Indian foreign-policy making.

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[Anotherkashmiri]

She does not look Kashmiri. I don't think that she is a real Kashmiri Pandit...she's probabaly a Dogra.