Good Innings: The Extraordinary, Ordinary Life of Lily Tharoor

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He is known to love theatre and has played the role of Antony in Cleopatra. He acted in various plays even in school and college days. Tharoor founded the Quiz Club in St. Stephen’s College. He was elected as the President of the college union.

Book Review: Good Innings: The Extraordinary, Ordinary Life

Board of Advisors". new.iimun.in. Archived from the original on 17 July 2021 . Retrieved 17 July 2021. This prehistory conditions how I can now engage with Good Innings: The Extraordinary, Ordinary Life of Lily Tharoor, now out from Penguin. It is my grandmother’s story, written by my mother, Shobha Tharoor Srinivasan, a voiceover artist and author of numerous children’s books. 4 Good Innings is a single-authored work. At the same time—to the extent that my mother’s initial research methodology was the activation of memory—it is a co-creative project between mother and daughter, a lifetime in the making. The book is a hybrid biographical text, constellated with citations from multiple languages and thinkers, including musings by Lily’s idols (like Lucille Ball, Audrey Hepburn, and Sophia Loren) and much-cited aphorisms from the likes of Abraham Lincoln, Eleanor Roosevelt, and Rabindranath Tagore. When I presented the book to my mother, she said, why you have written a book on me. What have I done that needs a book? You should’ve have written about your brother,” shared Shobha. In March 2017, Tharoor called for the Victoria Memorial in Kolkata to be converted into a museum on the effects of British colonial rule in India. Tharoor wrote in an Al Jazeera article that the British "conquered one of the richest countries in the world (27 per cent of global gross domestic product in 1700) and reduced it to, after over two centuries of looting and exploitation, one of the poorest, most diseased and most illiterate countries on Earth by the time they left in 1947. ...Nor is there any memorial to the massacres of the Raj, from Delhi in 1857 to Amritsar in 1919, the deaths of 35 million Indians in totally unnecessary famines caused by British [policies]". [46] The main narrative of ‘Good Innings’ is beautifully book-ended with a moving and candid prologue written by Shashi Tharoor, Lily’s famous and gifted first-born with whom she now lives in Delhi, and a brilliant afterword by Ragini Tharoor Srinivasan, her only granddaughter, presently a professor of English at an American university and therefore almost uncannily qualified to explain the hybrid narrative chosen by her mother to preserve the story of her grandmother for future generations.The Elephant, the Tiger, and the Cell Phone: Reflections on India – The Emerging 21st-Century Power (2007) [131] a b c d Rajan, Gita (2003). Sanga, Jaina C. (ed.). South Asian Novelists in English: An A-To-Z Guide. Greenwood Publishing. p.308. ISBN 0-313-31885-9. Appointment of Shashi Tharoor as under-secretary-general for communications and public information confirmed by secretary-general". United Nations. Archived from the original on 16 May 2018 . Retrieved 16 May 2018. This book is neither a biography nor a self-help book. It is a collection of distinct perspectives on incidents and experiences from Lily Tharoor's life. A reminiscence built from personal memories; it is a story about a strong matriarch. Every chapter in this book begins with an anecdote from Lily Tharoor that lays the groundwork for the reader to read and comprehend the chapter.

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Thomas Blom Hansen, Wages of Violence: Naming and Identity in Postcolonial Bombay (Princeton University Press, 2001). ↩ Rathi, Akshat (1 August 2015). "Separating fact from ancient Indian science fiction". Mint. Archived from the original on 17 January 2020 . Retrieved 26 November 2019. As I close the book, marveling 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. Out of hospital, Shashi Tharoor seeks probe into temple accident". Hindustan Times. 16 April 2019. Archived from the original on 16 April 2019 . Retrieved 17 April 2019. Tharoor & the tale of ex and estranged spouses, Neha Tara Mehta". India Today. 14 April 2010. Archived from the original on 24 December 2017 . Retrieved 3 December 2021.Even later in life, her sartorial choices continued to draw attention. As she drove herself around in Coimbatore, a city in traditional Tamil Nadu, and wore sleeveless sari blouses in the summer, people would call her “stylish patti (grandmother.)” A delightful moniker. Like many in her generation, Lily voices concern about the state of the family unit and its disintegration as she recalls her struggles with the divorces of Shashi and Smita. Later in life, Lily had concerns with Shashi joining politics, believing (as many of us do) that it is not a good fit for a “highly educated scholarly man.” But he was keen to be of service to the nation, and she has been a strong supporter, joining him on his campaigns. He became Under-Secretary-General for Communications and Public Information, and as Head of the Department of Public Information (UNDPI) in 2001.