Tharoor's new book launched in Hyderabad

Former union minister and Lok Sabha MP Dr Shashi Tharoor's 23rd book, 'Pride, Prejudice and Punditry', was launched in Hyderabad on Saturday with great fanfare and received an overwhelming response from readers.

"In my 40 years as an author, this is my 23rd book, being launched in your city,” Dr Tharoor said in a video message to book lovers of Hyderabad. The book, published by Aleph, was earlier launched in Delhi.

The launch was followed by a conversation witnessed by over 150 of the city’s elite as audience, including Jayesh Ranjan, principal secretary, the state government. When asked about his preference between fiction



and non-fiction, Tharoor said non-fiction was much easier to write. "I like fiction and to go back to it," he said. When asked about challenges of choosing right expressions, he gave an example of his own, where the term cattle class, an expression he used unwittingly, invited the wrath of his party.

“A certain word or expression may look apt and appropriate but when translated into a different language it means totally different,” he added. He also spoke about his stint at the UN and things that followed as he ran for UN Secretary General’s nomination and elaborated on how it fizzled out.