Shashi Tharoor addresses the media as India’s nomination for UN Secretary-General after meeting Prime Minister Manmohan Singh in New Delhi in June 2006. Photo: AFP
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On Reflection by Shashi Tharoor
China did not stand in this Indian’s way for top U.N. job
As the United Nations elects a new secretary-general, Shashi Tharoor, who lost the race to Ban Ki-moon a decade ago, takes the lid off a controversial election
Updated: 12:50pm, 22 Oct, 2016
Shashi Tharoor addresses the media as India’s nomination for UN Secretary-General after meeting Prime Minister Manmohan Singh in New Delhi in June 2006. Photo: AFP
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Shashi Tharoor is a third-term Member of the Indian Parliament and a former Chairman of Parliament’s External Affairs Committee.