Tharoor
Ganguly
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Shashi Tharoor, undersecretary general for communications and public information for the United Nations, is scheduled to speak Thursday, March 25, at 6 p.m. in Whittenberger Auditorium of the Indiana Memorial Union at IUB. His topic will be “India from Midnight to Beyond the Millennium: Democracy and Diversity in Today’s India.” In previous assignments at the U.N., he was responsible for peacekeeping operations in the former Yugoslavia and served with the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees. His lecture is co-sponsored by the India Studies Program at IUB and the IUB Union Board.
Tharoor is a high school friend of Sumit Ganguly, director of the India Studies Program and the Rabindranath Tagore Chair of Indian culture and civilizations at IU. He replaced Gerald Larson, the first Tagore Chair, last year. Ganguly was formerly a professor of Asian studies and government at the Center for Asian Studies at the University of Texas at Austin.
Tharoor and Ganguly acted in a couple of high school theater productions together, and Ganguly succeeded Tharoor as editor of the school’s newspaper after Tharoor’s graduation.
Ganguly has recently given broadcast interviews on BBC’s The World and BBC World Service, as well as NPR’s Talk of the Nation. Go to this Web site and follow the links to download audio files:
http://www.indiana.edu/~isp/press.shtml
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