Decoding the great Indian author
17/December/2005
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| Delhi can't seem to get enough of Shashi Tharoor. When the prize-winning author came to the India Habitat Centre on Sunday evening for a reading, the hall was packed to the brim. The eloquent author, who was passing through Delhi and spent an agreeable evening reading some of his most fascinating works to an enthralled audience. Rarely does Delhi get to see the writer, whose full time job as an under-secretary general with the United Nations keeps him rather tied up. Delhi's literary set had obviously made sure to be present for the evening. Tharoor read from his collection of essays, Bookless in Baghdad: and other writings about reading. He went over witty chapters that ex plore India's reading habits and favourite authors, his first experience with reading and the anxiety of Indian English writers. |
![Bharatnatyam dancer Geeta Chandran with husband Rajiv at a reading by author Shashi Tharoor [photo: Rajesh Kashyap]](http://web.archive.org/web/20090408181840im_/http://www.shashitharoor.com/about/htcity171105-01.jpg) ![Politician Jaya Jaitley at the session [photo: Rajesh Kashyap]](http://web.archive.org/web/20090408181840im_/http://www.shashitharoor.com/about/htcity171105-03.jpg) "He's an extremely deft writer, very astute and intelligent, with a great sense of humour, so his books are a delight to read and it's even better to hear him voice them aloud," gushed Meghna Ahuja, an English graduate from Brown University in the US.From the looks of the audience hanging on to his every word, few would disagree. |
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