Carnegie Council

Tharoor served as the UN Under-Secretary General for Communications and Public Information between June 2002 and February 2007. He was the official candidate of India for the succession to United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan in 2006, and came second out of seven official candidates in the race.

Resources by this Author:

• A Billion Lives: An Eyewitness Report from the Frontlines of Humanity
• The Elephant, the Tiger, and the Cell Phone: Reflections on India, the Emerging 21st-Century Power
• The Elephant, the Tiger, and the Cell Phone: Reflections on India, the Emerging 21st-Century Power
• Debate--The United Nations: Still Relevant After All These Years?
• Debate--The United Nations: Still Relevant After All these Years?
• Debate--The United Nations: Still Relevant After All These Years?
• Public Philosophy: Episodes and Arguments in American Civic Life
• Nehru: The Invention of India
• Sectarian Violence in India: The Story of the One Riot