BR Ambedkar: Life and Times | Shashi Tharoor and Sumit Samos in conversation with Pragya Tiwari

Shashi Tharoor, a thirdterm Member of Parliament for Thiruvananthapuram, is the bestselling author of twentyfour books, both fiction and nonfiction, besides being a former Under Secretary General of the United Nations and a former Minister of State for Human Resource Development and for External Affairs in the Government of India. He has won numerous awards, including the Pravasi Bharatiya Samman, a Commonwealth Writers’ Prize and the Crossword Lifetime Achievement Award. In 2019, Dr. Tharoor was also awarded the Sahitya Akademi Award in the category of ‘English Non Fiction’ for his book An Era of Darkness. He has previously chaired the Standing Committee on External Affairs and the Committee on Information Technology.

Sumit Samos is a writer, artist, and anticaste student activist from Odisha. He recently published a book titled Affairs of Caste: A Young Diary. His research interests are caste, cosmopolitan elites, Dalit Christian history, and student politics. He completed his MSc in Modern South Asian Studies from Oxford.

Pragya Tiwari is a strategy and culture consultant, Creative Director of Oijo Media and cofounder of the Indian History Collective. As a journalist she has written extensively on politics, identity, policy, and culture and has edited several publications, including Tehelka, The Big Indian Picture, and Vice.

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