Shashi Tharoor: An uncommon timeline of a one-of-a-kind politician

Shashi Tharoor’s main identity these days is as the two-time Congress MP from Thiruvananthapuram. Or else he is in the news thanks to the police investigation into the death of his wife Sunanda Pushkar. But in the immediacy of politics of the day it’s easy to forget that Tharoor had a really unusual journey to the Lok Sabha. He is neither a career politician nor a political scion. Nor is he a celebrity parachuted into politics. Not very many politicians can boast writing a WWII adventure modeled on Biggles stories as a boy and having it published. On the other hand the man who always excelled as a student has landed himself in many sticky situations as a politician. Here is a timeline of the unusual career of Shashi Tharoor, the MP from Thiruvananthapuram.