Shashi Tharoor

The Leonard Lopate Show | May 10, 2010

In Nehru: A Biography, senior U.N. official Shashi Tharoor writes that Nehru is remembered today as "curiously dated, a relic of another era," despite (or perhaps because of) all he did for the cause of an independent India.

» Visit Shashi Tharoor’s website

» Music: Nehru: The Invention of India – Heat and Dust Original Film Soundtrack, Track 5 “In the Purdah Quarters
Track 3 “Durbar/ God Save the King/ Khatm National Anthem

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