Tharoor defeated his nearest CPI rival P. Ramachandran Nair by a margin of around 100,000 votes in the General Election 2009.
Shashi Tharoor was born in London. He studied at Montfort School in Yercaud
and Campion School in Mumbai, attended High School at St. Xavier’s Collegiate
School in Kolkata, winning a gold medal for the best student in West Bengal
State, and graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in history from St.
Stephen’s College, Delhi where he stood first in the University, graduating
with a record score in History (Honours).
While at St. Stephen’s Tharoor was actively involved in the Debating Society,
where he won every single debating prize available, the Quiz Club, which he
founded, and the Students’ Union, of which he was the elected President. He
then completed a Ph.D. at The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts
University, Massachusetts, where he also earned two Master’s degrees. His
Ph.D. was awarded when he was 22, a Fletcher record.
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