'Today’s Icarus may well be tomorrow’s Phoenix,’ says T. P. Sreenivasan, former ambassador and Shashi Tharoor’s long-time friend, in this personal narrative on the fight for the Thiruvananthapuram Lok Sabha seat in 2009. This is the absorbing story of an extraordinary election in which Tharoor carefully orchestrated his campaign by highlighting his past accomplishments and promises for the future.How did a virtual outsider, who was not ...
