Inglorious Empire by Shashi Tharoor - our September Book Club read

The World Economic Forum's Book Club, launched in April 2018, has just announced its September pick: Inglorious Empire by Dr Shashi Tharoor.

The book will be discussed by our Book Club members throughout the month of September, across our social media channels - mostly in our Facebook group, but also on Twitter and Instagram. The author will reply to members' questions.

Previous featured authors include Yuval Noah Harari, Melinda Gates, Elif Shafak and Walter Isaacson. Click below to find out more about the Book Club.

Our September author, Dr Shashi Tharoor, is an award-winning author of 18 books of fiction and non-fiction, including The Great Indian Novel, Pax Indica: India and the World of the 21st Century, An Era of Darkness: The British Empire in India, Why I Am A Hindu and The Paradoxical Prime Minister. He has won numerous literary awards, including a Commonwealth Writers’ Prize. He currently represents Thiruvananthapuram as a member of the Indian parliament, having previously served in government as Minister of State for Human Resource Development and for External Affairs.

Inglorious Empire examines Britain’s colonial past and the effect it has had on India. Tharoor made a speech in 2015 entitled "Does Britain owe reparations to its former colonies?", which went viral on social media and inspired him to expand it into a book.

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