Achievements

Awards and Accolades:

Shashi Tharoor is the winner of numerous journalism and literary awards, including a Commonwealth Writers' Prize in 1991. In 1998, Shashi Tharoor was awarded the Excelsior Award for excellence in literature by the Association of Indians in America (AIA) and the Network of Indian Professionals (NetIP). He received the honorary degree of Doctor of Letters in International Affairs from the University of Puget Sound in May 2000. In January 1998, he was named by the World Economic Forum in Davos , Switzerland , as a Global Leader of Tomorrow.

He is a member of the International Institute of Strategic Studies in London , the India International Centre in New Delhi , and the American PEN Center (SAJA). He is also an elected Fellow of the New York Institute of the Humanities 1995-96