Description
You may not yet know her name, but we all have something to learn from Lily Tharoor. In this world-exclusive event, all three of her children Shashi, Shobha and Smita Tharoor, come together from India, California and London to share their mother’s remarkable story.
Lily Tharoor was born in a small village in Kerala in the mid-1930s. From this humble beginning, she would live around the world, raise three global citizens, and inspire multiple generations with her drive to learn and achieve. Fiercely independent and ambitious, she pushed her children to always think outside the box. The only ground firm enough to stand on, she told them, is the one written into existence by your own hand.
Good Innings, written by Shobha Tharoor Srinivasan, tells her mother’s ‘extraordinary, ordinary’ story through a combination of personal reflections, life lessons, and philosophical insights. Join Lily’s remarkable children live on stage at BLF, to hear this truly intimate account of the life of a beloved matriarch and iron-willed woman.
Related Book
Good Innings: The Extraordinary, Ordinary Life of Lily Tharoor
Shobha Tharoor Srinivasan
Shop on WaterstonesAbout the Author
Shobha Tharoor Srinivasan
Shobha Tharoor Srinivasan is an award-winning voice-over artist, poet, editor, and author of a dozen works of fiction and nonfiction. She is also a former non-profit development professional who spent two decades as an advocate and fundraiser for persons with disabilities. Shobha won the 68th National Film Awards for Best Narration Voice Over for the film Rhapsody of Rains- Monsoons of Kerala in 2022. Shobha has published children’s books in India and the United States, and has been recognized with awards for many of them.
About the Speakers
Dr Shashi Tharoor
Dr Shashi Tharoor is an author, politician, and former international civil servant, who straddles several worlds of experience. Currently a fourth-term parliament member of Lok Sabha, representing the Thiruvananthapuram constituency in Kerala, India, he previously served as India’s Minister of State for Human Resource Development and Minister of State for External Affairs.
During his nearly three-decade-long prior career at the United Nations, he served as a peacekeeper, refugee worker, and administrator at the highest levels, serving as under-secretary-general during Kofi Annan’s leadership of the organization.
Tharoor is the bestselling author of 27 books, both fiction and nonfiction, and the winner of several literary awards, including a Commonwealth Writers’ Prize, Sahitya Akademi Award, and Crossword Book’s Lifetime Achievement award.
Smita Tharoor
Smita Tharoor is a motivational keynote speaker and thought leader on the Unconscious Bias and how it influences all of us. Smita has spoken at conferences all over the world from Philadelphia to Penang with Berlin and Bangalore in the middle. She talks about emotional resilience, change management, leading in times of uncertainty and other similar topics all embedded by our unconscious bias. She is the co-founder of Culturelytics a company that uses artificial intelligence to understand culture in an organisation and the founder of Tharoor Associates a Training, Coaching and Organisational development company. She is a TEDx speaker, Broadcaster, Trainer, Coach, Mentor, Mindfulness Practitioner and Associate Lecturer. She also hosts a podcast Stories Seldom Told where she interviews people around the world to share their stories of Unconscious Bias.
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