Shashi Tharoor

The Kohinoor is never coming back to India, and Dr Shashi Tharoor doesn't mince words, when he spells it out for us. Tharoor, MP from Thiruvananthapuram, who whipped up a storm last year with his speech about Britain owing reparations to India at the Oxford Union, is out with a new historical non-fiction, An Era of Darkness (Aleph Book Company), where he hopes to expose the cruelties of the 200-year-rule of the Empire. In a tell-all interview with mid-day, Tharoor says why a book of this nature is indispensable to our time, even if Britain is not going to be sorry.