On Tharoor again, is it goodbye fiction, hello politics? He appears to be missing his happier days as a UN official when he could squeeze in some time in the evenings and weekends to write fiction and essays that earned him much acclaim.
Ever since he moved inside South Block as a minister of state in charge of Africa and the Middle East, Tharoor has been deluged with calls for meetings from just about everyone who had a chance to know him even casually.
There are calls from Stephanians, people from Kerala, his home state and of course there are official engagements, his aide revealed. He has become virtually a workaholic, packing in as many as 10-15 meetings a day on an average. On one day recently, he had 26 back-to-back meetings that could have drained a man of lesser energy. But not Tharoor.
Where is the time? says Tharoor wearily every time one asks him about his next novel. With no time for literary pursuits, Tharoor, the author of “The Great Indian Novel” and “From Midnight to the Millennium” does the next best thing: launch novels written by others!
rounak