IMC Chamber of Commerce and Industry cordially invites you to the “KILACHAND MEMORIAL LECTURE” being organized as per details mentioned below. Dr.... Shashi Tharoor, Hon’ble Member of Parliament for Thiruvananthapuram and bestselling author of 24 books, has kindly consented to deliver the Kilachand Memorial Lecture on ‘India's Journey: From Midnight to Millennium'

About the Speaker
Dr. Shashi Tharoor, a third-term Hon’ble Member of Parliament for Thiruvananthapuram, is the bestselling author of twenty-four books, both fiction and non-fiction, besides being a former Under Secretary-General of the United Nations and a former Minister of State for Human Resource Development and for External Affairs in the Government of India. He has won numerous awards, including the Pravasi Bharatiya Samman, a Commonwealth Writers’ Prize and the Crossword Lifetime Achievement Award. In 2019, Dr. Tharoor was also awarded the Sahitya Akademi Award in the category of ‘English Non- Fiction’ for his book An Era of Darkness. He chairs Parliament’s Standing Committee on Chemicals and Fertilisers and has previously chaired the Standing Committee on External Affairs and the Committee on Information Technology.

From Midnight to the Millennium is a book written by Shashi Tharoor in 1997. It discusses a wide range of topics like caste, democracy in India, Indira Gandhi, the partition of India, and its transition from a socialist economy to a free market economy.

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