Shashi Tharoor is all set to wear the hat of an entrepreneur. The diplomat who only last month resigned from the position of United Nations under-secretary-general for communications and public information, will head an investment company that will invest in India, especially Kerala - his hometown. He expressed his intent at entrepreneurship after he delivered the keynote address at the 3rd annual India Business Conference organized by the South Asia Business Association of Columbia University in New York last Friday

Indian local flavour is intact in him when he talks about masala dosas and chole boture never facing threats from US company like McDonalds setting up yet another outlet here, selling burgers. His inclination and love for his country is evident from the fact that he will also advise a private equity firm being set up in New York, focusing on India.

After spending three decades at the United Nations, the intellectual wants to remain blessed unrest. Be it heading a company or advising a firm, the plunge into the financial sector is entirely new to him but he is taking this up as a challenge. He admits he has neither the talent nor the taste for the new venture. However, the willed persona that he is, it would not be long before he achieves due success.

Amongst all these activities targeting at unleashing the resourceful India, we hope he will find time for his first love, i.e. writing. In his literary career, he has written several works on fiction and non-fiction. Among his publications, Bookless in Baghdad - a non-fiction, is an article that appeared at the end of the book (the book itself is a compilation of Tharoor’s articles on literature and authors), where the author writes about his experience when he visited Baghdad on a UN initiative soon after the Gulf War. The article details his penchant for putting down in words his feelings that do not detach facts either. He has also been writing regularly for leading Indian newspapers.

It is unfortunate that he lost out on the prestigious Secretary General’s post at the United Nations, but he will definitely build on all the experiences that he gained while serving in the UN, and simultaneously use this expertise for the betterment of the third world nations, beginning from India.

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