MEDIA AND EMPIRE: A Conversation with Dr Shashi Tharoor

19 February 2017

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MEDIA AND EMPIRE: A Conversation with Dr Shashi Tharoor

Author of Inglorious Empire: What the British did to India

Friday, 3 March, 1.15-2.45pm

Fyvie Hall, University of Westminster, 309 Regent Street, London

The Westminster Institute for Advanced Studies and the India Media Centre of the Westminster School of Media, Arts and Design cordially invite you to a conversation with Dr. Shashi Tharoor on the publication of his new book, Inglorious Empire: What the British did to India, published by Hurst, London

As Britain prepares to exit from the European Union, it is reconfiguring its role in the wider world. It may also need to reassess its imperial past. In this the media play an essential role, both historically and in the contemporary world of soft power. With India marking its 70^th year of independence from Britain, Dr Shashi Tharoor, one of India’s most distinguished public intellectuals, discusses the legacies of Empire in conversation with Professor Daya Thussu.

Dr. Shashi Tharoor served for nearly three decades at the United Nations, culminating as Under-Secretary General. A former Minister of State for External Affairs in the Government of India, he is currently a member of India’s parliament and Chairman of the Parliamentary Standing Committee on External Affairs. Author of 14 previous books, Dr. Tharoor has won numerous literary awards, including a Commonwealth Writers’ Prize. For more, please visit www.shashitharoor.in

Dr Daya Thussu is Professor of International Communication and Co-Director of India Media Centre at the University of Westminster. Author or editor of 18 books, the latest being Communicating India’s Soft Power: Buddha to Bollywood (Sage, India, 2016), he is also the founder and Managing Editor of the Sage journal Global Media and Communication.