Shashi Tharoor - Honors, Awards and International Recognition

Honors, Awards and International Recognition

• 1976 - Wins the Rajika Kripalani Young Journalist Award for the Best Indian Journalist under 30.
• 1990 – Wins the Federation of Indian Publishers' Hindustan Times Literary Award for the Best Book of the Year for The Great Indian Novel.
• 1991 – His book The Great Indian Novel wins the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize for the Best Book of the Year in the Eurasian Region.
• 1998 – Awarded the Excelsior Award for excellence in literature by the Association of Indians in America (AIA) and the Network of Indian Professionals (NetIP).
• 2000 – Conferred the honorary degree of Doctor of Letters in International Affairs by the University of Puget Sound
• 1998 – Named Global Leader of Tomorrow by the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland

• 2004 – Awarded the prestigious Pravasi Bharatiya Samman, India’s highest honour for non-resident Indians. But did not accept it at the time owing to UN rules prohibiting acceptance of governmental honours.
• 2007 – Went on to accept the award after having resigned from the position of Under Secretary General at the UN.
• 2008 – Conferred a Doctorate Honoris Causa by the University of Bucharest, Romania.
• 2009 – Awarded the Zakir Hussain Memorial "Pride of India" Award.
• 2009 – Awarded GQ's Inspiration of the Year Award at its Man of the Year Awards.
• 2009 – Presented with the Hakim Khan Sur Award for National Integration by the Maharana of Udaipur.
• 2010 – Awarded the Sarva Deshiya Prathibha award by the Pazhassiraja Charitable Trust, Kozhikode.
• March 2010 – Awarded "New Age Politician of the Year" Award by NDTV at its Indian of the Year awards.
• 2010 – Awarded the Fifth IILM Distinguished Global Thinker Award in New Delhi
• 2010 – Awarded Digital person of the year at the first ever Indian Digital Media Awards (IDMA) for popularising the digital medium in India