Shashi Tharoor published his first story at the age of 10
Writer-turned-politician Shashi Tharoor published his first short story in Bharat Jyoti, an edition of Mumbai's Free Press Journal, when he was 10 years old. Tharoor, who turned 61 on Thursday, later went on to complete his PhD at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy in the US at the age of 22.