The Five Dollar Smile and Other Stories  The Five Dollar Smile and Other Stories is a short story collection by the Indian politician Shashi Tharoor, published in 1990 by Viking Press. The stories collected were written in the author's late teens, and were initially published in various magazines and newspapers including "JS", "The Illustrated Weekly of India", "Eve's Weekly", "Youth Times", "Gentleman", "The New Review", and "Cosmopolitan".