Show Business

Show Business is a postmodern satirical novel by Shashi Tharoor. Show Business parodies and satirizes formulaic Bollywood cinema, using it as a metaphor in an attempt to raise and answer questions about contemporary India and Indians. It is a fictional work that tells the story of Ashok Banjara, a Bollywood superstar. Ashok Banjara is critically injured while shooting for a film and his entire life in Bollywood flashes in front of his eyes as he ... more

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  • 1991

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Shashi Tharoor

Shashi Tharoor (Hindi: शशि थरूर Malayalam: ശശി തരൂര്‍ ) (born 9 March 1956) is the Indian Minister of State for External Affairs and a member of the Indian Parliament from the Trivandrum constituency in Kerala. He served as the UN Under-Secretary General for Communications and Public Information...

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