Lily Tharoor – a woman of substance who inspired her family and friends through ‘her life and living’
I have just finished reading Good Innings: The Extraordinary, Ordinary Life of Lily Tharoor – quite an enjoyable read. The author is Shobha Tharoor Srinivasan, Lily Tharoor’s elder daughter and sister of Shashi Tharoor. Shobha has put it all down so well, what she calls “an individual reflection on moments… a collection of stories from the life of an independent woman who has been a daughter and wife, and is now still a mother, grandmother and great-grandmother”. It is a recollection, she says, of personal memories, a narrative of a strong matriarch. I had my own reasons in getting hooked to the book, a slim volume of less than 120 pages. My father, Tharoor Damodar, and Tharoor Parameshwar and his younger brothers Chandran, Bhaskaran and Krishnan were cousins. Parameshwar and my father were about the same age. Parameshwar began his career in Bombay in the early 1950s and soon left for London where he not only made a mark but also made opportunities for his brothers to co...
