News about Shashi Tharoor

The India Club (left and top right), which was founded on The Strand in 1951, will close on September 17 and could be turned into a luxurious hotel. The India League, a British-based group established in 1928, established the club in 1947 to campaign for India's independence, which was also sealed in 1947. Countess Mountbatten of Burma, the wife of the country's last viceroy, was the country's first prime minister. Noticing the venue's closing had been condemned by prominent supporters. When she was a student at the London School of Economics, Labour MP John McDonnell called it a "dreadful loss" and revealed that his wife was among those students who frequented it. Shashi Tharoor, an Indian MP, said it had provided a "home away from home" to several'students, journalists, and visitors.' Gyanapraksan Joseph, the India Club's head waiter, is seen on the venue on his wedding day in September 1966.