Shashi Tharoor's first wife Tlottama Tharoor lives in the US and is a humanities professor in New York University. Tharoor and she were both very popular with members of the opposite sex, and when they started seeing each other, their admirers in Kolkata would say, "Shashi is smart, but she is no less."When Mr Tharoor was posted as the head of the UN High Commissioner of Refugees office in Singapore from 1981 to 1984, she wrote for The Straits Times as Minu Tharoor. Their twin sons Ishaan and Kanishk, who were born in Singapore, work with Time magazine and openDemocracy.net