--- title: Ishaan Tharoor | TIME description: Breaking news and analysis from time.com. Politics, world news, photos, video, tech reviews, health, science, and entertainment news. canonical: https://time.com/author/ishaan-tharoor/ og:title: TIME | Current & Breaking News | National & World Updates og:description: Breaking news and analysis from time.com. Politics, world news, photos, video, tech reviews, health, science, and entertainment news. og:url: https://time.com/author/ishaan-tharoor/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 300 og:image:height: 300 og:image:alt: Breaking news and analysis from time.com. Politics, world news, photos, video, tech reviews, health, science, and entertainment news. og:type: profile twitter:card: summary twitter:title: TIME | Current & Breaking News | National & World Updates twitter:description: Breaking news and analysis from time.com. Politics, world news, photos, video, tech reviews, health, science, and entertainment news. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Ishaan Tharoor ## Ishaan Tharoor ## Ishaan Tharoor *  Apr 16, 2014 ### [Picturing the Holy Land: 12 Photographers Chart a Region's Complexities](https://time.com/3808863/west-bank-israel-photos/) This Place is the collective product, nearly a decade in the making, of 12 renowned photographers wh... [WORLD](/section/world/) *  Apr 2, 2014 ### [Myths of the Flood Are Far Older Than the Bible](https://time.com/44631/noah-christians-flood-aronofsky/) While the Hollywood blockbuster has been a hit, it has also faced opposition from Christians and Mus... [WORLD](/section/world/) *  Mar 19, 2014 ### [Behind Putin's Crimea Obsession](https://time.com/29651/putin-crimea-russia-annexation/) Russian President Vladimir Putin's power play draws on Crimea's almost sacred place in the Russian i... [WORLD](/section/world/) *  Mar 10, 2014 ### [Zack Snyder and the West Should Stop Killing Ancient Persians](https://time.com/17578/300-greece-persians-xerxes/) The story of '300: Rise of an Empire' comes from a graphic novel, but it's based on a travesty of hi... [WORLD](/section/world/) *  Mar 7, 2014 ### [Venezuela's Protesters Won't Win](https://time.com/15068/venezuelas-protesters-maduro/) [WORLD](/section/world/) *  Feb 11, 2014 ### [This Picture Shows What's Wrong With Switzerland's Anti-Immigrant Hysteria](https://time.com/6441/switzerland-referendum-immigration-eu-soccer/) Without multiculturalism, the Swiss would not be at the World Cup [WORLD](/section/world/) *  Feb 7, 2014 ### [RECAP: Sochi's Opening Ceremony](https://time.com/6083/live-blog-sochis-opening-ceremony/) Three-hour opening ceremony ended with the lighting of the cauldron [ENTERTAINMENT](/section/entertainment/) *  Feb 6, 2014 ### [Sochi Olympics Stirs Nationalism of an Exiled People](https://time.com/4864/sochi-olympics-russia-circassians/) Long before Pussy Riot or gay rights activists sought a boycott of the Olympics, a forgotten communi... [WORLD](/section/world/) *  Dec 18, 2013 ### [David Guttenfelder Is TIME's Pick for Instagram Photographer of the Year 2013](https://time.com/11618/david-guttenfelder-is-times-pick-for-instagram-photographer-of-the-year/) [WORLD](/section/world/) *  Nov 26, 2013 ### [The Crisis in the Central African Republic by William Daniels](https://time.com/3805135/central-african-republic-by-william-daniels/) On assignment for TIME, photographer William Daniels documented the conflict quickly escalating in t... [WORLD](/section/world/) *  May 9, 2013 ### [On Pakistan's Election Trail: Photographs by Massimo Berruti](https://time.com/3799153/on-pakistans-election-trail-photographs-by-massimo-berruti/) The build-up to Pakistan’s elections, which will be held May 11, has been clouded by a disturbing st... [WORLD](/section/world/) *  Sep 18, 2012 ### [Into the Ether by Fazal Sheikh](https://time.com/3791601/into-the-ether-by-fazal-sheikh/) A photograph's inability to fully penetrate its subject fascinates photographer Fazal Sheikh. His n... [WORLD](/section/world/) *  Aug 22, 2012 ### [Land of Stories and Myths: Yaakov Israel Photographs His Homeland](https://time.com/3790936/land-of-stories-and-myths-yaakov-israel-photographs-his-homeland/) Photographer Yaakov Israel set out to document the people and landscapes of the country that shares ... [WORLD](/section/world/) * ![Thrower \(Nabi Saleh\)
A Palestinian teenager in the West Bank village of Nabi Saleh uses a sling to hurl stones at Israeli soldiers amassing at the bottom of the hill. Every Friday local residents, Israeli activists and international activists gather in the village to stage non-violent demonstrations denouncing the Israeli Occupation and asserting Palestinian human rights. The protesters are met each week with tear gas and other aggressive crowd dispersal tactics, transforming peaceful demonstrations into violent exchanges of stones, rubber bullets and mass arrests.](https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt5039c9f30bff082f/69879dfb35ba6f43d7c08e8c/golfer_etrmc_01.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1:1) Jul 10, 2012 ### [Vignettes from a Contested Land: An American Photographer in the West Bank](https://time.com/3790142/vignettes-from-a-contested-land-an-american-photographer-in-the-west-bank/) American photographer Adam Golfer’s images of the West Bank look beyond the hurly burly of one of th... [WORLD](/section/world/) * ![Tripoli, Libya. September 2011.

Women of all ages gathered by the thousands in Tripoli's Martyrs' Square to celebrate the ousting of Muammar Gaddafi. ](https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt4eb2a8770fc7836b/698688aacd804d0d43cca153/hervoicecounts_03.jpg?branch=production&width=2400&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1:1) Jul 9, 2012 ### [After the Spring: Women of the Arab Revolution](https://time.com/3790123/after-the-spring-women-of-the-revolution/) As Libya and Egypt hold nationwide elections, LightBox presents the work of Sarah Elliott, whose pho... [WORLD](/section/world/) Meta: null ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Organization","@id":"https://time.com/","name":"TIME","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/","name":"Home"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/author/ishaan-tharoor/","name":"Ishaan Tharoor"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Person","@id":"https://time.com/author/ishaan-tharoor/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/author/ishaan-tharoor/"},"name":"Ishaan Tharoor","jobTitle":null,"description":"","url":"https://time.com/author/ishaan-tharoor/","worksFor":{"@type":"Organization","name":"TIME","url":"https://time.com/"}}] ```