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Shashi Taroor's Ex-First Wife Tilottama Mukherji (or Tilottama Tharoor) , is a New York-based academic.   Tilottama is currently a professor of humanities at   New York University .  She is known to be a prominent figure in intellectual circles in both Kolkata and New York. Shashi Taroor and Tilottama Mukherji  met during their college years at St. Stephen’s in Delhi. They  married in 1981 and later divorced. They have two sons, Kanishk Tharoor and   Ishaan Tharoor. Kanishk and Ishaan are Twins. Both Sons have pursued careers in journalism and writing.   Tilottama  has been seen at some literary events, book launches, and film festivals, likely due to her academic background and interest in literature and the arts. Related: >> View Pictures of Shashi Taroor's Second Wife Christa Here >> View Images and Info on Shashi Tharoor's Twin Sons Ishaan and Kanisk Here >> View Shashi Tharoor's Wedding Pi...

Tilottama Tharoor: Half-Bengali, half-Kashmiri, Tilottama (nee Mukherji) is a couple of years older than Tharoor. She studied at Loreto House and Loreto College, Kolkata, and was known for her debating prowess and 'Bengali ethnic' looks. 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." The two married young and had twins, Kanishk and Ishaan - the first is an associate with the e-magazine, Open Democracy, and the second is a Hong Kong-based journalist with Timemagazine. Tilottama followed her husband as he progressed in his career in the UN ("she let him flower," say folks in Kolkata to this day). But the two split after they "grew apart", as Tharoor put it in an interview recently. Tilottama is a humanities professor at New York University, and is a prominent face on the intellectual circuit of both Kolkata an...