Shashi Tharoor Tweetup

Whenever i meet my friends, i tell them about the benefits of being on twitter coz i’ve been exposed to loads right from the day I joined twitter until now, connecting new people and learning a lot from them every day.

This blog post is about one such awesome Opportunity that i got via twitter, Meeting our Minister of State for External Affairs Mr. Shashi Tharoor.

We the people of chennai often organize tweetups to connect new people and have fun, in the month of march two of our tweepals (twitter friends) @shalinipv and @narayananh by chance happened to know that Mr. Tharoor, yes The Minister was in Chennai and soon they got in touch with the people at Mr.Tharoor’s office. The Most Shocking thing was, We have all been to government offices and have had the experience of running from pillar to post. And here we were, not even having to move out of a chair and being successful in getting an audience with a man of such stature (by just sending an email to Tharoor ji’s office). Here was the true power of the internet. A tweetup was organized the next day ( 19th March Friday at C.P Art Center Eldams road ), for the chennai people to meet Mr. Shashi Tharror

Shashi Tharoor with Chennai Twitter Folks

The next day eve, we all were gathered at the venue to meet Mr.Tharoor, Apparently the honourable minister was running temperature and others had advised that this meet be cancelled but to our surprise, Tharoor ji decided not to cancel the tweetup inspite of his illness. And came in little after 8pm having taken a few minutes break after his previous engagement. The next 45mins was action packed, with many people asking intelligent questions to Dr.Tharoor. He was so elegant, the way he answered every questioner caught me by surprise, How can a man in such a position could talk like that, Hats off to Mr.Tharoor ji

I’ve heard a lot about Dr.Tharoor on twitter but this is the first time that i got an opportunity to meet and know him well.

I will never forget this awesome day in my life. Thanks to all those people who made this wonderful tweetup possible :)