Tharoor was also sated to inaugurate the prize ceremony for the USD 50,000 DSC prize for South Asian Literature.
“Book launch would be done by someone else now. We were at a musical evening when we got the sad news. Its sad,” Roy said.
In his last Twitter post yesterday the Union Minister had also said that he would not have been able to attend the Festival due to illness of his wife Sunanda Pushkar.
“My wife's illness means i need to be with her & will miss all 5 events of #JaipurLitFest 2014.” This was the last tweet posted by the Union Minister last evening before her death later at night.
