Indian lawmaker and senior member of the Congress Party Shashi Tharoor thanked a young Bangladeshi couple for helping him get a cab from outside the British Library in London ending his 45-minute wait. In a tweet on June 12, Shashi Tharoor wrote, “Waited 45 minutes outside @britishlibrary for a cab as Saturday-night traffic whizzed by. A helpful young Bangladeshi couple, out celebrating their first wedding anniversary, stopped by for a pic & solved my problem by summoning an @Uber. Thanks Irfat & Azmain! A total of 8,604 followers liked the tweet while 325 retweeted. Also Read: India's top court stays arrest of Congress MP Shashi Tharoor Born in London, UK, and raised in India, Tharoor worked across the world, graduating from St. Stephen's College, Delhi in 1975 and culminated his studies in 1978 with a doctorate in International Relations and Affairs from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University. He was formerly Under-Secretary General of the United Nations and ran for the post of Secretary-General in 2006.