Kanishk Tharoor Contemplates Fleeing Power in CLSC’s ‘Swimmer Among Stars’ by Amy Guay on August 14, 2019 share Tharoor In his genre-spanning oeuvre as a writer, journalist and critic, Kanishk Tharoor is occupied with dustsceawung, an Old English word that roughly translates to “the contemplation of dust.” “Its closest equivalent may be ‘nostalgia,’