{"id":1560,"date":"2010-08-23T09:08:54","date_gmt":"2010-08-23T09:08:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sheetudeep.com\/blog\/lifestyle\/finally-shashi-weds-sunanda\/"},"modified":"2010-08-23T16:12:36","modified_gmt":"2010-08-23T16:12:36","slug":"finally-shashi-weds-sunanda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.sheetudeep.com\/blog\/lifestyle\/finally-shashi-weds-sunanda\/","title":{"rendered":"Finally Shashi weds Sunanda"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sheetudeep.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/shashi_sunanda.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Third time lucky&#8230;! This is the third marriage for both the former UN under-secretary general as well as Sunanda. <\/p>\n<p>Finally after all that <i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sheetudeep.com\/blog\/technology\/shashi-tharoor-getting-married-to-sunanda\/\">ho-hala<\/a><\/i> Former Union Minister Shashi Tharoor ties the knot with Sunanda Pushkar. Wedding was held at his 200-year-old ancestral home in Elavanchery village at Palakkad district in Kerala on August 22, 2010 in a typical Malayali style. The marriage held in the presence of Tharoor&#8217;s 94-year-old grandmother Jayasankari Amma and other family elders. <\/p>\n<p>The invitation to the wedding on the eve of \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcThiruvonam\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 was limited to close relatives, friends and well-wishers. Tharoor&#8217;s twins Ishaan and Kanishk, both journalists born to his first wife was present. Sunanda&#8217;s son Siva from her second marriage, Sunanda&#8217;s father Col Pushkarnath Das and Tharoor&#8217;s sisters Sobha and Smitha and Rajya Sabha MP Mani Shankar Aiyar were among those present at the function.<\/p>\n<p><em>&quot;I am sure her motherly presence will change our lives for the better, and I am happy to have a complete family,&quot;<\/em> said Kanishk.     <br \/><em>&quot;Ishan and I have a brother in Shiv.&quot;<\/em> Ishan writes for the Time magazine from Hong Kong, and Kanishk edits Open Democracy, a magazine from London. Shiv studies in Dubai.<\/p>\n<p>This is the former UN diplomat&#8217;s third marriage. His first marriage was to Tilottama Mukherjee, an academic who he knew from school days in Kolkata. Tharoor recently divorced his second wife, Canadian Christa Giles.<\/p>\n<p>Sunanda Pushkar was earlier married to a fellow Kashmiri named Sanjay Raina. After the marriage ended in a divorce, she married a Kerala businessman Sujith Menon who died in a road accident in 1997. She has a 17-year-old son from her second marriage.<\/p>\n<p>Sunanda had grabbed headlines for alleged possession of a sweat equity stake worth Rs 70 crore in the controversial Kochi IPL franchise. The controversy, kicked off by IPL Commissioner Lalit Modi, had resulted in Tharoor&#8217;s resignation from the Union ministry. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Third time lucky&#8230;! This is the third marriage for both the former UN under-secretary general as well as Sunanda. Finally after all that ho-hala Former Union Minister Shashi Tharoor ties the knot with Sunanda Pushkar. Wedding was held at his 200-year-old ancestral home in Elavanchery village at Palakkad district in Kerala on August 22, 2010 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[511,253,357],"class_list":["post-1560","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lifestyle","tag-lifestyle","tag-shashi-tharoor","tag-sunanda-pushkar"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3vNl0-pa","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sheetudeep.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1560","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sheetudeep.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sheetudeep.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sheetudeep.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sheetudeep.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1560"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.sheetudeep.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1560\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sheetudeep.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1560"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sheetudeep.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1560"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sheetudeep.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1560"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}