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It's official- Shashi weds Sunanda
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23 August 2010 |
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In a traditional ceremony at his ancestral home in Kerala, former minister of state for external affairs Shashi Tharoor tied the knot with his Dubai-based fiancee Sunanda Pushkar on Sunday. The marriage, shorn of extravaganza, was held in the presence of Tharoor's 94-year-old grandmother Jayasankari Amma and other family elders.
The function was held at the 200-year-old ancestral home of Tharoor at Elavanchery village near Kollangodu at about 8.30am on Sunday. The 54-year-old diplomat-turned politician, representing Thiruvananthapuram in Lok Sabha, tied the thali (mangalsutra) around the neck of his Kashmiri bride before the couple garlanded each other and the groom handed over the pudava, a piece of new clothing, to the bride, a tradition of the Nairs. Tharoor's maternal uncle and local CPM leader Narayanan Unni led the rituals held to the accompaniment of traditional percussion and wind instruments. Both Tharoor and Sunanda were in typical Kerala dress, woven especially by handloom experts of Balaramapuram, in Tharoor's constituency.
The ceremony began with the couple seeking the blessings of elders, including Jayasankari Amma. Tharoor's sons Ishaan and Kanishk, from his first wife, Sunanda's son Siva from her second marriage, Sunanda's father Colonel Pushkarnath Das, Tharoor's sisters Sobha and Smitha and Rajya Sabha MP Mani Shankar Aiyar were among those present at the function. The ceremony, which lasted about 45 minutes, ended with the family distributing sweets. Apart from Aiyar, no other Congress leader participated in the event. The family had chosen to keep it a low-key affair. Only around 100 people attended the function, excluding mediapersons.
Tharoor and his wife later attended a harvest festival held at his house and enjoyed a traditional Kerala feast, prepared using grains from the first harvest of this season. They left for Thiruvananthapuram by evening. This is the third marriage for both the former UN under-secretary general as well as Sunanda.
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Source: beta.thehindu.com |
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