Shashi Tharoor marries Sunanda Pushkar in Kerala tradition
Despite being a holiday in Kerala when everyone was busy buying clothes and vegetables for the Onam, a festival that symbolises post-harvest prosperity; a high profile marriage was solemnized at Elavanchery village in Kerala's Palakkad district.
ON SUNDAY, despite being a holiday in Kerala when everyone was busy buying clothes and vegetables for the Onam, a festival that symbolises post-harvest prosperity; a high profile marriage was solemnized at Elavanchery village in Kerala’s Palakkad district. Former union minister and MP Shashi Tharoor married Sunanda Pushkar in a Kerala wedding.
Both were married in a ceremony at Mundarath House in presence of less than 150 people. Relatives of the bride and bridegroom and their close friends participated in the ceremony.
The custom of tying the mangalsutra (thali), which symbolised the Kerala-style Hindu marriage, was held just before 8.30 am, the auspicious time fixed for the marriage. Tharoor’s two children — Eshan and Kanishk — and Sunanda’s son attended the function. Shashi and Sunanda have married twice earlier.
Fifty-four-year-old Tharoor, a former UN Undersecretary General and now a Congress Lok Sabha member, was clad in the traditional attire of dhoti and kurta, while Sunanda (48), turned up in the Malayalee-style off-white Settu Mundu. Before the wedding ceremony, the two sought the blessings of gods and elders of the family, who included Tharoor’s 94-year-old maternal grandmother Jayasankari Amma.
The tying of the mangalsutra was followed by exchange of garlands and handing over the pudava (sari) to the bride by the bridegroom, a long-followed tradition in Kerala. The whole setting was that of Kerala-style traditional Hindu weddings, complete with the traditional lamp, Nilavilakku, paddy-filled Para and coconut flower.
The party from Sunanda’s side included her father Col Pushkarnath Das. Congress leader Mani Shankar Aiyar was the only senior politician present at the ceremony. Tharoor’s mother Lily Tharoor and sisters Sobha and Smitha were also present.
The tying of the mangalsutra was followed by exchange of garlands and handing over the pudava (sari) to the bride by the bridegroom, a long-followed tradition in Kerala. The whole setting was that of Kerala-style traditional Hindu weddings, complete with the traditional lamp, Nilavilakku, paddy-filled Para and coconut flower.
The party from Sunanda’s side included her father Col Pushkarnath Das. Congress leader Mani Shankar Aiyar was the only senior politician present at the ceremony. Tharoor’s mother Lily Tharoor and sisters Sobha and Smitha were also present.
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