Palakkad (Kerala):Former Minister of State for External Affairs Shashi Tharoor on Sunday tied nuptial knots with his friend Sunanda Pushkar in a traditional Malayali wedding at his
ancestral house in Palakkad. Tharoor, tied the 'thali', symbolising the marital
bond as per the Hindu custom, amid accompaniment of percussion at the auspicious
moment shortly before 8.30 a.m. While Throor was clad in traditional Malayali
atire of kurta and mundu, Sunanda, turned up with jerried off-white 'veshti-mundu
set'. Before the wedding ceremony, the couple sought the blessings of gods and
elders of the family. Congress leader Mani Shankar Aiyar was the only senior politician
present at the marriage. The Tharoor-Sunanda relationship surfaced during the
bid for the Kochi Indian Premier League (IPL) team, which turned into a major
controversy forcing Tharoor to step down as Minister of State for External Affairs.
