<p>However, when 54-year-old Shashi Tharoor and Sunanda Pushkar(48) tied the knot on Sunday, the children of both the bride and groom were also present. <br /><br />Tharoor’s journalist sons Ishaan and Kanishk from his first marriage as well as Sunanda’s son Shiva were present as Col Pushkarnath Das perfomed the symbolic “Kanyadan” of his daughter in a simple and traditional Nair marriage.<br /><br />The venue was a specially erected pandal at Tharoor’s ancestral house, the Mundarathu tharavadu at Elavanchery in Palakkad.<br /><br />Tharoor dressed in a mundu and kurtha tied the ‘thali’ at 8.26 am around the neck of Sunanda who wore a veshti-mundu set as a large contingent of relatives and friends looked on.<br /><br /><br />The traditional musical accompaniment of nadaswaram and vadyamelam pepped up the occasion. Tharoor’s 93-year-old maternal grandmother, mother Lilly as well as his sisters, uncles and aunts graced the occasion while some of Sunanda’s close relatives were also in attendance. <br /><br />After the ‘thalikettu’, the entire family and relatives participated in the Onam tradition of niraputhari. The number of invited guests was less than 150 while a large number of media units avidly watched the proceedings. <br /><br />Among the guests were Congress leader Mani Shankar Aiyer and former diplomat T P Sreenivasan. The new couple will hold a modest reception here on Monday before flying to Dubai for a Kashmiri wedding according to the bride’s family tradition.</p>
<p>However, when 54-year-old Shashi Tharoor and Sunanda Pushkar(48) tied the knot on Sunday, the children of both the bride and groom were also present. <br /><br />Tharoor’s journalist sons Ishaan and Kanishk from his first marriage as well as Sunanda’s son Shiva were present as Col Pushkarnath Das perfomed the symbolic “Kanyadan” of his daughter in a simple and traditional Nair marriage.<br /><br />The venue was a specially erected pandal at Tharoor’s ancestral house, the Mundarathu tharavadu at Elavanchery in Palakkad.<br /><br />Tharoor dressed in a mundu and kurtha tied the ‘thali’ at 8.26 am around the neck of Sunanda who wore a veshti-mundu set as a large contingent of relatives and friends looked on.<br /><br /><br />The traditional musical accompaniment of nadaswaram and vadyamelam pepped up the occasion. Tharoor’s 93-year-old maternal grandmother, mother Lilly as well as his sisters, uncles and aunts graced the occasion while some of Sunanda’s close relatives were also in attendance. <br /><br />After the ‘thalikettu’, the entire family and relatives participated in the Onam tradition of niraputhari. The number of invited guests was less than 150 while a large number of media units avidly watched the proceedings. <br /><br />Among the guests were Congress leader Mani Shankar Aiyer and former diplomat T P Sreenivasan. The new couple will hold a modest reception here on Monday before flying to Dubai for a Kashmiri wedding according to the bride’s family tradition.</p>
