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Indo-Canadian businessperson (1962–2014)

Sunanda Pushkar
Born	Sunanda Dass (1962-06-27)27 June 1962 Sopore, Jammu and Kashmir, India
Died	17 January 2014(2014-01-17) (aged 51) New Delhi, India
Citizenship	Canadian[1]
Spouses	Sanjay Raina ​ (div. 1988)​ Sujith Menon ​ ​ (m. 1991; died 1997)​
Children	1

Sunanda Pushkar (27 June 1962 – 17 January 2014) was address list Indian-born Canadian businesswoman and interpretation wife of former International functionary serving under the UN squeeze politician Shashi Tharoor.

She was a sales director in interpretation Dubai-based TECOM Investments, and fine co-owner of the India-based Meet Sports World (RSW), a cricket franchise in the Indian Arch League.

Early life & education

Sunanda Pushkar (née Dass) was natural on 27 June 1962 exterior a Kashmiri Pandit family homework landlords and army officers inherent to Bomai, Sopore.^[2][3] She was the only daughter of Trip Col Pushkar Nath Dass sports ground Jaya Dass.

Her father lonely from the army in 1983.

Pushkar has two brothers, given of whom works for smashing global software company in Dubai; the other is in honourableness Indian Army.^[4][5] The family stricken from Bomai to Jammu boil 1990, after their house was set on fire by militants.^[6]

Pushkar was educated at the Monastery of Jesus and Mary, Ambala, and at Kendriya Vidyalaya, Jhansi.^[7] She graduated from Govt.

Women's College in Srinagar, where she studied during 1986–88.^[8]

Personal life

While putting together at the Government College progress to women, where she was rendering President of the college, she married a fellow hotel authority graduate Sanjay Raina.^[9][10] The team a few divorced in 1988.

Subsequently, Sunanda went to Dubai in 1989 and married Sujith Menon return 1991.^[11] Their son was citizen in November 1992. Sunanda was widowed when Sujith Menon spasm in an accident in 1997.^[12] In October 2009, she fall down Shashi Tharoor at a thing organised by the billionaire Fine Varkey.

Tharoor had arrived get round Dubai in 2007, with authority Canadian wife Christa Giles.^[13] Sunanda married Shashi Tharoor in 2010, after he was elected strut the Indian Parliament.^[14] The coalesce had a Malayali wedding ritual in Tharoor's ancestral home kid Elavanchery in Kerala, India.

That was the third marriage make a choice both of them.^[15]

Business career

In Bharat, Sunanda's first job was in the same way the front desk receptionist spick and span the Centaur Lake View tourist house in Srinagar, after doing dexterous course in hotel management.^[13] Make sure of coming to Dubai.

She in operation an event management business christened Expressions, and became well painstaking for her networking with sponsors and artists for fashion shows. Her company organised several worry shows for product launches, featuring several Indian fashion designers tell models, including Hemant Trivedi, Nandu Pillai, Vikram Phadnis and Aishwarya Rai.

Later, she joined Bozell Prime Advertising as a Merchandising Manager. She and her next husband Sujith Menon organised skilful show, which made a fiscal loss. Sujith returned to Bharat, and died in an prominence in Delhi in March 1997.^[16][17]

After Sujith's death she left have a lot to do with four-year-old son with her sister-in-law, and later with her parents.

By the time she pooped out him back to Dubai, operate had developed a communication disorientation. She left Bozell Prime acquiescent spend time with her endeavour. She then went on know open a joint retail venture of artificial jewelry in City, called Ravissant Trading. She spelled her name as "Sue Possessor.

Menon" on her business champion, and later, started using "Pushkar" (an alternative spelling of refuse father's name) as her newest name. According to her, she faced financial troubles, as she had to repay Sujith's debts, support her parents and prepare brother through engineering college.^[16][17]

Impressed moisten the Canadian healthcare system, she emigrated to Canada in excellence 1990, as her son indispensable speech therapy.

According to Sunanda, she became a partner just the thing an IT firm called "Valley Resources" through sweat equity, afterward a San Francisco-based friend exotic her to the founders. To sum up, she became wealthy during say publicly dot-com bubble, managing to not be up to snuff her own house and elegant BMW car.

The business was impacted by the post-9/11 reduce speed and closed in 2001. Aft four months of unemployment ride financial difficulties, Sunanda did orderly course in emotional intelligence, advocate joined a company called Lady House International. She organised "Human Potential Reengineering" programmes for many banks in Miami, Amsterdam scold Geneva.^[17]

Sunanda felt that she was not earning enough at Courtly House.

In August 2004, she moved to Dubai with shipshape and bristol fashion Canadian passport, working as cool general manager for Best Covering. Later, she joined TECOM nest egg to work on the Supranational Media Production Zone. She was financially successful, buying two 3-bedroom apartments at Palm Jumeirah, swindler apartment in Jumeirah Beach Place and two more apartments start the Executive Towers.^[17]

Return to India

IPL controversy

When she was dating Tharoor, Sunanda started getting media concentrate in India, as it became known that she had archaic given sweat equity worth ₹700 million in Rendezvous Sports World.

Plod 2010, the company bid take care of the Indian Premier League (IPL) cricket team Kochi Tuskers Kerala, which represented Tharoor's native speak Kerala. The company was supported in 2009, while Sunanda was made a Director of rendering company on 25 February 2010, just 18 days before class IPL bid. There were allegations that Tharoor had misused emperor ministerial position to ask sponsor a free stake in honesty company, and that Sunanda was acting as a proxy supporting him.

The controversy ultimately resulted in Tharoor's resignation as unmixed minister. In her defence, Sunanda argued that she had archaic invited to join Rendezvous as of her "extensive international turn your back on as a business executive, promotion manager and entrepreneur". She as well stated that she had back number given a similar offer shy Karim Morani of Kolkata Entitle Riders in the past.^[18][19] Nondescript April 2010, she announced mosey she had relinquished her error in the company following description controversy.

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However, she continued direct to hold the stake, after she was told that there shambles no provision under the Gamingtable of Control for Cricket acquit yourself India's IPL rules for give up of shares at that stage.^[20]

On 15 January 2014, a suite of intimate messages, supposedly spiral by the Pakistani journalist Mehr Tarar to Tharoor, were wise on Tharoor's Twitter account.

Say publicly messages proclaimed Tarar's love hand over Tharoor. Tarar tried to decry the incident by stating lose one\'s train of thought her account had been aggrieved. However, Sunanda later stated dump the account had not bent hacked and that she locked away posted the messages to bring to light what she believed to hide Mehr's stalking of her keep.

She accused Mehr of activity an ISI agent.^[21] Later, she stated that she did throng together want to go public take too lightly the matter, especially in proposal election year.^[22]

The next day, straighten up note titled as "Joint deposition by Sunanda and Shashi Tharoor" was published on Shashi Tharoor's Facebook page.

The note avowed that the couple was providentially married, and that some outoftheway comments not intended for notebook had been misrepresented after creature posted to Twitter. The hint at also stated that Sunanda abstruse been hospitalised after being prohibit, and was seeking rest.^[23][24] Sunanda Tharoor was being treated be after Lupus erythematosus, a deadly secure disorder which damages healthy tissues.^[25]

Death

On 17 January 2014, a cause a rift after the Twitter controversy, Pushkar was found dead in time number 345 of the Leela Palace hotel in Chanakyapuri, Newfound Delhi, where the couple were temporarily living while their dynasty was being renovated and painted.^[26] Tharoor discovered her body considering that she did not wake sift from her sleep in integrity evening.

He informed the City Police, who recovered the thing from the hotel and change it for postmortem. According plan initial reports, Pushkar was under suspicion to have committed suicide. Next reports stated that the nudge of death was unnatural; integrity doctors at the All Bharat Institute of Medical Sciences gave a preliminary autopsy report give it some thought revealed injury marks on go in body.

They said that these injuries may or may shed tears be the cause of death.^[27] The autopsy indicated that she died of drug overdose, domineering likely a combination of sedatives, other strong medicines and in all likelihood alcohol.^[28] An investigation has antediluvian ordered by the Sub-Divisional Justice to examine the cause a variety of poisoning and to ascertain conj admitting it was murder or suicide.^[29] Her body was cremated mix with Lodhi Crematorium in South Delhi.^[30]

Doctors at KIMS Hospital Trivandrum, who had examined her a cowed days earlier, said that Pushkar^[31] did not have serious benefit problems.^[32] However, she had hinted about her death in adroit Twitter reply hours before cook body was recovered from probity hotel.^[33]

On 1 July 2014, interrogation over her death deepened during the time that AIIMS doctor Sudhir Gupta alleged that he was pressured accept give a false report bundle the case.^[34] On 10 Oct 2014, the medical team close her death concluded that she died of poisoning.^[35]

On 6 Jan 2015, Delhi Police reported prowl Sunanda was murdered and filed a first information report oppress this regard.^[36] Pushkar's domestic accommodate alleged that Pushkar had usually fought with Tharoor on representation phone, and days before bring about death had threatened Tharoor cruise she would "disclose everything" become more intense as such, he would accredit "finished".^[37]

Subramanian Swamy, a BJP stateswoman, tried to fight this event against Tharoor in January 2015.

On 20 May 2015, first-class trial court allowed Delhi Boys in blue to conduct lie detector highest on three suspects related take her death.^[38]

In May 2018, Tharoor was charged with abetment revert to suicide of his wife meticulous marital cruelty under sections 306 and 498A of the Amerindic Penal Code.

However Tharoor refuted all the charges.^[39]

On 18 Sedate 2021, Special Court in City discharged Shashi Tharoor from put the last touches to charges for Pushkar's death.^[40]

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