Former Union minister Shashi Tharoor has made public his plans to marry Sunanda Pushkar later this month. In an e-mail to friends and family,Tharoor said he would marry Pushkar at his crumbling 200-year-old ancestral home in Elavanchery village of Palakkad district in Kerala on August 22. The marriage would be followed by a modest reception in Thiruvananthapuram,my constituency,on August 23 and another reception in Delhi on September 3. The email is the first formal admission by Tharoor of his marriage plans. Tharoor,in a message on Twitter,said he was horrified to see the card on TV channels on Friday before his friends had received them. Has our media no decency? he had asked. I have lived through a great deal of unrest. the prospect of being able to have a real home at last,with a woman I love and wish I had met many years ago,will only strengthen me in facing the challenges of public service that lie ahead, his email stated.
