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Bigwigs attend Tharoors' reception

Last updated on: September 4, 2010 18:37 IST

Newly wedded couple Sunanda Pushkar and MP Shashi Tharoor at their wedding reception in Indian Habitat Centre, New Delhi

A large number of political leaders, diplomats and other bigwigs attended the wedding reception hosted by Lok Sabha MP Shashi Tharoor and his new wife Sunanda Pushkar in New Delhi.

Also see: Exclusive Images: The Shashi Tharoor wedding

Among those who attended the reception at the India Habitat Centre on Friday night were various Union ministers, Bharatiya Janata Party leaders L K Advani and Arun Jaitley and envoys from several countries including China and Pakistan.

A former United Nations under secretary general and Union minister Tharoor, 54, had tied the knot with Pushkar, a Dubai-based entrepreneur in a typical Malayali wedding ceremony in his ancestral home at Elavanchery village near Palakkad in Kerala on August 22.

This is Tharoor's third marriage. His first marriage was to Tilottama Mukherjee, an academic who he knew from his school days in Kolkata. Tharoor recently divorced his second wife, Canadian diplomat Christa Giles.

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