Sunanda Pushkar shot to fame after reports that Shashi tharoor is going to marry her. Sunanda also has 18% (some reports say 5%) stake in the Kochi IPL team.
Sunanda Pushkar runs her own business at Dubai and she is from Kashmir. It has been reported that Pushkar was also married twice before. Her first husband was a Kashmiri working a Delhi. She had a divorce with him and after that she got married again but her husband died in an unfortunate accident.
Pushkar, whose stake in the Kochi IPL team is valued at an estimated Rs 70 crore, belongs to a family from Bomai, 8 km from Sopore in the Kashmir Valley.
Pushkar’s father, Lt Col (retd) P N Dass said that the family migrated to Jammu in 1990 after militants torched their home in the Valley. He said Pushkar’s first husband was a Kashmiri man who worked for a hotel in Delhi. Following a divorce, Pushkar went to Dubai, where she married again. Her second husband died in an accident in Delhi, he said.
Pushkar, a graduate of Government College for Women, Srinagar, has two brothers, one of whom works for a bank; the other is in the Army. Her father retired from the Army in 1983.
