28 Facts About Sunanda Pushkar

Sunanda Pushkar was an Indian-born Canadian businesswoman.

Sunanda Pushkar was a sales director in the Dubai-based TECOM Investments, and a co-owner of the India-based Rendezvous Sports World, a cricket franchise in the Indian Premier League.

Sunanda Pushkar was born on 27 June 1962 in a Kashmiri Pandit family of landlords and army officers native to Bomai, Sopore.

Sunanda Pushkar was the only daughter of Lt Col Pushkar Nath Dass and Jaya Dass.

Sunanda Pushkar has two brothers, one of whom works for a global software company in Dubai; the other is in the Indian Army.

Sunanda Pushkar was educated at the Convent of Jesus and Mary, Ambala, and at Kendriya Vidyalaya, Jhansi.

Subsequently, Sunanda Pushkar went to Dubai in 1989 and married Sujith Menon in 1991.

Sunanda Pushkar was widowed when Sujith Menon died in an accident in 1997.

Sunanda Pushkar married Shashi Tharoor in 2010, after he was elected to the Indian Parliament.

Sunanda Pushkar started an event management business called Expressions, and became well known for her networking with sponsors and artists for fashion shows.

Sunanda Pushkar's company organised several model shows for product launches, featuring several Indian fashion designers and models, including Hemant Trivedi, Rhea Pillai, Vikram Phadnis and Aishwarya Rai.

Sunanda Pushkar left Bozell Prime to spend time with her son.

Sunanda Pushkar then went on to open a joint retail business of artificial jewelry in Dubai, called Ravissant Trading.

Sunanda Pushkar spelled her name as "Sue P Menon" on her business cards, and later, started using "Pushkar" as her last name.

Sunanda Pushkar organised "Human Potential Reengineering" programmes for several banks in Miami, Amsterdam and Geneva.

Sunanda Pushkar felt that she was not earning enough at Noble House.

Sunanda Pushkar was financially successful, buying two 3-bedroom apartments at Palm Jumeirah, an apartment in Jumeirah Beach Residence and two more apartments in the Executive Towers.

Sunanda Pushkar was founded in 2009, while Sunanda was made a Director of the company on 25 February 2010, just 18 days before the IPL bid.

Sunanda Pushkar stated that she had been given a similar offer by Karim Morani of Kolkata Knight Riders in the past.

However, Sunanda Pushkar later stated that the account had not been hacked and that she had posted the messages to expose what she believed to be Mehr's stalking of her husband.

The note stated that Sunanda Pushkar had been hospitalised after being ill, and was seeking rest.

Sunanda Pushkar Tharoor was being treated for Lupus erythematosus, a deadly immune disorder which damages healthy tissues.

On 17 January 2014, a day after the Twitter controversy, Sunanda Pushkar was found dead in room number 345 of the Leela Palace hotel in Chanakyapuri, New Delhi, where the couple were temporarily living while their house was being renovated and painted.

Sunanda Pushkar informed the Delhi Police, who recovered the body from the hotel and sent it for postmortem.

Sunanda Pushkar's body was cremated at Lodhi Crematorium in South Delhi.

Doctors at KIMS Hospital Trivandrum, who had examined her a few days earlier, said that Sunanda Pushkar did not have serious health problems.

On 6 January 2015, Delhi Police reported that Sunanda Pushkar was murdered and filed a first information report in this regard.

Sunanda Pushkar's domestic help alleged that Sunanda Pushkar had often fought with Tharoor on the phone, and days before her death had threatened Tharoor that she would "disclose everything" and as such, he would be "finished".