Sunanda Pushkar, his third wife was a Dubai-based entrepreneur,she married federal minister Shashi Tharoor in August 2010.She soon became a regular on India's social circuit and was counted among the who's who of the Delhi glitterati. Shashi Tharoor returned to the Union cabinet as minister of state for HRD in late 2012. However, the yerar once again saw him in controversies over his strained relations with Sunanda. Though a hullabalo was made over their relationship, the couple denied that there was something wrong