Pictures of Shashi Taroor's First Wife Tilottama Mukherji, Photographs and Details

Shashi Taroor's Ex-First Wife Tilottama Mukherji (or Tilottama Tharoor), is a New York-based academic. Tilottama is currently a professor of humanities at New York University. She is known to be a prominent figure in intellectual circles in both Kolkata and New York. Shashi Taroor and Tilottama Mukherji met during their college years at St. Stephen’s in Delhi. They married in 1981 and later divorced. They have two sons, Kanishk Tharoor and Ishaan Tharoor. Kanishk and Ishaan are Twins. Both Sons have pursued careers in journalism and writing. Tilottama has been seen at some literary events, book launches, and film festivals, likely due to her academic background and interest in literature and the arts.

Related: View Pictures of Shashi Taroor's Second Wife Christa Giles Here

Pictures of Shashi Taroor's First Wife, Tilottama Mukherji Taroor

 Picture: Shashi Taroor's First Wife Tilottama Mukherji (Right) With Son Kanishk Taroor

The Tharoors at Son Kanishk’s wedding. Tilottama Mukherji (2nd From Left)

Tilottama Taroor (Left)

Tharoor's first wife was Tilottama Mukherji, a half-Bengali and half-Kashmiri academic and the granddaughter of politician Kailash Nath Katju. She pursued higher studies at St. Stephen's College, Delhi, and later at the University of Delhi before furthering her education at The Sorbonne (University of Paris) and The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy (Tufts University, USA). Tharoor and Mukherji had been college sweethearts. The two met during their college years at St. Stephen’s and were married in 1981.  After their marriage, Tilottama took her husband's last name and began teaching English at Ngee Ann Polytechnic and also worked as a freelance writer. Their twin sons, Kanishk and Ishaan, were born prematurely in 1984 at the KK Hospital in Singapore. Ishaan is a former senior editor at Time magazine, and now writes on foreign affairs for The Washington Post. Kanishk is a former editor at Open Democracy and is the author of the highly praised short story collection Swimmer Among The Stars. Tilottama is currently a professor of humanities at New York University.

Tharoor and Tilottama were divorced at some point. In 2007 Tharoor married Christa Giles (View Pictures of Christa Here), a Canadian diplomat working at the United Nations. This marriage was short-lived. Tharoor next married Dubai-based businesswoman a Kashmiri Pandit Sunanda Pushkar (View Pictures and Details of Shashi-sunanda Wedding here) at his ancestral home in Elavanchery village in Kerala's Palakkad district on 22 August 2010. He became her third husband and step-father to her son Shiv Menon, born of a previous marriage. On 17 January 2014, Pushkar (aged 51) died at The Leela Hotel in Chanakyapuri, New Delhi, under mysterious circumstances.