Sunanda Pushkar breaks silence

 

Sunanda Pushkar, who has been linked to the Indian Premier League (IPL) Kochi team controversy, has blasted her critics and denied acting as a proxy for her friend and Minister of State for External Affairs Shashi Tharoor.

In a hard-hitting statement, Pushkar accused the media of ignoring her professional background and international business experience and focussing "obsessively on my personal life as if a woman cannot be capable of professional or financial success."

"My own business interests and assets are substantial, and efforts to besmirch Tharoor by presenting me as a proxy for him are personally insulting for me as a woman and as a friend."

"I have built up a respectable and successful career while coping with widowhood and raising a child as a single mother. Yet I have been reduced to a caricature in the media, portrayed with inaccuracies and falsehoods," she said.

Text: IANS

Images: Minister of State for External Affairs Shashi Tharoor with Sunanda Pushkar at a book release function in New Delhi on March 4, 2010. (Photograph copyright PTI)

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