After all the marriage of Shoab & Sania is between two sports personalities. That alone is reason good enough to take their marriage sportingly. But we Indians in general and media people in particular lack in sportsman spirit.
Why the media world is so excited about marriage ? It’s not a first marriage crossing national borders. No good or bad is likely to happen between two nations as a result of this marriage. Why not let people alone to marry and / or divorce at their free will ? Of course it is not business of media to let anybody alone. Meddling with lives of people is It’s bread earning. Nothing is sin or crime as far as bread earning goes. Some breads need sandwich spread also is another matter. So they must carry opinion polls, publish soft porn type photos and generally do every thing to arouse ( mostly voyeuristic and sinister ) interest in public mind.
Celebrity marriages are god sent opportunities for free and if not free at least cheap publicity. Be it Abhishek Bachhan or Rahul Mahajan or Shoab Akhtar. Celebrities at least have something in bargain. A publicity is food for acquiring and retaining the status of celebrity. So it’s mutually beneficial.
The case of ordinary people is different. One can understand if Ayesha cannot take it sportingly. She was not celebrity. Not at least till she decided to spoil marriage party. Had she given consent to a dubious and long absent husband permission to marry second time , probably she would not have been heard of. It is allowed as per law ( Shariat too ). But if she is really wronged, she has reason to cry. As a fall out she also gets free publicity.
Free publicity is rather tempting. Even the NGO’s long for it. Why else should some issues be forced to be seen in the simple marriage case ? Neither Shoab nor Sania nor Ayesha are poor defenseless characters in need of public sympathy of NGO’s.
Let us take a detached and sporting view of whole marriage party. Begane shaadime Abdulla dewana. Let us be Abdullas and enjoy it.
Arvind Khare
Khare_am@yahoo.com
9820701210
Why the media world is so excited about marriage ? It’s not a first marriage crossing national borders. No good or bad is likely to happen between two nations as a result of this marriage. Why not let people alone to marry and / or divorce at their free will ? Of course it is not business of media to let anybody alone. Meddling with lives of people is It’s bread earning. Nothing is sin or crime as far as bread earning goes. Some breads need sandwich spread also is another matter. So they must carry opinion polls, publish soft porn type photos and generally do every thing to arouse ( mostly voyeuristic and sinister ) interest in public mind.
Celebrity marriages are god sent opportunities for free and if not free at least cheap publicity. Be it Abhishek Bachhan or Rahul Mahajan or Shoab Akhtar. Celebrities at least have something in bargain. A publicity is food for acquiring and retaining the status of celebrity. So it’s mutually beneficial.
The case of ordinary people is different. One can understand if Ayesha cannot take it sportingly. She was not celebrity. Not at least till she decided to spoil marriage party. Had she given consent to a dubious and long absent husband permission to marry second time , probably she would not have been heard of. It is allowed as per law ( Shariat too ). But if she is really wronged, she has reason to cry. As a fall out she also gets free publicity.
Free publicity is rather tempting. Even the NGO’s long for it. Why else should some issues be forced to be seen in the simple marriage case ? Neither Shoab nor Sania nor Ayesha are poor defenseless characters in need of public sympathy of NGO’s.
Let us take a detached and sporting view of whole marriage party. Begane shaadime Abdulla dewana. Let us be Abdullas and enjoy it.
Arvind Khare
Khare_am@yahoo.com
9820701210
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