Not compared, anyway, to the controversial love affair between Indian tennis starlet Shania Mirza and cricketer Shoaib Malik, recently banned from the Pakistan national team. The Guardian’s Dileep Premachandran explains :
Malik apparently married another Hyderabadi girl over the telephone “ there is such a thing as too much technology in our lives “ and is now engaged in divorce proceedings on the one front while preparing for a 15 April wedding on the other.
India’s TV channels, who find new and innovative methods to entertain us, have milked the controversy to the max. One channel even had a correspondent analysing Sania’s facial expressions as she and Malik held a press conference outside her house a couple of days ago. If it wasn’t so pathetic, it would have been funny.
“Sane” voices here have been simultaneously decrying the amount of media attention this thing has received while the newspapers they’re associated with continue to put the latest twists in the affair above the fold. TV, print media — it’s inescapable. Imagine if Sania Mirza was actually ranked in the top 75 on the tour.