Indian couple's marriage downplayed by media

**DAVIDSDIVAD** · 04-12-2010, 06:38 PM

http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/thereport..._marriage.html

The subcontinent's biggest tabloid story in a long time has finally ended. Hopefully. Sania Mirza and Shoaib Malik have married after what resembled a fast-paced pulp thriller involving a spurned woman he was alleged to have married and then divorced amid bitter recriminations. As if this was not enough, there was a high-pitched jingoistic media debate about who owns Mirza now - would she turn out to play tennis for Pakistan? (Mirza, who is currently ranked a lowly 92 in the world, insists she will continue to play for India.) This was the kind of tabloid frenzy to which the usually staid and conservative media in India and Pakistan are unaccustomed.

Anyway, blablabalablblablabl.

The only WTF part is that the bride actually looks pretty hot, and she's indian.

**Mr. E** · 04-12-2010, 07:12 PM

I've seen hot Indians before, and she's not all that.

**Husein** · 04-12-2010, 10:14 PM

Well yes you see Pakistan kinda enjoyed a separate existence from India in 1947 because Hindus and Muslims don't mix very well. Hinduism is a reactionary isolationist religion whereas Islam (particularly Ahmadiyya Islam in Lahore) is progressive. Also Hindus treated Muslims like ass.

So the prospect of an Indian celebrity marrying a Pakistani counterpart is of course going to be downplayed.