Marriage should open their eyes.....

Before you even say I had it with these two, let me tell you I am just getting the hang of having two International Sportspersons in our locality.
Love is blind. Really.
Don’t tell me enough has already been written. And what else new are you going to say.
Everything that has to be told, written and shown has been on the television, internet and the print over and over again. It is like the old Vicco Vajradanti ad in the theatres that showed us marriage ceremonies again and again in stinky, reeking theatres.
Are you wondering what the $%^$ am I talking about. Surely the marriage of the decade.
The bride is a sports woman. And let me tell you the games she plays are more colorful than the entire nation playing Holi together at the same time. Be it a little nose ring or gigantic glares. It catches public attention for atleast 2 x 2 columns covering over 3 weeks in 6 nationals news papers and 4 regional news channels and half a million hits on the tube. But what exact sport does she play? Hide and seek with the media, merry go round with the qualifying rounds, tic tac toe with doubles partners and I spy with money laundering- media agencies/ brand endorsements. About a decade experience makes her the lead contender for all sports awards, local, national and even the Timbuctoo/ Oouga Douga Sports person of the year award. For which the entire nation is in frenzy.


Am I the only one not to think about these two while I am brushing my teeth or sitting in the loo answering nature calls. They have become my extended family in a way because I also want to see which colour dress she is wearing and what exotic dishes are being cooked while I scrub the mildew in my bathroom. Before I sort the shoe rack, I am wondering who is getting ready to attend the wedding and who else is not.
Am I drifting here away ? Guess so !! gossip mongers are dime a dozen here. Every body has got a chance to get their 15 mins of fame. From the chai wala in their street to the kulfi bandi wala, to the gate keeper, to the security guy, to the mother, to the father, to the bride’ s best friend, to the her cook, to the cook’s cousin’s mother-in-law, to the local quazi and finally also to the groom.

Aha!! The groom. Juicy gossip drips from every body’s lips about the groom. The more said the better. Because he is no local chora. He is international chori chora!!! His eyes speak much better than this mouth. And his body language is what all the guys languishing in prisons can read, closing their eyes. Looks like an expert in marriages, denials and divorces, bans, affairs. The ingredients necessary to make for a lifelong commitment to a newly-wedded wife. Ask the ex-wife and she will gladly spill out the beans and the ^&^*& on the wedding night dress to a battery of media personnel.

We are rarely bothered how they met and where they met. All we want to know if and when they met, how does it make the Maoist Attack, and RTI less important to the news guys and the media people?
And convincingly the couple lie about love, marriage, divorce and all that is merely frivolous to so many middle class families. A sample “ We all come from respectable families. Me and you guys from the media too” Wow a nice catch to get your byte to us. Along with the mithai dabbas that abba was distributing while you were announcing the groom and the headache of being a celebrity.
Surprisingly I also read how she is like a pillar of support in tough times for her husband-to-be and how much she has to undergo to marry a nincompoop like him? I saw a famous designer couple say hats off to her for standing by him. All I want to say is that she had no choice. Because in a land of more than 100 crore people, she found one with a bizarre marriage affair and she had no other way.
And finally Sohrab ..all I can see him do is ROFL!!!!!
All I can say is really good times have come to Hyd Tennis. Finally. For those whom the game matters most!!!!!!!!
Love is neither blind and nor marriage an eye opener. What say Shoib!!!!