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A Marriage and a Victory Dance

by greg_mathews | April 22, 2010 at 11:41 pm

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A Pakistani cricketer’s marriage to an Indian tennis player has set in motion a media frenzy that borders on collective madness. The media is locked on to all the trivia that surrounds a South Asian marriage and is going into the minutest details of every single ceremony, event or happening that has the remotest connection to the marriage.

I guess its the same all over the world. We as humans are obsessed with celebrities and their personal lives. In fact their personal lives seem to interest the public more than their professional lives.

In this case the news is extra hot because stars of to enemy countries have decided to tie the knot. This has infuriated the extremist Hindu leaders (especially the RSS and Hindutva). It seems that the fact that the girl was from India and boy from Pakistan has played a big role and proved opposite to what the Indian public was used to seeing in their Bollywood productions. In Bollywood it is always the good Indian boy winning a Pakistani girl by defeating "bad Pakistani" boys.

Now we hear another top Inidan actress / model is getting ready to marry a famous former cricket captain from Pakistan. LOLz... things keep getting interesting.

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raven_gale

at 06:03 on April 23rd, 2010

LOLz... man! Crazy stuff... So now India and Pakistan are relatives by marriage.

simonseaton

at 06:13 on April 23rd, 2010

This is a positive development. It is the governments and mostly non-government extremist groups on both sides of the borders that preach hate. If more of such things happen on regular basis then maybe governments would also have to soften their stance towards each other.