{"id":9473,"date":"2010-04-06T13:55:58","date_gmt":"2010-04-06T13:55:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/drishtikone\/2010\/04\/sania-mirzas-marriage-woes\/"},"modified":"2010-04-06T13:55:58","modified_gmt":"2010-04-06T13:55:58","slug":"sania-mirzas-marriage-woes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/drishtikone\/2010\/04\/sania-mirzas-marriage-woes\/","title":{"rendered":"Sania Mirza&#039;s marriage woes"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>There is a saying = \u201cBegaani Shaadi mein Abdullah Deewana\u201d (some one is getting excited at someone else\u2019s marriage).  That is what this story is about!<\/p>\n<p>Shoaib Malik is an ex-Pakistani Captain.  Although he is a good cricketer, but cricket is not why he has recently gotten into limelight.  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sptimes.com\/2006\/04\/12\/images\/large\/C_7_sania2__0412.jpg\" alt=\"\" height=\"200\" align=\"left\" border=\"0\" hspace=\"10\" vspace=\"10\">Its his marriage.  Or marriageS?!  <\/p>\n<p style=\"float: right;width: 280px;border:1px dotted;padding-top: 10px;padding-left: 10px;padding-right: 10px;padding-bottom: 10px;color: navy\"><a href=\"http:\/\/drishtikone.com\/content\/sania-mirza-indian-tennis-icon\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Please see Posts and Pics of Sania Mirza\u2019s on Drishtikone<\/a><\/p>\n<p>He is marrying the most searched for female in India \u2013 Sania Mirza!  The sexy and good looking tennis player makes waves even when she wins nothing!  Her dress, her lovers, her Hajj pilgrimage, her love for the country \u2013 everything in nutshell is scrutinized, often voyeuristically .. beyond belief and norms of a normal admiration!  All this, for someone who has not won any major Grand Slam title, most non-Indians would wonder?!<\/p>\n<p>Well, the drama of Sania and Shoiab took an interesting turn when another lady Ayesha Siddiqui, recently tumbled out of the closet.  Now according to her, not only \u2013 despite not being good looking \u2013 was she married to Shoaib but she also was pregnant with his kid of which she had a miscarriage.<\/p>\n<p>Shoaib, on the other hand, says that the lady with whom the Nikah was done wasn\u2019t the same as Ayesha.  In fact he knows Ayesha (in the pics) as \u201cMaha Apa\u201d \u2013 Elder sister of Maha.  Maha, incidentally is the name of Ayesha.<\/p>\n<p>By any accounts, Sania\u2019s foray in to marriage hasn\u2019t been very auspicious.  She was engaged a few months back before she ran in to Shoaib in Australia.  And as the poem goes \u201cGod knows what they did up there\u2026 but came down with a\u2026\u201d Sania\u2019s engagement was called off on grounds of \u201cincompatibility\u201d and a new guy was inducted into the \u201cHall of Flames\u201d.  And that became the new saga of Sania and Shoaib!<\/p>\n<p>If this was the only angle and issue in this marriage (of Ayesha) then even that would have been ok and easy to solve.  The misery goes further.  Politicians \u2013 invited and uninvited \u2013 want to have a say in her marriage.<\/p>\n<p>The religious police of both the sides \u2013 Hindus and Muslims \u2013 are against her marriage to a Pakistani.  And interestingly, both are against this marriage for the same reason \u2013 hurting the feeling of Indians!<\/p>\n<p>Well, if some girl finds love across the border that\u2019s her personal matter.  If it is construed as a statement on the manhood \u2013 or lack of it \u2013 on part of Indian males, then it almost becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy!  Marriages between Indian and Pakistan Muslims specifically have been happening for a long time.  This is nothing new.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, marriages of the celebs with Pakistanis and Pakistani cricketers specifically have not been something to write home about \u2013 Reena Roy being the most prominent \u2013 but then Pakistani cricketers, their beards and shouts of \u201cAllah ho Akbar\u201d notwithstanding have been known playboys.  And Pakistan as a society is still not as open as even the Indian society is.<\/p>\n<p>But with Sania Mirza the problem of marrying a Pakistani goes up another notch.  She is a fiercely patriotic Indian.  So, how would she react in a match against India and Pakistan where Shoaib is playing?  Back up India, she says.  Easier said than done.  What if the next terror attack happens in, say, Hyderabad or during a tennis or a sports event in India and those involved are clearly Pakistanis?  Like say 26-11?  How will she take that or react to it?<\/p>\n<p>She and Shoaib have decided to live in Dubai but by the the looks of it, Pakistanis \u2013 Government also jumping earnestly in the fray \u2013 are hell bent on giving a great welcome to their \u201cSania bhabhi\u201d.  The pressure to settle down in Pakistan will be extremely high.  And, that would make things even worse!<\/p>\n<p>In any case, from Drishtikone\u2019s side, I would like to wish her all the best in life no matter whom she marries and where she settles.. and even whom she backs up in an India vs Pakistan match.  These are her decisions and she has a right to them.  Let\u2019s not micromanage our celebs.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is a saying = &#8220;Begaani Shaadi mein Abdullah Deewana&#8221; (some one is getting excited at someone else&#8217;s marriage).  That is what this story is about!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1517,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[70],"tags":[3043,3152],"class_list":["post-9473","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports","tag-sania_mirza","tag-shoaib_malik"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Sania Mirza&#039;s marriage woes<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"There is a saying = &quot;Begaani Shaadi mein Abdullah Deewana&quot; (some one is getting excited at someone else&#039;s marriage). 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