By Aijaz Zaka Syed
Ah, to be young and in love! And when you are young and in love, you seldom see beyond your nose – or that of your sweetheart’s nose.
If Pakistani cricketer Shoaib Malik had been foolish to exchange vows over telephone with an Indian girl in the distant Hyderabad eight years ago without ever having met her, he was down right stupid to fly down to India to meet tennis champ Sania Mirza, his new love, in the face of a brewing storm of global proportions.
But then that’s how love is. At the height of it, it is madness. And as someone said, when love is not madness, it is not love.
The affair between Pakistan’s former cricket captain and the hot Muslim tennis champion of India, reads like a Bollywood love story.
It has all the elements that make for a juicy, heady potboiler making (more…)
