Post-elections, life is settling back into normal humdrum existence. You don't see wannabe corporators dropping by with their hands folded and their promises standing tall, anymore.

Game, set and love match

The IPL results are getting predictable. The murder and robbery statistics follow a pattern. The business news has nothing much to chew over. And even Page 3; that flighty, frou-haha section is filled with ho-hum unknowns, living it up at grotty dives that most people wouldn't be seen dead in.

Thank God for Sania in this lean, mean news time. She just about keeps me from nodding off over my morning paper. As frothy as my freshly poured filter coffee, she never fails to deliver just when you need her (performances on-court, being an exception.).

She has a billion or so countrymen. She has a choice between half a billion Pakistanis. She could have picked between another half a billion or so Arabs, who'd gift her a home in Dubai. But with her unerring accuracy for courting controversy, she hones straight in to one of the most controversial figure she could find.

The man has been banned from his own team. They say he is shunned by most women in his own country (and for that to happen to a guy who looks quite decent and is captain of a national cricket team in a cricket-crazed nation, something smells more redolent than the Colaba fish market on a hot summer evening). And for god's sake, by his own admission, he's already married.

He claims he was cheated into marriage. Now most normal 20-year-olds, have girl-friends, but definitely don't want to get married.u00a0 And for someone who's travelling the world, playing international sport ufffd both on the field and off, it's hardly normal to get married on the phone to someone he's never met .

But hey, our very own pin-up girl was there waiting for him.u00a0 The only sportsperson who's as controversial as he is (barring Tiger Woods' recent scoop) and more in the news for her off-court dalliances than her on-court love matches ufffd that are anyway quickly swept under the grass.

Only Sania, a second-string player, would get engaged, break it off, and then announce her second engagement all in the full blaze of the press. Now, if that isn't publicity hunger, Salman Khan's shirtless act is a coy attempt at art film.u00a0u00a0

But hey, who's complaining? This mixed doubles is more exciting than prissy Wimbledon.

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