The Hindu : Sport / Tennis : Sania creates a flutter: "MELBOURNE, JAN. 17. For all the attention she received, Sania Mirza might have been excused if she felt a bit like a newly-crowned Grand Slam champion here on Monday. The teenager from Hyderabad turned out to be just the right sort of spicy story to kick-start a Grand Slam championship with."
Sania Mirza , a talented Tennis Player from Hyderabad. Rediff
Sania Mirza has advanced into the second round of Australian open. I always believed that the future of India is in the hands of our girls. Not only India, but all over the world, the civilizations which excluded women and made progress exclusively men didn't really progress at all.
After she won the match the press surrounded her and asked her lot of questions. I guess an Indian woman Tennis player is as rare a species as a Tasmanian Tiger. One of the question which made me laugh aloud is whether her parents loathed her for playing tennis? Yeah right, without her parents consent she was able to learn and play tennis to this level so that she could beat a ranked Australian player. Other question included on how many girls in India play Tennis or sports in general, or I guess do Indian men hit women who play , Would be a better question.
We Indians are to blame for this gross mis/dis information our culture. But I guess I have to accept we do have our share of domestic violence. We do burn our brides, we have child marriages, we have our share of Male chauvinist pigs, who believe that they can make decisions on what's good or bad for women.
As I said before, this can be changed by none other than women. They are sure getting empowered and are sure changing their society. I have the privilege of growing with two amazingly strong women, my mother and sister. They never compromised and they were proactive and fought all the way for a change. They are still fighting. Godspeed for all those strong women.
Coming Back to Sania, she basked in the limelight as any Teenager would and handled the press well. Good Luck Sania, show the world what you are made of, and make us all Indians proud.
After she won the match the press surrounded her and asked her lot of questions. I guess an Indian woman Tennis player is as rare a species as a Tasmanian Tiger. One of the question which made me laugh aloud is whether her parents loathed her for playing tennis? Yeah right, without her parents consent she was able to learn and play tennis to this level so that she could beat a ranked Australian player. Other question included on how many girls in India play Tennis or sports in general, or I guess do Indian men hit women who play , Would be a better question.
We Indians are to blame for this gross mis/dis information our culture. But I guess I have to accept we do have our share of domestic violence. We do burn our brides, we have child marriages, we have our share of Male chauvinist pigs, who believe that they can make decisions on what's good or bad for women.
As I said before, this can be changed by none other than women. They are sure getting empowered and are sure changing their society. I have the privilege of growing with two amazingly strong women, my mother and sister. They never compromised and they were proactive and fought all the way for a change. They are still fighting. Godspeed for all those strong women.
Coming Back to Sania, she basked in the limelight as any Teenager would and handled the press well. Good Luck Sania, show the world what you are made of, and make us all Indians proud.
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