Roland, there are a lot of assumptions being made here about: * What exactly happened (between Shashi Tharoor and his late wife) * What were the motives and the cause (for the dispute and the death) * What was Tharoor's response (to the alleged actions of the Pakistani journalist)
Dismissing someone as an "ISI agent" can be an ultimate-argument-when-logic-is-weak in these parts. The commercial media has an interest in reporting sensationalist and voyeuristic accounts of personal relationships too. The press here has gone overboard in reporting this case, basing their writing on all sorts of claims, unnamed spokespersons, and what not. Should we follow in their tracks? Trial by media is bad. Why have a trial by cyber-media? FN On 22 January 2014 06:14, roland.francis <[email protected]> wrote: > While the death of Sunanda Pushkar is a sad thing, the dumping of his wife > for a "younger model" is one of mankind's older stories. > > Both the 52 year old Pushkar and the younger Pakistani actress were > beauties in their own right, but Meher was younger and that caught the > suave Malabari junior minister's eye, ultimately leading to Pushkar's death. > > On a related but opposite note, in my years in the Gulf I would never > cease to be amazed at Arab men chasing after their ugly and mostly older > Sri Lankan, Indian or Indonesian maidservants while their own extremely > beautiful, miss world or miss universe-challenging wives languished. Gulf > Arab women both city dwelling and bedou are really pretty. A testament > perhaps to their mixed and warrior ancestry. > > Roland. > > http://m.outlookindia.com/default.aspx/?ddm=10&pid=3138&eid=31&secid=13046
