More than the police and of course, Ayesha Siddiqui, the Sania Mirza family is more scared of the media.
It is almost two weeks since the media, particularly, the electronic media, has been camping outside Sania Mirza’s residence. The route to her house is completely blocked by the OB vans with vigilant camera persons and reporters keeping their eyes open round the clock. They are talking, eating, sleeping, washing their faces and even urinating in front of her residence. They made the entire area completely dirty with empty food packets, water bottles, cigarette packets and even liquor bottles all around.
The family members of Sania Mirza are so scared that even if one of them peeps out of the window, the cameras flash on them. The relatives are not able to come inside and those who make it inside are not able to come out. Sania’s sister Aman could not even write her last tenth class examination the other day, only because of the media threat.
The media has become so much nuisance that they caught hold of a Sania’s uncle and shoved microphones into his face, thinking that he was Shoaib’s uncle from Lahore. The poor guy’s short has been torn and he had to suffer bruises on his face. Now they virtually put cameras on the barricade and are not allowing security cards to touch it, so that nobody from Sania’s house can go out without talking to the media. Such is the highhandedness of the media!
