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| Unfair That I Have to Assert My Indian-ness: Emotional Sania Mirza Breaks Down
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| INDIA
, 25-July-2014
9:7:1 AM |
| Sports icon Sania Mirza spoke exclusively to NDTV today about the controversy that whorled around her after a BJP leader from Telangana said the new government there has wrongly chosen her as the Brand Ambassador. In comments that were condemned by the public and a series of parties including his own, K Laxman of the BJP described Ms Mirza, 27, as "the daughter-in-law of Pakistan" on account of her marriage to Pakistani cricketer Shoaib Malik. He also said that Ms Mirza did not participate in the movement that culminated in Telangana becoming India's youngest state.
Ms Mirza, who broke down during her interview to NDTV, said it is unfair that she has to keep "asserting my Indian-ness." Here are highlights of her interview to NDTV Group Editor Barkha Dutt:
•It was extremely hurtful. I think it's unfair that I or we have to keep justifying our Indian-ness, keep asserting our Indian-ness again and again. Don't know if that has something to do with my gender.
•After playing for the country for as many years, after saying time and again that I have an Indian passport, after winning medals for India after I got married, don't know why I have to keep justifying that I am Indian.
•If someone is going to question my roots and question my Indian-ness, I will not let that happen.
•Am too strong to let people like this break me.
•I don't know why I am picked on, I don't know why I have to justify that I am more patriotic, why I have to act like I have to slit my wrist to prove my patriotism.
•I opened a tennis academy only so that we have more tennis players come out of the state of Telangana.
•I was really sad yesterday. I don't know if it happens in any other country where you have to keep proving that you are from that other country. It is because I am married to someone from another country, because I am a woman, I don't know.
•My family - we have never looked at another person from what religion,
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