TOI wrongly consists of Sehwag in report on cricketers who married cousins

On January 19, Times of India did an online picture story on cricketers who married their cousins for its leisure part. While the story contained cricketers from Pakistan and Bangladesh who’ve married their cousins, for some mysterious motive, TOI included Virender Sehwag and his spouse Aarti Ahlawat within the story, who’re truly not cousins. Not simply that, additionally they used the picture of the couple as the quilt picture for the story, fully misrepresenting info.
The story titled ‘5 Cricketers Who Married Their Cousins’ consists of 5 such {couples}, however truly, solely 4 of them are true as per the title. The story talked about the marriages of Pakistani cricketer Shahid Afridi along with his maternal uncle’s daughter Nadia, Saeed Anwar’s marriage along with his cousin sister Lubna, Bangladeshi cricketer Mustafizur Rahman’s marriage along with his maternal cousin Samia Parvin, and Pakistani participant Barba Azam’s upcoming marriage ceremony along with his cousin.
As all of the cricketers who married their cousins are from Pakistan and Bangladesh, and all of them belong to ‘a particular community’, Times of India felt the necessity to ‘secularise’ the story. But as they couldn’t discover a appropriate instance of the same marriage ceremony to ‘balance’ the report, they determined that being politically right is extra necessary than being factually right.
Therefore, they included Virender Sehwag, although his spouse is just not his cousin, mentioning that they’re ‘distantly related’. The story itself talked about that Sehwag’s Cousin had married his spouse Aarti Ahlawat’s aunt, which suggests there are not any blood relations between them, and no method they are often known as be cousins, not occasion distant cousins.
The story additionally appropriately mentions Viru had married his childhood love in 2004, as he had met her first when he was seven and she or he was 5. In truth, they’d met one another within the abovementioned marriage ceremony between their respective kinfolk. As Sehwag’s cousin had married Aarti’s aunt, it’s evident that Aarti is just not Sehwga’s cousin, and even when they’re ‘distantly related’, it’s fully improper to incorporate them in a narrative on cricketers who married their cousins. More importantly, there isn’t any blood relation between the 2 like cousins, as the 2 grew to become ‘distantly related’ solely after the wedding between their kinfolk.
But not solely did Times of India embody them within the story, they even went to the extent of utilizing their picture as the quilt picture, making them the primary focus of the story.
It is just not that Times of India ran out of cricketers marrying cousins, and have been pressured to incorporate the marriage of ‘distant relatives’. They may have included the examples of different cricketers, like Mosaddek Hossain from Bangladesh who had married his cousin Sharmin Samira Usha. But then, maybe that might not be a ‘secular’ factor to do, therefore TOI dropped Hossain to incorporate Sehwag.