Rumours are never baseless
As soon as the Kochi IPL team was formed, everyone in the cricketing circuit started gossiping about how legendary cricketer Sunil Gavaskar has been roped in by the consortium to help them form a very strong team. And since nobody does anything for free these days, some were saying he was being given sweat equity in the team, while others were saying he was being paid a fat salary for giving good cricket gyaan. Don’t know the exact sum the team was planning to pay him, but all those rumours about Gavaskar having a vested interest in the team have been proven right.
Suresh Kalmadi was very angry and threatened to sue newspapers for speculating that the funds allotted for the CWG were being misused. He was most upset with all those corruption rumours. Sadly for him, the truth turned out to be so much uglier than the gossip. Cricketer turned politician MD Azharudin denied there was anything wrong with his marriage to former model Sangeeta Bijlani, but rumours about their marriage being on the rocks proved right after she decided to move into ex-boyfriend Salman Khan’s farmhouse for a bit. In the past, rumours about Kareena Kapoor dumping Shahid Kapoor for Saif, and Shahid hooking up with Priyanka Chopra were also bang on.
Moral of the story is, rumours are never baseless. Yes, we have all heard about the dry ice machine and maybe there can be smoke without fire, but there can seldom be a rumour without some truth to it.
Social Scientist Shiv Vishwanath says rumours shouldn’t be dismissed as idle gossip. “Look at it as a gradient. First comes a rumour, then the gossip, followed by a hypothesis and then the fact.” Vishwanath says gossips are actually intuitive people who know their market and subjects very well. They can smell something in the air, read a person’s body language and cook up all the facts together.
If you are clever you will take the rumour as an early warning and correct yourself, if it’s something uncomplimentary.
Film magazines are filled with rumours, and as much as the stars deny these stories, they are almost always right. “Denial is an anticipation of confirmation says Vishwanath.”
So true. How many stars have denied being in a relationship when they practically live together? And some denied their splits. Everyone talked about how Mahesh Bhupati and Shweta Jaishankar’s marriage was almost over but they denied it. Mahesh was often spotted in the company of other ladies, it’s only when Lara Dutta came into his life did he announce that his marriage with Shweta was over.
Therefore, cricketer Suresh Raina should be careful, because the rumours suggesting that he is close to a lady who has links with bookies, can harm his career. For now, he has the support of BCCI. They’ve rubbished the rumour saying the lady is said to be his manager. But she also manages Yuvraj Singh and Rohit Sharma. Howcome their names were not mentioned? Maybe it’s time Raina gets himself a new agent and becomes a bit more selective about the company he keeps.
Suresh Kalmadi was very angry and threatened to sue newspapers for speculating that the funds allotted for the CWG were being misused. He was most upset with all those corruption rumours. Sadly for him, the truth turned out to be so much uglier than the gossip. Cricketer turned politician MD Azharudin denied there was anything wrong with his marriage to former model Sangeeta Bijlani, but rumours about their marriage being on the rocks proved right after she decided to move into ex-boyfriend Salman Khan’s farmhouse for a bit. In the past, rumours about Kareena Kapoor dumping Shahid Kapoor for Saif, and Shahid hooking up with Priyanka Chopra were also bang on.
Moral of the story is, rumours are never baseless. Yes, we have all heard about the dry ice machine and maybe there can be smoke without fire, but there can seldom be a rumour without some truth to it.
Social Scientist Shiv Vishwanath says rumours shouldn’t be dismissed as idle gossip. “Look at it as a gradient. First comes a rumour, then the gossip, followed by a hypothesis and then the fact.” Vishwanath says gossips are actually intuitive people who know their market and subjects very well. They can smell something in the air, read a person’s body language and cook up all the facts together.
If you are clever you will take the rumour as an early warning and correct yourself, if it’s something uncomplimentary.
Film magazines are filled with rumours, and as much as the stars deny these stories, they are almost always right. “Denial is an anticipation of confirmation says Vishwanath.”
So true. How many stars have denied being in a relationship when they practically live together? And some denied their splits. Everyone talked about how Mahesh Bhupati and Shweta Jaishankar’s marriage was almost over but they denied it. Mahesh was often spotted in the company of other ladies, it’s only when Lara Dutta came into his life did he announce that his marriage with Shweta was over.
Therefore, cricketer Suresh Raina should be careful, because the rumours suggesting that he is close to a lady who has links with bookies, can harm his career. For now, he has the support of BCCI. They’ve rubbished the rumour saying the lady is said to be his manager. But she also manages Yuvraj Singh and Rohit Sharma. Howcome their names were not mentioned? Maybe it’s time Raina gets himself a new agent and becomes a bit more selective about the company he keeps.
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