Amazon to make Fire TV sticks in India

The Pakistani cricketer, while talking about tips for a successful marriage, said how his wife Sania had once commented on his looks and that made him realise wives look for certain qualities in a husband

Amazon will be manufacturing its devices in India, starting with streaming device Fire TV sticks. It will engage a Foxconn subsidiary as contract manufacturer for making the device in Chennai. Amazon has not, however, given any investment details of the venture.

The growth of video and audio streaming services like Netflix and Amazon's Prime Video has created a growing market for streaming devices in India.

The Instagram page of the website called Parhlo Pink, being shared by many, spoke about how former Pakistani cricketer recently revealed at an event in Karachi that his Indian tennis star wife, Sania Mirza, once criticised his looks. Shoaib Malik recollected how, as he got back home from playing cricket once, his wife of 11 years commented on his “tanned” complexion.

“(When she said those words) I stood in front of the mirror and realised that she was right about my tanned complexion,” Shoaib said, adding that he’d since started feeling conscious about his looks.

Shoaib apparently, also said one of the things he has learnt in his marriage was that a wife always looks for certain qualities in her husband. “A man should have hair on his head and be fair in complexion (in order to please his wife),” he said, pointing out how wives and girlfriends could compromise on many things, including her partner forgetting her birthday but wouldn’t compromise when it comes to their husband’s looks.

“I sometimes forget [Sania’s] birthday and she forgives me. But when it comes to looks, wives do not compromise,” he reportedly said.

REACTIONS

The post drew ire from followers, with many calling Sania a rather shallow person to have made such a statement about Shoaib. One of the followers wrote,

“Sania kon si hoor pari aur gori chitti hai ?? (‘Sania herself is hardly fairy-like or even fair-complexioned!’)

Other reactions were of sympathy towards Shoaib especially given what he claimed was his ‘learning’ from the marriage. One comment read, “There’s nothing wrong with being tanned, Sania is not fair skin herself and most people in India have a tanned

complexion (sic).”