Extramarital affairs and intramarital aberrations are so commonplace all over the world that prompts one to wonder at their news value, given their appearance in cold print in dailies of all hues, including this one. The only difference in the way the related episodes earn space column of news papers seems to be that the affairs of bigwigs such as Presidents of countries and members of royalty hog space on front pages of broadsheets, more so accommodated in multi-column headlines while the sexual adventures of small fry in society, are reported in inside pages for providing grist to gossipmongers, particularly in smaller cities such as our own. Elderly keen readers of dailies may recollect the episode of John Dennis Profumo, a British official in a high post whose career ended in 1963 after a sexual relationship with the 19-year-old model Christine Keeler in 1961. Two Presidents of the US escaped getting into a tight predicament by the skin of their teeth after figuring in sex-driven extra-marital relationships a few decades ago.
The land’s epics as well its long history have their share of episodes too involving divinity as well as royalty respectively straying beyond the frame work of fidelity, being charmed by the beauty of their targets and physical attractions hard to be ignored. The politicos of our times are only taking their turn in doing an encore of the greats of a distant past.
