They are also a walking refusal of a speculation that Indians
and Pakistanis, Hindus and Muslims, can never brew comfortably
together.
This has been their best year to date. Bopanna, from India, and
Qureshi, from Pakistan, reached a final of the
US
Open in September, before carrying
off their initial Masters pretension in Paris final weekend.
And yet, it is their taboo-bending partnership, rather than
their results, that tends to pull many attention. On the
subcontinent, they are hardly famous by their