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Do you really expect Rakhi Sawant to marry one of those guys?

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Reality TV embarrasses me. Like, turn-beetroot-red, feel-prickles-behind-my-neck, search-frantically-for-someplace-to-hide, wish-the-ground-would-swallow-me-up embarrassed. And, then I take a deep breath, get a hold and ask myself why the hell am I embarrased? I am not the one publicly washing my dirty laundry in a 'moment of truth' or eating grasshoppers to score points in a makeshift 'jungle'. I am just watching TV in the privacy of my bedroom. No matter, I stay just as embarrassed at the antics of some of my fellow homosapiens in the glare of a TV camera. Lunch hour conversation has, of late, been liberally peppered with one 'Rakhi ka Swayamvar'. To check out what everyone has been tittering about and also partly, to offset the accusations that I am being too high-brow or pseudo, I forced myself to watch last Monday's episode. And, ended up reeling with a little nausea. Whoever is the show’s scriptwriter, he/she is the Queen of Tacky! Half-way through I w