The mysterious 7 ................

Tomorrow is 07/07/07. The date that the astrologers claim will change our lives.... Well, they claim many stupid things and I don't believe this crap. This was actually 'breaking news' on a news channel!!! They had some 'jyotishi ji' who said that 7 and 3 numbers are considered lucky in atrology and was going gaga how the date will have 3 7's and how at 07/07/07 at 7:07:07 our lives will change drastically. Yeah right, my drastic change will be that I will be studying for my science exam!!!
Crap is shown as news nowadays....If a dog dies, it is news. If an elephant dies, its breaking news. There are far too many 24/7 channels competing to be the best nowadays. There isn't as much news as there are channels. Some show small things as big news, some actually make news. For eg. IBN7 has been showing a daily program where every day they somehow get new stories of 'andhvishvas' and 'chamatkars'. They show how some sage sucks his finger and milk comes out from it, how a garland on the picture of sai baba has been growing. And other news channels waste their time trying to disprove all this. Some other channels showed how the thread gradually loosens from around the flowers,so it seems to grow longer and how the sage actually drank milk every half an hour and actually spewed it from his mouth while his finger was just in his mouth.Some things are disgusting, like a baba who actually cuts people with scissors and knives in the name of healing of some diseases. They showed how a lady was whining with pain as he cut her and her son held her hand. The worst part is, they do not try to prove the things done by the babas as wrong, they just show it. If they had been saying how it was wrong, it might have actually make many believers go back and not get themselves exploited.

But media has been helping people also, there are many people who have been wronged and not given justice. The media actually helps in such matters as people are afraid of it and sometimes it is more right than law. For eg. there was a story of a policeman who used to boss people in the area and even beat them ruthlessly. The police did not take any action against him, but as soon as two reporters arrived with cameras, he was fired.The media also reveals some appalling realities and brings the attention of the government to many things and shows the real faces of people and politicians.

it is as bad as it is good, but we all love it don't we??? Maybe they will become better on 07/07/07!!!