Finally! Abhishek and Aishwarya have got married!! All the news channels must have heaved such a sigh of relief!! Thats quite a herculian task off their shoulders!! And this one, particularly, is off our shoulder too!! Can anyone believe it??!! 4 days in a row..all that one gets to hear is where the flowers came in from..or where the mother in law got the beautiful daughter in law her sarees from..how much they costed...what the 'tent' is like..!!! God!! It almost asphyxiates me, as I"m sure it does to any other sane human being!! I wonder whether they had any paan at the wedding...wonder why the media left that little detail unnoticed! They're not doing their job well enough it seems!

A daily newspapers headline..on Page One read.."most eligible bachelor marries most beautiful woman"..does anyone care?? But, we do care when you consume such precious space for frivolous gossip items such as these...have we run out of political and social issues to address or have they been overshadowed with the glitz of such star weddings? I think the latter comes out rather glaringly...and shamelessly.

And then one has the very blown up Shilpa Shetty Kiss!!! This one I find rather "funny"!! Why "funny" you will ask...funny, because here is this girl whose modesty has been outraged..she's the one who's been supposedly forced into an act and yet, SHE is the one who has to face the wrath of her fellow Indians!! I find it absolutely flabbergasting!! Why are HER effigies being burnt?? If we feel that a wrong has been done, we must also recognise against whom it has been done...obviously, there has to be a victim!!
Victimising the victim....thats what this one seemed like to me! Support the lady if you feel so strongly about it!! And then, again, here the lady seems to have no objection to what was inflicted on her..wonder why the world seems to have a problem! And even if it did not in the first instance, the Media, by constantly rerunning the 2 min episode, making it look like a 2 hr kiss will grill it into our heads that "something" is wrong here!!So, we are left with a situation where our thoughts are moulded by someone else's sensibilities....I so hope there was SOME sense in it though!!

With each of my passing blogs, I seem to be becoming a Media critic!! Absolutely unintentional I would say..but it seldom leaves you without strained nerves....and a questioning mind.