Below are the 3 most recent journal entries recorded in Tillu's LiveJournal:

Sunday, November 20th, 2005
1:50 pm	The return of the crusades? I was just reading an article on wikipedia about the recent riots in france. Had to stop mid way because the author was (like most people today it seems) so strongly biased against the muslims. Every other line mentioned the religion or something to do with the religion and I find this growing trend alarming. Yes, one could put it down to freedom of expression or whatever and claim that is what really happened so its fine to write about it. But honestly, in such situations does one ever really know who's involved or what caused what or who's to blame? One can finally only come up with theories (which r completely based on what the person constructing/transmitting those theories believes in). And the main result of such irresponsible reporting is that one is beginning to hear statements such as "All muslims are not terrorists but all terrorists are muslims" more and more often (complete and utter bullshit where people have very clearly not looked at any proper statistics (if any statistics r available) and the people who say this actually believe they have said something smart!!!???). I mean give me a break! How on earth can one condemn a huge part of the population on the planet with absolutely idiotic statements like this??? Why not try to find at least a plausible reason for the unrest instead of using ones preconceived prejudices? Did they have all that trouble in France because those people were muslims? or was it because they r the poorest, most ignored (ignored, not ignorant as that i find cuts across all classes and cultures) and backward section of society? Of course every group has its share of morons who make crazy statements/do crazy things (mostly to get attention). But its like with kids, when a child throws a tantrum, one generally ignores it. One does not go around listening to it and publishing long accounts of it on the family notice board. Reacting to the silly statements only results in the whole situation snowballing into a major crisis where everyone is very angry with everyone else and nobody is really to blame. How can people not see this? And where did they get such narrow-minded and dumb journalists from, who don't see what the consequences of what they report are going to be? Reporting seems to be all about creating as much of a scandal as possible and doing maximum damage to the most people, where the main reason behind every action is to make some quick money and all the rest is just an excuse... Current Mood: cynical (Comment on this)
Friday, September 23rd, 2005
5:10 pm	theres a porpoise behind me and its treading on my toes Ok so i move (AGAIN) over the weekend. Am beginning to think constantly moving, like so many other things in life, is hereditary. My parents did a considerable amount of it (7 flats in 18 yrs) while i lived with them and i seem to have inherited the tendency from both sides of the family for that alone can explain my nomadic existance over the last 6 yrs (11 rooms, counting those lived in twice with breaks). The most interesting bit (well...this is all not very interesting i know but the...lets call it curious bit) is that except for a couple of moves from india to germany and back, most of this has been within a radius of about 1 km. Almost exactly what my parents have been doing as well... The last three of those 11 moves have all been in the last six months (good part is i just dont unpack most of my stuff so take less and less time packing)...my big dream in life is to find a nice cosy flat in b'lore and arrange all my stuff in it and NEVER have to move again... Anyway to get over the rambling, or rather, to ramble on a different but connected topic...am currently in this icky position where i feel obliged to be at a party that i don't want to have anything to do with and where the main people concerned don't seem to particularly want to have anything to do with me. And yet here i am wracking my brains trying to find a reasonable excuse for wriggling out of being there. Matters are further complicated by the fact that the party is in the apartment i currently live in (hmm...should have moved out of there sooner :D). Am going to try pretending i am terribly sick (although must admit i am rather out of practice these days - how easily one forgets the skills one learnt at school!) and hope i get away with it. (Comment on this)
Monday, August 1st, 2005
4:49 pm	On cats (and dogs) I've just moved into a flat with two cats and coming from a family of dog people this promises to be one interesting experience. Guess am gonna also use this to decide if i ever want to have a cat of my own (although the family is currently considering getting a kitten to keep our latest baby (one very enthu lab) entertained). anyway so we (the cats and me) have already been hanging out together for the last two days and have moved on from being polite to each other and keeping our distance to cuddling each other and having occasional differences of opinion...bed time is now a matter of much disagreement...starting from who gets to sleep where to who gets to sleep when!...the basic problem is that when any two of us is sleepy, the third one isn't and insists on waking the others up and trying to play...this basically results in everyone being sleepy almost all the time but guess it also keeps us from getting bored while we wait for our fourth flatmate (who actually owns the cats) to get back from her hannover trip...had more to say on the subject but (yawn!)... (Comment on this)