Its a mad mad world...

For nearly 2 weeks now, I have been crying over this WHO report/study that I am working on, based on the communal riots in Gujarat about 3 years ago. The amount of literature and information that I have gone through the last few days only reinforces the hatred between the two communities. The pictures that I have seen are classified...the media was banned from publishing them..but the NIMHANS relief workers had their own stores...and it was downright shocking. Images of people burnt, slaughtered and disabled by the mobs.. Each picture had its own story and yet all had the same storyline behind them. One especially haunts me...it was a picture of a small little boy burnt, skin peeling apart from head to toe, one thigh scorched to the bone, his face grotesque..and he was just small innocent boy who happened to be attacked just because he was in the wrong place at the wrong time with angry mobs baying for blood.

Its beyond my comprehension...why do people hate each other on the basis of religion?? Its a narrow minded bigot world! Where people hate certain other people just because they believe in different things and worship different gods..Its such a small irrelevant thing in the larger context...that of the person himself. I wish people would realize this...I wish they would stop being so brainwashed by a minority who believes that religion is top priority. That is the saddest thing, many people don't even realize they are being manipulated this way..especially in a place like India where the majority of the people are heavily into stuff like karma and religion; they are just pawns in the bigger game...Like my title says "its a mad mad world..."

Jumpin' Aboard...

Ok so Im finally here...after all that torture of trying to find an unused user id and pondering over my blog's name and link and in the process of hasseling poor arv for ideas and rejecting em all in the same breath...phew i'm beat! And bet he's sagging wid relief right now!!!! And dats all for now!!!