A new entry every year!!

I not being the like the Aamir Khan of the Blogosphere? One entry every year seems to be the latest trend to try and be cool. Jokes apart, the reason to write this article is to reflect on how things change in our lives. How we stop giving emphasis to some things we were so regular with (my previous record of a new entry every three-four months was an achievement for a consistently occurring writer's bloc phenomenon). Things have just been awfully busy for me to not get any time apart from the work and effort I put and the time I indulge in laziness thereafter. Laziness and efforts have then ensured that I post a new entry almost a year after the previous one.

There has been a lot that has gone on in the year gone by. Obama's in the limelight and out of it too (check recent President popularity polls), Osama's still out of it and yet the world lives in the same fear of mass-scale attacks, the Congress brigade is back-this time around backed by the babalog of Indian politics, Mumbai seems a little safer in the presence of the newly elected Mr Chauhan and Mr Chidambaram, the MNS seems to be dormant and Infrastructure seems to be picking up well (read: the Bandra-Worli sea link is FINALLY ready, err did I just say picking up well, and what about the metros?). Cricket still seems to be going the way it has for years i.e. inconsistent. Its said and immensely agreed with that the only thing consistent about our men in blue is the inconsistency, and yes also their sponsorship deals.

Of cyclones and the Amar Singhs passing by (from the Great Indian Politics show that is), of the rising stock market and the falling inflation, of the success of the Slumdog and the failure of the Chinese military to ingress into AP, Mumbai and India seem to be doing just fine.

With the financial turmoil looking to succumb on its knees to upcoming prosperity and job opportunities, things look set for a bryter-later day and such times to come. The eternal realist that I am, I still cannot forget that despite the bling of recent advances, we are yet a nation in the developing mode.

Just one thought to end this rather general loosely-held, gyan-filled post, if every Indian were to do precisely what he/she had to i.e. a rickshaw puller would be honest in charging fares and dropping off people wherever they wanted, a stock broker was honest enough in keeping his client's interests on top priority than his own, a company CEO would be honest enough in thinking about his workers as much as his bottom line, the country would then become a utopian state-no corruption, no inequality, no discrimination etc.

Longing for that utopian state or at least to see glimpses of it. Even one year down the line, still the same longing! Good Speed all!Am I not being the like the Aamir Khan of the Blogosphere? One entry every year seems to be the latest trend to try and be cool. Jokes apart, the reason to write this article is to reflect on how things change in our lives. How we stop giving emphasis to some things we were so regular with (my previous record of a new entry every three-four months was an achievement for a consistently occurring writer's bloc phenomenon). Things have just been awfully busy for me to not get any time apart from the work and effort I put and the time I indulge in laziness thereafter. Laziness and efforts have then ensured that I post a new entry almost a year after the previous one.

There has been a lot that has gone on in the year gone by. Obama's in the limelight and out of it too (check recent President popularity polls), Osama's still out of it and yet the world lives in the same fear of mass-scale attacks, the Congress brigade is back-this time around backed by the babalog of Indian politics, Mumbai seems a little safer in the presence of the newly elected Mr Chauhan and Mr Chidambaram, the MNS seems to be dormant and Infrastructure seems to be picking up well (read: the Bandra-Worli sea link is FINALLY ready, err did I just say picking up well, and what about the metros?). Cricket still seems to be going the way it has for years i.e. inconsistent. Its said and immensely agreed with that the only thing consistent about our men in blue is the inconsistency, and yes also their sponsorship deals.

Of cyclones and the Amar Singhs passing by (from the Great Indian Politics show that is), of the rising stock market and the falling inflation, of the success of the Slumdog and the failure of the Chinese military to ingress into AP, Mumbai and India seem to be doing just fine.

With the financial turmoil looking to succumb on its knees to upcoming prosperity and job opportunities, things look set for a bryter-later day and such times to come. The eternal realist that I am, I still cannot forget that despite the bling of recent advances, we are yet a nation in the developing mode.

Just one thought to end this rather general loosely-held, gyan-filled post, if every Indian were to do precisely what he/she had to i.e. a rickshaw puller would be honest in charging fares and dropping off people wherever they wanted, a stock broker was honest enough in keeping his client's interests on top priority than his own, a company CEO would be honest enough in thinking about his workers as much as his bottom line, the country would then become a utopian state-no corruption, no inequality, no discrimination etc.

Longing for that utopian state or at least to see glimpses of it. Even one year down the line, still the same longing! Good Speed all!