Time to change your calendars, diaries and planners. Another year has gone by and new one seems to be threatening on all fronts: war, economy , elections.
Year gone by had three highlights: 26/11, Obama and worldwide recession. Enough has been written about these three points. Other significant events :
News: China olympics, China earthquake, China economy, Bihar floods, Orrisa violence, Blasts in : kabul embassy,delhi, jaipur, ahmedabad, bangalore, guwahati, Malegaon blast politics, Raj thackray politics, Elections in: gujarat, HP, MP, Delhi etc, Malaysian indian issue, Srilankan crisis, Amarnath issue, Gujjar agitations, Chandrayaan, Singur, Sarkozy, Hurricanes in US, zimbabwe and african situations, sudanese pirates, failed bali climate conference, US nuclear deal with india, arushi, grover, nithari cases, list goes on...
On Business side: Recession, layoffs, lehman, subprime, AIG , US bailouts, madoff, UK bailout, jaguar acquision by tata, nano, satyam, oil price and $ price flucuations, FII withdrawl . overall very negative outlook.
in IT we had all hopes pinned on cloud computing with google leading the show, saas models, yahoo takeover bids, MS trying to innovate, android, domestic scene being lucrative, china competition, tier III on onwards cities, wipro, infosys takeovers.
On sports: harbhajan issue, ipl success, australia's defeats, chennai test, ODI whitewash of england, ajantha mendis magic over india , dhoni leadership, retirement of kumble and ganguly, emergence of gambhir and ishant, Bindras gold and bronze by sushil/vijendar, saina nehwal rise, vishy anand success, sania failure, leander grandslam, epic wimbledon finals, rise of nadal, federer spirit, spains truimph in euro cup after years of failures, chinas wonderful hosting of olympics, michael phelps, chinas golds, hockey disaster for india. Guys excuse as my sports interest is only in Cricket, international soccer(excludes club soccer ), tennis , indian involved olympics sports, period. (No F1s, golf, superbowl, boxing, basketball)
On films and entertainment: aamir started the year and ended it with bang, justified decline of YRF, good movies away from formula winning audiences;wednesday, mumbai meri jaan, mithya, dasvidnya.., IPL eating into movies, bikinies, big flops, salman shahrukh fight, decline of saas bahu serials, rise of new channels having serials with new themes and reality shows, hollywood doing good in india, some hatke films from hollywood and big dissapointments there. marathi films had a good year with some good movies, and not to forget little champs wonder. News papers and media sunk into plots of sensationalism and commercialism to sell every piece of printed alphabet.
For my city pune: highlight was CYG, rise in crime with rise in murders, divisive politics, terror at doorstep, traffic and road issue becoming complex, climate pattern changes:(late and heavy monsoon, unseasonal rains in nov and mar, absence of winter),real estate slump (thankful correction after crazy rally since 2005) ..
on individual front: we being part of globalized economy have been affected, though focus on healthcare and new forays (VOIP) have been balancing. There was a news feature about us:(http://www.expressindia.com/latest-news/Health-outsourcing-Three-IIT-graduates-show-the-way/302814/) also a new location was added for office.
Lastly i managed to do a trek to harishchhandragad: a jinxed venture for me as i had not been able to attend twice over last decades owing to some last minute changes. My next year's resolution is Vasota. Have done some good projects at table; jeevanjyot school , 88888, good HRDs. Plan is to help my school (nerlekar) which got me into table, had family marraiges. Fitness resolutions as usual are unfulfilled, but attempt was made.. Riya is now in primary so need more attention.
Year that started on high note with sensex reaching 20k (now its at 9K), how drastic has been the change and to make it worse there was terrorism. Obama is hope, we need someone in india of that dimension but we dont see anyone in horizon across political spectrum.
welcome 2009, we will rise to occassion and meet challenges thrown...
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