What a year.

A year and 19 days after I last typed into this window, and I sit back trying to recollect all the moments gone by. First non-coalition government in Karnataka in what, two terms? (I think just one term, and we had three chief ministers!) The infamy of the Australia cricket tour. And Oh my god, the ignominy of the Hockey team not making it to the Olympics for the first time ever?! The short-lived media frenzy over the priceless feats of Abhinav Bindra, Vijender Kumar and Sushil Kumar. And what an Olympics it was... I salute you China. (Mind you, Arunachal Pradesh is INDIA. Free Tibet. And DON'T YOU DARE legalize Tiger farming). The IPL happened somewhere in the middle as well. Bah, whatever. Kumble got 600, and I had more tears in my eyes. Akhil Kumar, good match man, good match. Rajvardhan... Try again, please, try again. Sania? Fitness darling, fitness... Saina, tough luck. (Actually everyone else in the Olympics contingents, never give up). The bomb blasts - (in purely chronological order, due respects to the ones lost and affected) Jaipur, Bangalore, Ahmedabad, Delhi. How much more can one speak of the insanity, that is fundamentalism. The church attacks, secessionists in Kashmir, (what is wrong with you people?), separatists everywhere else. Insipid governments. Recession. Insipid governance. Bracing up for the biggest fall in economies in modern history. More insipidity. well, you get the picture.