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Sunset, yet again As the sun that did indeed shine bright over Year 2007 gets set for the final dip, I guess it’s time for some rewind on what really went on around me all these days. Just stating that year 2007 was good or bad, would be like belittling the great, not-so-great, and despicable events that happened around me and within me. Personally, 2007 was a year that did great things to my inner self. To be truthful, Year 2007 brought me back to some meaningful reading. Great writers, masters in the English and Malayalam literary worlds opened up in front of me, though not as they used to once upon a time. But considering the fact that I could read again has given me contentment of a different kind. I also went back to Tehelka and have made up my mind to go for a long term subscription. This year, after a long gap, also brought real music to my ears. I got more of Mohanam, Thodi, Devagandhari, Yadukula Khamboji and Yamuna Kalyani all through the year. I got the chance to return to B
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Games children play! Here I am again, miserably pained by the news brought into my living room by the north-westerly satellite signals. As I sit brooding about the sickening era of political theatrics, where even a great Mohandas is mistaken for some imaginary Gujarati dude called Mohanlal by one of post-independent India’s most powerful political beings, here comes another shocker. My poor soul is awfully shaken, as kids – little kids – take drama out of some bloody flick to the corridors of their school. Gun wielding kids have arrived in the land of the Mahatma. What more do we need? What more do we look for? India has suddenly turned a developed nation. Development after all has just one bench mark. It all depends on how effectively we ape the Americans. Kids shooting down school mates are just ordinary stuff for the Americans. We in India have enacted the aping game with perfection. If ever Gurgaon, not very far off the national capital, is remembered by posterity to come, let it b