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Past Tense; Future Imperfect

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So, it’s an end to a year that threatened to do away with the planet altogether. If the Mayans had forced us to believe that everything would end in a jiffy, what actually ended was the cricket god’s ODI outing – though not many bothered. India, in the meantime, was out on the street protesting the end of a life mangled by vultures in men’s clothing. Magnanimity is Mother Earth’s trait. She too seems to have thrown prophesies to the wind so that the sinners would be forced to live, and die, here. The year, however, saw such beliefs too die, when one man, ‘revered’ for the most sinful deeds, lived happily and died happily. Another one experienced the noose sans any pain. Pain came only to those who lived in the midst of all these sinners. Sinners were many - right from the ones who swallowed billions in the name of serving the people who voted them to power, to those who promised to make the aam admi live in a corrupt-free nation. And, all of them had the guts to tread over the