2009:- just another year in the unchanged odyssey of time

Every year the government promises the next year will be better than the previous and it will pave the way for a brighter tomorrow. Every year the city council promises that this year the roads will be smooth and their won’t be any water logging during the monsoon. Every year the state government says that it will surely put its red face up and the unemployment and poverty levels will go down, and we will see a better and cleaner state. Each year many promises are made and none are kept, and human beings’ being a hopeful race hopes that the next year everything will change and all that which is not working will suddenly start working again. 2009 as a year in the history of the world was no different, as politicians, bureaucrats, entertainers; icons all promised and seldom remembered it at the end of the year. 
The year of 2009 will be termed as the year of “HOPE” a year when a black candidate preached the bible of hope to his fellow Americans and won the heart of the world with his message of hope for a better future. He promised to give America a liberal president who would provide the world an environment where all can grow without harming each other. He proposed peace and equality to the world. He promised a greener and cleaner tomorrow, and the world hoped that at last someone has arrived who will realize their hopes. But as he took his crown America suffered its worst recession in the recorded history, and the hope he promised looked bleak again. Unemployment rates increased throughout the world as markets and economies crumbled around the world. The sound of the hope of change was soon very harsh on the pleasant ears, and president Barrack Hussain Obama was forced to give his people a substitute for their miseries in life. He also as his predecessors have done started promoting the warm air of another war, which will help to keep their miseries at bay. The soldiers who were taken back in the beginning of his term was soon sent back with twice of their volumes. The president who promoted hope soon seemed to promise of a hope which is less known by. At the end of the year when the earth- water summit was held at Copenhagen the president of hope and the emblem of peace for this year, sounded president again, and proclaimed his authority over the world. The promise of hope was forgotten and was short lived.
This year was also very hopeful for the homosexuals around India, as the supreme court of India passed section 377 giving rights of equity in the society to them. The country grew up from the shackles of conventional beliefs and thought and was ready to take homosexuals as the part of the society. So as Dostana spread more Dostana than necessary the potholes still troubled the fellow travellers, the country still sulked over the sparse monsoons, people around the country still bribed their way out, and the pipes still leaked and water was hard to be found at certain places. India grew up as a country which had place for thought of conservation of equity, but has no fuel for restoring smooth running of its own system.
This year also saw a new ray of hope for the Indian entertainment industry as A.R REHMAN bagged three Oscars for his music in the British – Indian film slumdog millionaire. Soon the story of a slum boy or a slumdog according to the director Danny Boyle who wins a television game show to change his life and become a millionaire became the national film of India. The British claimed it to be their film; the Indians shouted that it is their work which is again being stolen by their imperial rulers. The political parties sang jai ho! As the party tried to establish its mark in the heart of the voters. Amidst all this some Indians felt that the film actually had insulted the slum dwellers by calling them dogs and have exploited their miseries for profits. The slum dwellers on the other hand was delighted because they were shown in a film and prayed for the grand success of it in the box office. Such was the situation that the film was lost in the comedy of Indian conflicts.

This year was also a year when lot of stars fell off with a blaze, the king of pop Michael Jackson died this year, ending his mysteriously glamorous life. His life was full of shadows, questions, and confronting controversies but was filled with the passion and urge of continuously creating something different and something new. In his life he taught people to live for hope through his songs, his words. But in his death also he was surrounded by controversies such is the tragedy of today’s life.
The year went by and the world progressed materially but though hope became a stale word, it still is the word which can bring about the change. I wish to see a world this New Year which not only hopes and stops, but hopes and does. Then and only then things will move, and change. This year I wish to see a world where people will stop by passing faults and see their own faults and change them and correct themselves so that they are answerable to themselves and not expecting answers from others. Lastly I wish to see a world where people will trust each other to create a brotherhood and an environment where all can grow with each other, being each other’s support.
So I adieu the year 2009 for a change of resolve, and wish to see the country progress staring from my contribution. So I wish all of you a work full New Year .