Events 
Bollywood New Year Eve Gala
Dec 31
Bhangra Bash
Jan 15
New Year Poem
Music we enjoy
Literature we delve into
Socializing bucks us up
Atrractions become addictive
Politics is a maze
and ensnares all of us
These help us only
to while away Time.
Meditation
is the only thing
Which leads to Peace
Hope the New Year
Dawns with hope for
Peace
Vasantha Ramakrishnan
(Portland, OR)
Joke Sabha
Only in India
Economics around the world
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Why not me? Rethinking AIDS
When tennis ace Arthur Ashe got HIV, someone asked him if he ever wondered, "Why me"? Ashe replied, "When I won
Wimbledon, I never asked, "Why me"? I have no right to ask myself that question now. But Chitra Akileswaran, a young
lady working with AIDS patients, asks, "Why not me?"
More...
In a tearing hurry
So much to do -- judges to appoint, social programs to stop, forests to level, but all this requires Congress too, where there
there are rules and procedures, like the filibuster. Well never mind, let's shred the rules too! Arianna Huffington writes
on the Bush Administration's plans. More...
Of Resolutions and their Keeping
It was Schopenhauer who said that a man may do what he thinks, but he cannot think what he thinks.
Similarly, we can make resolutions, but can we resolve to keep them? Janani Gopalakrishnan on the
making and keeping of new year resolutions. More...
Islamabad Diary
Indians can be found visiting every corner of the world, but next-door Pakistan seems as distant as the North Pole.
Swarna Rajagopalan describes
her recent trip to Islamabad, echoing the line from Veer Zaara, "If they're so different, why do they look so much like me?"
She finds Pakistanis just as curious about Indians as Indians are about them.
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Recalling 2004 (Could we, please?)
A friend dies. Elections in Spain, Russia and India. Bush reelected. Abu Ghraib.
Deeper into the quagmire in Iraq. Shankaracharya arrested, associates tortured.
MS Subbulakshmi dead. Soldier asks Rumsfeld why they have to scrounge for armor. An episodic view of 2004. More...
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In Quotes
"The one shortage envisioned was of rose-petals: not enough to go around as the grateful people of Iraq lined up to welcome their American liberators.
No one in the Pentagon could have thought that a year and a half after President Bush proclaimed "Mission accomplished" American troops would be complaining of a shortage of vehicle armour. "
--Ayaz Amir, in Dawn
"In Iraq, as Yogi Berra would say, the future ain't what it used to be..."
--Maureen Dowd, in the NY Times
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