Still in hibernation and LOving it.   Haven't missed ANY thing special./.. Rather the reverse//  ::Let's see what the New Year has brought....

The year started with eve teasing and molestation in Metropolitan  with a  capital M, Mumbai.  Quite a damper to New Year  celebrations...and so much fillip to treatment of women... and guests in the new Millennium. 

F fff rrrree eeezing  temperatures across the NORTH .  And for hapless Haryanvis.... POWERless to boot..  Just makes it seem SO much c cc  ccolder!

Highway/ Low way.../ No way..  After dragging on for years, the NH-8 finally opens WITHOUT any VIPs ... And yet chaos and road rage still remain, with mismanaged toll booths and cantankerous commuters.

On the national stage, Carnage Creator and bigot beyond doubt, N Modi is Back in the hotseat  with a thumping mandate..  So much for our   persuasive news media and Public Opionion creators...!

Just beyond the border, beauteous Benazir, hopeful of a comeback....has been bombed out of existence.  Mealy mouthed Musharraf and his equally, UNfettered by any scruples, Uncle Sam utter platitudes..

On the International stage, Cricket takes a backseat yet again, with high drama over alleged/ imagined racial slurs.. Team India tamely draw a match that could've been won..  Politics, Selectors and BCCI ensure that tensions divide the team's efforts, affecting both morale and output.

Back home, again......Wildlife preservation be damned... The latest is 'beating leopards to death' after hounding them off their habitat.

Where do butchers parading as doctors, set up safe shop... rob  the poor of their kidneys and sell them for a whopping profit to NRIs and tourists?   In  a seamless, brutally efficient operation ... ?  For YEARs?!!!   Right here in heartless Haryana's ...gut-less, gruesome, Grrrrrrrrgaon... (Didn't i always say so?)  Where goonda raj rules ... and daily commodities like LPG cylinders (for kitchen use) have virtually disappeared from the market.!

Even the pomp, splendour and dignity of Republic Day has been sidetracked with high decibel /drama.............. pondering over whether or NOT the State VVIP Guest, and French Prez, would be bringing along his latest squeeze.  Fortunately better sense prevailed .... Can't fault the French on minding their p's and q's , or in this case... C and B!

Hmmmm.  I'm better off sleeping through this all.  Till my ' 'light bulb' moment comes to me. BEAR with me please folks....  Tread lightly, and clad warm... all you who DARE to step out.   Hope you find something to smile about.  Do share if you do.....

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