Looking back at 2006
So, the year 2006 is just about coming to an end, thought I’d put together a few thoughts on what this year meant for me and the world in general …
The big event ofcourse was the birth of the pearl of our lives, Pranav, our Son on Oct 19th 2006. Our excitement knew no bounds when Nandhu did finally deliver him at 11.03 pm that night. Naked innocence, Non complex life and a heart of full desire, he did enter this world and will certainly teach a thing or two about Life and Love. The years ahead are going to be full of challenges and as parents we are eager to provide for him a life that he someday would perhaps thank us for. It is very easy (& I did succumb to it), to project our desires and wants, things that we perhaps craved to do when we were much younger on him and to form our own vision of ambitions for him, but on second thought, it is afterall his life and he would be the ultimate judge of what he wants to do with it. Care, Love and Nurture are things that we would provide to him to the best of our abilities and more and hopefully he would learn that his is a precious life and one to be lived fully and to the fullest
Further away, the other big event was ofcourse the Football World Cup in Germany. A mega event and a success by any measure. Along with billions of people across the Earth, I too was deeply immersed in the travails and travels of many a team. The English team, that I so backed disappointed, but am so glad that the team I hated, Portugal did not get all that far 
. All credit to the Azzuri for their victory and perhaps Zizou would live to regret his moment of madness for the rest of his life
The travails of the Indian cricket team has been documented way beyond what a human can read & digest, but if there is one thing that I would remember the year for, it would be the year in which the ex-great, Sachin Tendulkar plumbed to depths that perhaps he alone would need to explain to the people someday
On the Technology front, YouTube undoubtedly changed the face of Internet forever and made Video a fundamental data type on the Internet. While John C Dvorak might have issues with Time Magazine’s choice of ‘You’ as the Person of the year, the fact remains, that 2006 is indeed the year in which the Web finally became the Read & Write web (something that Tim Berners Lee intended originally anyways)
In the realm of Global politics, George Bush’s misadventure in Irag continues to get worse (sacrificial lambs such as Don Rumsfeld is not going to help George Bush cleans himself of his sins) and Iran and North Korea’s Nuclear Sabre-rattling and the United State’s response to this were rather humorous to watch !
The Indian Stock markets hit record highs and many a man made his millions. While I remain an optimist that there is something fundamentally right about the Indian economy, I still remain a doubter on the valuations floating around and I await the next crash. Call me a Bear if you will … but we have miles to go before we run (sleep is a long long way off). But my country, Hope is something we have but that is not enough, we need to try harder, the marathon has just begun. We are NOT going to be a leading economy riding on the Outsourcing wave alone
I will leave the thoughts for 2007 for a later day, but would sign-off for now by stating that there is an opportunity in front of all of us to make this world a better place and the first step starts with us
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