As is life, 2014 was overall a mixed bag. Whether you term it fantastic and great, mundane and uneventful or sad and gloomy, would most likely depend upon your circumstances during the year and your dispensation towards calling the glass hall full or half empty. Those who follow the maxim, “if life gives you lemons, you make lemonade,” would be celebrating this moment while looking ahead to the rest of 2015.
Here is a quick refresher for what all happened in 2014, in no particular order: Narendra Modi, Game changing elections in India, The Ebola Virus, The Sochi Winter Olympics, The Ukraine - Russia standoff, Malaysian Airline MH370 disappeared, the Islamic State (ISIS) offensive in Syria and Iraq, the FIFA soccer World Cup, Multiple terrorist attacks with several thousand killed, Sunanda Pushkar’s mysterious death, Multiple successful missions by the Indian Space Research Organization including the Mars Mission, Floods in Kashmir, Swach Bharat Abhiyan, Cyclone HudHud in Vishakhapatnam, Jammu and Kashmir elections, Interstellar, PK, Taylor Swift, Honey Singh, Kapil Sharma, Mohit Raina, Naveen Kashkari, Jodha Akbar, your birthday, your parents’ wedding anniversary …. Is it not amazing how one is able to place and save personal events in the time reference of major community, national and global events and vice-versa. Maybe the world is a stage and we are indeed just actors playing our written out parts. But then our life may well be a very long Improv performance where we have flexibility on how to perform and only the stage is set. Whatever may be, I would go with the latter thought, if only to make things more interesting. And if I improve so much that I outgrow my stage, I could get on a bigger and better stage? “Khudi ko kar bulund itna …” Let us leave you with that thought and motivating goal for 2015. At Shehjar, we will strive to do more. Shehjar App is available for download on Google Play and in the next week, it will be available for download on Itunes. To start, you will be able to browse the latest and the greatest content but as the App is enhanced, it will become important to you on a day to day basis. We are seeking voluntary youth editors, regional editors from different parts of the world, and new contributors for content. Please email us at editor.shehjar@gmail.com to be part of the team. Wish you a happy, healthy and productive new year 2015 full of family and fun times. Deepak Ganju, Arun Koul |
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