Twenty20 World Cup, odd exploits of a Sania Mirza or even a hockey triumph... but the great Indian elephant of sport, like Kumbhakarna, goes on sleeping
Modi and Mayawati dominated the year. The Left paralysed the UPA on the nuke deal. BJP won Gujarat, Himachal and --with allies, the Akalis -- Punjab. The Marans fought, and the Gowdas dashed the BJP hopes in the south.
Some of the events that shocked, stunned, shamed, hurt, terrorised and caused national grief...But we coped. Somehow. Sometimes callous, sometimes vocal in our outrage. We truly are like this only, warts and all.
The country got its first Dalit CJI, while the previous CJI came under murky allegations, and in many long-pending cases, it was finally a case of justice delayed, if not all together denied...
Pakistan's woes were compounded with Benazir assassination; while the rest of the neighbourhood and beyond tried to come to grips with the ups and downs of democracy and, of course, the spectre of terror
From the lows of the World Cup to the highs of the Twenty20, from the mother of all comebacks to the most inexplicable crumbling of the Wall, from the adrenalin of youth and Yuvraj's six sixes to the two new captain cools...
It was a Chak De India year for Chess, Hockey, Archery, while Sania and Lee-Hesh remained in limelight and Baichung Bhutia got some competition from Bob Houghton...
Rupee appreciation brought good and bad tidings, ultra power projects got approved, farm policies went haywire, and SEZ projects led to violent protests...
