Not Wishful but doable....
The coming year seems to very exciting . Little things i wanted to enjoy would possibly be fulfilled in the year to come..They have always been dear to my heart..exigencies of life stashed these to a deep recess of my mind.But i intend to redeem them back in the year to come. Priorities keep changing in life. All intentions are not satisfied , but we can settle down for a mutated form of the ideal. This is what i intend to do in the coming year..

A small house, perhaps close to the railway station in an outer suburb of chennai.....
Travel to work by the "Managara Perunthu or the Suburban train" as "makkal odu makkalaga"
Rekindle my interest in music. Play the keyboard again by buying a good one..Join a music class perhaps
Start teaching Math or Physics again
And not the least.. Intermittent trips to reclaim my life....

The sheer thought of doing these...Beautiful days ahead indeed..

Appalling , Spineless "The Hindu"....
A love and hate relationship, i should say. Love it for the standards that they try to maintain , though i find that, of late they seem to have petered them down. Hate it, for being a leftist mouthpiece. The following sums up their editorial standards:
1. Never ever object the Left
2. Indulge in subtle Anti-US bashing.
3. Anything to do with the majority is a strict no-no.
4. Post Jaya Fiasco - Pander to whims and fancies of the government in power, like any other pliant institution
The nail in the coffin was todays Chennai edition. Any sane publication would have held Mr Rationalist and his cohorts, including the Reds, responsible for the mayhem that they had created. I was dumbfounded that not even a mention was made in the editoral. Spineless i should say. My gut feel would be that they would end up reprimanding the Supreme Court for the "Judicial Excess". This might follow in a day or two. I say, they should rather introspect and find their "Editorial Deficiency" within.
The problem with most other publications is that they have debased themselves to being tabloids. The problem with the "The Hindu" being that they have become very predictable.One doesn't need to go through the newspaper to know their opinion. By and Large they inadvertently follow the 4 tenets mentioned above,.
All this vitriolic from a guy whose ideological compass says "You are a Left-Liberal" . It's altogether a different story that anybody with humanistic tendencies is classified as a Left-Liberal. I wonder how a right-winged individual would react to The Hindu's "Leftist Excess".
Guess I need to read an eclectic mix of publications. Editorial from the Indian Express, Magazine of "The Hindu". These are tough times indeed for readers...