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[Wed, 31 Dec 2003]
End of Year Stuff
Pretty much every magazine seems to be having their end-of-the-year
issues most of which have a retrospective on the year that passed by.
Time's person of the year is the American G.I. Also, check out Newsweek's
Year in Pictures. There's a really cute picture of a church's cross, lighted lavishly
with lights in a stormy background. I thought we had seen something
similar when I and a friend drove cross-country. I checked out the map and
it does seem plausible- the church is on I-70 in Kansas, which is where I think we saw it.
Pretty much all the Indian Magazines (India Today) are talking about how the year was for India. Outlook does have a slightly different focus- they are talking about the zippies. Zippies are the post Gen Y generation- aged 15-25. I just missed the cutoff. Its official now, I am an outcast from all generations now. Its OK, I'm anyway sick and tired of all these surveys where each generation turns out, surprise surprise, to have a heart of gold and be totally driven.
The best set of articles is in BusinessWorld. Built around a rehash of the Goldman Sachs study but they have a really nice article about how India's foreign policy (and the world's perception of India) is changing for the better. They make a good point of how the world won't de-hyphenize "India-Pakistan" unless we do it ourselves first. Do read their round-about way of stressing the "its the economy, stupid!" thing at the end of the cover story.