WISHING ALL OF YOU A VERY HAPPY AND PROSPEROUS NEW YEAR!
Let 2011 bring you good health and bliss to you and your family!
Here is a related extract from The Economic Times:
"January is the month of good beginnings. This month of good resolutions is presided over by Janus, the liminal god of thresholds. A liminal or a transitional state is one in which one traverses from the old to the new, from the familiar to the unknown, even from an unconscious to the conscious state metaphysically.
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"January can thus be looked upon as the month of possibilities, where one resolves to discard old habits to embrace new ones.
"Lord Ganesh, the god of auspicious beginnings, is a liminal deity in Indian tradition.
"Ganesh was created by his mother to guard the threshold. May he grant all your wishes in the New Year."
During College days, i had read the poem ‘New Year- 1918’ by the British poet Rose Macanllen, written against the backdrop of the disasters of the World War I. Its first line was that the New Year brings nothing new. The theme of the poem was that the world moves but does not progress.
Do you agree?
The world dances, one step forward, one step sideways, and sometimes backwards. How can we say that the world does not progress? Remember when smallpox and polio were world-wide scourges? Now nobody need suffer death or disfigurement because of them! :)
ReplyDeleteYes, we have invented new ways of killing each other - the IED, the pilotless drone, the suicide bomber and what not. And unfortunately we choose to use them. :(
We can only try to stick to our good resolutions.
Bachi Karkaria in her recent piece in the Times of India, has added as a Tail Piece, "Please don't wish us a Happy New Terror."
ReplyDeleteShe is my most favourite wordsmith.
A New Year's Resolution is something that goes in one 'y'ear and out through the other.
ReplyDeleteA New Year's Resolution is something that goes in one 'y'ear and out through the other.
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