Happy New Year

Wishing you A Very Happy New Year!

And to all Indians, Happy NEW NOTES!

Happy New Year

Wishing every one a VERY HAPPY, DELIGHTFUL and PROSPEROUS NEW YEAR!

And as the Amul girl (www.amul.com) says, HAPPY NEW CHEER!!!

H N Y

Wishing all a VERY VERY HAPPY NEW YEAR, 2014!

Let us celebrate the onset of the New Year with a melodious song by Sunanda Pattanaik, the renowned classical singer of Odisha. Here she sings a song by her father the Late Baintha Pattanaik, the eminent poet of Odisha,

Happy New Year

Wishing all a Very Very Happy and Prosperous New Year!

Let us celebrate the New Year with Vinaini!

What Is New, Yaar?

I wish all of you A VERY VERY HAPPY NEW YEAR. :)))))))))))))))

I am reminded of a cartoon by the Late Mario Miranda titled 'What is new, Yaar' published in The Economic Times years ago. Mario died a few days ago and The ET published a few articles on the the renowned cartoonist. The paper also reprinted this cartoon first published on a new year's day. The characters in this series were the business tycoon Boss, his buxom secretary Miss Foensca, his politician friend the bulky Mr. Bundaldass, the film actress Miss Nimbupani and a beggar with a street dog. The beggar used to sit on the street near Boss's office. Boss used to have occasional conversations with the beggar. In this particular cartoon, the beggar is sleeping on a newspaper of new year's day and Boss asks the beggar "What is new, yaar?"

New year Brings Nothing New?

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?