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Welcome 2014

Wish you a very happy new year once again. It is remarkable how fast time is flying. The last time I remember a year lasted a year was in 2006. This was when I graduated from University and started working and after that wishing New Year seems like a weekly thing.  So 2013 - in a way for the World a less tumultuous year than the one's preceding it - uprisings of 2011, 2012; World Cups of 2010, 2011; Coming to power of Barack Obama in 2008 and 2012; financial crisis of 2008, 2009 and beyond - but still full of its own excitements at least for India and me.  The rise of the AAP was a phenomenon unlike any India has seen in the last few decades. Yes there was the government of JD which dethroned Congress briefly, yes there was the laughable musical chair of Prime Ministers in 1997-1998, yes there was the rise of Kalam to the Presidency of India but a mass revolution coming from the very grassroots of India without a drop of blood being shed has to be more remarkable than any of t