Thus wrote Jawaharlal Nehru, who was then imprisoned in the district gaol of Dehradun for political charges by the British Empire , on the New Year Day of 1933, to his daughter Indira:
It is New Year's Day today. The earth has completed another cycle round the sun. It recognizes no special days or holidays, as it rushes ceaselessly through space, caring not at all what happens on its surface to the innumerable midgets that crawl on it, and quarrel with each other, and imagine themselves--men and women--in their foolish vanity, the salt of the earth and the hub of the universe.
I was reading his Glimpses of World History earlier this morning when these words caught my attention. Indeed, the sun and the earth know no novelty in completing one cycle and starting of another one. But, we, as pity human beings we are, must have to stop somewhere and take a break to review the past and to plan for the future. So, let us take this chance as an opportunity to look behind and then to take a great leap forward…
Wish all the readers of this blog a very happy new year. Let the New Year just only be the first step of a lot more prosperity and joy to come.
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