Happy 2026

It’s a ritual – bidding adieu to the passing year and welcoming the new year, with new hope and expectation that it would be better than the one just gone by! For some the year gone by could have been filled with unprecedented hardships and difficulties and for others full of achievement and happiness. Yet both the above sets expect a better new year.

Another ritual that has become very popular is making resolutions – mainly aimed at overcoming bad habits and inculcating good and healthy practices. 

However, it’s true that our immediate or more recent memories overwhelm us and in that sense the memories of 2025 are indeed overwhelming, especially the unsavoury ones. Tariffs imposed by US, change in rules of employment and immigration by US, carnage at Pahalgam, operation Sindoor and changing geopolitical scenario in its aftermath, unrest in Nepal and Bangladesh, fury of nature in different parts of the world, Israel – Iran, Pakistan- Afghanistan and Thailand- Cambodia strifes and the seemingly unending Russia-Ukraine and Israel vs several wars and towards the end Indigo fiasco exposing the dangers of monopoly or duo-poly make 2025 an eminently forgettable year, notwithstanding a few bright spots here and there – India’s new feat in space, good domestic market due to GST revision, ceasefire of Indo-Pak and Israel-Hamas wars readily come to mind. Towards the fag end, Bollywood witnessed a revival in the form of unprecedented success of Dhurandhar.

Let’s hope 2026 brings lasting peace, happiness, good health and prosperity for all of us and our beloved nation. We can afford to pass resolutions and infringe upon them – but when it comes to nicety, amiability, cooperation, camaraderie towards fellow humans, let there be no infringement.

A new year follows the one that goes by

For change is the name of the game 

Our good deeds, behaviour and acts

Are the catalysts that immortalise our name.

A very happy 2026 to all!