My review of 2010

So here we are again, at the end of another year. 2010 however has been a mixed bag, of varying levels of enjoyment or achievement, and some disappointments too. To begin with my reading list, it has not exactly been brilliant, as I will explain later. Here it is anyway:

Books

1) "A Case of Exploding Mangoes" by Mohammed Hanif - ISBN 9780099516743 - Vintage p/b - @ MH 2008 - 295 pp

For once, I take refuge in the blurb which describes this as a "(t)easing, provocative, and very, very funny ... debut novel" and "darkly hilarious"! And so it proved to be, as a welcome beginning to the new year, and took me back to what now seems so remote, the bygone age of the madhatter General Zia ul Haq who ruled Pakistan in an ever-increasing tight dictatorship during the 1970s and 80s. The book charts the countdown to his downfall, and is laced with black humour. In the following exchanges with the officer in charge of his security, we see Zia`s obsession with personal survival which forms the basic element of the plot:

"As your Commander-in-Chief, I demand to know: who are you protecting me from? Who is trying to kill me? General Zia`s voice rose ... ". "I suspect everyone. Even my own boys. I send them back to their units every six weeks and get new ones. You might have noticed. There is no point trusting anyone, sir. Indira Gandhi, what happened?" "A shudder ran through General Zia. Indira had been gunned down by her own military bodyguards ... ".

His marital relations too had long outlived the chemistry of the boudvoir, as the following extracts show:

"His wife was standing there striking her glass-bangled wrists against each other, something women only did when they heard of their husband`s death. Later she would listen patiently as General Zia blamed his enemies in the press, pleaded national interest and invoked their thirty-eight years together. He would say everything the First Lady had thought he would. She would agree to continue to do her ceremonial duties as the First Lady, she would appear at the state ceremonies and she would entertain other first ladies, but only after kicking him ouf their bedroom".

And so the case of Exploding Mangoes is how his plane comes down in the end, but we are treated to a truly amusing and fascinating journey along the way - "witty, elegant and deliciously anarchic", to quote from the blurb again!

2) "Dead Line" by Stella Rimington - BCA h/b, CN 158346, a Liz Carlyle mystery @ SR 2008 - 374 pp

This was just light entertainment, a thriller by a past and first female head of MI5 (one of the UK`s two principal intelligence agencies). It gave an interesting insight into the working of the spy network, though with a fictional gloss.

3) "The Black Bar: Corruption and political intrigue within Kenya`s legal fraternity" by Paul Mwangi - ISBN 9966-9969-0-13 - Oakland Media Services Limited, POBox 56919 Nairobi - @ PM 2001 - 187 pp

Mwangi clearly deserved plaudits in the superlative for writing about the Kenyan legal profession as it developed after I left the country in 1974, warts and all. Earlier that year I had stepped down as Vice-Chair of the Law Society of Kenya and it was after that things began to change (purely coincidentally, with no credit or blame due to me). That funnily enough is also his starting point, for a gripping account of the ups and downs that followed. I was already uncomfortable with the changes that were taking place and had deep misgivings about what lay ahead. In any case other factors were pulling us away. But Mwangi has captured the subsequent history so well (because even at long distance, I was following the events, off and on, with regular visits back to Kenya over the next 30+ years) that the account he has given resonates with me completely. I am however surprised at the boldness and frankness, and the detail, of it all. The shenanigans of some high profile figures in the government and judiciary were familiar enough through the grapevine, but now we have it all on record and I wonder why those of them who are still around have not taken any action to protect their reputations. The book however was published almost 10 years ago and a lot of the material has already passed into the foggy and dirty history of Kenyan politics, so maybe that explains it.

4) "A Place Within: Rediscovering India" by M G Vassanji - ISBN 978-0-385-66179-9 - Anchor Can p/b 2009 @ MGV 2008 - 440 pp

As I wrote in my review of 2009, `A Place Within` was on the top of my reading list for 2010, in anticipation of meeting MGV at the GSA Conference in April at which he was to give the principal keynote address. And so it happened, on both counts. I also knew the book would resonate with me and so, again, it did on many levels. As he puts it in the Introduction: "It would take many lifetimes, it was said to me during my first visit (in January 1993), to see all of India". When asked if he would visit his ancestral village, he would say no, because he didn`t even know what it was, because for him "India was the ancestral homeland, the village, if you will". There was a distinct echo here of V S Naipaul`s view of India - as of mine, typical of most second, third and fourth generation diasporan Indians - as a generic, amorphous entity that was the whole sub-continent and embraced all who were externally identified as belonging to or emanating from it. His physical discovery of this imagined space takes him across the length and breadth of the country - to the east, south, west and north - by all manner of transport, through many colourful encounters and adventures, and over a series of subsequent prolonged visits. But all the time, he was not only touching base with but also exploring his inner vision of the land of our ancestors that had been part of his (and my) inheritance - hence the `rediscovering` of the title. Again, this is a global phenomenon common to all migrant people across time and space. So for me, there was much to relate to in the book. I will reserve a critique of it as a distinct exercise in itself for another time.

5) "Curry Is Thicker Than Water" by Jasmine D`Costa - ISBN 978-0-9783793-9-1 - Bookland Press Toronto @ JC 2009 - 130 pp - a delectable collection of short stories about Indian characters and themes with such titles as The Elephant on the Highway, Egg. Two Wives and a Doormat, She Married a Pumpkin and The Guest at My Grandfather`s House, all of which give us tantalizing glimpses into the essential nature of Indian life and tradition. Of these `Two Wives` is a particularly delightful tale of two women who wreak a clever revenge on the mean and exploitative man in their lives.

6) "The Piano Teacher" by Janice Y K Lee - ISBN 978-0-00-728637-9 - Harper Press p/b @ JYKL 2009 - 334 pp - about life in Hong Kong under Japanese occupation during WWII and the interaction of a range of characters who both defied and conformed to racial and national stereotypes in varying degrees; the narrative focuses on the eponymous heroine of the title who arrives in Hong Kong as an expatriate Briton in the mid-1950s and soon finds herself drawn into the lives of the survivors as their stories unfold in retrospect.

7) "Testimony" by Anita Shreve - a BCA h/b CN 158814 - @ AS 2008 - 307 pp - a passable holiday read about ranchy goings-on at an exclusive girls` boarding school in New England, the novelty of it all being that the evidence of the sexual acts is captured on videotape which then, as these things inevitably do, becomes public!

8) "Nehru: A Contemporary`s Estimate" by Walter Crocker (with a foreword by Ramachandra Guha) - ISBN 978 81 8400 050 4 - Random India p/b @ Estate of WC - 215 pp - the `contemporary` relates to the last dozen years or so of Nehru`s life during which the author, an Australian diplomat, observed him at close quarters. This then is a re-issue of the book originally published in 1966. His assessment of Nehru`s personality and preoccupation with progress was sharp and robust, but not his ruminations on India`s foreign policy under Nehru in terms of non-alignment and the emergence of a new world order based on post-colonial dynamics. Although not directly relevant to my research on the Gandhi and Jinnah paper (see below), it did provide some historical insights into the whole Indian independence phenomenon with which Nehru`s name will forever be associated, as this passage from the book showed:

"It is true that Gandhi had only fads to offer as regards the greatest problem, population pressure; but his ideas on decentralisation, on village democracy, and on what he called basic education, and on the machine, were as relevant to Indian realities as Nehru`s on industrialisation and socialism were only partly relevant".

9) "Six Suspects" by Vikas Swarup - Black Swan Book 9780552772518 - p/b @ VS 2008 - 558 pp+ - by the author of the book that was turned into the Oscar-winning `Slumdog Millionnaire` - a murder mystery set among a mix of India`s nouveau riche and corrupt politicians on the one hand and the aspiring middle and lower classes on the other, with the usual clever twists and turns of plot and a dramatic denouement.

10) "A View from the Foothills: The Diaries of Chris Mullin" - ISBN 978 1 84668 230 8 - Profile p/b @ CM 2009/10 - 558 pp+ - a far more meaty feast than the previous one of the same length! We are treated to a close scrutiny of the working of British politics and government by a journalist and civil rights campaigner turned an MP and a Minister. His first hand account of the many familiar policies and personalities of the period covered by his memoir brought them alive.

11) "Burnt Shadows" by Kamila Shamsie - ISBN 978 1 4088 0427 8 - Bloomsbury p/b @ KS 2009 - 363 pp - this I have reviewed separately.

12) "Brooklyn" by Colm Toibin - ISBN 978-0-141-04174-2 - Penquin p/b @ CT 2009 - 252 pp - about Irish life and migration to America, and New York`s Brooklyn in particular during the 1950s; superb characterisation, but more importantly it was the universal immigrant experience that resonated most.

13) "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo" by Stieg Larsson (translated by Reg Keeland) - ISBN 978 1 84724 545 8 - MacLehose p/b @ Norstedtz 2005 - 533 pp - the first of the much talked about Millennium Trilogy - riveting but also, in the end, a bit disappointing for me - not cured when I saw the movie version, with a significant variation in the ending.

14) "The Necropolis Railway" by Andrew Martin - ISBN 0-571-20961-0 - publishers details missing - p/b - 231 pp - a bit of Victoriana, a la Dickens, that exposed the underbelly of London`s seamier side that was raw and not altogether charming - one never knew about the existence of the eponymous line that literally signalled the `dead end`! The book might as well have been dubbed `Ghost Train to Oblivion` - a rather apt cue for the next item!

15) "Night Train to Lisbon" by Pascal Mercier - ISBN 978 1 84354 713 6 - @ CHVM Vien 2004 - Atlantic Bks Lond p/b - 436 pp - again a disappointing read - the promise and the potential not matched by the product. I found myself struggling to get into it.

16) "The Silent State" by Heather Brooke - ISBN 9780434020263 - Heinemann 2010 p/b @ HB - 276 pp - by a campaigning and practising journalist - a `must` read for anyone interested in the way state secrecy operates in Britain - pre-dating but in a curious way also preempting Wikileaks!

17) "A Dead Hand: A Crime in Calcutta" by Paul Theroux - ISBN 978-0-141-04416-3 - Penguin p/b @ PT 2009 - 265 pp - one of the two books I took on our trip to India. It made a good and amusing travelling companion. In this, one of his prolific output, PT indulges in a form of sexual fantasy that seems to have become a familiar characteristic of many ageing writers - Andre Brink, Phillip Roth etc. That apart he is as robust as ever in his observation of Indian characters, and social and cultural nuances.

18) "A Week in December" by Sebastian Faulks - ISBN 9780099458289 - Vintage p/b @ AF 2009 - 390 pp - again, just the right antidote to PT`s Indian novel. The slow build-up to the climax of the party scene that brought together a motley collection of contemporary elitist Londoners - with a particular focus on the character of the second generation Muslim scion of a self-made wealthy immigrant businessman and his modernish wife who is drawn into a fundamentalist terrorist clique willy nilly - is done with clinical professional competence like a film script, though the ending is more wishful than ambiguous.

19) "The Lacuna" by Barbara Kingsolver - ISBN 978-0571-25267-1 - Faber/F p/b @ BK 2009 - 670 pp - the most annoying book that I read during the year and for many years past. I failed to get into it, or even to understand what it was trying to tell me. The only reason I thought it might be interesting was because I had heard the author Barbara Kingsolver read from and talk about it rather eloquently at the Orange Book Prize Readings event at the South Bank earlier in the year. Of all the panellists, she was the most articulate, charming and passionate. The book seemed to make sense then, but not in the actual reading, I am afraid. Having started it, I wasn`t going to give up, but after a couple of hundred pages, I had to skip great chunks of it. The physical Mexican-American setting, on both sides of the border, during the 1930s, with Leon Trotsky as a central figure in both the literal and imaginative landscape of the narrator, was intriguing and initially attractive enough, but it was spoilt by an overdone authorial artificiality in its rendering.

20) "Seventy Two Virgins" by Boris Johnson - ISBN 0 00 719805 1 - HarperC p/b 2005 @ BJ 2004 - 326 pp - by no less than the current Mayor of London, whose baffoonish image of an upper class twit masks a truly sharp intellect, full of wit and depth. This was his first novel. Note the publication date: 2004 - when we had all barely recovered from the revelations about what had led up to the Iraq War only to be confronted with its ugly aftermath. At the centre of the novel is an ingenious and frightening terrorist plot to kidnap and hold to ransom a George W Bush-like President of the US on a visit to Britain; only the ransom being in the form of a live universal tv interactive reality show where its global audience was invited to participate by voting for or against his policies, in particular in relation to Guanatanamo. But where Johnson excels is in capturing the minutiae of all the elements of the plot as it unfolds, with a keen eye on the working of the police and security services and in his depiction of the various characters - all done with an amusing light touch and an acute sense of political realities.

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This is the state of play at the year`s ending. I can`t say this year`s collection, eclectic though as ever, has been appealing - far from it. The main reason for it was that during the first three and a half months of 2010, I was wholly preoccupied with research and preparation for my paper on `Gandhi and Jinnah` and delving into the subject at length. The specific works of reference in the making of that study are listed in the bibliography there. So my literary and general reading had to take second place and really didn`t get into full swing until after Easter. I had to grab whatever came handy, and so I do think my choice of books turned out to be rather poor - absymal in fact. The one to top the list was undoubtedly `A Place Within`, but it had been pre-selected anyway, while the most enjoyable were `Seventy Two Virgins` and `A Case of Exploding Mangoes`, and the most informative were `The Black Bar` and `A View from the Foothills`; the rest were just low-to-middle brow. There are, as always, unfinished books or those that I have just started. Among the former, the previous year`s `Blinding Light` and `The Divide` still remain unfinished! But among the two or three that I am currently engaged in reading is Tony Blair`s `(A)Journey`, a massive 700 page political autobiography which will occupy me for the rest of the year, as I only read it in bits while travelling by train.

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Films, Concerts, Theatre

I must say the range of these was more to my usual taste and liking - much better qualitatively than the books were. Here is the full list:

1) "Still Walking" (Arutemo Arutemo, Japanese title)) Dir by Hirokazu Kore-Eda (Japanese, with subtitles) - being always partial to Japanese movies, during the short season of them at the NFT, I greatly regretted missing the old classic `Tokyo Story`, but this was a good substitute. Its rural setting - and the moderately affluent retired life-style of elderly Japanese parents who are being visited by their grown up son and daughter with children of their own on one autumnal day - with all the dynamics of family drama, is beautifully and sensitively captured - I can still vividly picture the image of the whole family walking down a beautiful country lane at a leisurely pace - @ NFT3, 17 Jan

2) "Black Man`s Land White Man`s Country + Mau Mau" = little known archive movie documentaries of the Mau Mau era in Kenya, with historically familiar footage (to those of a certain generation) that evoked the spectre of the violence of both sets of protagonists, followed by a rather unsatisfatory Q&A and general discussion - @ NFT3, 23 Jan

3) Concert: Phil Orch. Cond V Ashkenazy - Elgar Cello Con+Tchaikovsky Manfred Symp - @ RFH, 28 Jan

4) "Late Autumn (Akibiyori) - Dir by Yasujiro Ozu - another in the Japanese season - an enjoyable comedy of manners - @ NFT3, 31 Jan

5) Play: "I Am Yusuf And This Is My Brother" = Amir Nizar Zuabi - a touching and evocative drama about the displacement and exile of Palestinians in 1948 - the partition scene with the cross-migration of refugees could so easily be true of so many other historical parallels - @ The Young Vic, 6 Feb

6) "My Name is Khan" - Dir Karan Johar (Shahrukh Khan, Kajol etc) - about the young Muslim migrant from Mumbai who suffers from Asperger`s syndrome and makes national waves in the post-9/11 America of Obama - a bit too long but passable - @ Odeon KT1, 15 Feb

7)"Waiting" (Drama-Poetry-Recital by Victoria Brittain: Juliet Stevenson, Wendy Jones etc) - on the plight of refugees - @ The South Bank Purcell Room, 12 Mar

8) "She, A Chinese" (dir: Xiaolu Guo author of `A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers`)@ ICA, 18 Mar

9) `Encounter` - (Patricia Rozario, Veena Sahasrabuddhe) @ King`s Place - Durbar Festival - Western classical & Indian music - Mumbai born & bred Rozario is a celebrated soprano and like her compatriot Zubin Mehta a familiar figure on the Western musical scene - @ King`s Place, 1 Apr

10) "The Ghost" - (Dir: Roman Polanski; Ewan McGregor, Pierce Brosnan) - ghostly encounters, atmospheric, overpowering! @ Odeon KT1, 18 Apr

11) "Class Act 2" - City of London Freemen`s School production @ Dorking Halls, 29 Apr

12) Concert - Philharmonia (Cond: K Karabits) - Bernstein (Overture, Candide) Barber (Violin Conc) Prokofiev (Suite, RomeoJuliet) - @ RFH, 20 May

13) Concert - Philharmonia - Brahms Violin Conc + Berlioz Symphonie Fantastique - Cond: E-P Salonen; Violin: Khtachatryan - @ RFH, 10 jun

14) Concert - Leonard Bernstein`s Mass (Cond: Marin Alsop) - supeb stagecraft and chorus - @ RFH, 11 jUL

15) "Eccentricities of a Blond-Haired Girl" (dir: Manoel de Oliveira, Portugal 2009)-eccentric indeed - @ ICA, 21 Aug -

16) "Mother" (Dir Bong Joon-ho, 2009, South Korea) @ ICA - what a mother would do to clear her son wrongly accused of murder - @ ICA, 22 Aug

17) "Bhutto" (Dirs Jessica Hernandez, Johnny O’Hara UK/Pakistan/US) @ ICA - a biopic of Benazir Bhutto, with news and docu footage about her background, upbringing and flowering into the politician and leader that she became - with contributions from her admirers. I had however never thought much of her; she had always seemed to me to lack real depth, unsure of her fundamental beliefs and orientation. The film merely reinforced my prejudice. All this was to resonate with me when later in the year I attended an event that featured her niece and fierce critic Fatima Bhutto in conversation with Nayantara Sahgal, a niece of Nehru! - @ ICA 26 Aug

18) `The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo` (Swedish, sub-titles) @ Epsom P/h - felt I had to see this because of all the hype surrounding the Milennium Trilogy by the author Stieg Larsson, having earlier read the book - not much impressed however! - @ Epsom P/h, 22 Sep

19) Concert - `Teresa Carre o Youth Orchestra of Venezuela` (COND: Christian Vasquez - works inc Carlos Chavez`s Symphony No 2 - Sinfonia India - Copland`s El Salon Mexico and Tchaikovsky`s Symphony No. 5 - an energetic & enthusiastic performance, esp of the last item - @ RFH, 14 Oct

20) Lff (London Film Festival): `I Am Kalam` (Ind - Dir: Nila Madhab Panda - 87 mins - 2010 @ NFT1, 15 Oct

21) Lff: `Autumn` (Ind - Dir: Aamir Bashir - 99 mins - 2010 @ Vue W/E, 19 Oct

22) Lff: "The Parking Lot Movie"(US - Dir: Meghan Eckman) 76 mins - 2010 @ NFT2, 20 Oct

23) Lff: "Dear Doctor" (Jap - Dir: Miwa Nishikawa) 127 mins - 2009 @ NFT1, 28 Oct

All the four films that I chose to see at the LFF were good to excellent, in varying degrees. The most thought-provoking was `Autumn`, about the life of ordinary mortals (Muslims) in Indian Kashmir. It is a damning indictment of the Indian Army occupation and of the denial of democracy and the rule of law to the ordinary folk of that region. It captures and conveys the utter helplessness and despair of individuals caught up in the history and politics of the region in which they themselves are now mere pawns. Their plight is a grim reminder of the brutality of the state in such situations. `I am Kalam` was of a different genre, depicting life in what was clearly meant to be an outpost of Rajasthan, where a prince and a pauper of school age, interact and substitute for each other, with the inevitable confusion of manners and sequels. `Dear Doctor` was about a fake GP in rural Japan who endeared himself to his elderly patients, with some amusing consequences. `The Parking Lot Movie` is a docu-drama about intelligent observations of the goings-on in a parking lot across from the University of Virginia in Charlottsville, a place incidentally that we visited more than 20 years ago!

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Lectures, Talks, Events etc

These too followed the usual pattern, of an assorted range of programmes. Here is the full list

1) 02 Feb - SOAS - Rm 116 - Book Launch of "East Indian Immigration into Canada 1905-1973" by Dr Faqir M Bhatti (Lahore Pakistan Studies Centre, 2007) Ch: Dr Werner Menski, GEMS

2) 04 Feb - RSA 1-2pm - John Lanchester "Whoops" - Chair: Luke Johnson, Chair RSA

3) 11 Feb - RSA 1-2pm - `The Rule of Law` - Lord Bingham

4) 09/10 Apr - SOAS - 3rd Biennial GSA Conference QA

5) 15 Apr - RSA 1-2pm - `Secrets, Surveillance and the State of British Democracy` - Heather Brooke

6) 19 Apr - RSA 1-2 pm - "The Tyranny of Guilt" - Pascal Bruckner, Ch: Nick Cohen

7) 13 May - RSA 6.30pm - "General Election 2010 - Action Replay" - a panel discussion

8) 26 May - RSA 6 pm - "Religion, Democracy and `Enlightenment Values`" - Ian Burumi - Ch: Matthew Taylor

9) 08 Jun - QEH 6.30 pm - "Orange Prize Readings" (Ch of Or Pr Judges: Daisy Goodwin

10) 17 Jun - Barnard`s Inn Hall - Gresham College Lecture by Richard Sorabji on Cornelia Sorabji - 6 pm

11) 25 Jun - QM-Lon Uni - "Fuzzy Law and the Boundaries of Secularism" - Prof W Menski

12) 05 Jul - RFH - Slavo Zizek - Ch: A C Grailing

13) 06 Jul - RSA 6 pm - "Talking to a Brick Wall: Why We Need a New Politics" - Deborah Mattinson + Polly Toynbee, Tessa Jowell

14) 13/14 Sep - Br Library - Bharat Britain: South Asians Making Britain 1870-1950 Conference = C:\Documents and Settings\Ramnik Shah\My Documents\Making Britain Conference.mht

15) 15 Sep - RSA 6 pm - `The Quest for Meaning` - Tariq Ramadan

17) 23 Sep - RSA 1 pm - `The Way We Were: Britain at the Start of the Seventies` - Dominic Sandbrook

18) 22 Oct - King`s Place - "Twin Dynasties" (Nayantara Sahgal & Fatima Bhutto in conv) = C:\Documents and Settings\Ramnik Shah\My Documents\Twin Dynasties Kings Place.mht

19) 15 Dec - RSA 12pm - "Preventing Radicalisation" - Panel: James Bartlett, Douglas Murray, Maajid Nawaz, Hanif Qadir - ch: Matt T 　

The highlight of the year for me was the GSA Conference in April, at which I presented my paper on Gandhi and Jinnah. One was able to meet old friends and make new acquaintances. The Bharat Britain Conference too was exciting and as with the GSA one was able to connect with an important and integral part of our identity at many different levels. The trouble with such conferences is that their predominant academic orientation often prevents the experts from engaging in dialogue with the wider body of intellectuals, and they end up mostly talking to each other!

The most worthy among the other events was the talk by Lord Bingham - and to think that that was less than 11 months ago now, in the light of his subsequent death. By common consent, he was among the greatest English common law jurists of our age. Tariq Ramadan also is an immensely charming, persuasive and extremely well balanced contemporary philosopher. His talk too was most rewarding. The `Twin Dynasties` encounter between the two Indo+Pak luminaries was equally enlightening also.

Foreign Travel

This year, we did two big trips: one to Spain, France and Andorra (in October) - and the other, a more arduous one, to India in November. I have written about the latter on this blogsite separately, and about the other elsewhere.

General

I think my most accomplished achievement during the year was undoubtedly the Gandhi / Jinnah paper. It had been quite a challenge. My regular Diasporan Voice columns in the AwaaZ magazine are also a source of much professional satisfaction. Indeed, in the latest issue (No. 3 of 2010), which alas I have yet not seen, my piece brings out the marvels of metropolitan London, both historical and current. And I continue be an active member of the Editorial Board of the IANL (Immigration Asylum and National Law) Journal, to which I contribute also. Finally there is a great deal of interactive stuff on the internet that takes up a lot of time on a daily basis too. Although therefore I have one or two ideas for my next research/writing project, I am not rushing into that, as I have to be mindful of other priorities and pressures of normal living! Indeed, these are already making their mark felt, as evidenced by this year`s review, which is lacking in the sort of depth and particularlity that I would have liked. So while a a lot is going on in my life, it will not be the same as before, as I am beginning to slow down. Old age? Maybe!

PS> At least there is one thing I can do which will be less strenuous: dig out some more material from my own personal archives and repost them here - so watch this space. With best wishes for 2011.

RAMNIK SHAH
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