Lakkisetti Praveen , Hyderabad says, Is your Hope still Alive?
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Hyderabad, Jan. 8. ``How shall we greet one another as 2009 dawns? `May you not fall a victim of a terrorist attack!` `May God protect you from the dangers of a living place like Kandhamal!` `May you be safe in a hospital!` `May God protect you in a train station!` Strange as it may sound, another wish or greeting too sounds appropriate: `May God protect us from our media!` (New Leader, January 1-15, 2009)The New Year 2009 e-mail message I sent to all the addressees of my contact was the following: ``Let us remember the past with GRATITUDE, let us live the present with CONFIDENCE and let us look to the future with HOPE.`` There is something that struck my attention and purpose in penning these lines. My mind went back to the year that has gone into the annals of history - year 2008 not all that pleasant as we wished at its commencement. Cutting across all the fields and sections of the society, the year 2008 has been marked for its bad omens - of course not accidental but very much human made! Glancing through the year, though not late, year 2008 has left us many scars of hatred, violence and above all non-love. The examples and incidents are gallore. One could easily track back, with much ease, all that incidents that questioned the human survival and existence. The world in general and India in particular has witnessed shameful atrocities that made us bend our head in utter shame? The human being became the greatest enemy of the person.
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