Happy New Year

The year 2006 should be marked as the year of the superpower. In mot news categories, the authoritarian reign of a single superpower stick out like a dangling modifier. No, I do not only mean United States of America. (In truth, every year in recent memory has been America’s for some time now.) Take for instance cricket, a game that has been etched to the DNA of Indians. Australia rules with ruthless efficiency. Take the case of tennis. Roger Federer with his mesmerizing authority on court is making his opponents the ‘have-nots’ of tennis. In Kerala, CPM is doing what USA is doing to the world. The CPM juggernaut is rolling over the people whom the party does not perceive to have any value in elections. So let us sincerely hope that the world will have either no superpowers or at least two superpowers in all aspects in 2007. Let us dream for the sweet days of cold war. Wish you all a super 2007.