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ITS time! The mother earth has completed her 365 diurnal motions, and gifted us with another new year. It's time to brainstorm over New Year resolutions, to contemplate and baffle ourselves with streams of expectations and scraps of regrets. It's time to be chirpy and resilient and border our cloud nine with silver linings. Talk about resolutions, my resolution for this year is that I wouldn't be taking any resolutions at all. Year 2007 was a fluxed one, it left me with reasons and lessons , setting a glass ceiling for my new-year expectations this time. There are quite a handful of things I want to see becoming reality this year, not only for me, but for a lot of people out there. When there are existence of problems awaiting to be addressed, i'ts not the time for glitzy resolutions.

According to an ancient Chinese Philosophy, “We can change the world by beginning with ourselves; Each time we change our own behavior, people around us have to respond differently. They can't keep doing the same dance because the rules have changed.”

It's time we do something for the greater prospects, not for a nobler cause, but to divide what we have with people who don't have anything. Yes, I am talking about the SIDR victims. We all can do our part, it doesn't require to be a millionaire to help the distressed; it only requires a realization, an intention. There are numerous ways by which we can contribute- We could do it by donating our unused clothes at nearest collecting centres, almost all the universities have one; we could do it by donating money at different accounts dedicated for them; we could do it by participating in programmes in aid of the victims; we could do it by buying products whose revenue goes back to the SIDR victims, we could do it by collecting relief materials ourselves and donating them in person; we could do it even by a sms- as simple as that. It's time to start with ourselves first. Let's make the zero-sum game into a positive-sum one. We can, and we should!

Student life- Just when we are exploring the emerging possibilities , preparing ourselves for a boisterous career, everything comes to a stand still all of a sudden- because of the unstable political turnarounds of our country. Student politics reaches its height, campus stays bobbled with battered bits of bricks, with ashes of burning tires; universities are closed down- for months, setting a question mark in each students academic life. It's time we refrain from creating chaos, it's time our authorities think about us students as students , literally.

September 27, 2007- a day marked black for a lot of us. We lost our respected faculty, Dewan Rahat Karim. The loss that his family suffered, the agony that all the people connected to him went through, and of all the people who didn't even know him- is beyond any kind of redemption. We are not ready to lose innocent young lives due to frail law and order system. It's time we make it a point, that we deserve the minimum security of our precious lives. We should not be tolerating any kind of injustice, We cant and we wont!

Yet it's a new year, a new hope, a new beginning. Let's start it afresh , with ambient hopes and blissful believes for a better future, a brighter tomorrow. Let's take a small step towards the long strides of the journey yet to begin.

“I guess it's in all those great important matters

We all like to bend around

We do our best to ignore

While our hearts is reaching for more”

Let's set our foot, on the stance of a new beginning…HAPPY NEW YEAR everyone!