A Year Is Just a Number: As 2025 Comes to an End
As the year winds down, I feel immensely thankful for what I've learned. A year is nothing but a calculation. In itself, it makes no difference. Days move on, waiting for what we need or do not need to do. All the same, meaning-making is a process of engaging with time productively. I stopped making resolutions for important occasions because I find it disheartening to know that I failed miserably at keeping them. On entering 2025, I had no particular resolution, save that to complete my PhD at the earliest. As I am an expert at failing to keep resolutions, this year too, on hindsight, my resolution to complete most of my research work remains incomplete! There is a happy side to it. I began reading, besides works related to my research and some magazine stuff, books that I picked up by chance or on recommendation. If you are still reading this scribbling, it is not a recommendation list on book-reading! I found them engaging, transforming, challenging, and, at times, sad-making. H...