Should we be Scared?
So we are almost at the end of the year 2016. And boy, what a year it has been! A joke doing the rounds in certain social media circle aptly describes the experience. The joke goes something like this: The year is a hundred or so hence and a history teacher tells his class, “So that concludes the history lesson for year 2015 and now let’s move on to year 2017.” Surprised, one student stands up and asks him, “But sir, what about 2016?” and the teacher answers “We don’t talk about it.” Jokes apart, does this message strike home? Is this year going to be our shame, an embarrassment, we will never talk about? Let’s have a look at the events. Brexit, Trump’s victory in the presidential election, an increase in racist attacks on migrants and people being judged for their skin colour, religion and their ethnic backgrounds rather than intelligence (even Obama and his wife Michelle have been targets of such racism) and closer home an increasing shift in how we vie...