The year that we are biding adieu to, 2024 has been an eventful year for India and the world.

The world is still reeling under the impact of wars that have killed and displaced innocent millions in Russia, Ukraine and Middle East. There has been civil wars in a few geographies too and they have taken a heavy toll of people. These are close on the heels of millions that died due to Covid. You could call these catastrophical deaths in the last 4 years akin to and extended WW3.

Elsewhere in the world people continue to live under fear of internal conflicts, political turmoils and nature’s fury. Countries put their own interest ahead of other global priorities and concerns as they try to protect their identity and security at the cost of escalating cost of living, social unrest , unemployment and sustainability issues. Trade barriers continue to hog the limelight as major countries move to enforcing protectionist policies. China continue to produce like never before to handle rising labour costs with high export volumes and is dumping their goods into countries that depend on them and its technology.

Four elections defined the way people chose local issues over the global issues- in India, Japan, UK and US. The people resolved to put their country, growth and well being as their primary mandate and chose leaders / parties whom they want to lead them. Excepting India, other three nations dismissed the ruling dispensations and chose new leaders to charter new paths.

In science and technology space, new milestones were achieved in space experiments and the most significant is the advent of Artificial Intelligence that is going to define new innovative revelations in improving healthcare, manufacturing and genetic conditions. Ai is definitely a boon and a concern for the world. The world is anxiously waiting to heap its benefits.

Major countries are taking huge efforts in predicting and thwarting climatic imbalance as we see changing weather patterns and global warming pose major worries to our next generations.

Immigrancy has assumed enormous importance and countries that are bearing the impact of both legal and illegal immigrancy have to face the fury of people as their resources are at peril. The cultural habits, militant behaviour and religious fanaticism of insurgent groups apparently destroy the peace and harmony of the citizens.

Let us fervently hope that peace and good sense prevail all over the world in 2025 and beyond.

Best wishes for a happy new year!

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