{"id":341261,"date":"2023-01-02T01:53:41","date_gmt":"2023-01-02T07:23:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=341261"},"modified":"2023-01-03T01:55:45","modified_gmt":"2023-01-03T07:25:45","slug":"glimmer-of-hope-as-we-usher-into-a-happy-new-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/glimmer-of-hope-as-we-usher-into-a-happy-new-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Glimmer of hope as we usher into a Happy New Year"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Despite years of uncertainty and despair because of a global pandemic, life moved on, teaching us that no obstacles can stop us.\u00a0People will speak, powerful will have to listen and our\u00a0collective voice can change the world. \u00a0At this juncture when we bid adieu to 2022 and herald the new year, we can hope to see a beacon of light at the end of a dark tunnel.<\/p>\n

No doubt, recently China has witnessed a surge in cases\u00a0while some spread has also been reported from Japan, South Korea, USA, France, Brazil, Germany, Italy, Australia, Hong Kong and Taiwan, but thankfully, India has reported just about 150 cases during this period. Leading vaccinologists\u00a0reason that in India,\u00a097 per cent of the people have received the first Covid shot, 90 per cent have received both and 27 per cent people have already been boosted.\u00a0 They say that in India, people have developed hybrid immunity as a majority has been infected and vaccinated.\u00a0 This provides protection from the recent infections reported from China and other countries.<\/p>\n

WHO\u00a0Emergencies chief, Dr. Michael Ryan has said.\u00a0\u201cVaccination is the exit strategy from omicron.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0The WHO director-general, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus on December 21 quipped, \u201cWe are hopeful that each of these emergencies \u2014 Covid-19, Mpox and Ebola \u2014 will be declared over at different points next year.\u201d\u00a0The\u00a0WHO chief notes, \u201cCertainly, we are in a much better place with the pandemic than we were a year ago.\u201d<\/p>\n

As the year came to a close, the FIFA World Cup also gave us a message of hope that this Cup was no more the monopoly of European nations. When cricketing legend Sachin Tendulkar in his tweet compared India’s 2011 cricket World Cup journey with Argentina’s campaign in this FIFA World Cup, it left\u00a0a lesson for India, currently ranked 106 by FIFA.\u00a0 The lesson is that a nation of 1.4 billion too can prove its supremacy in the world’s most enchanting sporting endeavour.\u00a0\u00a0Saudi Arabia\u00a0proved this point when it kicked off its campaign with a\u00a02-1 comeback win\u00a0against champions Argentina bringing to an end Argentina’s 36 match unbeaten streak.\u00a0The tournament saw the best-ever performance by non-European and non-South American teams.\u00a0 Of course,\u00a0one of the all-time greats of football, Messi has undoubtedly earned the distinction of being revered on a par with legendary Diego Maradona.<\/p>\n

All that gives us a glimmer of hope in times of despair.\u00a0\u00a0It is said that when life\u2019s circumstances drop us to our knees, we feel a loss of hope but by understanding that hope is a choice, we can cope better and keep it alive.\u00a0Norman Vincent Peale, the author of best-selling book \u2018The Power of Positive Thinking\u2019, suggested, \u201cPractice hope. As hopefulness becomes a habit, you can achieve a permanently happy spirit\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Despite years of uncertainty and despair because of a global pandemic, life moved on, teaching us that no obstacles can stop us.\u00a0People will speak, powerful will have to listen and our\u00a0collective voice can change the world. \u00a0At this juncture when we bid adieu to 2022 and herald the new year, we can hope to see […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":341262,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[214,23,2205],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341261"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=341261"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341261\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":341263,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341261\/revisions\/341263"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/341262"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=341261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=341261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=341261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}