the YEAR that was : 2009

Ideas trump crises.
Throw the world a problem and some genius, or even a regular Joe in a moment of inspiration, will carve out a solution and chuck it right back at you.
2009 was that kind of year, extricating itself from quandary after quandary -.
powered by a thought, an event...
. a philosophy.
- If someone asks how 2009.:.survived, answer with this question:-/iOw-could it~ have not?
A man with the tag line 'Yes, we can' won an election he was historically never supposed to win.
A group of slumdwellers became the toast of the rich and the famous.
A drop of water brought man closer to the prospect of life on Moon.
A nation shut the door on archaic prejudice, opened its mind to free thought.
A world tentatively, but finally, started crawling out of a deep depression.
Failure didn't stand a chance.
Hope sprang out of the wellspring of creativity, originality and, yes, even pure cussedness.
It found a dear friend in irreverence, which thumbed its nose at the close-minded and suffused the year with buoyancy.
Now, 2010 has come knocking. The baton of life will change hands.
But there's much to remember 2009 by.
Read on.



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