Signposts to 2021
January 3, 2021
A year that begins with a huddle of the leaders of opposition parties to redesign their strategy at a critical moment in their campaign to overthrow the government of Prime Minister Imran Khan will not promise peace and tranquility on the political front. And this deadly confrontation is sure to dominate a public discourse that is less a debate and more a partisan harangue.
Considering the agony that most of us have suffered during the year of the pandemic, that ritualistic exercise of making hopeful and ambitious resolutions for the New Year has lost its glamour and pizzazz. Besides, the spectre of Covid-19 is continuing to haunt us. Still, the sense of a new beginning, of stepping into a new space of time is conspicuous by its presence.