Mangalore: This Friday 2010 goes out as past one year and people welcome 2011 by sunset with effigies or cutouts having messages.
On the seashore in Ports like Mumbai, ships are lined up with lights in sedate waters. Mangalore has had 2 cruise ships recently at Panumbur, of foreign tourists.
We count the blessings of 2010 and move forward for a New Year full of expectation. 2010 has been a great year for Indian sports and games with Indian players winning gold / silver medals and cash awards in plenty, through Commonwealth and Asian Games, Cricket, Billiards, Badminton, Chess besides Athletics found new heroes and heroines like V. Anand, Saina Nehwal, P. Advani, Ashwini Akkunje, Mamata Poojary, Sachin Tendulkar, WS Laxman and so on.
There was less of terrorism and more of readiness against it in India. Business was good and money was available largely. Corrupt ways of doing business and ruling parties at Delhi, Mumbai and Bangalore were recorded