2014 – The year-end review in five words

#2014In5words With just a few days more left for 2014, can we describe it in just 5 words? ‘It was a messy year’ would best describe the year going by.
2014 was a year that has seen happenings that are disgusting, barbaric, and revolting with breakup of Ukraine, air crashes of Malaysian Airlines flights, destruction of Syria’s chemical weapons, atrocities like beheading of innocents and the cold blooded murder of women committed by ISIS in Iraq and Syria, by the kidnapping of schoolgirls from Chibok by Boko Haram in Nigeria, by the Pakistani Taliban in Pakistan mowing down hundreds of innocent children, by the growing black-divide in the United States, by the epidemic Ebola.
Of course, there have been moments of joy and rejoicing – like the Sochi Winter Olympics, the revelations about methane on Mars, the low-cost Mangalyaan mission to Mars by India, the Nobel Prize for Malala Yousafzai, the emergence of BJP as a political power in India, the drop in oil prices due to fracking etcetera.
Therefore, we can safely describe #2014In5words – ‘it was a messy year’.