Illustration/Ravi Jadhav

On the first day of the year, January 1, many of us indulge in electoral promises, yaniki, making new year resolutions. In my youth, I did this with such belief that I would make a whole time table of resolutions accommodating every subject of life from PT to home science, so to speak. Because life is simply a growing awareness and acceptance of one's limits and limitations, my resolutions have been inching from fantasy to optimism to ambition to pragmatism, finally coming to rest at the final destination of modesty.