<div><img src="/imagedata/2011/dec/lindsy-op123456789.jpg" border="0" align="left" alt="" />'In 2011, protesters didn't just voice their complaints; they changed the world.' That explanation by Time Magazine, for making 'The Protestor' its Person of the Year, amused a number of people for a while. As Dave Thornton put it, for instance: 'The irony is, if you tell people you think that's rubbish, you're a Person of the Year.' Fake Dispatch came up with this: 'Breaking: People protesting the Time Person of the Year cover suddenly find themselves on the cover.' In Keith Urbahn's words, 'Last week, I'm pretty sure I saw Time's Person of the Year selling crystal meth out of his tent.' And a non-cynical comment from Arun Hegde: 'Anna Hazare is undoubtedly the Man of the Year 2011. Our own protestor.'</div><div><br /></div><div><b>Another class act</b></div><div>Cricketer Rahul Dravid delivered the annual Sir Donald Bradman Oration on December 14, and promptly became a trending topic. Diogeneb tweeted: 'Somebody ought to make music with that speech in The Dewarists.' Jitesh Pillaai added: 'Read and re-read the speech. Rahul, you beauty! We need more like you.' According to Ramesh Srivats: 'This time, Dravid is safe. It'll take at least one year for someone to overshadow his Bradman Oration.' And some dissent from Revti Patwardhan: 'Now enough of Dravid's speech. Playing it again and again is making it as boring as a Rahul Gandhi speech!'</div><div><br /></div><div><b>Jingle bells</b></div><div>So, what do you want for Christmas? The folk on Twitter listed everything from 'tickets to see my favourite singer' and 'all the hate to stop' to 'well moisturised hair', ' a white girlfriend with good credit', 'eternal love and devotion', 'one of those new-fangled 3D televisions' and, inevitably, 'the one and only Justin Bieber.'</div><div><br /></div><div><b>The last word</b></div><div>From former cricketer Sanjay Manjrekar: 'No current cricketer I have known is more aware of the world outside cricket than Dravid. His talk in Canberra, as expected, was brilliant!'</div><div><br /></div><div><i><b>-- Lindsay Pereira is Editor,u00a0MiD DAY Onlineu00a0(twitter.com/lindsaypereira)</b></i></div>        

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