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Waiting for Godot

THAT was the caption of one of the news on UPA II in The Hindu . I don't know how many of you understand it, even the journalists at The Hindu . The caption first appeared in HT almost two decades ago. I asked many staffers of HT the meaning of the phrase but none could. THE irony is that reading habit is fading or the taste has changed. Many of you write reading as a hobby in the application form. When I ask such aspirants whether they have read Kafka/Khalil Gibran/Gogol/Lu Xun etc., many of them have not even heard the names. This is not a healthy trend. Anyway. AFTER reading this caption in The Hindu , I searched Wikipedia but got no answer. The only thing Wikipedia informed me (which I already knew) that it is the name of an absurd (sic) drama written by Samuel Beckett in 1948-49. The fact is that it is a trend-setter drama that has been translated in more than 50 languages of the world and staged in many more countries. Here I won't talk about the news--Three Year