Dead Dream Kept Alive of the Year: BJP leader LK Advani's Prime Ministerial ambitions, for trying to make us think that general elections could still happen in 2012 and the NDA could still come to power and Advani could still break Morarji Desai's record of taking the PM’s oath for the first time at the age of 81. Contradiction of the Year: Formula One racing and India. A stray dog and an F1 car on the same track. F1 freaks and F1 ignoramuses sitting side by side. UP Chief Minister Mayawati and pop icon Lady Gaga at the same event. ''Poor'' UP and a ''rich'' sport in a blissful jugalbandi.
Image: Senior leader of the Bhartiya Janta Party (BJP) L K Advani addresses the crowd during an 'All India anti-corruption yatra' (The Jan Chetna Yatra) in Amritsar on November 14, 2011. (Photograph copyright AFP)
