When I came up with the 100 for 100 programme back in 2007, it was somewhere around the end of September. While things started out reasonably well in the first three decades, what I didn’t count on was the havoc that the imminent festive season was about to play on my noble intentions. With Dussehra in mid-October, Diwali soon after and a trip to Goa in between, I didn’t have to wait for Christmas to call it all off. Attempts to revive things once or twice in the middle also turned out to be non-starters.

This time around, though, the timing is much more strategically sound, and the chances of seeing it through till the end on May 25 far, far better. All because of Lent. Continue reading The Season of Lent