Janus January is named after the Roman god of beginnings and transitions, Janus. Janus has two faces, one looking backward and the other forward. January is the time to look in both directions. I am terrified and challenged simultaneously by this January, January 2014. Because 2013 has been the worst year in my life. In spite of the fact I am not new to the usual ups and downs of life. 2013 was the year of FACES for me. MASKS. I had never seen so many masked faces in my life earlier. I had never seen smiles that looked angelic but turned out to be diabolic – not even when my students cared to point it out to me. Not ever to the extent 2013 undressed itself. I saw more than half of my colleagues lose their jobs in 2013. I witnessed the march of capitalism and religion, hand in hand. They marched wearing the best saris or the best of cravats available in the market. They marched on the bones of people they buried beneath the land they acquired in the p