Facebook’s latest feature, the timeline, as Chritsopher Poshin David (a writer/intern here, no biggie) says, “is some pretty decent shit!”

We couldn’t agree more. But then we activated on our own profiles and soon realised this is just one big ploy by the Facebook people to make it easier for everyone to see our extremely embarrassing and immature pasts. When we still used words like ‘lolzzz’.

This new thing got us thinking. Thinking about all those timelines we could not see. Thinking about India’s very own timeline. Then we were like, hey, let’s make our own!

So here we are. India’s timeline from 2011 to 2000. The good, the bad and the ugly from each year. Why haven’t we done years prior to 2000? Because, c--tiya hai kya?! I have to try getting laid also!

2011

The Good - World Champions

The Indian Cricket team managed to win the Cricket World Cup hosted by your own lovely country and its neighbours. As soon as the win happened, the whole country burst out into unanimous celebrations and partied like they have never partied before! What more could we ask for?

The Bad - KLPD

Poonam Pandey, a wannabe starlet/model, promised to go commando, for the whole country to bask in her happiness, if the men in blue brought home the coveted Cricket World Cup.
Fortunately we did win it. Unfortunately she did not keep her end of the promise. KLPD dena koi isse seekhe.

The Ugly - Let Them Have Cake

Anna Hazare single handedly (with the help of a few ten thousand Indians) managed to scare the shit out of the Indian government. They (Government) did not want to a repeat performance from Baba Ramdev’s army of elderly people and yoga lovers so they put him in jail.
Then, in a proper ‘let them have cake’ moment, they did the same thing with Anna before he could even begin his second fast

2010 

The Good - Cockiness

Hahahahaha. Yes. Cocky bunch of people we are! Whackk! was founded in June, 2010. The world as we know it (mostly consisting of Facebook and Internet porn) has never be the same again.

The Bad - Dabanggness

The release and consequent success of Dabangg has brought down the level of bollywood to... hmm.. tollywood (?)
Over the top heroic heroes and dumbed down damsels in not so much distress are all these portray.

The Ugly - Scam-mess

Enough has been said about it since the history of ever. Or since last year. Wanna see our article about it? But we insist. Please. Just click the link already! 

2009

The Good - Homo Power

The Delhi Court made history for India when it decriminalised Section 377 which basically penalised you for being gay.
No, you were never being penalised for being happy.
Ok. Sorry.

The Bad - UPA (in) Power

Although we wouldn’t know it then (how could we? Only hindsight is 20/20)  bringing the UPA back into power would be our undoing. Seems like so many of us shouldn’t have voted after all. Collectively we all just cause cockups!

The Ugly - Terror Power

The sole survivor among the terrorists of the November 2008 attack on Mumbai, Kasab is tried for his.. terrorising.. acts. He pleads guilty, then switches stories. So much sadness.

2008

The Good - Medal meri saason, meri baaton mein....

2008 was a good year for sports in India! A gold and two bronze metals in the Beijing summer Olympics is some nicer than decent shit, wouldn’t you agree?

The Bad - Peace Pause

Just when we thought things were going fine between us, Pakistan decided to do something crazy, like it always does. Enter a bunch of terrorists who go on to strike some serious terror for three days in our hearts.
Unfortunately, politics takes centre stage and what-could-have-been-an-epic-match is canceled.
I know, the hyphenated words were unnecessary, but is that all you got out of this?

The Ugly - Cause of Pause

The Mumbai terror attack has already been mentioned twice in here. That’s how ugly it was.

2007 

Some cool person : hey man sup?
India (in 2007) : nm.
India (in 2007) : Oh btw, I got a new President. Female and all. The last one was much more rad though.
Some cool person : 1967 called. He wants ‘rad’ back. Lolzzz.

2006

The Good - I Can't Believe I am Saying This

The release of Krrish by the Roshan father-son duo gave India the confidence that we could make superhero movies too. C’mon, it was a rather nice attempt, no?
Unfortunately, it lead to debacles such as this :

The Baddddd

2006 was also the year one of India's biggest reality shows started airing. Bigggg Bossss. The shows main aim in life was to become the center of wannabe land. 

Oh wait, that's the main aim of every reality show. Facepalm.
 

The Ugly - Yes, Again

Terror struck again in the form of serial blasts in trains during rush hour. Turns out terror attacks in Mumbai are a pretty common thing. But, you already knew that.

2005

The Good - Defeats Evil

This is big! Or probably not. I am a Bihari, can’t help it mayne.
Nitish Kumar was finally able to defeat Laloo Prasad Yadav’s RJD and drive him out of the state.

The Bad - Strikes Again!

Turns out terror attacks in Delhi too are a pretty common thing..

The Ugly - ness is caused on Earth's face

This mega earthquake rocked India and Pakistan and lead to the death of thousands of people. A very dark time, indeed.
As silver lining, this disaster did somewhat help in strengthening ties between the two nations.

2004

The Good

To show that the government does actually care, they decided to have a nice chai-biskoot meeting with Kashmiri separatists who don’t like being too extreme.

Then they decided to pull off troops from the Kashmiri border to tell Pakistan we are too badass to care about a couple of your militants entering our country from there.

The Bad

Yes. This was it. The defining moment. Emraan Hashmi and Mallika Sherawat shot to fame with the release of Murder. Although the movie was a surprise hit, it still remains a surprise these two are still acting.

The Ugly

This got really ugly. A major earthquake somewhere in the oceans triggered huge tidal waves, which now everybody knows are called Tsunamis, killing thousands of people and causing destruction that would have caused you to wet your pants if you were there.

Of course, if you were there to witness it, wet pants would have been the least of your worries. Nobody would have noticed the difference.

2003

The Good

The Indian cricket team had been performing exceptionally poorly in almost all the matches and a lot of fuel was being wasted in burning the players’ effigies. Realising that fuel doesn’t come cheap, they decided to up their performance a little and managed to reach the finals against Australia in the Cricket World Cup hosted in South Africa. They lost, but hey, we are forgiving people, right.

The Bad

The cricket craze among Indians is definitely a very bad thing. We end up ignoring so many other things. Like Himesh Reshammiya. He shot to stardom with the Salman Khan starrer, Tere Naam. One hit song after another, a billion nasal performances that sound like anal rapes and a zillion pimped out rickshaws later, Himesh has decided to take his talent international. You read right. Watch this :
 

The Ugly

Previously mentioned Himesh also composed music for a movie called Chura Liyaa Hai Tumne (conveniently translated by Wikipedia as ‘Captured By You’) and had an item song called Mohabbat Hai Mirchi. That was actually an alright song. Not bad y’know.

Except, the item girl was Rakhi Sawant. YES!

2002 

The Good 

Indian Presidents tend to be quiet and in general totally un-inspiring. A total departure from these characteristics was Avul Pakir Jainulabdeen Abdul Kalam (yes, yes, Wikipedia zindabad). He was not only a charismatic and dynamic personality, he was also a very inspiring person that the people of India could look up to!

The Bad and The Ugly

Nothing badder or uglier could have happened that year that could have overshadowed the communal riots in Gujarat. Triggered after an attack on a train carrying devotees, the situation could not be brought under control for a long time.

2001 

Was a remarkably unremarkable year. Like 2007. People couldn’t have cared less about anything else.

2000

The Good

India finally becomes No. 1 at something. Oh wait. It’s only the population.

The Bad

ONE FUCKING BILLION!!!!!!!

The Ugly

End of the first year of the new millennium saw the launch of K serials by Ekta Kapoor’s Balaji Telefilms. The sole cause of millions of unproductive housewives and me wanting to put a fist through my television.