It is that time of year—the time for renewals, new beginnings, and resolutions. With the last one, I am both an optimist and a pessimist. While in a funk, I ask myself why I make resolutions since I don’t persist with them anyway. But come this time of year, I make resolutions anyhow. People celebrate New Year on a Bengaluru street. (HT Photo) I think a New Year’s resolution is an expression of hope. It is built on the idea that this year, finally, we will tick off all those things that we have been yearning to conquer– lose weight, exercise, learn embroidery, recite Urdu shairis (sonnets), dance the samba. Some take the opposite approach. They don’t make resolutions and make grand pronouncements like, “I don’t make resolutions; I keep them.” Wrap up the year gone by & gear up for 2024 with HT! Click here I make tons of resolutions. My success record is patchy. This year, I pulled up all my written resolutions over the years to create a survey of new year …