This year may yet redeem itself. A couple of Covid-19 vaccines may get approved by the end of the year. That would mean that some may reach the market by early next year. Of course, that would not be the end of Corona, but at least the chain might get broken leading to a slowdown of the disease. This alone should be the reason for lifting of gloom that came to define 2020.

But life, to paraphrase a line from Queen’s iconic song ‘I want to break free’, still went on and will go on in 2021 too. And so, here is the December issue, as always, a special on the Indian Navy. Usually a celebratory issue, this year there has not been much to rejoice. For good part of the year, the navy, along with other services, was engaged in operations to support government’s ameliorative measures for Covid-19.