Scholarly Worldly Relevance

Abstract

For anyone who lived through it, year 2008 will be a very memorable one. Each of us may have one or more reasons to remember it, for one thing because these reasons are likely to be with us for a while. The global economic turmoil has made clear the extent of economic globalization; political events in the USA were watched closely and opined by the entire world, as another side of globalization; our digital life has taken one further step of unabated growth, witnessed by various Google products and URLs as the exclusive references in our student's submitted reports.