The final countdown

As the year draws to a close, we are subjected to the mandatory top 10 lists. As the year draws to a close, we are subjected to the mandatory top 10 lists. From top 10 movies, books, writers, chefs, plumbers, florists, there is a list for every field! Do top tens mark the death of mass culture? Quite possible, considering the fact that we no longer share homogeneity of tastes and habits.
So, not surprisingly, bloggers to tabloids are dishing out their own lists, which make perfect sense to, well, themselves! We will go one step further and make our own top 10 list of top 10 lists and celebrate the unprecedented choices at our disposal.

• Top 10 sting operations: Sting operations were dime a dozen in 2005. Some were cast from the couch, and others, from the wallet.
• Top 10 celebrity patients: Thanks to Amitabh Bachchan's hospitalisation, we know about diverticulitis in graphic detail...
• Top 10 natural disasters: From Tsunami, Katrina to earthquakes, nature bared its fangs in full glory.
• Top 10 Men of the Year: So many honourable men, but so few prizes. But then there are so many magazines... for everybody to get their share.
• Top 10 fashion weeks: How many fashion weeks are there? No clarity. Every city seems to have one.
• Top 10 bloggers' meets: There were many bloggers' meets in Delhi, perhaps, just perhaps more than there were bloggers?
• Top 10 cricket controversies: She loves me/she loves me not... was replaced by Dada is in/Dada is out.
• Top 10 celebrity reunions: It was a Karismatic year, where celebrity break-ups were passe and reunions were in...
• Top 10 bad sex writers: It was the year when writers from the land of the Kamasutra marked themselves as clumsy writers of sex.
• Top 10 corrupt MPs: This is the only list that threatens to become the top 100 list.