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Rewind 2022: Year in Review
All Major Events That Happened This Year

War and fashion; protests and comicons; fire and flood. In 2022, our world, as is its wont, offered up an immaculate mix of chaos to put to rest any lingering notions of order and meaning.

BATTERED GROUND

Photo: Aris Messinis / AFP

Nine months on, with scores of civilian lives lost, cities devastated and families in disarray, the Ukraine-Russia war is a brutal stalemate with no end in sight. Ukrainian soldiers help people cross a destroyed bridge over the Irpin river as they evacuate the city of Irpin, northwest of Kyiv, during heavy shelling on March 5.

SONG BIRD

Photo: Satish Bate / Hindustan Times via Getty Images

Starting her career in 1942, Hindi cinema's greatest playback singer has recorded 50,000 songs in over 30 different languages, a momentous, matchless feat. Born to a family of performers in Indore, her lilting voice has emoted for actors down generations, from Madhubala to Preity Zinta.

RENAISSANCE A(i)RT

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Humanoid artist Ai-Da painting at the Giardini Della Biennale in Venice, Italy, on April 19. Devised in Oxford by art specialist Aidan Miller, Ai-Da has made history by becoming the first robot to speak in Britain's House of Lords. The robot artist told British lawmakers that although not alive, she was still "capable of producing art". Shortly after, Ai-Da did something very human: She 'fell asleep' inside the Parliament.

WARRIOR.....

Photo: Anne-Christine Poujoulat / AFP

Performers demonstrate Kung Fu-like manoeuvres during the spectacular opening ceremony of the Winter Olympics at National Stadium, Beijing, China, on February 4. Nearly 600 million Chinese had tuned in to the Winter Games at some point, and the opening ceremony was reportedly the country's most-watched broadcast in a decade.

.....GAMES

Photo: Toby Melville / Reuters

US's Alexa Knierim and Brandon Frazier compete in the figure skating pairs event during the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympic Games on February 7. They could move up and win the gold medal if and when the IOC clears the pending doping investigation against Russian winner Kamila Valieva.

GOLD MINER

Photo: Courtesy Hombale Films

Directed by Prashanth Neel, K.G.F. - Chapter 2 has emerged as the highest-grossing film of 2022, crossing the Rs1,000 crore mark at the global box office. Starring South star Yash, the film follows the story of Rocky (Yash), an orphan who rises from poverty and eventually becomes the king of the gold mine. The multilingual film was released in Kannada, Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam and Hindi.

HANGING GARDENS

Photo: Money Sharma / AFP

Autorickshaws are ubiquitous on New Delhi's roads, but Mahendra Kumar's vehicle stands out. Kumar drives his vehicle with a ‘garden' on its roof, aimed at keeping passengers cool during the searing summer season compounded by Delhi's poor air.

TRIGGER CRAZY

The year 2022 will go down in history as the one in which the second-highest number of mass shootings took place in the US. The country is the most heavily armed in the world, with more civilian-owned guns than people and has about 120.5 firearms per 100 residents, according to the Small Arms report. Despite vocal public outrage in the wake of mass shootings, only 52 percent of the US population supports stricter gun laws.

Photo: Armen Armenian / Reuters

Wounded people lie at the 36th Street subway station after a shooting, in New York City, on April 12.

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Chris Shelton, 36, helps his son Luke, 7, steady a firearm at the National Rifle Association annual convention on May 28 in Houston, Texas. The convention comes days after a mass shooting in Uvalde, Texas, which left 19 students and two adults dead.

INFLATABLE CREATION

Photo: Henry Nicholls / Reuters

A model presents a tentacle-like inflatable creation, which is part clothing and part sculpture, inspired by deep-sea life, during the ‘On/Off presents Jack Irving' show at the London Fashion Week on February 18. Irving incorporates elements of theatricality with a love for colliding technology with live performance.

GOLIATH?

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Comic book fans in costumes during the MCM Comic Con London on May 28. The convention saw over 100,000 visitors in attendance over the weekend. Marvel, DC comics, anime, sci-fi and fantasy fans came together for an epic gathering to celebrate all things geeky and fun.