2010 will probably be remembered as the year of the scam: Commonwealth Games, Adarsh Society, Karnataka Land Scam, and above all, the 2G Spectrum scandal. By the end of the year, the Parliament was totally deadlocked over the demand for a JPC. And the din over the scams drowned many of the other crucial news stories, from the resurgence of the Naxalites, to the dominance of Nitish.