How to celebrate New Year in India

How to celebrate new Year in a modern way:

1) Decorate your house, or at least the room in which you plan to spend New Year's Eve. Decorate with lights, stars and Flowers.
2) Invite some of your favorite people over for an end-of-the-year meal. Make sure you give them advance warning :).
3) Prepare most of the meal before the evening begins. You don't want to cook, either for yourself or for your guests, when you should be celebrating.
4) Explain your resolutions and have your guests do the same over dinner.
5) Discuss or think about why you have chosen these particular goals.
6) Light a fire or candles as the clock ticks down.
7) Open and pour champagne or sparkling cider.
8) Laugh out loud and Toast each other and yourself when the clock strikes midnight.
9) Remember god for all the good or bad things of the last year and pray for some good in the coming year.