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Nation pays homage to Mahatma Gandhi on his 61st death anniversary

India paid homage to ‘Father of Nation’ Mahatma Gandhi on his 61st death anniversary, which is also observed as Martyr’s Day.

"Friends and comrades, the light has gone out of our lives, and there is darkness everywhere, and I do not quite know what to tell you or how to say it. Our beloved leader, the father of the nation, is no more.” - Indian Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru on the death of Mahatma Gandhi in January 30th 1948.

Father of the Nation Mahatma Gandhi was remembered on his death anniversary today.

A story is told about a soldier who was finally coming home after having fought in Vietnam. He called his parents from San Francisco.

“Mom and Dad, I’m coming home, but I’ve a favor to ask. I have a friend I’d like to bring home with me.”

“Sure,” they replied, “we’d love to meet him.”

“There’s something you should know the son continued, “he was hurt pretty badly in the fighting. He stepped on a land mind and lost an arm and a leg. He has nowhere else to go, and I want him to come live with us.”

“I’m sorry to hear that, son. Maybe we can help him find somewhere to live.”

“No, Mom and Dad, I want him to live with us.”

“Son,” said the father, “you don’t know what you’re asking. Someone with such a handicap would be a terrible burden on us. We have our own lives to live, and we can’t let something like this interfere with our lives. I think you should just come home and forget about this guy. He’ll find a way to live on his own.”

At that point, the son hung up the phone. The parents heard nothing more from him. A few days later, however, they received a call from the San Francisco police. Their son had died after falling from a building, they were told. The police believed it was suicide. The grief-stricken parents flew to San Francisco and were taken to the city morgue to identify the body of their son. They recognized him, but to their horror they also discovered something they didn’t know, their son had only one arm and one leg.

The parents in this story are like many of us. We find it easy to love those who are good-looking or fun to have around, but we don’t like people who inconvenience us or make us feel uncomfortable. We would rather stay away from people who aren’t as healthy, beautiful, or smart as we are. Thankfully, there’s someone who won’t treat us that way. Someone who loves us with an unconditional love that welcomes us into the forever family, regardless of how messed up we are.

Tonight, before you tuck yourself in for the night, say a little prayer that God will give you the strength you need to accept people as they are, and to help us all be more understanding of those who are different from us!!!

Horror gripped the heart of a World War-I soldier,as he saw his Lifelong friend fall in battle. Caught in a trench with continuous gunfire whizzing over his head, the soldier asked his Lieutenant if he could go out into the man’s land between the trenches to bring his fallen comrade back. “You can go,” said the Lieutenant, “but I don’t think it will be worth it.Your friend is probably dead and you may throw your life away.”The Lieutenant’s words didn’t matter,and the soldier went anyway. Miraculously, he managed to reach his friend, hoisted him onto his shoulder and brought him back to their company’s trench. As the two of them tumbled in together to the bottom of the trench, the officer checked the wounded soldier , then looked kindly at

his friend. ” I told you it wouldn’t be worth it,” he said. “Your friend is dead and you are mortally wounded.” ” It was worth it, Sir,” said the soldier. “What do you mean by worth it?” responded the Lieutenant. ” 

Your friend is dead.” “Yes Sir,” the private answered, ” but it was worth it because when I got to him, he was still alive and I had the satisfaction of hearing him say….”Jim… I knew you’d come.” Many times in life, whether a thing is worth doing or not, really depends on how u look at it. 

Take up all your courage and do something your heart tells you to do so that you may not regret not doing it later in your life… 

(This is a true story. Share this with all your friends let the spirit of friendship in us not die.) 

One of the things I love most about this life is that there is ALWAYS
something to be thankful for. Even when the world seems darkest, all we have to do is close our eyes and say ‘thank you’, and the clouds begin to disappear. I can’t explain why this works, but it does. Gratitude leads us to peace and happiness… and the reverse is not necessarily true.

So when faced with a challenge, we should say ‘thank you’. When faced with pain, we should say ‘thank you’. When faced with tragedy, we should say ‘thank you’ and then listen for the guidance and wisdom that always speaks to a grateful heart…

A group of frogs were traveling through the woods, and two of them
fell into a deep pit. When the other frogs saw how deep the pit
was, they told the two frogs that they were as good as dead. The
two frogs ignored the comments and tried to jump up out of the pit
with all their might. The other frogs kept telling them to stop,
that they were as good as dead. Finally, one of the frogs took
heed to what the other frogs were saying and gave up. He fell down
and died.

The other frog continued to jump as hard as he could. Once again,
the crowd of frogs yelled at him to stop the pain and just die. He
jumped even harder and finally made it out. When he got out, the
other frogs said, “Did you not hear us?” The frog explained to
them that he was deaf. He thought they were encouraging him the
entire time.

This story teaches two lessons:

1. There is power of life and death in the tongue. An encouraging
word to someone who is down can lift them up and help them make it
through the day.

2. A destructive word to someone who is down can be what it takes
to kill them.

Be careful of what you say. Speak life to those who cross your
path. The power of words… it is sometimes hard to understand
that an encouraging word can go such a long way. Anyone can speak
words that tend to rob another of the spirit to continue in
difficult times. Special is the individual who will take the time
to encourage another.

101 different ways of saying ‘I love you’

Afrikaans - Ek is lief vir jou
Albanian - te dua
Arabic - Ana Ahebak / Ana Bahibak
Arabic (to the female) - Bahebbek
Arabic (to the male) - Bahebbak
Armenian - yes kez shat em siroom
Assyr - Az tha hijthmekem
Bahasa Malayu (Malaysia) - Saya cinta mu
Bangla - Ami tomakay bala basi
Bavarian - tuI mog di
Bosnian - Ja te volim (formally) or volim-te Turkish seni seviyorum
Bulgarian - Obicham te
Cambodian (to the male) - oun saleng bon
Cambodian (to the female) - bon saleng oun
Cantonese - Ngo oi ney
Croatia - Volim te
Czech - Miluji Te
Danish - Jeg elsker dig
Dutch - Ik hou van jou
English - I love you
Esperanto - Mi amas vim
Estonian - Ma armastan sind / Mina armastan sind (formal)
Ethiopia - afekereshe alhu
Finnish - Minä rakastan sinua
Flemish (Ghent) - ‘k’ou van ui
French - Je t’aime
Gaelic - Tá mé i ngrá leat
Georgian - Miquar shen
German - Ich liebe Dich
Greek - agapo se
Greek - S’agapo
Gujarati - oo tane prem karu chu
Hawaiian - Aloha au ia’oe
Hebrew - Ani ohevet ota
Hebrew fem. Plural - Ani ohav etkhen
Hebrew fem. sing. - Ani ohav otakh
Hebrew masc. or mixed plural - Ani ohav etkhem
Hebrew masc. sing. - Ani ohaw otkha
Hindi - Main tumsey pyaar karta hoon / Maine Pyar Kiya
Hungarian - Szeretlek
Icelandic - Eg elska thig
Indonesian - Aku Cinta Kamu
Indonesian - Saya cinta padamu
Italian - Ti amo/Ti voglio bene
Japanese - Anata wa, dai suki desu
Japanese - Sukiyo Javanese (formal) - Kulo tresno marang panjenengan
Javanese (informal) - aku terno kowe
Kenya (Kalenjin) - Achamin
Kenya (Kiswahili) - Ninakupenda
Korean - SA LANG HAE / Na No Sa Lan Hei
Kurdish - Khoshtm Auyt
Laos - Chanrackkun
Latin - Ego te amo
Latvian - Es mîlu Tevi
Lebanese - Bahibak
Lithuanian - As Myliu Tave
Macedonian - Jas Te Sakam
Malay - Saya cintakan mu / Saya cinta mu
Maltese - Inhobbok hafna
Mandarin - Wo ai ni
Nigeria (Hausa) - Ina sonki
Nigeria (Yoruba langauge) - Mo fe ran re
Norwegian - Jeg elsker deg
Pakistan (Urdu) - May tum say pyar karta hun
Persian - Tora Doost Darem
Pig Latin - I-yea Ove-lea Ou-yea
Polish - Kocham Cie
Portuguese (Brazilian) - Eu te amo
Portuguese (Continental) - Eu amo-te
Punjabi - me tumse pyar ker ta hu’
Romanian - Te iubesc
Russian - Ya tyebya lyublyu
Scottish Gaelic - ‘S tough leam ort
Serbian (accent ‘O’) - Volim te
Serbo-Croatian - Volim te
Sign language - Spread hand out so no fingers are touching. Bring in middle & ring fingers and touch then to the palm of your hand.
Slovak - Lubim ta
Slovenian - ljubim te
South Sotho - Ke o Rata
Spanish - Te quiero / te amo / yo amor
Sri Lanka - mame adhare
Swahili - Naku penda
Swedish - Jag älskar dig
Swiss German - Ch-ha di gärn
Tagalong - Mahal Kita / Iniibig kita
Tamil - Naan Unnai Khadalikkeren
Telugu - Nenu Ninnu Premisthunnanu
Thai - Khao Raak Thoe / chun raak ter
Thai (affectionate, sweet, loving) - Khao raak thoe
Thailand - chun luk ter
Turkish - Seni Seviyorum
Ukrainian - Yalleh blutebeh / ya tebe kohayu
Urdu (to a girl) - Mea tum se pyaar karta hu
Urdu (to a boy) - Mea tum se pyar karti hu
Vietnamese - Toi yeu em
Vietnamese (Females) - Em yeu Anh
Vietnamese (Males) - Anh yeu Em
Welsh - Rwy’n dy garu di
Zambia (Chibemba) - Nali ku temwa
Zimbabwe - Ndinokuda
Zulu - Mina funani wean