A rare picture of Mahatma Gandhi facing his assassin with gun.

A rare picture of Mahatma Gandhi facing his assassin with gun.

It was hanging in a Bombay tailor shop for over 60 years and came to light now.

 

 

 

 

The words are in Marathi, translated below:

(Heading)
Last moments of the Father of the Nations
Memories preserved for 37 years by a tailor
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(Narration)
This is a rare picture of the moment when 37 years ago Nathuram Godse shot and assasinated the Father of the Nation Mahatma Gandhi. This picture was then published in an English newspaper. Mr.Jabbar Khan, owner of Noble Tailors, Dadiseth Road, Girgaum Chowpati, Mumbai had framed and kept the picture in his shop to preserve memories of that historic moment. Our correspondent Ghanshyam Bhadekar made Herculean efforts to obtain a copy of the picture. 70 year old Jabbar Khan is a famous tailor of the olden days. He has been awarded Certificates of Commendation by former Governors Shriprakash, Sadiq Khan, Abdul Latif, Konda Madhav Reddy as well as former CM Antuley.

question answers upse

DIFFICULT QUESTIONS AND
> INTELLIGENT ANSWERS!
> 
> 
> Questions and the Answers
> given by Candidates (oh sorry, most of them are IAS Officers
> now) -
> 
> Q. How can you drop a raw egg onto
> a concrete floor without cracking it?
> 
> A.Concrete floors are very hard
> to crack! (UPSC Topper)
> 
> 
> Q. If it took eight men ten hours
> to build a wall, how long would it take
> four men to build it?
> 
> A. No time at all it is already
> built. (UPSC 23 Rank Opted for IFS)
> 
> 
> Q.. If you had three apples and
> four oranges in one hand and four apples and three oranges
> in the other hand, what would you have?
> 
> A. Very large hands.(Good one) (UPSC 11 Rank
> Opted for IPS)
> 
> Q. How can you lift an elephant
> with one hand?
> 
> A. It is not a problem, since you
> will never find an elephant with one
> hand. (UPSC Rank 14 Opted for IES)
> 
> 
> Q. How can a man go eight days
> without sleep?
> 
> A. No Problem, He sleeps at
> night. (UPSC IAS Rank 98)
> 
> 
> Q. If you throw a red stone into
> the blue sea what it will become?
> 
> A. It will get Wet or Sink; as
> simple as that. (UPSC IAS Rank 2)
> 
> 
> Q. What looks like a half apple?
> 
> A: The other half. (UPSC - IAS
> Topper)
> 
> 
> Q. What can you never eat for
> breakfast?
> 
> A: Dinner...
> 
> 
> Q. What happened when wheel was
> invented?
> 
> A : It caused a
> revolution.
> 
> 
> Q. Bay of Bengal is in which
> state?
> 
> A : Liquid (UPSC 33Rank )
> 
> 
> Q. How many buckets of water does
> Pacific Ocean contains?
> 
> A: It depends on the size of the
> bucket. (CA Institute Campus Interview
> Placement)
> 
> 
> Interviewer said 'I shall
> either ask you ten easy questions or one really
> difficult question.. Think well before you make up your
> mind!'
> The boy thought for a while and said, 'My choice is one
> really difficult
> question.'
> 
> 'Well, good luck to you, you have made your own choice!
> Now tell me
> this...
> 'What comes
>  first, Day or Night?'
> 
> The boy was jolted into reality
> as his admission depended on his answer,
> but he thought for a while and said, 'It's the DAY
> sir!'
> 
> 'How?' the interviewer
> asked.
> 
> 'Sorry sir, you promised me
> that you will not ask me a SECOND difficult
> question!'
> 
> He was selected for
> IIM!
  

they are special and important

Heart of a Teacher
by Paula Fox*

He was in the first third grade class I taught at Saint Mary's School in
Morris, Minnesota. All 34 of my students were dear to me, but Mark Eklund
was one in a million. Very neat in appearance, he had that happy-to-be-alive
attitude that made even his occasional mischievousness delightful.

Mark talked incessantly. I had to remind him again and again that talking
without permission was not acceptable. What impressed me so much, though,
was his sincere response every time I had to correct him for misbehaving.
"Thank you for correcting me, Sister!" I didn't know what to make of it at
first, but before long I became accustomed to hearing it many times a day.

One morning my patience was growing thin when Mark talked once too often,
and then I made a novice teacher's mistake. I looked at Mark and said, "If
you say one more word, I am going to tape your mouth shut!" It wasn't ten
seconds later when Chuck blurted out, "Mark is talking again." I hadn't
asked any of the students to help me watch Mark, but since I had stated the
punishment in front of the class, I had to act on it. I remember the scene
as if it had occurred this morning. I walked to my desk, very deliberately
opened my drawer and took out a roll of masking tape. Without saying a word,
I proceeded to Mark's desk, tore off two pieces of tape and made a big X
with them over his mouth. I then returned to the front of the room. As I
glanced at Mark to see how he was doing, he winked at me. That did it! I
started laughing. The class cheered as I walked back to Mark's desk, removed
the tape, and shrugged my shoulders. His first words were, "Thank you for
correcting me, Sister."

At the end of the year, I was asked to teach junior-high math. The years
flew by, and before I knew it Mark was in my classroom again. He was more
handsome than ever and just as polite. Since he had to listen carefully to
my instruction in the "new math," he did not talk as much in ninth grade as
he had in third. One Friday, things just didn't feel right. We had worked
hard on a new concept all week, and I sensed that the students were
frowning, frustrated with themselves and edgy with one another. I had to
stop this crankiness before it got out of hand. So I asked them to list the
names of the other students in the room on two sheets of paper, leaving a
space between each name. Then I told them to think of the nicest thing they
could say about each of their classmates and write it down. It took the
remainder of the class period to finish their assignment, and as the
students left the room, each one handed me the papers. Charlie smiled. Mark
said, "Thank you for teaching me, Sister. Have a good weekend." That
Saturday, I wrote down the name of each student on a separate sheet of
paper, and I listed what everyone else had said about that individual.

On Monday I gave each student his or her list. Before long, the entire class
was smiling. "Really?" I heard whispered. "I never knew that meant anything
to anyone! I didn't know others liked me so much." No one ever mentioned
those papers in class again. I never knew if they discussed them after class
or with their parents, but it didn't matter. The exercise had accomplished
its purpose. The students were happy with themselves and one another again.

That group of students moved on. Several years later, after I returned from
vacation, my parents met me at the airport. As we were driving home, Mother
asked me the usual questions about the trip, the weather, my experiences in
general. There was a lull in the conversation. Mother gave Dad a sideways
glance and simply said, "Dad?" My father cleared his throat as he usually
did before something important. "The Eklunds called last night," he began.
"Really?" I said. "I haven't heard from them in years. I wonder how Mark
is." Dad responded quietly. "Mark was killed in Vietnam," he said. "The
funeral is tomorrow, and his parents would like it if you could attend." To
this day I can still point to the exact spot on I-494 where Dad told me
about Mark.

I had never seen a serviceman in a military coffin before. Mark looked so
handsome, so mature. All I could think at that moment was, "Mark, I would
give all the masking tape in the world if only you would talk to me." The
church was packed with Mark's friends. Chuck's sister sang "The Battle Hymn
of the Republic." Why did it have to rain on the day of the funeral? It was
difficult enough at the graveside. The pastor said the usual prayers, and
the bugler played taps. One by one those who loved Mark took a last walk by
the coffin and sprinkled it with holy water. I was the last one to bless the
coffin. As I stood there, one of the soldiers who acted as pallbearer came
up to me. "Were you Mark's math teacher?" he asked. I nodded as I continued
to stare at the coffin. "Mark talked about you a lot," he said.

After the funeral, most of Mark's former classmates headed to Chuck's
farmhouse for lunch. Mark's mother and father were there, obviously waiting
for me. "We want to show you something," his father said, taking a wallet
out of his pocket. "They found this on Mark when he was killed. We thought
you might recognize it." Opening the billfold, he carefully removed two worn
pieces of notebook paper that had obviously been taped, folded and refolded
many times. I knew without looking that the papers were the ones on which I
had listed all the good things each of Mark's classmates had said about him.
"Thank you so much for doing that," Mark's mother said. "As you can see,
Mark treasured it." Mark's classmates started to gather around us. Charlie
smiled rather sheepishly and said, "I still have my list. I keep it in the
top drawer of my desk at home." Chuck's wife said, "Chuck asked me to put
his in our wedding album." "I have mine too," Marilyn said. "It's in my
diary." Then Vicki, another classmate, reached into her pocketbook, took out
her wallet and showed her worn and frazzled list to the group. "I carry this
with me at all times," Vicki said without batting an eyelash. "I think we
all saved our lists." That's when I finally sat down and cried. I cried for
Mark and for all his friends who would never see him again.

The density of people in society is so thick that we forget that life will
end one day. And we don't know when that one day will be. So please, tell
the people you love and care for that they are special and important. Tell
them, before it is too late.

Sending something Interesting

The Statue of Liberty's index finger is eight feet long



Rain has never been recorded in some parts of the Atacama Desert in Chile


A 75 year old person will have slept about 23 years.


A Boeing 747's wing span is longer than the Wright brother's first flight. the Wright brother's invented the airplane)


There are as many chickens on earth as there are humans.


One type of hummingbird weighs less than a penny


The word "set " has the most number of definitions in the English language;192


Slugs have four noses


Sharks can live up to 100 years


Mosquitoes are more attracted to the color blue than any other color.


Kangaroos can't walk backwards


About 75 acres of pizza are eaten in in the U.S. Everyday


The largest recorded snowflake was 15in wide and 8in thick. It fell in Montana in 1887


The tip of a bullwhip moves so fast that the sound it makes is actually a tiny sonic boom.


Former president Bill Clinton only sent 2 emails in his entire 8 year presidency


Koalas and humans are the only animals that have finger prints


There are 200,000,000 insects for every one human


It takes more calories to eat a piece of celery than the celery had in it to begin with.


The world's largest Montessori school is in India, with 26,312 students in 2002


Octopus have three hearts


If you ate too many carrots, you'd turn orange


The average person spends two weeks waiting for a traffic light to change.


1 in 2,000,000,000 people will live to be 116 or old


The body has 2-3 million sweat glands


Sperm whales have the biggest brains; 20 lbs


Tiger shark embryos fight each other in their mother's womb. The survivor is born.


Most cats are left pawed


250 people have fallen off the Leaning Tower of Pisa


A Blue whale's tongue weighs more than an elephant


You use 14 muscles to smile and 43 to frown. Keep Smiling!


Bamboo can grow up to 3 ft in 24 hours


An eyeball weighs about 1 ounce


Bone is five times stronger than steel.

History Mystery

History Mystery 

Have a history teacher explain this----- if they can. 



Abraham Lincoln was elected to Congress in 1846.
John F. Kennedy was elected to Congress in 1946.

Abraham Lincoln was elected President in 1860.
John F. Kennedy was elected President in 1960.

Both were particularly concerned with civil rights.
Both wives lost their children while living in the White House.

Both Presidents were shot on a Friday .
Both Presidents were shot in the head

Now it gets really weird.

Lincoln 's secretary was named Kennedy.
Kennedy's Secretary was named Lincoln .

Both were assassinated by Southerners.
Both were succeeded by Southerners named Johnson.

Andrew Johnson, who succeeded Lincoln , was born in 1808.
Lyndon Johnson, who succeeded Kennedy, was born in 1908. 



John Wilkes Booth, who assassinated Lincoln , was born in 1839.
Lee Harvey Oswald, who assassinated Kennedy, was born in 1939. 



Both assassins were known by their three names.
Both names are composed of fifteen letters.

Now hang on to your seat.

Lincoln was shot at the theater named 'Ford.'
Kennedy was shot in a car called ' Lincoln ' made by 'Ford.'

Lincoln was shot in a theater and his assassin ran and hid in a warehouse.
Kennedy was shot from a warehouse and his assassin ran and hid in a theater.

Booth and Oswald were assassinated before their trials.

And here's the kicker...

A week before Lincoln was shot, he was in Monroe , Maryland
A week before Kennedy was shot, he was with Marilyn Monroe. 

painting contest

RI DIST 3201 RC Muvattupuzha in Association with Kerala Cancer Society and Samirthy (Muvattupuzha Diocesan Social Service Society)conduct All Kerala(Coimbatore also included) Painting Competition for promoting Cancer Awareness on the occasion of the World Cancer day ,February 4th for School, College students and for public .The Entries should reach on or before 28.01.2011@5.p.m .The Subject for painting will be CANCER. The material for painting will be Water color for Students ,Mixed Color for Public .Students are requested to send the entries with the attestation of the Head of the Institutions.
Cash Award of Rs 10001/-,5001/-3001/-and Shield will be given to the 1st ,2nd ,3rd prize winners on 4th February @MELA AUDITORIUM @2 P.M in the presence of eminent personalities like OUR DG G Viswanathan , Rtn Dr Thomas Varghese Chairman Cancer care Didt 3201,Rtn P.Venugopalanmenon Dist Dir Community service ,Rtn R Raju President RC Muvattupuzha ,Sri Babu paul MLA , Honorable FISHERIES MINISTER S.Sarma ,Most Rev Dr Thomas Mar Kuriliose methrapolitha ,Dr D.BABU PAUL IAS (Former CHIEF secretary Kerala GOVT)Press club Secretary Sri N Srinath- Cochin ,Dist Collector Dr M .Beena IAS EKM Dist ,Sri P T Thomas MP ,Sri U R Babu Chairman Muvattupuzha Municipality ,Cine Actor Siddique ,Catholic Syrian Bank Chairman Sri Eswardas,Sri Venumenon,AGM NABARD,VICAR GENERAL VERY REV MON ISSAC Kochery and Rev Fr Varghese pantheerayithadathil .
The Entries to be addressed to
Samrithy ,Muvattupuzha Diocesan Social Service Soceity ,Keezhillam P.O,Pin 683541
email:samridhymvpa@yahoo.co.in ,Samridhy@sify.com
contact no 9605049984,9846996516,9847033186,9446961646

HAPPY NEW YEAR

HAPPY NEW YEAR