MOTHER TERESA - A SAINT IN OUR LIFETIME

IMPACT OF MOTHER TERESA - A SAINT OF OUR LIFETIME

It was a great opportunity, privilege and a golden once in a lifetime chance to visit the Shrine and Tomb of Mother Teresa in Kolkata on the 7th of February 2016.

As soon as l walked in the modest room where Mother Teresa's tomb is enshrined, a shudder suddenly ran through my spine immediately giving me goose bumps. I bowed down and closed my eyes to say a prayer and pay my respects momentarily. Then, when I lifted my head up and opened my eyes, I saw everyone around me in tears and when l touched my own face I found that l was in tears too. Such is the impact of great Mother Teresa's radiance around those who come to visit her shrine in Kolkata. The awe, adoration and admiration was clearly visible on the faces of all those who silently stood and prayed around her tomb.

Although my visit to her tomb and a tour around the shrine lasted only a short while, it was a humbling experience and a great privilege. I will remember and cherish these moments for a long time to come.

Oh! What a joy to the people of the City of Joy and to all the rest around the world to know that Mother Teresa is declared a Saint today by Pope Francis - a Pope of our lifetime.

O Kolkata

BEING IN THE VICINITY OF THE TOMB OF MOTHER TERESA

IMPACT OF MOTHER TERESA 

It was a great opportunity, privilege and a golden once in a lifetime chance to visit the Shrine and Tomb of Mother Teresa in Kolkata on the 7th of February 2016.

As soon as l walked in the modest room where Mother Teresa's tomb is enshrined, a shudder suddenly ran through my spine immediately giving me goose bumps. I bowed down and closed my eyes to say a prayer and pay my respects momentarily. Then, when I lifted my head up and opened my eyes, I saw everyone around me in tears and when l touched my own face I found that l was in tears too. Such is the impact of great Mother Teresa's radiance around those who come to visit her shrine in Kolkata. The awe, adoration and admiration was clearly visible on the faces of all those who silently stood and prayed around her tomb.

Although my visit to her tomb and a tour around the shrine lasted only a short while, I will remember and cherish these moments, and also the memories of attending the celebrations of a beautiful wedding of a family member for a long time.

The Breath-taking Howrah Bridge, Kolkata, India

Howrah Bridge, Kolkata, India 

            

Howrah Bridge is a cantilever bridge with a suspended span over the Hooghly River in West Bengal, India. Commissioned in 1943. It is currently the sixth-longest bridge of its type in the world. It weathers the storms of the Bay of Bengal region, carrying a daily traffic of approximately 100,000 vehicles and possibly more than 150,000 pedestrians, easily making it the busiest cantilever bridge in the world. It was the third-longest cantilever bridge at the time of its construction.


On 14 June 1965 it was renamed Rabindra Setu after the great Bengali poet Rabindranath Tagore, who was the first Indian and Asian Nobel laureate.