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               The NP Chronicle                       1st February  "The path from dreams to success does exist. May you have the vision to find it, the courage to get on to it, and the perseverance to follow it."                          -- Kalpana Chawla  "Hold fast to dreams, For if dreams die, Life is a broken-winged bird, That cannot fly... Hold fast to dreams,  For when dreams go, Life is a barren field, Frozen with snow."                          -- Langston Hughes  Today is: ▪︎ National Freedom Day in the USA  ▪︎ Indian Coast Guard Day in India   ▪︎ World Hijab Day ▪︎ Birth anniversary of Langston Hughes , and Jackie Shroff ▪︎ Death anniversary of Pope Alexander VIII, and Kalpana Chawla

               The NP Chronicle                      30th January  "Where there is love, there is life." -- Mahatma Gandhi  "God has no religion." -- Mahatma Gandhi  "The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others." -- Mahatma Gandhi  "Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever." -- Mahatma Gandhi  "Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort." -- Franklin D. Roosevelt  "The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today." -- Franklin D. Roosevelt  "Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own mind." -- Franklin D. Roosevelt  Today is: ▪︎ Martyrs' Day in India ▪︎ World Leprosy Day ▪︎ Birth anniversary of Franklin D. Roosevelt , Max Theiler ▪︎ Death anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi

               The NP Chronicle                       29th January  "The real man smiles in trouble, gathers strength from distress, and grows brave by reflection."                          -- Thomas Paine "Time makes more converts than reason."                          -- Thomas Paine  "The mind once enlightened cannot again become dark."                          -- Thomas Paine  "One good school master is of more use than a hundred priests."                          -- Thomas Paine  "People don't notice whether it's winter or summer when they're happy."                 ...

               The NP Chronicle                      28th January  "Life is a long preparation for something that never happens."                          -- William Butler Yeats  "The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity."                          -- William Butler Yeats  "Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people."                          -- William Butler Yeats  Today is: ▪︎ International Reducing CO2 Omissions Day ▪︎ International Data Protection Day ▪︎ Birth anniversary of Lala Lajpat Rai and Nicolas Sarkozy  ▪︎ Death anniversary of William Butler Yeats and Henry VII of England

               The NP Chronicle                      27th January  "As the Nobel laureate Elie Wiesel warned years ago, to forget a holocaust is to kill twice." -- Iris Chang "It is our responsibility to inspire future generations to stand up against hatred, prejudice, and evil." -- Kisha and Jason Itkin Today is: ▪︎ International Holocaust Remembrance Day ▪︎ Peace Day in Vietnam  ▪︎ National Geographic Day ▪︎ Birth anniversary of Lewis Carroll  ▪︎ Death anniversary of R. Venkataraman, Humayun

                     The NP Chronicle                     26th January                       Republic                          Sonnet 85                          Supremacy of people whoe'er can alter? Whoe'er can carry the load of the masses If not Republic's mighty transporter  That never stops, never runs into crashes? Goes on the journey of the Juggernaut -- Thousands of years is its progressive course -- And has destroy'd many a tyrant and despot With their empires by people's Vital Force... Born were Apostles to the e'er-growing Axis To add to the might of Humanity's Van Of Liberty, Equality and Justice That from Athens, Socrates began. And now, we all will treasure this Republic...

               The NP Chronicle                      25th January  "I am rooted, but I flow."                          -- Virginia Woolf  "Life is not a series of gig lamps symmetrically arranged; life is a luminous halo, a semi-transaparent envelope surrounding us from the beginning of consciousness to the end."                          -- Virginia Woolf  "The most valuable thing I have learned from life is to regret nothing."                          -- W. Somerset Maugham  "Life is not long enough for love and art."                          -- W. Somerset Maugham  "Man's inhumanity to man makes countless thousa...

               The NP Chronicle                      24th January  "The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing."                          -- Winston Churchill  "If you are going through hell, keep going."                          -- Winston Churchill  "A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty."                          -- Winston Churchill  Today is: ▪︎ International Day of Education  ▪︎ National Girl Child Day in India  ▪︎ Birth anniversary of Edith Wharton, Subhash Ghai, Luis Suarez ▪︎ Death anniversary of Winston Churchill, Homi J. Bhabha, N. Scott Momaday

               The NP Chronicle                      23rd January  "Life loses half its interest if there is no struggle -- if there are no risks to be taken."                          -- Subhas Chandra Bose  "No real change in history has ever been achieved by discussions."                          -- Subhas Chandra Bose  "It is our duty to pay for our liberty with our own blood."                          -- Subhas Chandra Bose  Today is: ▪︎ Parakram Diwas (Day of Valour) in India  ▪︎ Birth anniversary of Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose ,  Anita Baker, Bal Thackeray ▪︎ Death anniversary of Charles Glen King

               The NP Chronicle                       22nd January " Always laugh when you can, it is cheap medicine."                               -- Lord Byron  "Adversity is the first path to truth."                               -- Lord Byron  Today is: ▪︎ National Sanctity of Human Life Day ▪︎ Birth anniversary of Lord Byron  ▪︎ Death anniversary of Queen Victoria and Shah Jahan

               The NP Chronicle                       21st January   "A lie told often enough becomes the truth."                          -- Vladimir Lenin "There are decades where nothing happens; and there are weeks where decades happen."                          -- Vladimir Lenin  "Give me just one generation of youth, and I'll transform the whole world."                          -- Vladimir Lenin  "Three keys to success: read, read, read."                          -- Vladimir Lenin  "Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past."           ...

               The NP Chronicle                      20th January  "Failure is not a sign of weakness. It is a sign that you are alive and growing."                          -- Buzz Aldrin "All work is noble, if it is legal and ethical, so do your best, whether you are first, second, or last."                          -- Buzz Aldrin  "Don't merely make a living; make a life."                          -- Buzz Aldrin  Today is: ▪︎ Birth anniversary of Buzz Aldrin , and Fareed Zakaria ▪︎ Death anniversary of Audrey Hepburn, Etta James, and Parveen Babi

               The NP Chronicle                      19th January  "I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world."                          -- Albert Einstein "Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine, and at last, you create what you will."                          -- George Bernard Shaw "Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere."                           -- Carl Sagan "What is now proved was once only imagined."                  ...

               The NP Chronicle                      18th January  "If anybody dreams of the exclusive survival of his own religion and the destruction of the others, I pity him from the bottom of my heart, and point out to him that upon the banner of every religion will soon be written, in spite of resistance: 'Help and not Fight', 'Assimilation and not Destruction', Harmony and Peace and not Dissension.'"                          -- Swami Vivekananda  "There is only one religion, though there are a hundred versions of it.                          -- George Bernard Shaw  Today is: ▪︎ World Religion Day  ▪︎ Birth anniversary of Mahadev Govind Ranade, Kevin Costner ▪︎ Death anniversary of Rudyard Kipling, Adolf Butenandt, Robert B. Parker, N. T. R...

               The NP Chronicle                       17th January  "Service to others is the rent you pay for your room here on earth."                               -- Muhammad Ali "If you even dream of beating me, you'd better wake up and apologize."                               -- Muhammad Ali "He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life."                               -- Muhammad Ali Today is: ▪︎ National Classy Day in the US ▪︎ Birth anniversary of Muhammad Ali, Benjamin Franklin and Javed Akhtar  ▪︎ Death anniversary of Birju Maharaj,  Bobby Fischer and Jyoti Basu

               The NP Chronicle                      16th January  "Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do."                               -- Steve Jobs "There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure."                               -- Paulo Coelho  Today is: ▪︎ National Startup Day in India ▪︎ Birth anniversary of Kabir Bedi, Kate Moss and Dr. Laura Schlessinger ▪︎ Death anniversary of Edward Gibbon, Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay and Chittaranjan Das

               The NP Chronicle                      15th January  "A right delayed is a right denied".                          -- Martin Luther King Jr. "Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere."                          -- Martin Luther King Jr. Today is: ▪︎ Wikipedia Day ▪︎ Army Day in India  ▪︎ Birth anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr. Mayawati and Pritish Nandy ▪︎ Death anniversary of Gulzarilal Nanda

               The NP Chronicle                      14th January  "The purpose of human life is to serve, and to show compassion and the will to help others."                          -- Albert Schweitzer  "The first step in the evolution of ethics is a sense of solidarity with other human beings."                          -- Albert Schweitzer  Today is: ▪︎ Harvest Festival in India ▪︎ National Organize Your Home Day in the US ▪︎ Birth anniversary of Albert Schweitzer

               The NP Chronicle                      13th January  "Saare Jahan Se Achcha (better than the entire world)"                               -- Rakesh Sharma  "In my opinion, future space exploration will require us to inhabit the moon, initially, and later Mars. This is the humongous task for any one nation."                               -- Rakesh Sharma  Today is: ▪︎ Constitution Day in Mongolia  ▪︎ Liberation Day in Togo ▪︎ Birth anniversary of Rakesh Sharma, Horatio Alger Jr. and Orlando Bloom ▪︎ Death anniversary of Alexander Popov

               The NP Chronicle                      12th January  "The powers of the mind are like rays of light dissipated; when they are concentrated,  they illumine."                          -- Swami Vivekananda  "Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life--think of it, dream of it, live on that idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success."                          -- Swami Vivekananda  "Purity, patience, and perseverance are the three essentials to success."                          -- Swami Vivekananda  Today is: ▪︎ National Youth Day in India  ▪︎ Birth ann...

               The NP Chronicle                      11th January  "The main object of religion is not to get a man into heaven, but to get heaven into him."                               -- Thomas Hardy  "Fear is the mother of foresight."                               -- Thomas Hardy  "Aspects are within us, and who seems most kingly is king."                               -- Thomas Hardy  Today is: ▪︎ National Human Trafficking Awareness Day in the US ▪︎ Birth anniversary of Alexander Hamilton, Alber Hofmann, John A. Macdonald, Rahul Dravid, and Mary J. Blige ▪︎ Death anniversary of Thomas Hardy,  Lal Bahadur Shastri, Emanuel Lasker, and Sheldon ...

               The NP Chronicle                      10th January  "He who knows no foreign languages knows nothing of his own." -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "Knowledge of languages is the doorway to wisdom." -- Roger Bacon "Language is a social gift to humanity." -- Frank Smith "Learn a new language and get a new soul." -- Czech Proverb Today is: ▪︎ World Hindi Day ▪︎ Birth anniversary of George Foreman, Waldo Semon, K. J. Yesudas, Basu Chatterjee, Hrithik Roshan, and Kalki Koechlin ▪︎ Death anniversary of Gabriela Mistral, and Jyoti Basu

               The NP Chronicle                       8th January  "Remember to look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Try to make sense of what you see and wonder about what makes the universe exist."                               -- Stephen Hawking   "Life would be tragic if it weren't funny."                               -- Stephen Hawking  "We are all different -- but we share the same human spirit."                               -- Stephen Hawking  Today is: ▪︎ Birth anniversary of Stephen Hawking, Alfred Russel Wallace, Carl Rogers, Elvis Presley, David Browie and Saeed Jaffrey ▪︎ Death anniversary of Marilyn Bergman, Miklos Veto, ...

               The NP Chronicle                       7th January  "Our senses enable us to perceive only a minute portion of the outside world."                               -- Nikola Tesla  "What one man calls God, another calls the laws of physics."                               -- Nikola Tesla  "Man is born to work, to suffer, and to fight; he who doesn't, must perish."                               -- Nikola Tesla  Today is: ▪︎ Birth anniversary of Lewis Hamilton, Irrfan Khan ▪︎ Death anniversary of Nikola Tesla, Mufti Mohammad Sayeed

               The NP Chronicle                       6th January  "Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars."                               -- Kahlil Gibran  "We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them."                               -- Kahlil Gibran  "March on. Do not tarry. To go forward is to move toward perfection. March on, and fear not the thorns, or the sharp stones on life's path."                               -- Kahlil Gibran  Today is: ▪︎ World Day of War Orphans ▪︎ Birth anniversary of Kahlil Gibran,  Eddie Redmayne, and A. R. Rehman ▪︎ Death anniversar...

               The NP Chronicle                       5th January   "Tame birds sing of freedom. Wild birds fly."                               -- John Lennon  "No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings."                               -- William Blake Today is: ▪︎ National Bird Day in the USA ▪︎ National Screenwriters Day in the USA ▪︎ Birth anniversary of Bradley Cooper, Deepika Padukone and Mansoor Ali Khan Pataudi ▪︎ Death anniversary of Max Born, George Washington Carver

               The NP Chronicle                        4th January  "What we know is a drop, what we don't know is an ocean."                          -- Sir Isaac Newton  "Men build too many walls and not enough bridges."                          -- Sir Isaac Newton  "I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies, but not the madness of people."                          -- Sir Isaac Newton  "The world is a puzzle, and we're here to solve it."                          -- Sir Isaac Newton  Today is: ▪︎ World Braille Day ▪︎ Birth anniversary of Sir Isaac Newton , and Louis Braille  ▪︎ Death anniversary of ...

               The NP Chronicle                        3rd January  "Awaken, arise, and educate. Smash traditions, liberate minds, and transform society."                          -- Savitribai Phule  "Women's rights are not a privilege but a fundamental aspect of human rights."                          -- Savitribai Phule  "In educating women, we educate generations and shape a just society."                          -- Savitribai Phule  "Empower a woman, and you uplift an entire community."                          -- Savitribai Phule  Today is: ▪︎ International Mind-Body Wellness Day ▪︎ Savitribai Phule Ja...

               The NP Chronicle                       2nd January  "The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom."                               -- Isaac Asimov  "Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is."                               -- Isaac Asimov  Today is: ▪︎ National Science Fiction Day ▪︎ World Introvert Day ▪︎ Birth anniversary of Isaac Asimov ▪︎ Death anniversary of Harekrushna Mahatab