The NP Chronicle

               The NP Chronicle                         1st March "All religions and all communities have the same rights, and it is my responsibility to ensure their complete and total protection. My government will not tolerate or accept any discrimination based on caste, creed and religion."                          -- Narendra Modi "Defeating racism, tribalism, intolerance and all forms of discrimination will liberate us all, victim and perpetrator alike."                          -- Ban Ki-moon "There should be no discrimination against languages people speak, skin color, or religion."                          -- Malala Yousafzai  Today is: ▪︎ Zero Discrimination Day ▪︎ World Civil ...

               The NP Chronicle                    28th February  "The true wealth of a nation consists not in the stored-up gold but in the intellectual and physical strength of its people."                          -- Dr. C. V. Raman  "Ask the right questions, and nature will open the door to her secrets."                          -- Dr. C. V. Raman "The essence of science is independent thinking, hard work, and not equipment."                          -- Dr. C. V. Raman  "There is no resting place for a nation or a people on their onward march."                          -- Dr. Rajendra Prasad "Knowledge is essential for funct...

               The NP Chronicle                     27th February "Education to be complete must have five principal aspects corresponding to the five principal activities of the human being; the physical, the vital, the mental, the psychic and the spiritual."                                -- Manoj Das Today is: ▪︎ World NGO Day ▪︎ International Polar Bear Day  ▪︎ National Protein Day ▪︎ Independence Day of Dominican Republic  ▪︎ Birth anniversary of John Steinbeck, Manoj Das, Constantine the Great, Elizabeth Taylor, and Prakash Jha. ▪︎ Death anniversary of Stanley Cohen, and Chandra Sekhar Azad.

               The NP Chronicle                      26th February  "Life itself is the most wonderful fairy tale."                          -- Hans Christian Andersen "Every man's life is a fairy tale written by God's fingers."                          -- Hans Christian Andersen  "If you see the magic in a fairy tale, you can face the future."                          -- Danielle Steel  "The paradise of the rich is made out of the hell of the poor."                          -- Victor Hugo "To love another person is to see the face of God."                         ...

               The NP Chronicle                     25th February  "If I got rid of my demons, I'd lose my angels."                     -- Tennessee Williams  "There is a time for departure even when there's no certain place to go."                     -- Tennessee Williams  Today is: ▪︎ Inconvenience Yourself Day ▪︎ Independence Day of Kuwait  ▪︎ Birth anniversary of Ric Flair, Danny Denzongpa ▪︎ Death anniversary of Tennessee Williams

               The NP Chronicle                     24th February  Today is: ▪︎ Central Excise Day in India  ▪︎ Birth anniversary of Sanjay Leela Bhansali, J. Jayalalithaa, Floyd Mayweather Jr., and Pooja Bhatt ▪︎ Death anniversary of Katherine Johnson, and Sridevi

               The NP Chronicle                     23rd February  "Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding."                                  -- Albert Einstein  "Peace begins with a smile."                                  -- Mother Teresa  "Nothing can bring you peace but yourself."                                   -- R. W. Emerson  Today is: ▪︎ World Peace and Understanding Day ▪︎ Birth anniversary of Karl Theodor Jaspers, and Bhagyashree ▪︎ Death anniversary of Edward Elgar, Carl Friedrich Gauss, L. S. Lowry, Leo Baekeland, and Madhubala

               The NP Chronicle                     22nd February  "Humility is the solid foundation of all virtues."                          -- Confucius  "It is always the secure who are humble."                          -- G. K. Chesterton  "A great man is always willing to be little."                          -- R. W. Emerson  "It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err."                          -- Mahatma Gandhi  "The first test of a truly great man is his humility."                          -- John R...

               The NP Chronicle                     21st February  Today is: ▪︎ International Mother Language Day

               The NP Chronicle                     20th February  "Almost certainly, however, the first essential component of social justice is adequate food for all mankind."                          -- Norman Borlaug "Sustainable development is the pathway to the future we want for all. It offers a framework to generate economic growth, achieve social justice, exercise environmental stewardship and strengthen governance."                          -- Ban Ki-moon "Until the great mass of the people shall be filled with the sense of responsibility for each other's welfare, social justice can never be attained."                          -- Helen Keller "Social justice cannot be attained by violenc...

               The NP Chronicle                     19th February  "To know that we know what we know, and to know that we do not know what we do not know, that is true knowledge."                          -- Nicolaus Copernicus  "Every light has its shadow, and every shadow hath a succeeding morning."                          -- Nicolaus Copernicus  "Things are always better in the morning."                          -- Harper Lee "With him, life was routine; without him, life was unbearable."                          -- Harper Lee  "Things are never as bad as they seem."             ...

               The NP Chronicle                     18th February  "True art requires immense labor, mental creativity over physical effort, and the vision to find form within raw materials."                     -- Michelangelo  "One should chant the holy name of the Lord in a humble state of mind, thinking oneself lower than the straw in the street; one should be more tolerant than a tree, devoid of all sense of false prestige and should be ready to offer all respect to others."                     -- Chaitanya Mahaprabhu  "All religions are valid paths to the same ultimate reality."                     -- Ramakrishna Paramahamsa  "The boat should float on water. The water should not fill the boat, otherwise it will drown. Be...

               The NP Chronicle                     17th February  "You are the world."                          -- Jiddu Krishnamurthy  "Truth is a pathless land. Man cannot come to it through any organization, through any creed, through any dogma, priest or ritual."                          -- Jiddu Krishnamurthy  "The ability to observe without evaluating is the highest form of intelligence."                          -- Jiddu Krishnamurthy  "A society built on ambition and greed cannot sustain peace."                          -- Jiddu Krishnamurthy  "The world does not want you to think; it does not want you to...

               The NP Chronicle                     16th February  "I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work." -- Thomas Edison  "Failure is an option here. If things are not failing, you are not innovating enough." -- Elon Musk "Innovation leads to prosperity and prosperity leads to peace." -- Jack Ma  "Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower." -- Steve Jobs "The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible." -- Arthur C. Clarke  "Logic will get you grom A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere." -- Albert Einstein  Today is: ▪︎ Innovation Day ▪︎ Presidents' Day in the USA ▪︎ National Almond Day ▪︎ Islander Day in Canada ▪︎ Birth anniversary of John McEnroe, and Valentino Rossi  ▪︎ Death anniversary of Dadasaheb Phalke, and Meghnad Saha

               The NP Chronicle                     15th February  "I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him."                                              -- Galileo Galilei  "Passion is the genesis of genius."                                              -- Galileo Galilei  "All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them."                                              -- Galileo Galilei  "Mathematics is the language with which God has written the universe." ...

               The NP Chronicle                     14th February  "Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies."                               -- Aristotle  "If I had a flower for every time I thought of you, I could walk through my garden forever."                               -- Alfred Tennyson  "There is only one happiness in life: to love and be loved."                               -- George Sand Today is: ▪︎ Valentine's Day ▪︎ International Book Giving Day

               The NP Chronicle                     13th February  "We want deeper sincerity of motive, a greater courage in speech and earnestness in action."                          -- Sarojini Naidu  "A country's greatness lies in its undying ideals of love and sacrifice."                          -- Sarojini Naidu  "There is no limit to what we, as women, can accomplish."                          -- Michelle Obama "God is within her, she will not fall."                          -- Psalm 46:5 "Human rights are women's rights, and women's rights are human rights." -- Hillary Clinton  Today is: ▪︎ World Radio Day ▪︎ ...

               The NP Chronicle                     12th February "It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change."                          -- Charles Darwin  "Everything in nature is the result of fixed laws."                          -- Charles Darwin  "There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed by the Creator into a few forms or into one."                          -- Charles Darwin  "No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar."                          -- Abraham Lincoln  "The ba...

               The NP Chronicle                     11th February  "Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration."                          -- Thomas Edison  "Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up."                          -- Thomas Edison  "The three great essentials to achieve anything worthwhile are, first, hard work: second, stick-to-itiveness; third, common sense."                          -- Thomas Edison  "If we all did the things we are really capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves."                         ...

               The NP Chronicle                     10th February  "I did not think; I experimented."                          -- Wilhelm Rontgen  "Great discoveries are made accidentally less often than the populace likes to think."                          -- Wilhelm Rontgen  "A good newspaper, I suppose, is a nation talking to itself."                          -- Arthur Miller  "The two most common elements in the world are hydrogen and stupidity."                          -- Arthur Miller  Today is: ▪︎ World Pulses Day ▪︎ Teddy Day ▪︎ Death anniversary of Wilhelm Rontgen, Joshua Lederberg, Arthur Miller, and ...

               The NP Chronicle                      9th February  "When all else fails, philosophize."                          -- J. M. Coetzee  "We must cultivate, all of us,  a certain ignorance, a certain blindness, or society will not be tolerable."                          -- J. M. Coetzee  "Pain is truth; all else is subject to doubt."                          -- J. M. Coetzee  "Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart. The really great men must, I think, have great sadness on earth."                          -- Fyodor Dostoevsky  "What is hell? I maintain tha...

               The NP Chronicle                       8th February  "Human trafficking is a moral epidemic."                          -- Kailash Satyarthi "The fact that human beings are sold and bought is a shame on the modern world."                          -- Kailash Satyarthi "Human trafficking is an open wound on the body of contemporary society, and a crime against humanity."                          -- Pope Francis  Today is: ▪︎ International Day of Prayer and Awareness against Human Trafficking ▪︎ Propose Day ▪︎ National Kite Flying Day ▪︎ National Boy Scout Day in the USA ▪︎ Birth anniversary of John Williams, Chester Carlson, Lana Turner, Mary Steenburgen, and Mohammad Azharud...

               The NP Chronicle                      7th February  "Subdue your appetites, my dears, and you've conquered human nature."                          -- Charles Dickens  "A very little key will open a very heavy door."                          -- Charles Dickens  "Never do tomorrow what you can do today. Procrastination is the thief of time."                          -- Charles Dickens  Today is: ▪︎ Rose Day ▪︎ National Periodic Table Day ▪︎ Grenada Independence Day  ▪︎ Birth anniversary of Charles Dickens ,  and Sinclair Lewis, ▪︎ Death anniversary of John Perry Barlow, and Li Wenliang

               The NP Chronicle                      6th February  "To get something, you have to lose something. That's the rule of life."                          -- Lata Mangeshkar  "Money follows name and fame, while recognition calls for a huge amount of sacrifice."                          -- Lata Mangeshkar  "The despotism of custom is everywhere the standing hindrance to human advancement."                          -- John Stuwart Mill "Custom without reason is but ancient error."                          -- Unknown  Today is: ▪︎ International Day of Zero Tolerance for Female Genital Mutilation ▪︎ Birth anniver...

               The NP Chronicle                      5th February  "Climate change: It's here. If we don't react, war, pestilence and famine will follow close behind."                          -- Rajendra K. Pachauri  "For me, the protection of Planet Earth, the survival of all species and the sustainability of our ecosystems is more than a mission. It is my religion and my dharma."                          -- Rajendra K. Pachauri  "Happiness is a byproduct of function, purpose, and conflict; those who seek happiness for itself seek victory without war."                          -- William S. Burroughs  "The purpose of technology is not to confuse the brain but to serve the body." ...

               The NP Chronicle                      4th February  "Cancer cannot cripple love, it cannot shatter hope, it cannot conquer the spirit."                          -- Unknown  "The biggest risk is not taking any risk. In a world that is changing really quickly, the only strategy that is guaranteed to fail is not taking risks."                          -- Mark Zuckerberg  Today is: ▪︎ World Cancer Day ▪︎ International Day of Human Fraternity  ▪︎ Facebook Day ▪︎ Birth anniversary of Betty Friedan, Rosa Parks, Bhimsen Joshi, and Urmila Matondkar ▪︎ Death anniversary of Betty Friedan, Satyendra Nath Bose, Madhusudan Das, and Vani Jairam

               The NP Chronicle                      2nd February  1. The wetlands help to sustain life on this planet and so it is of the utmost importance that we save the wetlands.  2. The wetlands are the homes of many creatures and they would be homeless if the wetlands were to vanish.  3. Save the wetlands as the future of the Earth depends on them. The wetlands are responsible for a very diverse ecosystem and the ecosystem will be spoiled if the wetlands cease to exist.  4. The wetlands are a beautiful part of our ecosystem and we should take care of the wetlands.  5. On the occasion of World Wetlands Day, let us spread knowledge about wetlands to our friends and neighbors. Today is: ▪︎ World Wetlands Day  ▪︎ Birth anniversary of Shakira, Christie Brinkley  ▪︎ Death anniversary of Dmitri Mendeleev, Joshua Lederberg