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Mother Teresa

Mother Teresa is a dedicated soul like sister Nivedita. Both of them were originally foreigners but made this country their home. Teresa was born in 1910 at scope, a small village in Yugoslavia . Her earlier name was Agnes. At eighteen she dedicated to become a nun & so she come to India in 1928 & thereby she became an Indian citizen. Thus though she was Albanian by chance she became an Indian by choice. She started her life in Calcutta as a teacher in a convent school, but soon the mother in her cried for the suffering of the poor & the downtrodden. Her Nirmal Hriday al kalighat became the shelter of the sufferers. Her activities have now been spread all over the world. In 1979 she was awarded the Nobel prize for peace. She was awarded, Bharat Ratna Award for the year 1980. It’s very interesting to note that even at her very ripe old age she is still on her heels for her selfless service to mankind irrespective of caste & creed. She breathed her last on 5 th Septem