Spirit of every festive season

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Hi folks,
           Another Christmas has passed but the festive mood will remain until the NEW YEAR which is just a week away. This last week  is the time to relax, unwind and look back at what the year was for each of us. The advent of every NEW YEAR fills us with hopes, positive energies, resolutions, etc. But all of us are aware that every year brings new joys, sorrows, fears, changes for better or worse. At the end of each year we should ask ourselves what are we doing to make world a better place to live in.
                      Each festival lifts up the spirit of humanity. We have hundreds of festivals celebrated in hundred different ways. But the spirit of each festival and the message conveyed across is more or less the same. The spirit of  "universal peace, brotherhood, unity".  Let us all get together and spread this message across by diminishing the barriers of caste, creed, religion.

                     " HAPPY NEW YEAR "




                         

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  1. Satish24KDecember 29, 2010 at 6:46 PM

    Wish you a very happy and blogful new year

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  2. ARJUN R SHANKARJanuary 15, 2011 at 3:31 PM

    wishing u a happy n prosperous new year ahead.
    n a happy blogging...

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