Merry Christmas Everyone!

I’m extremely happy to be able to wish everyone a Merry Merry Christmas. I hope you’re having a great time with your friends and family, and I wish you joy, peace and prosperity for this coming year and the time ahead.

I want to share something that happened many many years ago while I was still in school, and I was reminded of that incident when I saw this tweet from Liz Danzico a few days ago.

 

 

 

What a wonderful message, and how timely it is.

I’ve heard a variation of this myself many many years ago when I think I must still be in primary school. A teacher asked me if my mom was a Christian from Kerala, and my dad a Hindu from Benaras, then what festivals did I celebrate?

And then without hesitating, she answered the question herself, “everything, you celebrate everything, of course.”

For all the things that we have got wrong, we have got many important things right, if there is a country more diverse in the world, I don’t know of it – and in this great diverse country where we speak more languages than the whole of Europe – we celebrate everything and we believe in everyone.

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

23 thoughts on “Merry Christmas Everyone!”

  1. Wonderful post again from you ! Yes the greatness of this country is we celebrate everything ! I come from a home where we unabashedly celebrate everything.But I find more and more of coming generation becoming cynical and avoiding this which is not a good trend.
    Yes its overall bad scenario in the world but then it will always will be, that should not stop us from living and celebrating life ๐Ÿ™‚
    Please keep up the good work ๐Ÿ™‚ Happy New year !

  2. You give us alot through out, it should be our responsibility as a user to thankyou…will be really shameful if we don’t, you have all the qualities of great person that’s why you r my favorite blogger and mentor, I wish u would have been my brother..my soul feels very happy when I thank you ๐Ÿ™‚
    Have a happy life, my wishes will always remain for you!

  3. Wish you Merry Christmas and a very happy and successful new year ahead. I remember I happened to visit on your blog while searching about Max Bupa health insurance and now I am addicted to your blog posts. Keep the spirit up ๐Ÿ™‚

  4. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to you and your family. Me and my family have been
    really lucky this year to be blessed with the greatest gift of our lifetime (Financial Plan by Hemant Beniwal) and also I am very very thankful for the contribution which you are giving us by sending us an e-mail of knowledgeable article’s everyday. Your hard-work and sincere effort is creating substantial difference in lot of people’s life. This is like witnessing the creation of greatest digital library…I am lovin it ๐Ÿ™‚

    I wish you all the best! May God bless you, you are a legend.

    1. Thank you so much Deepak – you are very kind as usual and I’m lucky to have people around who offer their encouragement to me from time to time.

      Merry Christmas to you and Nisha!

    1. Happy to see your message, I was thinking about you yesterday – how are you and the little one doing?

      Merry Christmas to you and your family ๐Ÿ™‚

  5. Hi Manshu
    I would also like to wish-Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year! to all the readers.
    It is painful to see politicians trying to divide the country based on caste and faith.
    Yes, we have got many important things right. It is good to see people of different faiths participating in festivities of one faith.

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