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Answer the following questions.
Who is Mother Teresa?
To which country does she belong?
Why did she run to the city of Calcutta from a distant land?
What is that date which is a memorable day in her life?
What is NIRMAL HRIDAY?
What honours did Mother Teresa receive in recognition of
the importance of her services to India?
2. Remember the pronunciation and spelling of these words.
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Answers
Hey Mate!!
1. Who is Mother Teresa?
Ans:- Mother Teresa was a famous Catholic nun who dedicated her life to caring for the destitute and dying in the slums of Calcutta (Kolkata).
2. To which country does she belong?
Ans:- Albanian, Indian, Ottoman, Yugoslav, Yugoslavian
4. What is that date which is a memorable day in her life?
Ans:- 1979 (She recieved the Nobel Peace Prize)
5. What is NIRMAL HRIDAY?
Ans:- Kalighat,the home of the pure heart (nirmal hriday)(formerly mother Teresa's kalighat home for the dying restitutes)is a hospice for the sick , destitute and the dying established by st. Mother Teresa on her42nd birth day in 1952, two years after she established Missionaries of charity in Kolkata.
6. What honours did Mother Teresa receive in recognition of the importance of her services to India?
Ans:- Teresa was first recognised by the Indian government more than a third of a century earlier, receiving the Padma Shri in 1962 and the Jawaharlal Nehru Award for International Understanding in 1969. She later received other Indian awards, including the Bharat Ratna (India's highest civilian award) in 1980.
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