Readers pay tribute to their mom on the occasion of Mother's Day

Her name stands for courage

What I owe Amma runs into a pretty long list. From tangibles such as a pretty yellow chiffon sari and a gleaming pair of diamond studs to intangibles such as the fingers with which I type in these words and the knowledge and wisdom that flow into them. And the patience that's holding back my hand that itches to smack my squabbling kids as I write this piece.

Amma would cook like a dream, stitch our school uniforms, teach us math and lend her slender shoulders to weep on. But what sets her apart from the average woman on the street (to which species I suspect I belong) is her extraordinary courage. She is rather paranoid about locking up the house for the night, and about our kids catching a cold from playing with ice-cubes. But her fears end right there. She would travel alone, make decisions and handle situations in a manner that may leave Jhansi Rani gasping with awe.

The greatest test of her courage came when Dad with an accident that left him breathing but little else. A bunch of CRPF men brought us the news that their massive truck had knocked Dad down and that he was lying unconscious in hospital � just a hair's breadth away from death. Amma, fortitude personified, quietly picked up her handbag and got into the jeep with the CRPF men. She spent more than two months on the cold corridors of the AIIMS in New Delhi [Images], as her husband struggled back to life in the ICU. The couple of hours that she came home each day, she would organize the domestic front and egg me on to prepare for my Twelfth Standard exams.

Today, as I run a household and pursue my career, I yearn for some of her pluck. When I fret, she is instantly by my side. Her soothing and cheerful words help me face life with spirit � the spirit that places here firmly in the Mothers' Hall of Fame.

Indira Balaji
Chennai

You rock

My mom is the greatest. Period. I love my mom (and so does my sis) and whatever we are today is because of her. She has been a constant and never-ending source of strength and courage for us. She has been the epitome of hard-work, spirituality, and love for all of us. She has been a perfect role model  � be it in the form of a wife, a teacher, a mother, a sister, or a daughter. It was she who used to teach me when I was a kid, and then it was she who used to egg me to achieve great heights. It was she who inspired me and my sis day in and day out. It was she who used to wake me up early morning and give me a cup of hot tea so that I could study for the finals. It was she who took up a teaching job when our family fell on hard times. It was she who sometimes sacrificed her "needs" for my and my sister's "wants". It is still she who never tires and wakes up early every day to take care of the family. She is like a god to me and my sis and there is no stone that we would ever leave unturned to fulfill any and all of her wishes. Happy Mother's Day Mom!! We Love you, you Rock, and there's no one like you!!

Ranjit Bhatia

She taught me my greatest lessons

She is the personality who has had the most influence on my personality.
she taught me some of the greatest lessons in life. most important was that
Life is not about goods and bads.  its more to do with your attitude.  if
someone is bad with you, dont fall below your dignity to teach that one a
lesson.  raise the bar and bring him to your levels.  she has been an
inspiring angel in my life. always teaching me things which a true guru can
teach.  one thing i have learned from her is never get affected by people
and one's attitude is the biggest weapon in our hand to fight this world.
no one has the right to kill your happiness, its your mind and heart that
has to be in control, rest things take care of themselves.  life is not
about taking from this world, one has also to give to this world, and thats
when your worth is decided.

One thing in my life will be to replicate what she has taught me with
outright honesty.
and i would pray to god that every time im born in this world, i get this
lady as my mom.

Harvinder Singh

God give all the mothers of this world peace

First of all I am very very thankful to you on the above subject.
I do not want to win any prize, but the subject you choose is very very lovable.
My mother was, she was only & only in my life for ever. As on today, I am in good condition due to my mother's blessings. Everyone should think that Ma either is for you or me.. only Ma is a God.
 
Ma tuje salam.
 
God give all the mothers of this world peace.
 
C S Dave

The greatest person in the world

I am from a small town Modinagar (UP). My Mom is not so much educated (only 10th pass). I am from a middle class family so affording tuition fee was a bit difficult in those days but my mom sat with me and taught me till 12th!!!! She used to go through the examples, understand them and then used to teach me. She gave me all good teachings from respecting elders, worshipping god, respecting a woman, touching feet of my elders, sincerity towards studies and everything. She scolded me when I did not perform well then consolidated me and inspired me for better performance. She was my admirer when I preformed well. She was alone in the home and youngest. She took after all the elders and never gave them any point of complain and at the same time brought up myself and my sis (twins) very well� She is greatest person for me in this world. I love u MOM�

Ravi Mittal
Modinagar, UP
 
She is a mirror for me

I would like to say that Mummy has always been a favourite with boys.
she was the one who taught you the first words to speak. tie the shoe laces , wash the cloths. My mom never said no when I use to ask her to buy food for me whether it is rossogollas or samosas  etc she use to walk miles and get it for me. she will always remain special to me.
She sacrificed her life for me. she educated me in an English medium school even knowing that my father will not be able to pay the exorbiant fees. she is educated till class 10 even then she had the guts to go to a primary school and teach the children of class 4  and 6  and earn so that she can pay the school fees for me my brother and my sister. My father was a steno and his job was temporary. We were in a financial mess when my father tried to do a business of his own. The business collapse and  my father clearly told that he won't be able to pay the school fees. she donned the man's role went out for a job in a primary school and walked 8 miles to reach the school . She never bought anything for her. When I finished my post graduation and gave her Rs 5000/- to buy a sari, she spent the whole amt for the household.

She taught me to speak, sing, face the world boldly, take part in debates, quizzes and elocution. Every day she should take out to school crossing the perilious railway lines and always keeps us happy.
she would also buy for us the samosas, rossogolas, golgappas etc.
She never made us feel that we are in financial crunch.
I salute my mom who is my goddess and she is the mirror to me.
Whatever I am today it is because of my mom. If I would not have studied in an english medium school I would have been working in a multinational company.
she was a complete housewife, she would sit with us and help us in doing the school homework. We cannot afford tutions she was the tutor and mentor for me and my siblings.
She made us participate in all the events of life.

In all I can say that my mom did everything she is expected to do.

N S Iyer

Her brightness overwhelms you

This is Samar.I have just read your article regarding the tribute being paid to the person who brought us in the world,viz.Mother.
To Tell something about mother is like illuminating a small lamp infront of a whole sun.Sun is the not only light-emitting but also giving life and nurturing plants and supplying them the necessary proteins.
 
just the thought of comparing,makes me feel as if i m describing the sun in a whole new way.
 
My Mother is the person having a mind of steel.She has been through many hardships,she brought us up in a lot of trouble.Guiding the children,warning them from the dangers ahead,inhibiting a culture of self-independence,imbibing values of morality,culture cultivation,respecting the elderly,supporting younger generations,etc.
 
Some other things which every mother does,but why my mother stands out of them all is the fact that she is the one who taught me some things which the world requires u to survive,that  is patience.
 
Some best qualities which can't be described in words.
 
Because no matter how much you try to describe the intensity of the sun,u are always short of words.The Brightness always overwhelmenes you,just the thought send a wave of excitement down the spine.
 
Carry on the load of everything on her shoulders,weilding great patience,mind of steel,body of steel,such are some of the qualities of the greatest Mother,i.e My Mother.

This is not the end,nor the beginning,This is just the beginning of the end.

Samar Wachasundar

A guiding force

My mother has been  a source of inspiration & guiding path for me & my younger brother. Despite being a working lady.. a doctor...she has managed her time very well between home & work place. She has provided an atmosphere of love, faith & care at home. She has stood solidly by out side in tough times & has fought with entire world just to bring happiness on our faces.......she continues to do so still. Just to quote an example....in my teens I was not doing well in studies & my teachers & relatives had just written me off. During those times, she stood with me....showed immense faith in my abilities. Today,I am one of the best placed persons careerwise among all my friends & relatives.Thanks mom for standing by my side.
At times,she has been tough with me & let her decision preveiled over me. Later on I realised that her decision turned out to be the right one. One such example is choice of my wife.Initially I was reluctant with this marriage proposal & tried hard to oppose this decision. But she prevailed over me & ensured that I marry girl of her choice. Today my marriage life is the happiest one & I am a proud father of two kids. Today I have learnt this lesson that a woman understands another woman more than a man understands her. Thanks mom for prevailing upon me.
She has a great sense of punctuality. Her daily routine of morning walk, yoga & pooja inspires us.
Her greatest aspect has been treating every individual with great regards & compassion. That's the reason that she has achieved great heights in the workplace also.
She has been a guiding force for us & all of us draw strength & faith from her.Thanks for being my mom.
 
Madhur Saxena
Indore

I never forget her sacrifices

Actually, mother is always very special for all (Human beings as well as animals). As per my mother, she is like a God for me. She is very loving, caring for all in the family. She is everything for me. I can not think my existence without her. She is very emotional, she motivates me may times. She has tackled whole joint family in a beautiful way. She has filled such a qualities into me, that I can't divert into wrong things. I want to pray her like a God. I respect her. She never gets anger. She never think about selfishness. She always think good for all having a positive attitude.
I Love my mom more than anything even more than me, my wife. I never forget her sacrifices. She is very cool temperament. She is having no demand. She just love her family and have a full faith on God. She is very co-operative to poor persons. She is very kindful to them. And, support them financially, emotionally whatever possible.
She is greatest for me in the world.
I pray God for a long life to my mom.
Even I think that I should die before my mom, because I cant live without her.
 
Nirmal Daga
New Bombay

A gem

my name is J.damodaran .
 
my mothers name is Ms.K.Bharathy janakiraman . she is working as superintendent in highways department .
 
In my view , she is most excellent human being in this universe . she is my ideal & hero of my life .
 
I learnt so much from her . She never expels her feeling or overreact . she will stand infront of any problem and solve it instead of skipping /avoiding it .
 
WIth so much of obstacle and financial problems , she made to pursue my engineering .
 
Eventoday i remember that day when my mum sold here hearings to attend interview at kolkatta .with her blessing i got the job. She never waited for the things to happen itself . Instead she made things to happen .The determination of my mum astonished me.
 
Whenever i come across the word honesty , my mother's picture will come infront of me. 
 
She is really a gem of a person .
 
Mum
Happy mothers day .
 
Jdamodaran

She was extraordinary
 
Ever Since I was been born was away from her, Since my sister brought me up during my childhood, I used to visit her once a year, I used to see her treating our neighbours who are under poverty, She used to cook little more than required to our family and helped people who are hungry and the oldage people...I am sure, it don't cost her the fortune....
 
She had a natural death without any pain....I had to rush back home from Mumbai [Images] to Bangalore where she died....I saw the whole village was crying, As though  they lost somebody from their family ....she was not extraordinary Human Being ...she simple followed some basic formula to care for some body who needs foods...I feel she was the greatest mom to me,,,,

Lakshman

A website for her

As you rightly said, all mothers are special. Mine is very special.

I've dedicated one page to her on my web. If you click on the following link, you will really understand how she has fought with life and stood up shoulder to shoulder with my dad and have led both of her children to a successful life.

Link to the description on my mother:

http://www.geocities.com/kaustubhagarwal/Neelima.html

The same is also attached herewith as a webpage.

Kaustubh Agarwal

She has the sweetest heart

"THE HAND THAT ROCKS THE CRADLE , RULES THE WORLD"

down the ages, mothers have shaped destinies.i can justify it by saying that the kind of person i am today is just because of my mother. she carved a beautiful young lady out of a sibling i.e "me".
she is my true hero because she suffered for the just cause,she fought cruelty with love and affection.instilled in me the courage to face upto the harsh realities of life. guided me along the right path.
  finally my mother taught me to live life with DIGNITY.

this is what makes my mother different from others. she is my teacher,my friend,my strength, my weakness and on top of it our FAMILY.
she is a great woman because " A GREAT WOMAN INSPIRES OTHERS WITH COMFIDENCE IN THEMSELVES"... she is one of the most beautiful lady because beauty comes from inside and i guess my mother has the sweetest heart.

my mother: Dr SWARAJ NAIK
LOVE U LOTS
TRISHA [Images] NAIK

Worship your mom first

My answer is immediate after reading the question in rediff.com.   The
quality within me to achieve my present status is the foundation laid by my
mother in the childhood.   I am away from her for 32 years and when I visit
her every year for few days, for her I am the same son left her 32 years
ago.

Mother, no money can replace the comfort and the lessons that you have given
to me in my childhood and for whatever reasons I hurt you at any time even
unintentionaly, I take this opportunity to apologize for it infront of this
world, and beg you to punish me.

My only prayer is now that at her old age, show me the right way to give her
the most comfort that she deserve.

A message to all:  Worship your Mother first, (2nd) Father, (3rd) Guru (4th)
Your Job (work hard, work hard, work hard) and the God will be with us.

I thank rediff.com for giving this opportunity.

Sudhinan Brarath

Nothing can match my mother

Ma is something, which the creator himself is proud of and goes about mentioning about her importance and the role she plays in all most all the religious books.

For me she is my World and because of her I was able to see this beautiful world. Her patience to carry you for nine months, go through all the pain and giving you a chance to be a part of this world is something which cannot be matched by any deed in this world.

She is that woman who would skip her food to make sure that her kids could have belly full and its the same woman who would eat many good things during pregnancy not because to satisfy her hunger and desire but to make sure that the kid inside her womb could have that and become a healthy baby.

She is the one who is absolutely free from any sort of short coming's,she is like fresh air which breezes all day all night for her children tirelessly, she has no expectations for all she does, its pure love,caring and nurturing qualities thats imbibed in her.

No money, No wealth, No riches, nothing whatsoever can match my MOTHER.

Where there is a mother at home,things can never go wrong, she is such an important person in our lives who bonds all of us together.

A mother is the truest friend we have, when trials heavy and sudden, fall upon us; when adversity takes the place of prosperity; when friends who rejoice with us in our sunshine desert us; when trouble thickens around us, still will she cling to us, and endeavor by her kind precepts and counsels to dissipate the clouds of darkness, and cause peace to return to our hearts.

"Heaven is underneath Mother's feet".

Regards to all moms of the world

We are a family of five, MY Mom, My Dad, My brother and My Wife.
 
I find myself very fortunate to have my Mom always by my side when I need her.

She has been the light of my life; she has been guiding me through the rough times of my life and shared all my moments, either of happiness or sorrow.

She has stood by me when I needed her the most; she stood against the whole world to guard me. Though I live in Delhi , she is in Patna, I never feel she is a thousand KM away from me, she is always by my side, always ready with a solution to all my problems, a

A woman is not a mother just because she gave birth to a child but because she brings it up to face the world and its reality, guides it all its life, gives it the understanding of what is good and what is bad. This is what my Mom did for me. Stood firm by my side.

One will have to be born again to have Mom like mine.

She has helped me whenever I had been in crisis, she has shared my happiness, she has wept because I was weeping, I was sad,

Not only as mother but as a person she has been great, she had been the most favorite person throughout my relatives, she has been the glitter of the parties, she has always helped others when they needed it the most.

She is a working lady; she is as popular in her office as she is among the family members and relatives. Her work is, just, perfect, she gets immense respect from all she meets, and she has taught how to tackle people both socially and officially. She is like pillar on which my whole world rests, at this age of 30 I still feel I need her the way I needed her 30 years ago.

She never discriminated among we two brothers, she has given us the best upbringing, even though we were not very well to do at times, she never let us feel that we lack anything, what all we needed was provided, now when I look back , I find there were things we could not have afforded at those times , but we had it, because my Mom never wanted us to feel left out, be sad because we could not have something we could not afford. Now, we are well to do, everyone in my family earns handsomely , but I cannot forget how she managed our lives when we were not well to do. Its only due to her strength and guidance both me and my brother are successful in life.

Closing on this note to the almighty, "Make my Mother happy, give me the opportunity to be her son every time I am Born. Thanks GOD, thanks to your MOM .Make all mothers happy, give them good health and welfare.

My MOM, MY Hero.

Regards to all Mom of the Worlds

Ritesh Kumar

She sacrificed her whole life

My mom is the worlds great mom bcoz she has done many things for my life as i was struck by polio she took more efforts to cure my leg by leaving her job and sacrificed her whole life for the treatment of my legs. so my mom is the worlds greatest mom

Pinky Patil

She nourished me

Ma she is the one who tells us what is the world she lets us know people arund us perhaps that is why the first word a child utters is ma.the first word i spoke was mum (ma) it literally means pani water without which nobody can live .
she nourished me and gave me all the possible things she could.but apart from this she made me what i am today.
i lost my father when i was7 .she cried a lot.she was only 24 when that happened and imagine she made her life a hell by not marrying any body else the option she alwys had.i could not realise that then but today when i am old enough i understand her sacrifice.the age when people marry twice she kept alone and for us for us.i dont say she might be greatest for the world but for me she is the greatest.
apart from being a mother she is  a lady who has iron nerve the reason why i respect her people respect her and what more to tell.
 
there were days when we had not enough to eat.but she never let our confidence down toady i am very confident i owe this to her.today i am far away from her but why i do i feel her presence every where why di feel she is in my every work. i love u ma and i know that u have done much for us three brothers but we have not been able to give what we should gie to you .but very soon your soon will be capapble of fulfiiling your every dream which u show with ur open eyes
 
never hurt ur mother its beyond any sin u commit

Rahul Agarwal

I wish you to be happy always

What makes a mother so special for her child? This question never provoked my thoughts for a number of years while I was living with you, Maa. Everything that you did never seemed special to me, as it was the normal routine stuff that every woman had to do. You managed everything, your personal and professional life, kids upbringing and education, finances, everything, in spite of the fact that you were a single parent.
Now that I'm working and living far from you, makes me realize how special and important were those things which I used to take as routine stuff and how you managed everything perfectly. Doing everything on my own now, makes me go back down to the memory lane and remembering how you used to fed me with your hands when I was tired or making me sleep with my head on your lap or never saying no to any of my work in spite of being tired.
Every trait that I possess today is result of your hard work over the years. Everything that you taught me that seemed to be boring and outdated to me at that time is helping me become a better person. It's never that we never fought or had arguments, there were lot of them and you always took them to make me a perfect bachha of yours. I even misbehaved with you at times and you have always scolded me for that but that scolding always came with a kiss later.
Being a mother you have always sacrificed your wishes and never asked anything in return. I can't give you anything in return but only wish you to be happy always. On this special day, I would like to say one thing I never told you that,'Maa, I love you!'

Anjali Rihal.
New Delhi. 

I am the luckiest

Mother...what a wonderful word it is? It has the meanings of all the best of words like 'love, care and trust' in it.

Who else would stand by me whenever I did some mischief and yet correct me?  Who else would have
taught me how to read and write? Who else would have taught me to pray and to know my God? Who else would have walked 20 kilometres to my school to see if I was safe, on the day of a riot? Who else would have hid all her pains and worries so that I didn't get worried? Who else would have come with me to my every tution class each early morning and sleep inside the car, because, otherwise I would bunk it? Who else would have sold her property to get me into the best
college? Who else would have stood by me in all my times of crisis? Who else would not expect anything from me, when I am in the sound position that i am now? Who else would have arranged my wedding in a way that not many can even imagine of? Who else would pray for me everyday, from the day I was born?

It is ofcourse my mother. Every other relationship can be chosen, but not that between a mother and a child and I thank God for this, because if there were a choice, I might not have chosen her, because she doesnt wear many ornaments, she doesnt wear costly clothes, she doesnt live a costly life. But being her son, I realized that she sacrificed all these things so that I may enjoy all these luxuries in life. And mind you, she isn't any ordinary person, she is a
senior government official in a respectable position in the society. But that was for the society, for me she was my 'Mother', the one whom God told me to look at if in case I would have to search for Him in this world!

My mom's the greatest. I know that and although everyone would argue that their mom's the greatest,you need to be her child to realize that she's the greatest and hence I thank God because He made me the luckiest.

Sanjai Paul.

Her faith and love shaped me

My mother was the greatest inspiration of my life. Her faith and love shaped my character.

My mother is my best friend.  I sat at her feet on my little stool while she sat by her sewing machine. As she created beautiful clothes for us and for other people, she introduced me to the characters of folk tales, to the heroes of the Lord Mahavir Book, and to the Lord she loved and served.

My mother is always saying that go for correct way. Correct way will take you on high level and short cut way will take a high but for small period of times. So always be truth,honest and hard work in work.

She is saying that Honest,Truth and Hard Work always keep you on Sky level.

So i am  following her statement and i am having everything today because of my mother.

Vikram Mandviya
Bangalore

She never gave up

Before saying anything I want to say I love my mother very much; she is every thing for me. I don't know how my father was, for me mother and father is my mom.

She is the person who inspired me in every moment of my life she is my strength she taught me how to live life. She faced n number of troubles but she never give up she was very strong she handled every issue. she was married at very young age and my father left her all alone with two kids me and my sister (I was 1 year old and my sis was 3 years old) she took up the job and all the other responsibilities. May be you don't believe my words. But for me everything is my mother

Mohan Raj

My mom, the greatest management teacher

The world of Management has in the past and current century have given an iconic status to the Drucker's, the Peters, the Welch's etc - business guru's who have been a great source of inspiration and immense encouragement to students of the industry. However, whilst one cant deny the contribution of these gentlemen, there are the lucky ones like me who owe my career graph rise entirely to my old lady.

My mom taught me Vision and Goal setting, if you want those soccer boots for the next season you better get those A grades this year.

My mom taught me Mission, you better finish that spinach on your plate if you want the strawberry dessert you have been eyeing.

My mom taught me Leadership ' You are in charge of your younger siblings when playing in the backyard. I will hold you responsible if anything happens to them' 

My mom taught me Planning and Preparation 'Your cousins are coming home this summer, chart out their schedule and see to it, they have an enjoyable time'

My mom taught me Execution 'Here's how you keep your bed in order after you wake up'

My Mom taught me Creativity 'We want to surprise dad for his birthday, why don't you think of something that he'd like and be really surprised with.

My mom taught me Ethics, 'I see you have your friend's pencil in your box, I want that returned tomorrow, no questions asked'.

My mom taught me Financial Management 'Here's your pocket money for the month, I know you have a million things you want, go figure it out'.

My mom taught me to there's a Time and Place for everything 'If you want to fight with your brother, do it outside my house, I have just finished cleaning it'.

My mom taught me Resilience and Spirituality 'Don't lose heart that you didn't win this time, if you have worked hard and given it your best, your time will come � there is a God, keep trying'

My mom taught me to Respect everyone 'Don't you dare talk to anyone like that � Treat people the way you would like to be treated'

My mom taught me Control and Discipline ' You will not play those finals of the cricket match with the temperature you are running and that's not changing'

My mother taught me Honesty and Integrity 'No matter what happens always tell the truth, you won't have to remember what you said and to whom'
 
Thank you Mom, there has never been a teacher like you.

Irwin Rego

My world forever

Its always nice writing about my mom, right from the time i was a child my mom has been more than a friend and i also am ovewr possesive. I just cannot see her tired or depressed. She has stood at all difficult times in my life and also understood me in all walks of life, to her i am like an open book she knows what and where i am at any time.
Now i am away from India we still maintain the same rapport.I feel its a blessing in disguise to have a mom like her.There was a  time when i was alone in Goa [Images] for my birthday, she flew from Mumbai to seee that she is available for me and prepared sweets and had a small party.
We often fight like kids and be back to normal immediately.There is more to express personally than putting on mail. But in short my mom is my world forever and i am proud to say that.
The photo attached is Mom's 60th birthday celebration at the temple.

Mom i love you.

Anoo Styan Iyengar

Like the sun

About my mother i can say

she is like a sun shine on earth as without the sun life is not possible without mom my life is not possible.

Tejal Shah

Not a word... a feeling

MOM!! This is not just a word, it is a feeling which none other than her child can try to describe.

To me 'Mom' is a synonym of 'GOD'. Since the time I was a kid and was at a stage when I started understanding, I've always seen her as an Idol. She used to console when I was sad, she remained calm even when I was most irritating, she was always next to me the moment I needed. She spent sleepless nights, so that I can sleep comfortably.
She spent her whole life by compromising on everything & every need, just to ensure that I should not be enforced to compromise at any stage of my life. Today I'm 29, but still she is ready to compromise on things when it comes to my comfort.
Today, I'm forced to think, had I ever thought about her needs at this stage of life. Apart from the monetary things, am I providinng the affection, love and time to her, out of my so called 'busy schedule'; as she did for us, even though she was extremly busy being a working woman.
But if I'll ask, she will be still happy, not because she is comfortable, but just because I'm happy and comfortable.
I know whatever I'll do for her now, can never match with what she had given me: "A belief that I'm not alone and she is besides me always"
 
For me: If there is any 'God' its my 'MOM'.
 
Nitin Deshpande

She loves me unconditionally

My mother is very special to me because whatever I am today is because of my mother.

She is the only person in this world who can forgive all my wrong doings unhesitatingly and love me unconditionally. She never criticized me when I failed to do something but highlighted my achievements tactfully. She is the only person who has absolute faith in me. It helped me to grow as a positive person and trust the world.

She worked hard to meet the day-to-day household demands of a big family but never forgot to appreciate, enjoy and practice the good things of life. It is my mother who taught me how I could derive tremendous pleasure from music and literature. In spite of being a dedicated house-wife and mother of three, she made me understand how important it is to have a world of your own and create an identity.

Most importantly, my mother taught me to have faith in God and in me. It is the faith that helps me to sail through difficult situations.

Today I am a working mother of   7 years old and I aspire to be a great mom like her.

Piyasi Sen
Kolkata

Out of her womb or back

My mother. She is still not the mother I wanted �
warm, hugging and very expressive about her feelings.
In her, I don't find that selfishness usually
associated with mothers. But at 60, She's pretty cool.

For 25 years, I was thinking what a dull 'ammu' I
have. For the past two years, time and again I am
astounded by her sheer perseverance to work on things
unpleasant between her and me (a sharp contrast to my
angelic sister)!

At the most testing of times, she shows me, the
crybaby, a new way to play again! I am left sitting
with wondrous eyes, tears half-dried. I am learning to
look at her with awe - at this new, smarter kid!

She, with her ready wit and 'cow dung on fire' (her
self-description) temperament learnt computer fast,
now goes for classes to become a financial advisor. It
is her so not even God knows what's in store!

She walks that lazy walk; less talk, more ideas, her
parody on my every favourite song, and how she manages
to get my 'most intelligent' dad go wild after a
useless treasure hunt for a snack, his bottle of pure
honey or even money�

Whenever I embark upon educating her about 'new age'
mom, she quips, "I feel you should have been my
mother."

Today, I wish and strive to follow her mental
disposition and her philosophy, which makes her noble
and devoid of prejudices. May be she cannot make all
those fancy dishes. She sticks to her known fare and
it tastes great. May be she cannot hug and give pecks,
too shy for all that. Truth is I don't find time to
complain. I have got too much to handle, with my
beautiful girl around!

Rekha [Images] Kumar

She is my weakness. She is my power

When I look back all those hurdles which my mom pass thru and gave the best to us, its always so fresh in my memories. My father was working in military ( B.R.O) had three brothers, two sisters and parents to look after. My mom was staying with my father family leaving my father in borders. Every one left us alone once they got their resources just in no time we were on street looking for penny, food and shelter. Its like one man army, she never used to fill her stomach, but she use to feed us with the little money. She used to be fasting providing us all the requirements. Today we are well settled earning lot of money and having good name in the society. Elder Brother is Doctor in London [Images] settled with family over there. I am in Gulf holding good position in the company, Younger sister Vet Doctor and well settled with her family. She had sacrificed her youth, blood, sleepless nights thinking about our future. I can not forget her, she is my inspiration, she is my weakness and she is my power. She is so kind, loving, self disciplined brought us to this stage. No one can even imagine the growth in our life.. all that credit goes to my mom.. She is my hero.

This is the smallest way to express about my hero..

Luv you mom

Syed Babar

Mom, don't you get tired ever

My Dad told me I should tell you about My Mom. She is a very nice lady. She
works for TV and FM radio and goes to college as l go to school. I am her
only child. I am 8 yr old and study in class III.

She is busy through out the day but never misses any part of taking care of
me. She gets up in the morning at 5.30 and makes me get dressed for school.
Then she gives me breakfast and by 7.00 I am ready for school. Dad is
alaways travelling for work so she drops me to school. After dropping me she
gets ready for her TV or radio Job. Her Job is over by 10.30 AM as she hosts
the morning shows.
Then she leaves for her college. She is doing her Masters, but she never
takes me to her Parents Day as she comes for mine .. I think me and Dad
should go to her parents day.

By 2.00 PM she comes back and picks me up from my school. Then she comes
home and cooks food for me and we talk about our day on the dining table.
Its the time for scolding if I tell her i didnt complete my school work. I
dont lie to her because I know she will be very upset.
Then we rest for a while and then she dresses me up for my Karate class. She
drops me for the Karate class by 4.30. The class is over by 5.30 and she
picks me up and we come home.
Then she serves me milk to get strong and then she becomes my teacher and
helps me in my homework and learning. At around 8.00 she cooks delicious
cook for me . She is a great cook. I love her food. After food she becomes
my story teller and puts me to sleep with a smile.

I ask her some times " Mom dont you get tired ever " because whole day she
works and works.
She says she forgets everything when she thinks of me. I love her very much.
When I grow up I will take her to outtings and will take care like she does.
I love my mom veryyyyyyyyy much..

She is very strong. She is a superwoman. I think I will make a cartoon movie
on her like the superwoman. She should be in Justice League too.. to help
other kids of the world. I am sending her and mine picture when i was 3 yr
old and some of my pictures.

Saksham Sahni
Jalandhar City

She still lives on

My mama won't be able to physically read this but I believe she will. My mama was the best friend God gave me; though a teacher by profession, she worked as an inspirer to her students, to relatives, to friends and to my little brother and me.

She seldom got to live the life she wanted. For every good deed she did, she often would receive a hurt. She was simplicity personified. Though she studied in a Kannada medium school, her impeccable English diction and accent would give many an English medium student, who were her contemporaries a complex. She even co authored a text book of English essays and grammar for high school students.

Brave she indeed was, to have started her teaching career in her early twenties in Bombay and then to have moved overseas for a three-year stint as a teacher in Hong Kong when she was hardly twenty-three in the early seventies. This speaks volumes of her determination, dedication and drive. Kind at heart and strong of mind, she always tried to explore new possibilities.

Her helping hand that reached out to many will always be remembered. She was able to put many of her savings together and help our family own an apartment and car. She took challenges and taught us to take them. She lived a life of adventures and high values inspiring most who came her way.

All this and more makes my ma cooler, more fun, more inspiring, a role model and even a rockstar.

My mama won't be able to physically read this because 5 years ago, when I my brother and I were 17 and 21 respectively God took her to him at the young age of 51, but for us she still lives on.

Amith Prabhu
Bangalore

A mom who believed in her son

We are a one big happy family , me my 2 chaca (paternal uncle ) , 2 chachi (paternal aunt) there kids , mom , dad my sister. Currently I am 27 , I had probably one of the best upbringing one could have with perfect mix of idealism and practical- ism.
We are one know political families in our state & respected for their clean image in politics , but I was never every privileged through our influence in government . Probably because of this I am able to write this piece of English
 
Does this make my mom a hero  ? Only partially , it's her attitude which makes her hero , which I intend to explain in this incidence.
 
Back in my college days I was involved in college politics , and college politics is intern involved in a lot of group fighting , bashing people , and being trashed by them as well . I had a descent enough group of hooligans with me , but all of this was un known to my parents  , cause they do not had much of respect for college politics , so I changed my name and continued to do my stuff . Changing name was important as some of my uncles close friends were also college professors .
 
One of the last few days of my college , I picked up a fight with a rival gang , the boy was a "taripar" (means legally bared from being in the district , due to criminal back ground ) . Such fights was a matter of daily routine for me , but the only problem this time was one of my uncle friend who was a proff saw me picking up a fight with him .
 
The proff had an idea that I am a really cute guy , and one of the studious one ( as i was also university topper for 2 years ) and was clueless about my hooliganism , how would he had known , as I changed my name for such activities .
 
The idiot thought I would be as dead as a dodo as I have picked up a fight with a "tripar" and that he will bash me to death , in panic the first thing he did was to called up was my uncle  , intern uncle called up my dad and mom and grand dad , my house turned into panic room.
 
People were consulted , contacted were being used in government , to save me from the supposed demon ,the Taripar , my uncle was asked to go to college with some people and asked to escort me out of the supposed death valley .
 
Meanwhile I was happily settling scores with the rival gang leader outside college , unaware of the absolute panic back home . My uncle came empty handed , above that nobody in my college knew my real name , so no one was able to give any info about me , this added to their fear . Ever one was scared to death but one person in the family was confident about my well being my own  "MUMMY COOL"
 
All this happened between 10am to 4 pm , now I happily returned back  home , every one was eagerly waiting for my One piece return , and were relived and very angry to see me .
 
I the 19 year old was summoned to the family meeting . and then everyone virtually blasted me of with there imagination of what all bad thing could have been done to me by that Tripar and how grave danger was I into , Totally unaware that how dangerous was their own sweet little kid was .
 
Amid all the allegation on my bad behavior,  an unexpected support emerged , mom stood up and supported me , and proclaimed that what all I did was absolutely correct . And there was no reason I should have not reacted the way I did , she also said it better to be dead than to be cowered , every one was as surprised to hear her as I was , no one knew what to say , She seems to be proud , of what her son did , irrespective of the fact that society might not be much appreciative about it , She found the act full of responsibility against everyone opinion , Amongst all man my mom emerged as more man ly then many men in family , she was more brave  and more heroic , mom sure believed in her son , and no matter what she was ready to stand by my side.   
Its that day I found a supporter of my ideology in my mom and she found a brave son , The other day there was a small news in the local news paper that police arrested a  taripar form my college as he was fighting with some "MUNMUN Bhaiya" . Who Munmun bhaiya ? Ask my mom she forms that day on knows all the little dark secretes .
 
Akshat Tamot

She said you should never lose hope

My mother's life is a religious book for me. She came from a very conservative Muslim family, but taught me to adhere to progressive thoughts. She was never afraid of confrontation and debate as she always felt it would help in reaching a proper decision. I learned from her that one cannot win all arguments and always accept the best argument that comes out of a discussion. Give the best for what everybody agrees. I always think even today what she would have done for a particular incident.

She taught me to respect Mahatma Gandhiji and his thoughts especially when I had kids around me who thought differently. She never allowed me to runaway from struggles of life. We should face whatever comes our way. We had a lawsuit against a builder who cheated us. I used accompany her to court for 9 years. I was tired of going to court as I saw no justice around. But she always said, you should never lose hope. Injustice is a choice we make but justice is a hope for which we should keep trying. She died of cancer on 14th May 2004. Her end was also a battle that I could learn from. She knew for last 1 year that the end was near & accepted the fate with courage.

I miss her in my thoughts and whenever I remember her.
Faiyaz Pawaney

She fought evils with great spirit

Yes my Mom (Smt. Vijaya Lakshmi) is a real hero by all means.

One can imagine the aftermaths if head of the family expires all of a sudden. She has taken entire responsibility on her shoulders when my father expired owing to Cancer in 1984 when I (Ravi) was 10 years and my brother (Venkat) 15 then. Married at the age of 18 to maternal uncle (usual practice in Andhra Pradesh) her marriage life lasted just for 17 years. From 1984 to 2006, it has been a saga of successes & failures, joys & sorrows that she has experienced throughout. She has fought the evils with Great Spirit and won accolades from the public in all respects. She now stands a respected woman not only within our relations but the society as a whole. In short, I can say we have enjoyed all the riches in life that one would have (with father alive) having come from a middle class family.

Today we (Brother and I) are well employed, married and stay united along with our mother. We have taken the load (responsibility) from her completely now. Having taken all the pain for over 20 years, she is now enjoying / spending rest of her life with grand children (Vamsi, Harshit) joyfully.

Mom YOU ARE GREAT.

Ravi Sampath

She is my mother and my father

HEllo friends yes my mom is always great in my life and its not bcause she had given birth to me and thats the reason iam saying
this its bcaz in my life she has played both roles of giveing my love of father as well as mother and as an friend.

As when i was samll my fater expired and its was my mother u made us education and she never stopped us from education as income was less
but she alwasy insisted us to do best education in life and she never said no for money if we asked for fees and all the things we wanted she alwasy happlily gave us waht we wanted in life .

I really get tears in life when she made us feel proud that we are the best childern in this world and we are also proud in same way that our mom is really really great in life.

Whenever we are in situation stucked she helps us out of the situation and gives us support and gives us stength to face the situation and strenth.

today i am studying abroad my masters its all bcaz of my mom she gaved me strengh and postiveness feeling in all my life and she
is proud that we earn well and we are doing well in our lives.

so i proudly sasy that my mom is really great .

thanks

Shivkumar Makwani

I am lucky if I am half as good a parent

While it may be difficult to pinpoint just one or two things that are special about Ma, the first thing that comes to mind is the extent to which she has tolerated me and my various "phases", during the changes that I have undergone as a person throughout my life.
 
Today, when I look back across the various phases of my existence so far, Ma is the constant factor that has always been there, and has been the same irrespective of how different I have been in each of these phases. Yet, her approach has always been the same and although from time to time I have had my own share of problems with it, today I can confidently say that the approach has been effective.
 
I had a protected childhood. Today, as I live by myself, I realize that Ma always taught me the right things - the things that have paid off later. Whether it was while learning how to read and write Bengali, or whether it was even earlier while learning Nursery Rhymes, it is very hard for me to recall a single moment when Ma was not around helping me in my task.
 
Of course, she didn't succeed in teaching me everything she wanted to � through no fault of her own � like how to keep my room clean, for instance. But yes, she tried!
 
Ma has held my hand throughout - be it near the Campus Pond in Amherst, Massachusetts, be it in the Pune University Campus, be it in Shantiniketan, or be it in Hyderabad, where we stay now. I will consider myself lucky if I can ever be even half as good a parent as she has been!

Gaurab Sengupta
Hyderabad

Coz I had my mother

How can I forget
The first word I uttered in my life
Her sweet kisses and hugs
beautiful songs which she sang,
dragging her fingers on my hair
to make me sleep
I do still remember
the stories of cats,crows,monkeys,
which made my mouth opened for food
the stories of great heroes in ethics and history
which woke up my inner spirit to a higher level of thoughts and values
her wet eyes, when I gets sick
her smiling face when success comes in each step of my life
soft touch of her cold hands on my fore head,
when I feel desp and down in my life.
Her sharp look and strong words,
when I do some mistakes in my life.
The strong foundation which she build for me
on which still I'm standing like a child
wondering how could I proceed without her help!.
And she is my Mother
I could never find good boyhood friends,
Coz I had my mother with me
I never had extra tuition for my studies
Coz I had my mother always with me as tutor
I never had lunch and dinner in star hotels
Coz my mother gave me food
Sweetness of which is be always in my blood
I never attended parties and celebrations
Coz when I was in my house
I got that happiness which I think
will never get in any of outdoor shows
I never had dreams of wealth and luxuries
Coz my mother taught me
To always look down to earth
Through her own life
Now she is far away from me
But she is with me
Pouring her love and care
Sitting in my heart...
With her blessings on my head
let me continue building my house.
My mother, I'm sure you will be there
With your supporting hand
Whenever this child misses his step..
So let me continue towards an endless end
Through the path which you paved for me...
My mother, I'll never miss you
Coz you are always with me
As my living God.

Krishna Prakash

She taught me about failure

Yes - my mother is my hero - she made me what I am.
She, like every other mother, loved me and stood by me when I needed her. She tied the first tie knot when I needed it, my shoelaces when I could not, and sat by me when I had fever and could not sleep at nights. She taught me about success, gave me a dream and wished me well all the time. 
 
But, then, I did not listen. I did not study. I did not do well in school. However, not for once, she loved me less for that; never told me that she is not proud of me.
 
It all came to a head when I did not do well in my graduation exam and did not find a seat in the ensuing PG batch. I was ashamed - I let down my mother, finally, I thought! Lost, I did not know what to do - all dreams came to an end, I reckoned.
 
But, then she called me, told me that she had a failure in life too - something she never told anyone about. She was also ashamed of that. But, she did focus back after that, found an alternative route, and exceled in her studies and her life after a few miserable months. 
 
I was not convinced - I had always marvelled at my mother's brilliance and achievement, so far! But, she had evidence - she pulled the result card, the one she had not shown almost anyone - on my face, an undeniable proof of failure of the most successful person I have ever encountered.
 
But I got the lesson - she was admitting a failure she so long concealed just to tell me that a failure could not be final! She was telling me to remain undaunted, telling me that 'I STILL CAN' - even if she required to diminish her self-image in front of me to tell me that.
 
She is around no longer, but she is my hero - she taught me about failures. And, with that, she is the one who made me what I am, and I keep remembering her in every success, every difficulty and every failure which show up invariably as I progress through my life.

Supriyo Chaudhuri

Your love is deeper than oceans

Ever since I came into perception, I have never seen
my father buying a Sari for her nor a Flower. I never
saw her buying flowers or fruits for herself, I still
die to see her eating something without caring for me,
but she never did.  The following few lines are
dedicated to my Mother, the only Hero and Heroine of
my life.

Ma, when I return from school in the evening with
hunger, you used to feed my mouth and till the last
Piece-of-Rice.  I knew you were also hungry, I knew Ma
- you used to save that food for me, but I used to eat
to fill my hunger.  Ma your sacrifice left so many
painful memories in my mind and heart.  Ma, I used to
curse God for creating you so innocent and loving.

I have seen your entire life full of tears. From early
in the morning to late in the night, you used to do
everything for the entire family.  You used to wait
for my father to come and eat.  Perhaps, you dream was
to see him eating happily! But, after a day long
sweating and hard work, all your innocent and Day-long
feelings used to roll into horrified darkness of the
night. I used to slip into sleep while you were crying
and mourning on the mat on mud floor.

Several times, I wanted to ask you one question, "Ma,
why do you cook for my father when he doesn't let your
tiny mouth eat something? How are you able to tune
your mind to do everything for him but not for
yourself when he is so brutal?"  I never could,
because I wanted to touch your precious feelings for
the family (Me, brothers, sister and father).

You had suffered the pain of torture form my drunken
father. Bad guy, he used to use shapeless, heartless
and a bulky firewood stick to beat you. Ma, I don't
know how many times I have cried to myself when I
think about those dreadful days.  Ma, when my father
had died, you made me cried again, and it was because
you have cried from deep inside your heart for such a
Man. How could you still love such a husband, Ma.

Ma, Even when you were crying and in deep sorrow, you
put me to sleep in your warm bosom, your tears that
rolled onto my head, then down onto my body made me
what I am today.

I am with a word class IT organization, working as a
Manager and made millions of rupees. Ma, while
printing on my laptop these few everlasting feelings
for you, my thoughts about you and your love made me
cry again.  Hope no one is watching me!

Ma, I have heard you talking to yourself while taking
me into your bosom � you said "I want to die, you
little, cute, innocent children would become orphans
and that is squeezing my heart "

Ma, your love is deeper than oceans, higher than skies
stronger than mountains.  Your love for me made me
what I am today.  Your love made me think for this
country and the mothers in India and world.  Ma, you
made me owe something, and it is just not for you but
to the great loving and innocent mothers in this
world.  I am going to do something for them, what ever
little it may be.

My dear respectful mothers, when you are in sorrow,
please listen to the story of another mother, at least
my mother's.  I am sure you will be consoled.

Suresh Koneru

She cares for us a lot

My mother's name is Smt Aruna Singh. She is a house wife. She is double M.A. in History & Sociology. Her age is 48 years.
 
She has two daughters i am hers elder daughter my name is Anjali and younger daughter name is Archana .
She cares us a lot . She knows our likes and dislikes very very good .
She teaches us at home . She always tell us that what is good and what is bad for us . My grandmother wants a grandson but my mother never tell that she want a boy she alwasys tells that she has two daughters which are like two sons to her . She never shows that she also want a boy baby . She has given us all rights what a boy should have .
 
She is really a very very good mother . I wish to God to give her a very long life .
 
Anjali .

I worship you dear mother

Understandably, I am thrilled, not only since I am trying for the coveted prize of Rediff 'MY MOM CONTEST' but am out here to pronounce my mother as the world's best mom. That is not a joke! Shakespeare once proclaimed that the world's most beautiful creation is woman who bore the seeds to next generation. Maa, Aaama, Aai, Mommy, call her by any name--she is always there.

I was brought into this world by a frail looking woman with much discomfort in 1981. She was not keeping keep with her blood pressure higher and the doctors had already denounced that it would be a fifty-fifty chance to have be in this world. My father instinctively said, that he didn't want mom to suffer that, but mom wanted me to come into this world. After a hectic war with life and death, my mother showed that what a courageous fighter she is/has been. I saw the daylight!

Stage 2: After initial years of making me stand on both legs and seeing me well, it was time for me to go to school. She was there waiting on queue for my Nursery Admissions and soon after getting me from school, dropping me over, looking after my homework and what not.

Stage 3: Taking the financial hassle, she had to sell her bangles in order to send me for higher studies. I did graduate and am an employee now.

Life does offer you chances to show the gratitude. It's not possible to use this space to write everything that my mother has done for me since the list is never-ending. At this moment of life, my mother has turn herself old and is not that physically strong as she was, but that has not stopped her from caring for the kids. It's my prerogative now to give back zillions of happiness. Pleasure is a beautiful word to use and when you use for the women who showed you the ray of light, you bow down and say "I worship you my dear mother!" I hope my gf reads this and understand the value of 'God'e best Creation'.

On this mother's day, I pray that the Lord almighty blesses up my mom and though I can gift her with any material gifts, I know it's my prosperity that means a lot to her. Mother I care, Mother I live. Thanks for everything!

Rajdeep Gupta
Bangalore

A mother can be a substitute for god but there is no substitute for a mother!

When I stumbled even before I could walk, the divine hands that reached me, were yours mom. When I was exposed to this world and felt unheard, mom, you were the one who taught me to express.

Mom, you stood by me in all my decisions - significant and trivial. You soothed me in my pain and agony, you gave me confidence during my downs, in my times of failure. When the world degraded me, you gave me strength and took pride in all my acts, my skills and talents. You showed tremendous faith in me in all times.

Mom, today as I look back, I feel I would change so many things of my past but, the only thing I would keep unchanged is - YOU MOM!

I haven't said it often, I haven't said it enough and I know I haven't said it right, although, mom I want you to know today, that you are my only treasure, you are my only dream, you are the only purpose of my life. My success, my happiness is all for you. Mom, you always say - you are proud of me but, whatever I am today is all because of you - so mom, be proud of yourself.

I thank God for gifting me a wonderful mother, and as I say this I pray to be eternally blessed to be your child mom, FOR MOM YOU ARE THE GREATEST!

I LOVE YOU TODAY AND FOREVER !!!!!!!

BM Shiva Kumar

She makes me feel like I am in heaven

Its very tough to describe that women in the world who gave me a birth..not only that who gives me lots of love,help and support during all my life..

What makes my mom special is her attitude towards life...though she is working she efficiently manages all the things at home..and also she can give lots of love to me,my younger brother and offcourse my dad too....

In any stages of my life she give me so much support that it makes me feel like i am at heaven...

Not only that whenever i feel tensed she give me guidance to the right path...

So for me my mom is a role model, a teacher, a engineer, a leader and a most important my good friend too...

Miten Shah

She is like a god to me

I don't know from where to start but one thing that is worth mentioning before I tell you about my mom is that MOM is someone who does not care about your social standing rather for her, her son/daughter means the entire world. She takes all the pains but wants her children to enjoy the pleasures of life. She is GOD in the form of a human being who tells you that GOD still exists and wants you to be a better person day by day, hour by hour and yet she is so simple and caring.

If I have to tell you about my mom, 300 words are too less... rather it would be injustice to her if I have to do that but it would be like a brief Thank You note to her for everything she has done for me and my brother, though a mere Thank You would also not cover what she has done for us.

Maa, as I call her is like God to me. She has seen so many ups and downs in life but has rarely complained about them as she has rather concentrated on her kids more than her own self and other hassles in her life. She has sacrificed a lot for the upbringing of her kids and has never looked back. Her complete world is around her kids. Though we both are adult individuals (me 24 and my brother 32), she treats us like 10-12 yrs kids and this is something we really enjoy to be frank.

Don't know what keeps her going but I guess its her endless love for us which makes her continuously think about our career, life, growth, etc etc etc� the list would never end but she has so much to think and do for us and in return she expects nothing. For her, it's our happiness that makes her happy. Every single thing she does has something to do with our well being.

In brief if I had to say something about her, it would be just like this saying:

"A mother is she who can take the place of all others but
whose place no one else can take."

Varun Kapur

A woman before her time

This tale is an unusual one.

I am not a mushy type of a person. I was brought up by my Grandmother. But my Mother always kept in touch with me throughout all those growing up years. May be, because of that, I can look at her from a distance.

She did not have a great upbringing, she had a bad marriage, she did not have the financial support to cushion the hardships. All she had was her grit. Amidst bringing up my siblings, daily encounters with her mother-in-law, attending to household chores, studying (that late in life yet clearing all exams with flying colours), working throughout all this and more, my dimuitive Mother went about her life with determination.

What plugged her on, I wonder at times! She is by no means perfect. I can be objective as I delve deeper. Highly communicative, and always building empathy with those around her, her decisions were always practical;  her survival instincts were so strong that she turned out to be a winner in my eyes.

Now, her beautiful face aging gracefully, she reminds me of her lifelong struggle for independence when women's emancipation was a word unheard of . A woman before her time is what I call her. And this is what lifts my spirit.

Sushama Bhende

She has all the alphabets

Every mom is unique in their own respect.

My mom is also one among them.why, because,she has all alphabets in her to be boasted by me.

A - Affection
B - Brilliancy
C - Condoning
D - Dignity
E - Excellency
F - Feminine
G - Greatness
H - Her Highness
I - Integrity
J - Josh
K - Kindling
L - LLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLove(Leader)
M - Motherly
N - Naive
O - Openness
P - Proud( We are about her)
Q - Queen of our Dynasty and our heart
R - Respectful
S - Sensible
T - Temperament
U - Unique
V - Vibrance
W - Winning habit
X - Xeroxing capacity(she would repeat all the activities so fast with supreme accuracy
Y -
Z - Zeal

We love our mom tooo much enough not only because of this, but also sacrificing nature,Helping tendency,etccccc.

We love u mom.

M Gopalakrishnan
M Iyyappasamy

My mother's prayers follow me

It's a five letter word that fills one heart with warmth, care and love.

I remember my mother's prayers and they have always followed me. They have
clung to me all my life.

Satya [Images] Shekhar

A beautiful thing in this world

Maa, when we pronounce this word we will get logical energy from inside.  God has created a beautiful thing in this world that is Maa.  If you really want to know about maa ask those people they don't have the maa. The people who are having their parents and they don't respect them I think there is no other them bad and I think bad word is less for them who not respect their parents.

According to Islam if any one doesn't respect their parents he better to die.

Maa, mom, mummy, mumma, Ammy hey its so lovely to pronounce.

Mohammed.Minhajuddin

She has given me independence, confidence, self-motivation

My parents have always been the role model in my life since both of them literally built themselves up from scratch with no guidance whatsoever.

My mother was married at a very early age, without even finishing her 12th grade. She had me within a year and my brother followed after 7 years.

Once my brother started going to school, she decided to resume her studies with a lot of encouragement from my father.

She completed here 12th grade and was offered a job in a local nursery school. She continued her education though, and went on to complete her BA and B.Ed via correspondence. She built her career slowly and steadily and in fact even ran a school in the local area.

Currently she is working at getting her MA while working in one of the best schools in our city as an English teacher for the higher secondary section. During many occasions, she has received appreciations from various sources-Indian and international.

She is the coolest - not just because she studied and built a career while successfully managing her commitments towards the family-but also because

-       She is a great teacher-sought after by all and respected and loved by her students
-       She excels at everything she attempts
-       Her unbridled enthusiasm in life
-       Her ability to cope with all kinds of crisis without breaking down

She has given us-both my brother and me-the best education-that of independence, confidence and self-motivation-which we both believe is the greatest gift of all.

I wouldn't be where I am without my parents and this is not a clich� but a reality.
 
Bhuvaneswari Veerasamy  

I fell in love with her

Sumithra, as her name suggests, was a good friend to all.I fell in love with her. Growing up as a kid, my admiration also grew. Bountiful, she made giving the way of her life,in turn she received,without her demanding, love and respect! Any one would be welcomed with a cup of steaming coffee served with a warm & unassuming smile. She seemed to me like one boundless source of energy, looking into all our needs without any hindrance what so ever and going about chores as naturally as ever, never stopping with the excuse of fever or fatigue. Educated as she was, she was never overbearing. I saw the courageous facet of her for the first time when she scared away a thief who sat on the outer sill of our window, ready to rob. I saw that courage again when she stood steadfast against the fatal cancer that attacked her couple of years back. Her doctors were in awe of her will and swore they never had a patient like her. Her pain ended when she became dearer to God last month. Now, she is more nearer to me than ever & I'll never let her go. "Yathaa maatha thathaa sutha", is an adage in Sanskrit. I would be the happiest if I were even slightly compared to my mother. i love you amma!

Pratibha

She taught me subjects not taught in university

My mother is not only my hero, but my guide, guru & philosopher. I do believe that she has taught me so many subjects, which I would have never read in any University. She has been a great inspiration and source of strength. 

She has taught me pleasantly but effectively as to what Abraham Lincoln has written to the Headmaster of the school.  " You can sell your brain and brown to the highest bidder but never put a price tag on your heart and soul"

She has taught me without any organized books or sayings, but from her personal experience to be calm  & cool at the saddest moments and stood with me as a rock.

She has been the ardent believer on my efficiency even when I had my own doubts and taught me to have strong willpower & confidence.

She has taught me that it is far more honorable to fail than to cheat.

She has been a role model for me to be pleasant personality and has guided me to be a matured person and co-operative towards even those who have scolded me.

She has showed me as to behave politely with those who are angry and impatient.

In my mother's perception, if someone blames you, you should make self-analysis and find out as to what action from you made them to blame you instead of trying to find fault with others so that you not only improves your level of maturity but also makes others to be friendly with you.

She has taught to be more human even when you're being orthodox.

I have never seen a human computer in my life than my mother who remembers the whole history in our family life and our native.  Remarkable memory, exceptional presence of mind, great involvement and strong mathematics are the traits of my mother which make my mother definitely different and enterprising personality.

If God bless the whole world with personalities like my mothers, we will have a pleasant and peaceful world.

I have seen God in the face of my Mother and pray God that HE blesses me with my mother's blessings and guidance throughout my life.

S Ravishankar

God will enjoy her company

My Maa was a great person.Dhe was a well educated lady,though she
couldn't continue her education beyond fifth standard in a village
primary school of Darbhanga district of Bihar.She could argue
successfully with her IAS son on the situation of Bihar and
political climate of Delhi.We used to consult her on difficult
questions about literature and religion in KBC and answer
invariably was correct one.My father told read her with
translation the Untold Story of Gen.B M kaul and Himalayan Blunder
and Shakespeare.Her regret was that she could understand English
films but couldn't read or write English.She kept a small diary
that is a treasure house of small Grandma's remedy,shlokas of day
to day duty and resposibility and religious couplets.
She was a great narrator.Her story telling was like watching a
classy serial.With impersonation of charatcter and voice
modulation,her narration was in itself a good theaterical
experience.
Then she was mother of eight children who are variously placed
across the country as a successful collector,a surgeon in
Britain,a supremecourt lawyer,a manager in a courier firm and
three sons in law as senior bearucrat of revenue department of
Gov.of India,a geophysicist and am IItian in electronics from
Kanpur in Switzerland [Images].The common thread in all of her children is
the honesty,personal integrety and care for fellow human being.We
lost her this January and will miss her for rest of our life.But I
think the God will enjoy her company.

Dr D N Das
Oban,UK

The strongest mind. The softest heart

I believe my mom to be the most inspiring woman in this world, not because she's a successful entrepreneur or anything else (which she isn't, inspite of being a highly qualified person holding 5 degrees to her name).
Her heroism lies in her capability to bring up a large family under very tough circumstances....with extremely strong headed individuals....not to mention bringing up the extended families from hers and my fathers side. How she has managed to tolerate all of us all along, will remain a mystery.
She's a role model of love,strength,morals,ethic....you name it!! Be it any situation, any difficulty, any problem, she is right there when you need her the most....and just close by when you don't!!!
Like most people of our generation, we tend to take her for granted, not realizing the love that makes her pick up our clothes from the floor (where we had dumped them),  or come to our room for that last good night kiss..
Being on the threshold of starting a new life myself, I can only look back and wonder if I'll be able to face even half the struggles that she did, or hold the patience and perseverance required to bring up a family....and if I can do even a percentage of all that she has done, then I'll consider myself truly blessed.
My mother's a Hero, because she has the stronget mind and the softest heart....
 
Noor-Ul-Ayn Syed.

I cannot imagine life without my mother

Mother, my mother- it is too hard to give my feelings and her deeds, a form in words. Can there be any ample word in dictionary of any language, which could exemplify or express mother's roll in our life. God has given himself a physical form as mother on the earth. Taking care of all of us. This thing I feel because of my mother. I just cannot imagine my life without my mother.

Without caring of fatigue, appetite, thirst and desires of herself, she persistently provides our family whatever our need & desire are. She can sacrifice her own all desires for fulfilling our even a little need or desire. If something here in the world that gives me a realization of meaning of patience, kindness, belief, courage, affection and morals, is my mother.  She is a live example of all these merits.

With the run of time she is being older and her physical state is naturally loosing its stamina and capability. But she never talks of it; never shares her feelings as if this would feel us sorry. She never say me to do any work even after the work is required much physical exercise to be done, because she don't want me to get up leaving sound sleep in the morning. How meticulously she cares of us. It is just unbelievable. Sometimes she sounds me like a machine working all the time incessantly, which cannot tell us how it is feeling.

She has always supported me in all my choices. She strived to make my brother, sister and me strong people with independent minds. I look to her in hopes that someday I will be as happy, as strong, and as well mannered as her. She has taught me the most important thing in life - never give up on your dreams. I thank her dearly for helping me become who I am today. I would have never made it as far as I have without her help. So many things, which she taught us, have been an essential part my character and dissolved with in my behavior.

Rishi Mishra

Once in a lifetime jewel

Mum to me simply but most aptly epitomizes a wonderful, wonderful, person with distinctive facets extolled below :

1 endearing and adorable
2 affectionate and a shoulder to cry on
3 the most resourceful person on this planet
4 languidly graceful
5 inimitably efficient
6 a never-say-die ebullience
7 devout and devoted

To expand on each of these facets:

Mum has and continues to shower unlimited love and affection on me and the rest of my family, truly a paragon of virtues.
Mum has ably been a shoulder-to-cry-on, a shock absorber, a punching bag at times but unmistakably a pillar of support to me all these years. To put it mildly, she represents the very foundation of our family and the nucleus around which we revolve.

She has  effortlessly put aside her interests, her joys and made monumental sacrifices for me and my family at large. This speaks tomes of her largesse to say the least.

Indeed behind every successful man, woman and child is their mother ,

Rarely would we come across a great man who doesn't have a great mother.

And  to describe my  Mum would be a Herculean task by itself.
Paraphrasing  a  few great writers would come close�..

Mother - the essence of loveliness,
The Beauty of a rose,
The sparkle of a dewdrop
And sunset's sweet repose.

No Poet's pen. Nor artist's brush
In Justice to her fame
Ever could reach high enough
To write a mother's name.

A mother is the truest friend we have, when trials, heavy and sudden, fall upon us; when adversity takes the place of prosperity; when friends who rejoice with us in our sunshine, desert us when troubles thicken around us, still will she cling to us, and endeavor by her kind precepts and counsels to dissipate the clouds of darkness, and cause peace to return to our hearts.

TRULY, A ONCE-IN-A-LIFETIME-JEWEL.

Sean DSilva

Ma You Are The Best!!!

When asked who their hero is, most people respond with the name of an athlete or an actress/actor. When asked who my hero is I would have to respond with a simple three letter word: mom. My mother has been the greatest inspiration in my life and is the main reason that I am where I am and who I am today.

In 1859 Henry Ward Beecher said, "the mother's heart is the child's schoolroom." I believe that statement because of experiences I've had with my own mother. I have learned more about life from her than from my 15 years of schooling. Over the last 21 years my mother has taught me many valuable lessons just by being a living example of compassion, thoughtfulness, and generosity. She is an angel that has protected and carried me throughout life.

She has taught me to always try my best, to treat everyone equally, to not give up when things get hard. She tells me to at all times be honest because in the end, lies always hurt more. She instills the importance of family and of doing well at school in me. When I make decisions and she doesn't always agree with them, she makes sure that I know that she is behind me all the way because she wants me to always be happy. She has taught me right from wrong and the significance of self-respect.
She is my mother, the greatest influence in my life.
Yes Ma, You are the best!!!
Always yours,

Chintan Ganatra

She has a solution for any problem

My mother is a hero for me than my father. She is always full of energy; she has always a solution for any of the problems. I am her eldest son and she wanted me to be role model for my youngsters. She cannot tolerate even a small mistake committed by me, she intervened in all turning points of my career. The selection of course, the selection of job, selection of bride, selection of a suitable house plan all my important decisions are taken place only with her support and approval. She is willing to take responsibilities in case of any problems in all the above decisions. Even aged 70, she is still my source of energy and in case of eventualities I always approach her first.

My mother is a retired primary school teacher, she always supervised my education, and she always kept an eye on me. She used to spy on my study, friendship circle, finance until I became a government employee. I was a lazy chap, I always need a pull  to move forward, and my mother does that pull. I happened to drown once in a pond, she jumped into the pond while she doesn't know any swimming crying for help. Eventually we both escaped and I never think about swimming or bathing in a pond again. But she persisted  me to try swimming and forced me to go to same pond again and again. Finally after one month I found myself swimming to my surprise. Now I can swim even in a river or sea. Similarly I was afraid of cycling, but she gave me my father's cycle and insisted that I should at least take it along the roads. Finally I pedaled it and one fine day I was able to ride it. I read in newspaper about computer studies in Rajiv Gandhi [Images] era and expressed my desire to take a course on computers. The fee was very high compared to other courses and in our village or town nobody knew what was a computer. But she gave me money and asked to apply immediately. That decision was a turning point of my career. I got a fine job because I was a computer graduate from its first batch. Students from our village started taking computer courses only after five more years.

I got a job and was working far away from my home coming only once in two months. But my mother had her spies at that place too. Once I smocked a cigarette while walking on the road and very next day I received a phone call from my mother scolding me for such a bad habit. How did she know it I still don't know, but I never smocked again. I happened to be in company of some friends and started drinking. She tried to stop that also but did not get much success. But she cleverly alienated my friends circle by scolding them and not passing their phone calls to me. I wondered why my friends began to evade me and never knew the reason. Now some of them are in rehabilitation centres while I drink only occasionally, in some board meetings or so. I happened to meet a girl suits my taste, beauty parameters but of another caste and was determined to marry her. Again my mother caught hold of my plan of elopement and she met her parents and informed about our adventures. Both parents were not interested in the marriage as it was an inter-caste one and finally we had to withdrew from it. I was very angry with my mother and didn't speak to her for about six months. Finally when she married another person I too agreed to marry. This time I didn't have particular interest and a bit crest fallen on my love failure. My mother searched a girl of same job, same age and same look alike but from our own community and similar backgrounds. Now my marriage is a stable after some initial hiccups, whereas if we had married we would now have separated as we now knew we had a lot of differences social, tastes, outlooks etc. Thus my mother did all my important decisions.

I have witnessed many of her spot decision-makings and ability to shoulder responsibilities and taking financial burdens which none would dare. She is pillar of our family and a backbone to my father. My father had a cardiac arrest, but my mother made him to take whatever tablets available at that time in our house. Fortunately one of it was an aspirin and he is still alive. I can write an epic on her, I am a biggest admirer and a fan of her. Now I am aged 43, still when I felt an injustice done to me in my service, I approach her for relief, and believe me she has a solution for any complicated corporate problems and I can sleep well when she is patting me. So my mother is my hero.

Sreekumar K

I am very proud of her

I am Kedar Agnihotri.
My mother's name is Swati Agnihotri. She is Commerce graduate.
She is very special for me.
By watching her I got that how one can be cool in any adversity.
She knows her limitations and all the positive points.
She even know how to apply those positive points in whole life
fight. She knows me very well.
When I was going through my bad my mom was the one who supported
me and pulled me out of that situation. She told me how one can keep
his cool in bad situation. She told me how to capitalize on my
positive point and how one can be very optimistic.
When she suffered from "Breast Cancer" she was very optimistic
and came out of that situation also.
Now she is very good in health and her life also.
I am really very proud of my mother.

Kedar Agnihotri.

She lived life queen size

My mother was a strict disciplinarian. Yet she had a heart of gold. She never praised anyone on their face but always spoke good behind their backs. She was very talented. Even at the age of seventy five she won prizes in singing and cooking. She was a dedicated social worker who helpd people without expecting anything in return.
She loved writing. Her short stories, dramas, ;letters were exceptional and thought provoking. But she was born at a time when all this was not accepted and women had to tend to the hearth and the children and home. Still she wrote, for Femina, for regional language magazines and others. She was progressive at a time when women were rarely heard. She voiced her opinions forefully and often earned the disapproval of my father and other elders. But she did not cow down to anyone.
She was bold and brave, lived alone till the end of her life, Her explanation being that she had listened to everyone all her life and at the end she wanted to do things her way.
She travelled, often by the BEST buses in Mumbai, not taking a taxi even when she could easily afford it. She started bhajan classes, she attended community meetings and participated in all the group activities without ever grumbling.
She cooked when she wanted and ate when she felt like. She wanted to be free, she wanted to live life queensize. And she did it till the very end.
She was Sushila Mallya, social worker, akashwani artiste, commitee member of GSB sabha mumbai.
And she was my mother.
 
Veena Adige,
New Bombay

She has a never say die attitude

We are 4 children to our Parents. Two sons and two daughters. We both
brothers are married and each of us are blessed with a cute baby girl. So
this makes our Family a pretty big one with 10 members altogether out of
which 8 are adults and 2 kids. We are a joint family living together under
one roof.

Our source of Inspiration, our Role Model and our Mentor is none other than
our beloved Mother Mrs. Zaheda Bano. We love her dearly and are so fond of
her that we follow her in very aspect of life.

We children often compare our family to that of a "Hen and the Chicks". One
must have observed how the new born Chicks follow the mother Hen wherever
she goes. The difference is that they do it while they are chicks but we do
it even today as grown up adults ! This comes purely out of Love and
effection for her.

Our Father stayed away from us in the Middle East right from our childhood
for quiet a long time and my mom had to shoulder the responsibility of both
the parents, a Mom as well as a Dad. And in the process the experience of
being her children has just been wonderful. We were fortunate to have a
brave, bold, aggressive and a mother with a "Never Say Die Attitude".

What makes my Mom different is being the way she was in spite of a lot of
discouragement for her aggressiveness and her positive attitude from her own
Parents, In- laws, Community, Society where everyone perceived a women to be
very conservative and limit herself to four walls of the house. She faced
all odds of Life to bring us up in the best manner she can.

By the grace of Allah and my Mom's blessings we are today intelligent enough
to face the world and come out in flying colors. Thank you Mom ! We owe this
to U !

Syed Maqsood

Her charming smile

My MOTHER is "ma their" as she has got aplenty of love for all under the sun & sky  come who may in her shelter. She reflects this love in day to day conversations ,acts and activities that she performs during her regular household job and relationships with society. Her emotional heart bulges out a flood of tears and apathy for the killings,deaths and murders happening around us and she pray god to not to repeat this to anybody. She had sacrificed all her possession and comfort for the sake of her family and she is ready to give even more if situation asks her for that  And that too without any complaints. No attachment with material possessions,status and money for her. No complaints with any person around her . Reflection of a simple somber and charming smile on her face is sufficient for anyone to be comfortable and at full ease in her company. She is a true leader in her attitude and speaks elloquently and with great command on her language and dramatic touch of emotions to attract and impress even high profile socielites when they interact with her. I wonder why she didn't joined politics as she has tremendous attractive quality in her conversation. she has got a very good social connections and image to condut her tasks at amere telephoic exchange and our family is remarked by the society on her name.Life has been hard for her and there had been testing times which she passed without any crumblings.Even after that charmness,godliness,affection rules her nature which i think is her best material possession. I feel a altogether different kind of security in her lap when i sink my head there and she scrubles my hair with her gentle fingers full of softness of love and care and affection for her son.

Vishal Pareekh

She brought realization

My mom came from Kerala [Images] with her cousin brother in order to work in Pune even without knowing Hindi and the local language Marathi. Without even knowing this language she worked with determination and full courage and is still working with the government office and is retiring this May 2006 after 40 years of working. Now she is able to speak Hindi properly though she not so conversant with Marathi.
Her life was full of struggles as she had lots of abortions and one child was half formed and died in her stomach and the dead child was there in her stomach for 1 month and just one month before the doctor could not even predict something for such matter occurred. By god's grace there was no infection and she recovered safely.
After I was born and when she could leave me with the servants and go for work as financially we were not stable and with only my dad's earning it would not be sufficient for our living. At times she used to come from office in order to see me and she would be really hurt as to see me wailing in the sun and the servants would be thoroughly enjoying by welcoming their family members at home and me outside the house playing with the neighbors. Never even bothered as to where I was and what I was doing. They troubled her by not coming some days and she had to go to work and where would she leave me was the question raised very often. Being really unbearable she kept changing servants and when I was almost big enough to understand things by 2nd or 3rd std. she stopped all servants and started working in the office and started taking care of the housework. It would really hectic but took care with ease and dad also used to help her so life went on not smoothly but slightly better.

Then came those days of my studying where I was not good in studies and she had to take up my studies work and look after the house. It would be really harsh for any women to work for hours together and still come home no rest and household terms would start. Even with so much stress she took 3 months leave for my SSC board exam and she took efforts with me to sit till 12 'o' clock in the night and wake up by 4 am in the morning and continuously she used to sit with me and finally I landed with 70% and she was relieved.

Then the journey goes on as after that she never took up my studies nor she knew my subjects and due to her hard work she made me realize somewhere

Femi Verghese

She is everything to me

My Mom has done the best she could do to bring me up. What I am today is only because of her. She has made all the sacrifices to give the best to me. I am sure she is everything to me. I would respect her 1st and then God. You cannot describe your mom in words, its only your feelings for her and the Respect for her. The person who does both these things will always be a true winner.

Rajeev Anand
Mumbai

My mom my world

Following are the partial reasons:
 
Now i'm 24. She is having the gifts which i gave her before 10 to 15 years with my savings. She showed those gifts to all my relatives and told Gopi has got me this gift with his savings and made me happy before others.
 
In 12th Std. I was a mediocre student. When i was waiting for my result, i didnt sleep in the whole night. She told me in the morning. Gopi, even if the result is in negative side, do not worry. We'll never tell you anything. You have to be relaxed. That's my mom.
 
If i have fight with her and didnt have food, she will also not have her food. But comes to me after sometime and just keep the food and move away without speaking a word. Because she knows that, i'll be hungry.
 
She will scold me, before my dad scolds. Because if my Dad scolds the words will be very rough. And my dad will get cooler after my mom scolds us. And at times, if we have done a very big mistake, she will not scold but allow my dad to scold. I'll be surprised to see the understanding between my mom and dad.
 
When i first went to Abudhabi, i was not able to speak with her for one week. i was only crying. I was able to speak with all others. It made me understood that how much I Love her and Miss her.
 
She expects only my Love in return. She means so much to me. I'm damn sure there is no Love equal to mother's love in this world. I'll do anything for my loving mom. She means so much to me. I LOVE YOU MOM

J.Gopinath
Thoothukudi,Tamil Nadu.

Evershining mother

My mother is like a bright  star in the universe

Which always shines day and night she is guiding path for me all through my life
I feel confort and relax when her cute little smile shine upon me
In her eyes He placed bright shining stars, That runs through all like liquid light
And makes theworld  sing. She knows more of paradise than angels can recall all through the  heaven
above. God made a wonderful mother,
And He gave that dearest  mother to me.

Odi Fernandes

I will be a mother but not you

The most beautiful person is my mom. I know everybody will say this.but i am damn sure that no one will realise the depth my love towards my  mother.
I dont have her photo to send you .but look herself through my eyes.she is most holy person.i have not seen the godess, but i dont have to , as i always see her.i cant devote anything to her because she has made me.everything i have is due to her.during my childhood,when she used to scold me,i aggresively told her i dont need you.but i have seen her crying when she beated me.
I m always greatful to her as now she has made me human being. But mom i will remain as your "sonu" foreever.
I hope i will give same love to my children as that of you.i will b mother but i cant b you. I love you ma as my best friend

Supriya Dixit

She has always guided me to my path

Yes I believe in her the most because what I am today it's all because of her. She comforts me when I am down and has always guided me to my path. She has never complained for a wile even thought she was in pain. It's hard to deny two creations of this world made by GOD, one would be the nature and none the other my mom.

Warren

She is nearing her mid-80s but she is the coolest mom

Well I seem to be a bit too old for writing this but still at the cost of being ridiculed I venture on.I am completing my 59th year and entering the 60s and my mother is nearing the mid 80s but I can guarantee that she is the coolest mom any one could ever have.In her hey days she was a tomboy and her friends narrate tales of how she would climb up the trees and pluck naspathis(peeches) for the whole school she acquired a nickname nashpathi girl.In her teens she crossed the indo burma border on foot with her family.passing through the jungels with her 3 year old neice tied to her back.Marriage never diminished her activities and she simply excelled in evrything.Money was never a comfortable quotient with her but she never let that show to her children and the children never ever felt they needed anything.any book they needed was bought.At any pont of time any notes to be copied she would do it for me.Whenever I wanted to give up in any fight in life she has been both an active and a silent force behind me.I married according to my wishes against her will she was upset but when it came to patching up she was there first.my children became my toys and they were groomed by her.today too they are more comfortable with her.they turn to her for outings as they used to in their childhood.she has taken my children to the republic day parades,climbed into the army tanks with my son with the same enthusiasm.today she looks after her husband(my Father who is nearing the nineties with the same enthusiasm and devotion as if she were a 30 yr old bride.all his tastes are taken care of.well what is so special about her you may ask?she herself has had a hip replacement twice and has been adviced to take it easy but she can still be seen climbing up a stool to get something above her head without anyone helping her.today my daughter brought home a german fiance and she has adopted him into the family as if it was nothing abnormal.i think my mom is the coolest 
 
Chitra Roy

I could not do anything for her

I was reading all the postings on Maa in Rediff. I could not stop my
tears. I lost my mother about 2 years back. She was suffering from deadly
cancer. She was a brave woman. I was not at her bedside when she left us
alone, rather I was in more than thousand kilometer away. I remember,
I called her about half an hour before her demise; she could not 
speak properly, but with lot of struggle she only managed to say that she
was fine. She had a dream that one day I would become a great scientist.
At present I am doing well, but she is not with me to see that. I could
not able to do anything for her. All the time I received something from her;
whether it is love and affection, or mental support, .... Maa aami tomakay
khub bhalobasi. I do not care about the number of words, as because I do
not want this submission to be considered for prizes. The last sentence was
my humble request to Rediff. Finally many many thanks to Rediff for giving
me this opportunity to express my feelings about MAA.     

Dr Jayendra N Bandyopadhyay
Dresden Germany [Images]

My motivating power

Its been a pleasure to write an article about my mom. After all, who would'nt like to tell or boast about their own mom?.

In my case, I lost my mom when I was 15 in a car accident. Life has been hard since then as I have no siblings either to share or express my anguish and my immense loss. I do miss my mom every year, every month, every week, every day, every hour and every second. She is still the world to me and I draw inspiration from her now and then in order to live and try to achieve what she always wanted me to be. Life is not just to Bive for oneself and remain selfish. I believe that one can get what all one wants only when one allows others get what all they want. Its all about how much one cares for others which actually matters. Money comes and goes, but at the end of the day, love and care is what which actually moves the world. Such a pure and selfishless love can be obtained only from one's mother.  That is why my mother is important for me, for my motivation and for my living. Inspite of not being around, she still lives deep inside my heart, driving me and making me learn what I ought to learn as time and Bife progresses. In short, she is still my MOTIVATING POWER.

Tunuguntla Surya Narayana Prasad
Hyderabad

Every mom is great

hey
using rediffmail for almost for six years actively ,i never realised that some day this portal will give me oppurtunity to write bout my mom.
well to say the least each n every mom z great.
Moms greatness need not be proved but still she does it in an awsum way,and when uluk back on ur life to understand what made all the differnce in ur life and only on picture  comes and dats ur ma.
I belong to a middle class family,which was a joint family when i was growing up,and in a joint(middle class) famly there is too much of pressure,pressure to manage relationship ,pressure to give children a happy life and to keep up the spirits.
I still remember my studies wud not have been possible if my ma didnt put a strong foot forward to get me and my sis admission into the best and the costliest school of the city.
Almost half of the earnings were in to the studies,still she managed it with ease and made sure that there was nothing left to destiny.
how can i forget the chaos in house and then she would take me out for a walk and meemorise tables,spellings,and questions and ansers.

its bcose of those efforts and and sacrifice that i am wat i am today.
In this hustle and bustle here i am trying to make their(parents) life comfortable,missing my mom and her food.
People acknowledge my quick success and fame ,which makes me satisfied coz i kno sumwhere they are praising the efforts of a young rebel.
Luv ya mom

Anurag Shekhar

The secret of my energy

Yes the heading of my essay holds totally true for my mom. Everyone says their mom is the best but my mom, she is different and she is far better than the best. She's not just my mom, she is my best friend, my cupid, my best critic and my mom is my god. She got me into this world and raised me. As a kid I gave her sleepless nights due to my constant crying but she never complained. When older I went out to play, got hurt and she was made to pay for it by running down to the chemist but she never complained. And now when I am 16 I still hurt her by fighting with her over teenage rights but she never complains. My moms an angel who has given birth to a demon but she never complains.

My mom, by far the best thing on earth, is not just a concerned old mother, but also a young at heart girl of 16 who cares about me. We party together, go for shopping together, watch movies together, play video games together and share almost everything going on in our lives with each other. But she is firm and never lets me take undue advantage of any of these things. She knows where to draw the line. I have set of rules set strictly by my mom and she is very firm about them. Although she can be a lot of fun but when required she could put on the mask of an army general also. The most surprising thing about her is that she always knows what I am upto. She would know it if am lying, if am sad, if am angry, depressed, irritated and I fail to find out how? And she always does help me out of the most difficult situations so easily. I've lied to her a hundred times but the pool of forgiveness that she is, am always saved but with her strict last warnings.

My mother, a person sometimes I fail to understand. There are times when I just want to tell her everything going on in my life and there are times when am scared to even tell her that am hungry. But the bond that we share is very special. It's not just of a mother � daughter relation but also of best friends. She is always there for me. She is my counselor and the only person I can trust with my secrets. She is the lady who brought me into this world and took care of me when I was a kid and still is. Although am 16, I really don't think there would be ever a time when I would no more be a kid for my mom. I am so proud to be the daughter of my mom. Today I can hold up my head and shout and say that- "MUMMY IS THE SECRET OF MY ENERGY"

Manasvi Jaitly

God's best gift

ma!u were,u r, w will be in every events of my life.gods best gift 2 me is "u".hands off 2 u mom.happy mothers day.

Gauthami Subbu

'You need to have some space in your heart'

She would pitch for the minimum when she hires an auto but by the time she gets down she would have picked up a conversation with the auto driver and paid one and half times more. If you question her "why" she would say that the "petrol prices are high".

She loves everyone in this world including the most hated, if I ask her, she would say "he had no other go".

We have a small home which will be crowded even if two more people come in but she would invite everyone in this world. If I ask her, she will bluntly tell me "you just need to have some space in heart."

One cannot expect a king's reception in her home just because he is the richest and most qualified. To her all that matters are individual's personality.

She would wash and press my clothes so meticulously as if she is contesting a dry cleaning competition. When I try to help her, she would tell me "you don't know how to do it" which mean "I don't want you to do this".

Her best part is commitment to anything she does. The way she prepares the food is worth a watch. So sincere, even if nobody is going to have food, delicious food would have been ready on time. She will not be hustling in the kitchen if some more people have joined us for dinner. Food will be ready to be served. She would always cook more than required.

Most of my childhood friends are abroad but I haven't felt their absence because I have the most forgiving, patient, understanding and close friend at home which is "my ma"   

Gokul Sunkara Mahendra Babu

She taught me love conquers all

Moms are always special, they live and die for their children. 3 years ago, mom was diagnosed with cancer. She went through gut wrenching treatments, each as painful as the disease itself. Yet, I never heard her say that she was scared. Her fear was for her children, that we would be unhappy over her, so she always smiled and joked through it all. When she finished treatment, she came to visit me in USA, a changed woman. She went to a spa for the first time, she had a haircut, a manicure, she wanted to live her life.

When the cancer came back a second time, she didnt flinch. She made me promise to take care of dad if she wasnt around; She carried on with her teaching job right till the very end; though she could hardly stand, through sheer will power to keep things as normal as possible for us. She never cried, never said "why me"; she reassured everyone that she had full faith in docs and would recover soon. She said she could face anything then, as long as her family was safe.

During her last few days, I was by her side with very little sleep or rest due to her condition. One night while I slept, she massaged my shoulders, trying to make me sleep; although she herself was on her deathbed.

This was my mom, always selfless, always helping; always thinking of her children - a star in her own right.

She passed away last year; on mothers day, May 14th, with a sparkle in her eyes and a smile on her lips.

She taught me how to stare adversity in the face and laugh with it. She taught me to care for others despite personal discomfort and problems. A persons worth is determined by the # of lives they touch; and on my mothers death; there were atleast 200 people who made it to the funeral, all with teary eyes. She is my hero because she taught me that love conquers all. May God bless her always.

Jayashree Iyer

A real wonder

mother!its a real wonder that how could god create a wonderful relationship by giving it a name as mother.god is 2222222222222 gud 2 me as i have a wonderful mother.u r the great.u were a gud teacher when i was in school,a gud frnd when i was in college and now a gud role model.every mom is special 2 every children.i am thankful 2 god and i pray 2 him that if i have another life,i want u 2 be my mom.hands off 2 u mom.happy mothers day!

Ramnadth

Sorry if I hurt you

I feel One good mother is worth a hundred schoolmasters.

Most of all the other beautiful things in life come by twos and threes, by dozens and hundreds.  Plenty of roses, stars, sunsets, rainbows, brothers and sisters, aunts and cousins, comrades and friends - but only one mother in the whole world.

She weeps and feels it as her failure when i failed,
She smiles when i am happy,
She Consoles when i am in a slump.
When i fail she does night outs taking all pain to teach me to heal my failure, and ensures that i win the next time.

I pray for god to give you mom a long and healthy life.
I pray for god a million times to give me, you only as my mother any number of time i take a birth again and again.

"I LOVE YOU MOM " You are the sweetest person on earth. Sorry if i hurt you any time.

Love
Satish

Fantastic woman

My mom is a super-mom and I call her that because she is the undisputed master of multi-tasking!!!

She has been not only a wonderful mother but also a fantastic woman. Sensitive, extremely caring and affectionate, warm as a hearth and extremely sweet�these are just some adjectives to describe her. My mom has shown us that its important to be a strong, independent woman apart from stressing on the fact that a woman must have that charm, grace and feminity which actually defines the very essence of a woman. All in all she is a COMPLETE woman.

She has nurtured me and my sibling with utmost care, showered us with her unfathomable love, care and affection which no one and nothing in the world can replace.

I am what I am only because of her and proud to be her daughter. Even if I get the whole world at her feet its not going to match up with her love & warmth for us and whatever she has sacrificed for us.

"I love you" would be an understatement mommy dearest!!!

Sushruta

She is Santoshi Ma

My Mom ...is special...out of the world...like my Dad...If on this
planet earth one ever gets a chance to see GOD, i have seen HIM in
my MOM (and also in my Dad)..When i failed to see God elsewhere, I
saw HIM in my children and in my friends, my worker colleagues and
in my students..

My mom is unique for she is Santoshi Maa's real life character,
who sacrificed her life for the sake of a big joint family and her
children. What she has done for us and our family, none can even
think of doing even in ten births..She is a living symbol of
contentment, patience, perseverance, faith in GOD and a selfless
service so that others can live..She taught me Ramayana [Images], Gita,
Hanuman [Images] Chalissa, music when i was a child and sang for me to
sleep and wake up with courage her favourite verse " Himmate marda
maddade Khuda..asking me never to give up in life..Today even at
her present age of around 80, she is a bouquet of colourful
flowers and a mountain of courage for me as is my GREAT FATHER..I
think the best is that in my father she got her best life time
companion in terms of courage, patience, perseverance and
sacrifice for others..May she live with my Dad for ever so that we
are always blessed like we have been for GOD works through our
Moms and Dads...I have to scan her latest pic and will send you by
tomorrow from the nearest cyber cafe..I love you for asking your
readers to write on such topics..Many grateful thanks..Tejinder
Singh Bedi, ( Pappu for my sweet and loving parents )

Prof TS Bedi

I see the strong tired wrinkles...

Today when I look back and see i realise this world is so big, but
ma altered it just right to suit us. A great pool of sarcasm, mom
always had something hidden in her. she would never let us know
what was going inside her. Now when i display the same signs of
strength that mom did while raising us, i know where it is coming
from. Its not easy fighting the battle alone, to stand in front
of the whole wide world and tell them,dare enter the lioness'den.
Yes, mom did not let the wrath of the world fall on us when dad
left us untimely. There she was, wrapped in white fighting every
moment so that we survive.We survived alright and now when i think
of her,i can see the strong but tired wrinkles on her face. Its
true when they say," god can't be everywhere,so he created
mothers". I love you ma with all my heart and soul...

Samina Khan Arya

My guru

To me my mom is always a hero.

Have you seen Villages in Bharathiraja films. It is like that exactly our village.It is not exaggeration. Atleast now you can see some developments but 20 years back there was no electricity or no other facilities in my village (Aval poondurai - kaliyan kadu in Erode district).Both of my parents are illerate. But they had a strong will power to bring us to the top. All my achievements will always belong to my MOM who fought with everybody (including my father some times ) and ensured that our ambition is achieved.

I really still wonder if she is not such stubborn and aggressive I would not never come out of that village,sitting in DUBAI working for an IT industry travelling abroad frequently (UK,DUBAI).My MOM actually ensured for me a better life not bothering about herself and her desires.

All these achievements truely belongs to her

SHE IS MY ACTUAL GURU and HERO I ADMIRE ALWAYS.

LONG LIVE MY MOTHER.MAY GOD BLESS HER WITH EVRYTHING WHATEVER SHE LIKES ATEAST FROM NOW ONWARDS

Vijay

My mom's cooler because she is warmer

Me, myself and my mom

'There is ONLY one great mother and every child in the world has one'.
What makes my mom cooler; the answer ironically has to be that she's the warmest person in my life. This narrative may not be the encomium she deserves, but this is straight from my heart. Even as I watch my mother pray (are you guessing for whose sake??!!), an intransigent agnostic that I'm, I let my rationale instinct take a back seat and allow my heart to say a few words. 

I look at my life's canvas of contrasts, and I see my mom's eyes have become moist with joy when I tasted success, her throats ached when I was thirsty, she would rather starve than let me even feel hungry. I wonder why?? But I'm told that's what every loving mother does. But what makes mine special? Is it the canopy of her benign hands that guided me during my tentative first steps? Is it because she saw a great wall-painting when the mortal eyes couldn't see beyond childish scribbles? Is it because my screaming and babbles were music to her ears? Is it because she was equally enthusiastic when I said I want to be a painter one day, a musician another, a boxer the next day, an Army commander or Doctor, Engineer or in those painful years nothing at all..!!!  they say all this is explained in that magic word 'LOVE', but let me tell you this, true love is apparent when you are 'NOBODY', and that to me is the biggest revelation about my mom. She once told, perhaps quoting someone, 'If you kept judging people, you will never have time to love them' which she lives by. All my successes today are attributable to that unconditional love I enjoyed as 'NOBODY'. Today there is this ME that others see; MYSELF that only I know of, but there is MY MOM so inextricable from my personality and that makes me love anyone unconditionally. That, my friends, makes my MOM special to me.

With Mother's Love,
Caesar Sriram.

Maa dekh main aa gaya ma

A popular dialogue often chanted by Dharam Paaji or
towering bachchan saab.Staying miles away from my ma
in London, I wonder if I could say this to my ma
everyday.Cause I miss her so much.She is the best,
simply because she can read my mind,know when I am
happy or when I am sad just by listening to my voice
over the phone.She has three children bit often I feel
I am the only child or I am the special one and she
manages this with my brother and my sister.

Maa tujhe salaam was a song actually composed for our
great nation,but I wouldnt be surprised if it was sung
for all the ma's of India as they definitely deserve a
salute.My moms life is full of sacrifices and
adjustments.Sacrifices she did for her family and
adjustments she made in her life to fulfill our wishes
and dreams.Sometimes she will sweat and overwork just
to see that smile on my face.Now when I look back I
can feel how much effort she would have put in just to
do that.The followin lines are dedicated to u mom:

pyar mujhe woh sabse zyaada karti hai
khushi mujhse baatti hai gum baatne se darti hai
raaton ko jaagti hai mujhe kambal udhakar phir soti
hai
pakwaan banakar woh mujhe parosti hai
itna pyar to bhagwan bhi nahin kar sakta
jitna woh mujhse karti hai
meri hasi mein hi uski hasi hai aur mere gham me uska
gham
mere liye ladne ke liye woh kisise nahin darti
aisi hai meri ma, uski duniya mein jaise mein chha
gaya hoon
mujhe bhi to mauka de,ab hai meri bari,maa dekh main
aa gaya hoon!
     
I love U MOM.

Vikas Wadhwani

Calm and always smiling

I had a lesson in school which was "My mother is the most beautiful women on the earth". It was a story about a girl whose mother was very average looking but the reason she was the most beautiful women on earth for this little girl was because of all the things she did for the girl. In my case "My Mother is the most beautiful women on earth" for two reasons - Not only because of all the things she did for me and is doing ever since I was a kid but also because she is really Very Pretty!!

Aai (Mom) has always been the pillar of my strength. She is very inspirational and I have never seen anyone with the mental strength and endurance that she has shown to not only bring me up but also manage and hold our family in a special bond in an absolutely fantastic manner.

Aai has always been very tough mentally and emotionally. I have always tried to emulate her personality. She is so calm and always smiling. Whenever I feel bad or miss my home I think about her pleasing smile and I feel great. Someone with such a sweet heart, always full of sacrifices, ready to keep family first and keep them together- This is the hall mark of my Aai. The food that Aai makes is simply irresistible. Aai chya haat cha waran bhat (Simple Dal and Rice) is always different and has got that special mom touch which is irreplaceable.

Well its never enough to keep saying what all Aai has done for me but what she has done I can never ever forget. She has made me a much better human being in life and has always taught me to speak right, never get demotivated and enjoy life as it comes. I love her a lot and miss her everyday & will do anything to give her the best in life and see her smile for ever! � She is My True Hero!!

Sameer Pandit

Perfect single parent

My mummy is a perfect example of a single parent. Thanks rediff for providing such a good opportunity to express the love which I have for my mom to her. My mom has 3 daughters n im 2nd. My dad left her around 10 yrs back from then she is baring all the responsibilities in n out without disturbing us in our career. She only wanted us to be well educated. Besides this she is a great cook, dress designer, a great teacher. She has tought the right principles of life. I rem the days when I wanted a new dress for occasion n she use to sew it sitting all night though she had to go for her work too. Today I want to tell her ' I love u mummy n I feel u the greatest mom on this earth n im lucky to hv u'

Zoya Rizvi

She needs to be treasured

" mother "is the most beautiful word ever to sound in our ears.she is the epitomy of love,sacrifice and kindness.god sent angels to spread the message of love in the form of "mother".she is precious and should be treasured .

Sathya Chandrasekaran

A loving and caring mom

I am proud to say that My mother is the best. She
takes care of me everytime , in my downs mainly. I am
trying to go abroad. This is in process for the last 2
years. I have got demotivated a lot of times. She
motivated me everytime and made me move ahead step by
step. She understands me very well. Because of my
ambition to go abroad , i had to leave my a good job
which i was doing it for the last 9 years. I was
morally down with no earnings and my father who was
then the sole earner also retired.
After my resignation from the job, i was depressed as
nothing was clicking. My mom at that time ran the home
as well as motivated me and everytime made me fight
the down fall.She really is a PILLAR OF PILLAI FAMILY.
With her continuous pray and motivation i joined a
company named WIOPRO and now my opportunity to go
abroad is also through. I thank the ALMIGHTY for
giving me such a loving and caring mother. I also pray
that let her bad time move off and help me give my
mother all the best things and lots of happiness and
love in the days ahead.

Anu Pillai

My pillar of strength

hi
    I was pleasantly surprised to know that i can honor my mom thru rediff.. thks to rediff for that..
        I miss my mom so much and she is so far away frm me.. i live in a different country and she is back in India..I get to meet her only once in a year..
      When i was small, my mom and me were constant companions as my father was away on transfer...she used to dote on me (was the only child) and from my part i always took  her for granted .. sometimes i never acknowledged her, sometimes i never respected her, sometimes i even used to loose my temper with her..and she used to be calm all the time ..i must have given her immense pain and she just took her all in her stride..
    my mom was a tough lady..considering she used to shuttle between her son in Mumbai and husband in Calcutta... she knew how to take care of her family and even through troubled times she was my best friend though i never realized that...
  I did when i am grown up now and so far away from her.. now i realize that she was and always  will be a pillar of strength  for me...i just wanna say i love my mom so much and i miss her so much .. thanks mom for everything u have given me and done for me ..

Pramod Nair

How should I give back?

you ask me y she is gr8est? she is
gr8est because i am the worst son of her, i being a
ravana she thinks i am another roop of ram ( which i
can't ever be), she is gr8est cuz just a thought of
her gr8est bring tears in my eyes when i don't cry in
the worst of situations,
you ask me why she is greatest, she is greatest cuz in
thousands when she walks i can recognise her footstep
and she can recognise my footstep my whistle in whole
world, my everything. i am a part of her, i love her
too but am unable to show it to her. where ever she is
that place is so pure, where ever she goes it makes me
feel like a temple, if i am with her beneathe the
shining sun also i will feel that an agarbatti with
its lovely smell, a temple environment, why my mom and
why not my dad, they both are greatest. they have done
so much for me that my n no of births are also not
good enough, n no of time if i die also is not good
enough for one bless of there love. everyone thinks
there mom is best and i bet if anyone meets my mom
they will know her greatness, the love and care she
has. i didn't do anything great in this birth but i
know there was some real big and great work done by me
that i got them as my parents and i m very selfish,
hence want them to be my parents in all births. there
love is so self less, they always think of there kids
no matter what there kids give in return,
  i don't have lots of words but i want to ask a way
tell me and i will be highly greatful to you, that how
should i give them back
.0000000000000000000----------------------n1 % of
return for there love to me.

Ashish Gupta

She comes first

When i write this mail i remember a famous story that i read when i was in school the title of the story was " My mother is the most beautiful person in the entire world"....this statement doesnt need any explaination...well My amma has been the pillar of support and strength for me during all times thick and thin.Now when grown its my time for providing her the support and strength which she will always would say is not needed....they have the courage and valour that can match any warrior in the battlefield....she is the epitome of sacrifice and forgiveness

God created this being as a replacement of himself...thats why she comes first even in verses " Mata,Pita,Guru,Devam" god says am last you worship your mother thats more important than me

300 Words is very little describe my mother Will end it with " I LOVE YOU AMMA"

Ramakrishnan B

My closest friend

My closest friend and a person who motivates me the most....She knows my needs even before I ask and provides them to me and more imporatantly someone who backs me up on my decisions all the time...I cant imagine myself without my mom and is certainly someone who I will try to emulate all my life... 

Mothukuri Adaarsh

...So we can have a better tomorrow

My Mom is my hero because she is one person who has always been there for three of us MYself my late brother and my sister.She had not much of Help from anyone including my Father as he was in the airforce and he was posted to various places well it may be quite normal for a woman to take care of her children but then its not so normal for a person who is DEAF AND DUMB to manage all this including teaching her children and making them what they are today.I would say that in conclusion A mother will give her today so that we can have a better tomorrow.
 
Raymond Francis

My moral teacher

My mom is inspirational to me and I take her as a role model,and the reasons I would like to emphasize are many but would like to site a few
    she has been suffering from a disease named RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS in which she has been living with joint pains since 1981 and is on medication from then and inspite of her grave illness she is still going to job and attends her household duties and its amazing how she fights the disease with such a confidence and positive energy which makes me think how a persons life can influence others .
        I have learnt the lesson from my mother that problems are the hurdles in the path of life which every person MUST  know how to surpass with their will power,and positive outlook which are exactly being exemplified by my mother every day of her life ( each day is a struggle for her as she fights the disease and defeats it at the end of the day). she is special to me and i can say this undoubtedly that its becuase of her never give-up  attitude towards life and she standing as a living example for a persons ability to change life according to his own will rather than giving away to the destinys will that i can say that i put my mother above any other ideal persons  in the world and accept her as my moral teacher who moulded me into a more caring,responsible,and loving person in the world. thank you mom .
 
thank you rediff for giving me an oppurtunity to write and express my indepth feelings about such a GREAT human being whom i luv the most. thank you.

Pramod Kumar

The Oxford dictionary does not have enough words to describe her

"Mom" like everybody says she is sweet, feeds, takes care of you etc., I am saying this today even after settling in a good position, she remains to be my courage, my strength, my perspective.. she still creates a constant source of inspiration... mind mentioning she is completely un-educated (blunt word) but am proud to say that. Oxford dictionary doesnt have enough words to describe her.

Ananta Pallapothu
West Hartford
Connecticut

Their hearts take it all

All of us, professional Indians around the world do a number of things. Some crunch numbers, some other are experts with computers somebody else as doctors heal people and their diseases. Politicans or diplomats rock and carve out strategies pertaining both to domestic and international matters. Ask our mothers.
 
They do nothing. Have not seen the world like so many of us dispersed around the globe in all probability. But ask them. They will give you the answer to everything. Their eyes know it all their hearts can take it all.
 
My mother is no different too. Last summer i was travelling from home abroad for a long time and while everyone around me had some question or insight to offer to me -- my mother at the airport said just in Bengali - 'tui okhane ki kore thaakbi - how would you stay there. That question had no answer for it was an 'existential question' but was the all subsuming question which was only on my mind. Nobody else despite their concerns or insights of a distant land living had an iota about that. Only Maa knew and only she knew the right question too. Probably she knew too that there were no answers as well. Life comes in living...And she is living too me too thousands of miles away from her..
 
That sums up what Maa is for the child -- all the questions -- for him or her -- for me too and just praying for the right answer of life to dawn at the right time for the offspring..
 
What else to write - why publicise it on a netforum just for some bucks or idle publicity - we all know it dont we!
 
Chirantan Chatterjee

A privilege to be her son

My Mother is the greatest, more great than any words can
say. She is my friend, mentor and possibly the only the
one and only person who knows me at all. It is a rare
privilege to be her son.

Amal Banerjee.

Epitome of love

300 words! A bit too much to describe My Mother! There
is only word 'LOVE'.

Her life is all about loving. Loving my dad, my
sisters, her parents, her siblings, everyone around
her and obviously me unconditionally, perpetually,
perennially and eternally�

Sophia Lauren once said "a mother always has to think
twice, once for herself and once for her child".

But my mother, I think ever so often she forgets about
herself and only thinks about her four daughters! She
is a superwoman:  When ever we are hungry she recites
an a la carte menu, she even tries to compete with
Armani when we decide to be picky about clothes, she
becomes Enzo Ferrari [Images] when she needs to pick us from
college, Doubles up as a doctor and Florence
nightingale when we are sick, a philosopher when
advise is needed and will literally do anything to
make us happy.
That's why they call them mothers, right?

In fact as a young girl it wasn't easy to see her
essaying these different roles. But I know she was is
always by my side and in the words of Abraham Lincoln
I shall say "All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my
angel my mother." She is my mentor, critic and an
inspiration.
Today, when I am away from home and mum isn't as near
as I want her to be, I realize 'truly my mama is the
epitome of love'.

Sveta Alcasoas
USA

Mother: The sweetest word of the English language

First of all I don't proclaim to the world that my mother is the greatest woman on earth. Yes, she is flawed. Like the rest of us. But when it comes to loving her children, she is the embodiment of perfection. I will say she is the greatest mother on earth.
"Mother". I think it is the sweetest word in the English language. For that matter, its equivalent in any language should be the most beautiful word in that language.
Whatever I say in this platform will not do full justice to my gratitude, appreciation and affection for my mother.
My mother is my first teacher. She laid the foundation for my way of thinking and analyzing things. It would not be wrong to say that she shaped my intrinsic personality. She has a deep influence on my likes and dislikes. Sub-consciously every decision I make has my mother's hallmark on it. Every person on earth has certain idiosyncrasies that define him/her. I would like to believe that more often than not, mothers are responsible for these. Be it for good or for worse, mothers certainly play a huge role in sculpting a person's character. As they say, a mother's children are a portrait of herself.
Every child thinks his mom is always right. To him, what his mom says is the be all and end all of it. Often we carry these opinions into adulthood and rest of our lives. Personal traits and views are the offshoots of childhood experiences. Because it so happens that our childhood revolves around our mother, we are what our mother has made of us.
 
Though this is a platform for describing the greatness of motherhood, the contribution of a father to our lives cannot be discounted. But the extent of influence on our being is not exactly the same with fathers. I am always fond of saying � Mother is the Truth while Father is an opinion.
 
When we hurt ourselves, the first word that comes out of our mouth is "Mother". Such is the power of motherhood. She is the epitome of love. The relationship that we share with our mothers is one of unconditional love. It is the purest emotion known to human mankind. Every other form of love is selfish. If there is any emotion that does not involve personal gains, it is this. It does not come with any baggage of expectation. The love between spouses in comparison is a clich�. Too many people fail to appreciate these niceties and therefore you have old age homes that become the last resort for a mother. How ignorant can a person get! To receive love from somebody and give back the same to someone else is the height of ingratitude.
To me my mother is a living God. It does not matter to me whether there lives a God or not in the heavens. I leave it to the theologists to argue about that. But what I know for certain is that there exists my mother and she is divine.
 
Sudhindra Prasad
Cupertino, California

I hope you will be reborn my daughter

My mother was brought up like a princess by my grandparents. She was one of the 10 children they had, but was very special for them because of her honesty, strict values and loving nature. My grandfather was a professor and my grandmother headmistress of a popular school in Tanjore district, Tamilnadu. They got her married to my father who comes from a business background with less education and lesser value system which of course they dint know at that time. My father was doing business with his father and one fine day he threw both my parents out in the streets without a penny just because my mom refused to compromise on certain moral values.

Here they were on the streets, with four children and not a penny in their hands. She did not want to go to her father for help as her self-respect wouldn't permit her to do so, and my father was so dejected by the turn of events that he started to blame her for all that had happened and put everything on her shoulders and started spending more and more time with his friends without taking responsibility of caring for the family. As such she was selling her jewelries one by one just to buy rice and food for all of us. I do remember even today the four kgs of rice that she would bring from the ration shops which was of such coarse variety with sometimes worms crawling. She would wash the rice with rock salt to make it look better.

Cutting the long story short, there came a time when there was no more jewels to be sold except her mangalsutra chain and ear rings, and there are 6 mouths to be fed and 4 children's education to be taken care. She had put all of us in the best schools in the town and would repeatedly tell us that education is the only way to come up in life.

She decided to start some business, sold the last piece of jewellery - the mangalsutra chain and with the money that she got out of that bought a tin of cream from a small time milk machine man who processes milk and separates the cream out of it. My brother would separate the butter out of the cream manually and both of them packeted them into 250 grams 500 gms and 1 kg packets of butter. She would carry them in a basket kept on her hip, knock everyone's doors, convince them about the quality of the butter, in some cases- she herself would make the ghee out of it at their houses to prove the quality. I had accompanied her because we were having school holidays at that time. I remember very well when we had sold a few kilos of butter that day, came back home, and she lied down and cried non stop for hours. I didn't understand her feelings at that time because I was hardly 8 years of age and all that selling and taking money was exciting for me.

She would do this day after day everyday, dividing the areas that she would cover geographically day wise, not even resting on Sundays as she would cover the NGO colony on Sundays because government employees would be home only on Sundays. She would getup at 4 in the morning, finish the household work, cook, feed us, pack our lunches and send us to school and start going out at 10 AM in do all her deliveries come back home at 2 pm in the hot scorching sun, again pack some more butter and ghee and go and come back at 6 PM. All this, she used to on foot. She was (is) an extremely good-looking woman and later on when we were grown up she shared with me, how she had to handle the passes made at her by amorous men too.

All these she managed, because she has the will of iron and determination to be self sufficient. Today all the four of us are well settled. My elder brother is working as a General Manager with one of the leading pharma company at Dubai, I am a trainer on self development courses placed at Malaysia, my younger sister a lecturer in one of the very famous engineering colleges at Coimbatore, Tamilnadu, and my younger brother - a software engineer working for a world famous bank at Tokyo. It was a very difficult journey which was possible only because of her. I never understood the silent tears that she used to shed alone in the nights, sometimes took things for granted, not understanding what she was going through having had to adjust herself from her previous life of luxury to the later part of physical hard work and sometimes humiliations she faced because of the callous remarks passed on by the neighbors.

I don't know if God really exists or not, she is my God physically present on the earth. Hats off to you mom, if there is another birth, I wish you would be born as my daughter and if I can do even 50% of what you have done for me, I would consider that I have done a good job. As I am typing these, tears are rolling down for the hard times that I had given her as a teenager; I wish I had been more responsible and understanding.

Mahalakshmi

She is herself

Thought that writing just three hundred words won't be enough for the special lady in my life, but less did I know that she is that strength that can not be expressed in words!

    She may not be a hero or a rockstar, but she is the whole essence of my existence, my integrity and my strength�....my "Aai"! Who knew, after losing my 'Baba' at an early age, she would have to be my -mother and father....and make me bloom and shape in the hardest of times yet have the composure to face the world- all alone.

    Quotes on Mother fill up pages, dictionary describes her as birth giver and nurturer...but I think she is more than all these definitions and quotes; she is that 'only special' person who will bear all the pain to bring you into this world and have tears in her eyes when you feel the pain.

      She is like calm water in the pond, but deeper than the oceans. She is the silent observer of my dreams and the inspiration to color them bold. She is the saga of courage in the journey of life, the believer that I can soar high no matter the strength or direction of wind that blows.

      The nagger when it involves studies and my academics. The one who beats all the chefs when it comes to cooking low fat food. The silver lining of the dark clouds in my life.My roots which anchor deep in the ground and allow me to grow tall...

    She is my mom! What makes her special...she is "herself"!

Swati Dabade

Wish you live a million years

My mom is the best in the world. It's only because of her that i am able
to be what i am today.
She has suffered so much to give me a good life, i cannot imagine my
existence without her. In every step i made she was there to direct and
guide me to the right path away from evils path.
She used to do all kinds of odd jobs to earn and provide me a good
education; stitching, crockery, selling handmade handicrafts, aerobics
training, tutoring, teaching, yoga, fashion designing, cooking,
painting, and the list goes on.
I can't imagine the vast array of jobs she used to do with the aim of
feeding and giving me a good life. She also advices me in each and every
matter, topics that even my dad would have hesitated to advice me on. In
times when money was short, she used to starve herself and give me her
meal.
And the magnitude of patience she has is amazing, she had faced a
tsunami of troubles during her childhood and post marital years but it
was her patience and belief in God that gave her the strength to beat
all odds.
One has to also know that in between the jobs she had been doing, she is
also suffering from severe diabetes but always kept a happy smile and
never let anyone know about her worries.

Mom you are the best and wish you live a million years and serve a model
for mother's across the universe!!....

Atif 

Irritating but lovable

 "A woman should be such who would be irritating but still would be loved."
      "My mum came to my dad's family from a much wealthier background. And since she was the younger than her brother and two sisters she was the most pampered and she hardly knew anything about housekeeping. She was the person who would speak out her heart without thinking much. After her marriage though this invited trouble for her as her inlaws tormented her
at her slightest of mistakes. Tears in eyes she managed everything. She quarrelled with her husband and cried her  heart out. She cried even at the smallest of problems. However she managed to cope up with them everytime. She bred her two sons to good positions in the soceity.
       Thirty years on she still is the same but the tension ridden times have taken a toll in her appearance. Oops I forgot she was very beautiful in her younger days.
       She is irritatating at times but she still manages.
       I Love Her!!!

Rajkamal Das
Silchar

My Robin Hood

We are 5 brothers and sisters. I, eldest, now 36, an Engineer and well settled. My middle brother is an MBA from Pune, and my younger brother is also an MBA from Delhi. Both my sisters are graduates, married to engineer and air force officer. My father, now retired, was a simple honest clerk with Coal India, West Bengal. My mother, an uneducated lady from one of the remotest parts of Bihar, always a frail figure, now battles an incurable disease. Life those days was difficult, with ends barely meeting. My father's salary could barely feed us. My mother, Prabhawati, who never went to school, still understood the importance of education in the early 70's. She had a dream for her children. She had dreamt a future for us. Though uneducated, she remains for me the best entrepreneur the world has seen. She understood that the best way she could pull her children out from poverty was education. She would keep hungry to feed us all, wake up at four in the morning and carry on till each one of us had gone to bed.

She remained focussed in achieving her goal, juggling resources. Our school fees would be mostly paid off by selling her jewellery she received during her marriage. Never ever did she forget to pack our lunches, each one as per order. No mistakes ever there.

Slowly we all graduated, life started to change for the better for us. We are now well settled.

And now when it was our turn to do something for our hero, god had different things in mind. Hero's only give never take! That is what she has done.

We all love her. She is such.

She shall forever remain my hero.

My Robin Hood.

Vijay K Singh

A priceless presence

On critical self-evaluation, the positive lessons taught by my mother, outdo the reactionary qualities beamed down by my dad's nature.
At 36, I notice how much my mother, who is turning 64 this 9th of May, digs out from her experiences, her knowledge bank, her observations and her self realizations, to share with us to see us as better individuals.
Maybe it was circumstances - the eldest of 7 siblings, married to the youngest of 6 siblings - or the role she chose as a caregiver, or maybe it is her Taurus star that she is so strong, determined, yet so humble and non-assuming an individual I wish everyone to be touched by. Over the last decade, becoming more aware of her and my dad's shortcomings, she uses these realizations as lessons to teach us how to be better individuals.
An interesting though unfortunate incident opened my eyes to her selfless caring nature that she deserves being on a pedestal. There was an altercation between her and my dad and it dangerously came close to a physical violation by my dad. My intervening reaction hurt my dad accidentally. It was all a rush of emotions that made me react, but without caring for her own state she emotionally told me to have been more patient, and considerate towards my dad for his impatience, that was getting the better of him, how I shouldn't have been reacting to my dad's action but being proactive in pacifying him. Words can't describe the realization I had about her perfect nature that I just pray she continues her presence in our lives forever.
I wish she can touch more lives with her presence and I could somehow bring to her notice how priceless her presence is for all of us.
Thank you Ma!

Shrikant Sundaram

I pledge I will never let you down

My mom? I call her Maa.
If I start listing what all she has taught me? ��.it starts right from don't talk to a stranger after school  in kindergarten��don't play in the dirt in middle school, don't go anywhere without telling me in high school to, don't dare like a guy who is not Bengali and a Brahmin in college!!

There was a time when I hated her prying eyes trying to discover every little detail about my so called "personal life" and her incessant instigative talks trying to inspire me to focus on my life's goals (though I had no slightest inkling about what they were back then). But as I grew up, I started realizing that all she told me was (by some kind of divine intervention), indelibly imprinted on my mind and soul and that these ideologies seemed to guide, sometimes subconsciously, my decisions as I was coming out of a tender age and the protection of home to the real "big bad world". Now that I am on the other side of the globe, thousands of miles away from her, trying to pursue a lucrative and challenging career, on a lonely evening as this I remember those moments of her anger and frustration having failed to read the mind of a revolting teenager, those tender words of healing warmth that worked like panacea to me as a young adult and soon she became a role model whose every value, every advice seemed almost infallible. Not that I have lost my own sense of judgment and we still disagree on so many issues, I revere her for the person she is. She has taught me honesty and credibility are the two most important pillars of ones life and that the "means" used to achieve something are more reflective of a person's character than the "ends". Through her frequent bouts of scolding, I have gradually developed self-respect and the ability for self-analysis which I think are two of the most vital things that mould a person's attitude and outlook. Today I salute all her sacrifices that she has had to make, to make me the humane and intelligent and trustworthy and sensitive (see? I never let any opportunity pass me by when it comes to boasting!) person I am. I am proud to be her daughter and maa, today I pledge that I will never let you down in any way. Happy mother's day to all the mothers around the world!

Poulomi Acharya
Philadelphia, USA

No words

Mother / Ma / Amma / Mama whichever language you may say...
 
Mother of mine...
Mother of mine..
Mother sweet mother of mine...
 
Ther are no words to compose about a mother unconditional love for her children...
 
I just pray in my next birth I have the same mother who gave birth to me...
 
Kashyap Gul Ray

God could not be everywhere, so he created mother

For me my mother means my world to me, without her , everything is null and void.

She is to me god in his every incarnations and all colours of life. She means life in complete form with all colours and essences of being a human being.

For the next birth, i always tell god , i don't care what  give from this birth, but kindly ensure that i am born as her son only.

Long live all mothers on earth.

Joint Murtaza

She believes in me

I usually do not share my voice at rediff's message board for somethings specific as wishing an actors many more happy returns et al. ; but for once, I liked this.... Mothers are always special and I wanted to share my world:

Q: ...But what makes your ma cooler, more fun, more inspiring, a role model or even a rockstar?   
A: Simple! She believes me and believes that I will do some good for society and will do no wrong. This unconditional love and resolute belief in me constantly reinforces my committment to be and do good; and continues to move me up my life as a responsible and respectable human being. As you said, for everyone of us its "My Mother's the Best-est"
 
Karthik

Om Amma Appa

As everyone claims i would say "My mother, Mrs. Lalitha Devarajan is the BEST" and she contributed a major role in two of our lives.

My mother was doing her BA graduation and she got married during her first year at the age of 18. She was very young and she is from a village near Salem. She moved to chennai with my father alone, who was working in a private firm as a engineer. He was working with a start salary of less than 1000 rupees per month. I was born at her 19 and she managed me and my father very well.

Situation1: She contributed for my Fathers Masters and PHD by taking care of all the household activities. This made my father to concentrate in his professional life, which made in a Vice President of an organisation in his early age time of 45. My father owe this success to our LIFE MAKER my amma.

Situation2: I was not doing well during my mid school and she was a great confidence for me. She stood by me all the time (during SUCCESS and during FAILURE) and she is a biggest support for my SUCCESS. I passed out of 12th with distinction and now working for an MNC leading a team and working in latest technology at US and German location. All this is because of my mothers care and guidance.

She also motivated me to start a TRUST for my village, which i run now for the well being of the poor in our village. She motivated me to acheive more in life and she is the best as she made two PERSONS LIFE A GREAT SUCCESS. More than professional growth she is the FIRST PERSON to help her friends and any situation she is the first point of contact and helps them financially and Psycologically.

She is the best as far as i have seen and she is GOD.

I am not sure whether my mail would be published, but i am happy that i had a chance to write about my FIRST GOD and i am doing pooja for her in the name of this mail.

Amma, you are my world and i would do anything for You and appa. I owe my sincere thanks and my happy tears to the rediff group for this oppurtunity. I am touched and feel great now.

Thanks for your chance,

MD Jagan

Real love

My mother Mrs Chenchamma Chengalvarayan is great greater greatest.
 
Not only my mother alone all mothers great in the world. They know all what the child wants, what the boy wants�. Its goes on and on��. in each stage of the life her child. As they are great hearted I want to share something about my mother.

We are from a middle class family as my mother is creator of thoughts running on my mind I am always happy with the words of her heart and it is my luck to be her child in the beautiful world.

No one can say my mother is not good because they know without their mother they are nothing in the world. The real love in the world is not between the lovers, it is between the mother and the child because she knows what her child wants at which time.

So friends, please be take care your mother even when you got married as she is gift of our precious life which is presented by the God to live in the world.

I love my mom.

Devarajulu DC

My sounding board

My mother aged 63 years, though suffering from a number of serious medical problems has always been positive in life and tried her best to instill them in me too. She is my sounding board who silently listens to all that I have to say, both the good, the bad and the ugly. She is a very spiritual and pious human being adored by all relatives and friends.I just cant imagine living even a moment wihout her presence.She is my pillar of strength and support that can make thousand other pillars fall without moving. My kids too adore her. God Bless Her. 
With lots of love,

Ritu Malik

She is everything

ma.. the only person whom a child is attached like, as if without her neither a childs body is incomplete but his soul too..

i love my ma very much.. no one can take her place.. whatever may be the situation..

n ofcourse my mom is a hero a real hero, who can manage her life as well as her family people life very tactfully n in a very cool n haapy manner.

she was the one who jumped with happiness when i started walking my 1st food steps.. when i smiled for the 1st time.. when u said ma for 1st time..

whatever the scene may be she is the one to supports me always..

she never missed a chance to make me or my family happy.

she is the one who co ordinates n wisely takes the decisions (together with papa)

u know u its really difficult to express feeling  n love wht i have for my mother.. because these things cannot be explained in words.. but can be felt.

even in the toughest condition.. ma always used to be calm n just find out a proper way out.. just to make her family happy n relax.

its like.. no doubt we were mischeiveous,did many wrong things.. but she was the one to protect us even form dad's beatings.

so finally she is everything for me..

ajay

MBA mom

I am pursuing my MBA at IIMK and find my mother no less than a manager herself. She works 24X7 without a break...always on the job. A home-maker manages family members like a manager would manage clients, adjusting her operating cycle to their needs which can be as arbitrary as possible. She budgets the finances of the house and knows the accounts of the place till the last digit. A mother is also involved with training and development of her children. To train someone in numbers and strategy is easy but to inculcate culture and values is what managers of today are trying to conceptualise. Something that a mother does effectively. Who manages the supply chain better than her right from procuring the raw materials to delivering the finshed goods out of the kitchen. With the same set of equipments, her kitchen will produce dishes of all types and tastes, all this to suit her "clients". All this and more makes her the best, a role model not only for her family members but also for the strategists of the corporate world. She forms the foundation to a better world and a better tomorrow. Hats off!
 
Gaurav Sharma
IIM Kozhikode

A word to remember

The first word that any child say in his/her life is the word Ma......thats the word that everyone should always remember, as we start speaking from this word only, if we would have not learn this word than perhaps the world would have beem a dumb.
 
My Mother is an inspiration of my life, who always inspired me in every step of my life, she always helped me and just becuase of her now i am at a position to accept the challenges at every step.
She made me a confident person in life, she is my best friend, my love, my ideal person and every one should have there Mother as ideal person primarily and then secondary as they wish any other person.
 
I remember 6 years before when I was of 19years of age and I was struggling to get through any good medical college but unfortunately I couldnt make it was a very bad time of my life. She at that time inspired me to fight with the situtation and finally i came out of the stress and the tension that I had at that time. She taught me to fight with such kind of situtation as I was only 19 at that time nad I have to go a long way in my life , so this is just a small problem for you, you will have to fight with the situtation and this changed my life and now I am able to fight with any situtation.
 
I belong to a middle class business family from the Holi city and one of the worl'd oldest city of this World Varanasi(Kashi). My Family members are not very much educated and financially we were not very strong.
For my education i was in need of money and my mother scarificed her desires of living to fulfill my and my brothers needs of studies.
I would like to thank my Father as well who also helped me at evry point of my life.
 
The world's best Mom, My mother.................
 
Happy Mothers day
 
Yogesh Gupta

In gratitude

Yes I m feeling proud to announce that my mom is the best for me and she is a role model for me. I feel that without her i can't learn the way of life any more. From our to till today wat im just cuz of her. I m not telling that only my mother is best, possible all mothers are best but wat we have seen her makes her really my hero for my life. from our birth she is fighting with life as father lost everything during the Gulf war, my mother was the only person who not only take care of her even entire family. she allows us to do wat ever we want. he never asked us wat we are doing & wat we supposed to do. she teach us to fight with the situations and don't disappoint from the faliures at all. just live & feel the bad situations. she never force fro anything which don't want at all.
 
she gave us enough space to exploer our views and live with life. today we are independent and living the life wat we had wished. I don't have any regrets from life. I have a pround on my mother & " she is the best mom for me and as being a muslim we don't believe in re-born system even though if there is something like that i liked to be her son for ever." that's all i have to say abt her. Here im writing these abt my mom not to receive anything from you. This is gratitusde fro her & my inner worth feeling for her.
 
Sameer Khan

Mega super hero with 12 hands

Is my mum my Hero? She is more than that. She is my mega super hero with 12 hands, incredible energy and the power to make anything possible.

When I was a kid, I remember her running her school and taking care of my Dad and me. Now, this is not normal "running of school" and normal "taking care of the family". She ran the school such that each one of the kids in 1700 strong pupil strength school thinks of her as his or her own mum. She ran her school such that Vijay High School, Nizamabad is one of the top schools in our town. While she was doing that, she taught me every thing there is to know about life � making me strong enough to complete my studies in one of the premier educational institutions in India and be successful at what ever I do. And she has been doing it for the past 25 years

Even at 28 and 4000 miles away from her, I still depend on her for small things and she sweetly agrees to do for me. "Mum � could you go to the bank and open the DEMAT account for me" � "Mum � Could you please talk to so and so and sort this problem of mine?" and the answer is always "Yes Son" and using her power to make anything possible, she just does it before I even put the phone down. Now that my Dad is in Hyderabad, even at 55 she juggles her professional life in Nizamabad and her personal life in Hyderabad with incredible ease that will put any lazy 28 year old to shame.

The sacrifices she gave for the family over the past 37years, the way she does justice to every one of the family members, the hard work she did for my sister's marriage and my marriage can only be put in a book, which is at least 300 pages and not just 300 words.

She is not a mere human; she is surely super human, my hero, SUPER HERO
 
Abhi

If I could be her son again and again

My  mother  for  me  is  greatest  because  till  today i  can  not cook  food  better  than  her  .  And  believe  me  this  is    one  of  her  billion  qualities  she  had   .
 
 
I  wish  every  one  in  this  world  should  have  a  mother  like  mine  , 
and  today   unfortunately  she  is  no  more  .
 
My  tribute to  her  would   that  I  should  be    her  son  always  again  &  again  .
 
Success  !!

Manindraa  J Singh
Executive Chef
The Club
Andheri
Mumbai

An obituary to my mom

I write about the Lady who has just left for her heavenly abode in end of December 2005

300 words are just not sufficient    to write about any Mother . She was my  best friend    even though I had a very Caring wife .

 She was my  Teacher , Guide ,Cook , Bread winner etc  in 1970 and 1980   when suddenly my father was unable to work   due to one accident  in 1971

We are born and brought up in Kolkata ,  West Bengal , India. We are  3 Brother  and  1 sister and my mother never let even one of us feel that she used to love the other one extra .

When my father did not work since   1971  , my mother used   to sell Sarees  being made by My Uncle    to bring us up  and that too in a Marwari Community ( to which I
 belong   ) where working of Ladies is not taken nicely even today . It  was a herculean task  then

Then my Sister studied in   Ashok Hall Girls Higher Secondary School and we 3 Brothers studied in  Good English Medium School and college in  St Xaviers College , the best of Kolkata .

In the morning the Class started at 6 AM. My mother would wake up at 3  am  and then make food for us and then wake us up and then we used to take train and bus at 4.45 am so that we reach college at 6 am ., which was about 1hour and 10 minutes away .

This is  Just to say about the hard work she put in  to bring all of us up

She wont eat herself during our Turbulent Times but fed us with Icecream so that we were not feeling Bad

She used to guide us very nicely and took full care of us whenever required . She prayed  for us to god  for our well- being

Even before her death if I had fallen  ill , my mother would come to me every 20-25 minutes and enquire about my health despite my Wife ,Children and Doctor taking full care

My father was eldest among 10 brothers and 1  Sister and she was the eldest Bahu . but all her 9  Devars and Nanad (9   Brother in Law and 1Sister In Law  ) used   to come regularly to meet her whom she gave motherly affection . They used to come on Sundays and festival holidays and enjoy at our Home and my mother had  to work more on Holidays with her  9 Devranis ( 9 Sister in Law ) , which we did not like then when we were too young to understand about Joint Family system and This lovable Values to Our Relatives

She used to give us lessons on Value of Money ., not to waste even a Single paisa ,which we remember even today and during our  Turbulent times the teaching of mother comes very handy. When today Expenses increase by Leaps and Bounds and u are just not earning enough .

Even she used to go to meet our Father in College and Principal in School . Even Father Mali and Manipadam used to leave their job when our Mother used to go to meet them as a Mark of respect for this Iron Lady 

We all 4 Children used to be among the top 5 in class and when we used to come with our Annual Report , her lovable eyes used to say every thing but she always taught us to work more hard and not to take success in our Head since Failure is also a part of life

We have failed many times, many places but my Mother lesson is always in our Head

When I was 7-8 years old some friend  gave me a BIRI ( Ciggarate ) to smoke and when In the Toilet I was smoking with my  friend , some one complained to my mother and she opened the Door and  gave me a good thrashing

U wont believe , Till today whenever I am offered a Ciggarate , I remember my mother's red eyes and I   politely refuse to the offerer saying that Doctor has said me not to smoke , What else can I say to our so called senior persons in trade and Industry  with whom I have to do Business

My Father expired on 15 November   1997 and my mother had a  Paralytic attack thereafter  and then Sugar and Heart Problem but still even after showing her to the Best Doctors for 7-8 years my mother left us at end of December 2005

My mother always said to go for the Right  and Truthful  way. Right way or the way to truth will  give us more Satisfaction and Internal peace  and Money can be earned but this virtues are more important 

She taught us to be  honest , hard working , truthful , help to persons who are in need , never to make joke of a person who is in distress, pain etc and help them more

This is a Obituary to my Mother whose name  was Mrs Muli Gattani  w/o- Tilak Chand Gattani

All mothers are alike , all are great , May be If I was born to some other Lady , she could had been better , but My Mother was one of the Best without whom life has started to look without any meaning and   Very Vacant

Thank u Mummy , I know u are with Papa  above, who needs u more than us , and taking his  care but  please take care of us   as u used to do  from your heavenly abode .

No one can replace u mummy and we wish to take birth from your womb if another opportunity arises

Sarbananda Gattani
Guang Dong Province, China

I fail miserably at describing her greatness

My mom is the greatest MOM in the world.

When she was born, her mother died. She never could see her mother. Her Post Master father married thrice after the death of her very short lived second step mother. Her age was then hardly 3-4 years. They were six brothers and five sisters. Under such circumstances, she could manage to study upto 10th class, when she got married, rather little hurriedly by her father, as he probably wanted to shred of insurmountable responsibility of becoming the father of a girl child with so many in the queue.

My mom was very considerate about her father. She used to say always that her father was great and very honestly cared for his children.

The man with whom she got married was suffering from "mental retardation". She accepted the challenge and started living a very dedicated life towards her children and husband and God. During her struggle, she was helped and cared by her father like Spiritual Guru Shri Monmothonath Kar. From our child hood we knew him as our grandfather. I have never seen any lady so pious, so religious, so disciplined and lovable as my MOM.

Her struggle continued during here last age too, but she could seen her younger son to become an engineer from Jadavpur University, who is presently working in Quwait Oil Company and her elder son i.e., myself, working in an reputed company in Pune.

She herself constructed her own house at Kolkata and always cared for her husband even at the last age of her life when she was suffering from the deadly Cancer i.e., adenocarcinoma.

I can not write anymore as I no very well that I am failing miserably to illustrate the greatness of my mom. She was no less a lady in comparison to women like Mother Teressa, Florence Nightangle, Sarada Ma.

We as her son, could do very little � Alas! The irony of fate. But I love my Mom very much and I always realize her presence in my regular life.

Subir Gupta

I am blessed

Just wanted to tell u why my mom is my hero.

My mom single handedly brought me and my elder brother up, despite being separating from my father.

Today, as a chartered accountant,as I stand before you ,words fail me to describe the magnitude of her greatness and achievement.
We were never blessed with great wealth..but I never felt poor�
Not when I had a mom like mine!!!!
She was quiet..but she was strong...
She was vulnerable...but she was the strongest woman ive met.

She smiled through bad times
She stood by me through thick and thin
She was the best that could ever be!!!!

Mom�I just want to tell u that
Whatever I am today is because of you�.and im blessed to have you by my side.

Viswanath Kunnath

Three cheers to ma

A "Mothers" definition changes with time. My grandma was a different mother, my Ma was different from her mother, and I might be a different one (if at all!). Motherhood was compulsory and early for grandma, compulsory but at a more mature age for my mother, and for me the choice has no limits.

My mother, is perhaps plus or minus like your mother. An Indian "Ma", a German "M�tter" or a Japanese "Amae" the core factors remain the same. Recently I went to a business conference abroad, and there were ladies of my mothers age (of different nationality) who asked me the same question (which my mother would have asked, had she been there): "Did you eat your lunch properly?". I don't know if they get some "secret telepathic training" with the same set of questions and concerns when they get programmed for "motherhood". The software is universally the same!

I still remember those countless painting competitions which my mother used to take me to as a child. Even if I came first from the bottom (!), she made me feel like a winner. Perhaps it was that encouragement which made me come first from the top, later in many competitions. Life is not about coming first, it is more about your attitude, that is what my mother taught, the winning formula.

Everything that my mother did amazes me now. My mother never complained to make countless chapatis for the family every night (I make once or twice a month). We both had careers, but her house-wife duties came first. I can see that I am more prone to arguing for equal share of work and cannot even think of doing all that she did! Cooking fresh meals thrice a day, sitting with our homeworks, taking us to our singing, painting, tution classes, stitching new clothes; in a nutshell: a cook, tutor, mentor, tailor, gardener, nurse, and a robot I guess! This mothers day, I celebrate her on behalf of my sister and myself. Three cheers to Ma!!

Brindarica Bose,
Zurich, Switzerland

What kind of heart does she have

'Aai'.... My mother... who feels my pain and my happiness even before I do. Who can have one look at me or hear me on the phone and without even me telling her she asks--- What happened Beta? I often wonder what kind of heart she has, some kind of magic that is full of constant forgiveness and ever encouraging. I just know that the first thing I ever understood in life was Aai`s touch. I must have been a baby crying loud only to be quiet at her touch. And even today when I am 27, after coming back from work, all I need is her hand on my back and that touch just drives all the tiredness away...! I often ask her how she is the way she is....and she says you will know one day...when you become someones Aai... and now I think... my touch will become as precious some day... but for me it will be Aai's forever!

Sayli

She never wanted us tense

Yes,My mom is my hero.With lots of ups and downs in the life made us to face any challenges. After demise of my father at the age of 55 who was a diabetic patient, She stood to take all the financial responsibilities on her shoulder at the age of 51 and didn't allow me to take the job in place of my father.Eventhough I was 21 and graduate  at that time But she wanted me to study further.She started teaching in govt primary school.She managed to marry my sister at very good place and I started pursuing post graduation.I stayed away from her for study .Being a mother she never wanted us to be tensed and so she never told us about the pain she was getting due to spondylosis.The old golden memories of a happy family  and present condition of aloneness created a bridge of sorrow which resulted in bloodpressure. And the time was going on.I completed my postgraduation and was in search of good job.I managed to get a job in small company.
It took two years for me to have a good amount job in my hand after post graduation. I was in pune at that time. Meanwhile she was busy in handling the issues of neighbors and helping them in every aspect. She was known for her activeness and braveness in the village.
I requested her to be with me and leave the job, but she denied by saying that I am happy in my home town and you proceed further to make your career.
Once she called me saying that there is a small operation that she is going for but there is no need to worry.
I rushed same day to Indore where my maternal uncle was taking care for her. But it was not a minor operation .It was breast cancer and doctors were successful in removing the complete breast to make her live. I left my job and thought of being with my mother. She might have some predictions and was forcing me to get marry. Within 20 days everything was settled and I got married to a good girl..We both were taking care of her in every aspect. But her condition was deteriorating day by day.Once again doctor declared for second operation and with a great fear we all were agreed for that.She used to feel bad that we as a newly married couple has to serve me instead of having fun.
But good time is a good friend and can leave us at any time. Similar thing happened to us and after bearing a lot of pain once she left all of us .I am a successful person now .I have a small family with a baby girl .But no one is there to feel happy with my progress.

Avinash Mendhalkar

Pure and unconditional love

I feel my mother is my heroine because her love for me was pure and unconditional. She not only cooked the most scrumptious of dishes for me but also took care of me during my illnesses and was always there for me to give me rock solid advice. She sacrificed a lot for my welfare, and was my best and most trustworthy confidante and well-wisher who was willing to stand by me even in the most traumatic of scenarios. Maybe that's why there's that famous quotation, "God couldn't be everywhere all the time, that's why He invented mothers." I realise this even more poignantly because my mother died 6 months ago, cutting the umbilical cord forever.

In introspection, I perceive the reason why I consider her the best mother. About 3 years ago, I was lost and lonely and then the topic of marriage came up. "I will never find a suitable partner who will understand me," I told my mother. My mother then said gently, "In this world, there is a man for every woman. It's just a question of destiny and fate when they meet. When that happens and when God destines they become partners, no one can come in their way. True love is a beautiful gift of God. So, keep your spirits high and whenever you feel low, think of the following quotation:
`Somewhere there's someone who dreams of your smile,
Who finds in your presence that life is worthwhile,
So when you are lonely, remembers it's true,
Somebody somewhere is thinking of you."
With tears in my eyes, I realize that my mother's words did come true. I have found that special "someone" in my life, but my heart aches with intense pathos that my mother is not here to share with me my undiminished joy.

Heera Nawaz
Bangalore

She is taking care from there

Mother (in my lanuage Amma), I really do not know what to write about my mother, but I want to write some of my feelings over the years. My mother expired when I was child.Whenever I saw somebody with his/her mother and I see  their real  happiness and I felt that that is the real life. I many times cry what I missed in life. I pray god if I have my next birth please give me the real happiness. Not a single incident I had remembered with my mother. I am very small child when my mother expired.

I am now in a good position and earning well. I am from a very small village. Many people can't believe even I someimes can't believe How I studied in the greatest Institute in world (IIT). I always feel my mother is driving my life from there. She is taking care of me everything from there.

Thanks rediff for giving this opportunity to write my feelings about my mother.

Bhanu

I salute her

I am Anup. My father expired when I was just 10 years
and my sister 8 years old. My mother then a school
teacher, never let us feel the loss. She took it upon
her self to give us the best and bring us up in a way
in which even my father would have been proud. Se used
to work even on holidays to earn that extra bit to get
us new cloths for festivals and for our books and
uniform when our schools reopened. It is her hard work
that today I am a senior manager in an MNC and sister
married, works for a premier school in Hyderabad.

My mother always says "that every person, however good
or bad, in this world has good and bad traits. We
should always differentiate learn good things from
them and not the bad ones." This has helped us all
through our life.

I salute her.

I wish good health and lots love to mothers all over
the world. They are the representatives of God in this
world.

Anup Mathur

An idol of love

What will be life for a child without mother? It would resemble the sun without brightness, Sky without stars and flowers without fragrance.
        For me my mother is EVERYTHING. She is an idol of love, care, tolerance, kindness and many good things that we may not recognize for they are divine and certainly some other quality then humans have.
      I don't know how quickly and how finely she understands, cares and guides me to the right path. She helps me in making decisions when I'm in a dilemma. She stands with me when millions are against and her only support equals the support of millions. Only her presence in my life makes it brighter and worth living. Her caring hand, when kept on my head, when my mind is disturbed and my eyes are wet, fills my mind with joy and pleasure that at least there's someone who cares and understands me in the worst of my days. She helps me overcome my sorrows from her sweet and caring words.
    I find a taste different in her food and the other food as her food itself has the mixture of love, care and warmth. She adjusts in any situations. Meaning becomes a child with me and talks with me the way I talk and completely fills the place of a friend.
      I cannot bound her in the chain of words as she deserves something more than that but at least I'm happy that I could show the world why my mom is special than others.
    Though in my life I'm sure that i won't meet God but God is clever he sent my mom here so that I can meet him.

Surbhi Desai

A lost angel

Heaven lost an angel on 18/04/53 cos she came right
down to earth...to explain to me...her loving lassy as
to what love,tenderness, selflessness and sacrifice is
all about. I could not have asked god for
more.....maybe it was his way of showing that he could
not be right down here always....so he sent my mom.

If I were to be born again, I would want her to be
reborn ......just as my mom.

Madhuram Athmaraman

She is the fragrance

"MY mom is nothing but like a vassel which never get empty , if i am a flower then she is the fragrance of it that means i have no value with out her".
From Vinit tyagi

Even god needs a mother

Even God needs mother. My mother is an eraser - to remind me that everyone makes mistakes, and it's okay. To handle her, she uses her head; to handle others, she uses her heart.

Rama Saxena
Delhi

Blessed

My mother taught me many valuable lessons for leading this life to its fullest. My mother tells me she devoted all of her time and energy for bringing me up. Now that I have turned 29 I have started to realize in how many ways I am blessed to have her as my dear mom.
My mother taught me to treat others with kindness and not with a harsh attitude. She told me to forgive and forget. I still remember when I was finishing high school my mother told me that she would not send me away for college because she loved me so much and she advised me these few things the night I was leaving my town for college abroad. She sat beside me held my hand and gently kissed my forehead and told me: "If you wish to succeed in this world you have to remember that you have to give in order to receive, you have to make love and not war, and it is always better to part with someone as friends and not as an enemy, in the end she told me if you want something badly enough and you work hard for it there is nothing in this world that can stop you from getting it."
I love you mother :) You're a beautiful angel in my life.

Abid Ali

She tells you what is love

I am Ashish. My mother is my inspiration, love passion, my thought and everything.
    Every mother is great not even great but the only person in the family who tells what is love. People say that love can not be defined but i will it can be. That is MOTHER. and as love can melt stone and get everything done. If you have your mother you can get everything in your life. Nothing is impossible to get in one's life if you have mother.
      I am not telling that who does not have mother, can not get anything but at that time GOD serve them as a mother.
    Obey your parents and you will get the GOD.

Ashish Kumar Chaurasia

Bestest in the universe

My mother is my god for me.she doesnot explain in words,only feel. my mother is roll model for me.who fight for us for me from my childhood.who loves us,who cares us withhout any reason.my mother is bestest in universe.i have no words to describe her in words,only feel her. She is saying that Honest,Truth and Hard Work always keep you on sky level. she is always right.I LOVE MY MA ALOOOOOOOOOOOOOOTS. May U Live Long.

Simar Sarao

My Mom cannot ever be my hero.

A hero is one which I aspire to be, is one I believe I can be, is one who is an expert in his/ her field, can be in multiple .   However, my mother is one person who I dare not aspire to be like. She is not an expert in any field, though she manages to outshine all others. She cannot be Emulated or for that matter be Replicated even by the Almighty.  
 
A lady who knows how to live and lead life,  a lady who brings joy to me as and when she walks in, a lady who I always look up to in distress, a lady who I have always found by my side in my times of need, a lady  who understands me more than me myself., a lady who always managed to reach my place of mischief, a lady who knows what is going through in my mind, a lady who   knows what I am up to, a lady who knows who I like and otherwiset, a lady who I loved to fear, a lady who I couldn't bear to see in tears, a lady who sits in the innermost core of my heart, a lady who is always there with me in spite of being 2000 kms away, a lady who I love to love. She is my MOM � unbeatable, unmatchable, unthinkable., unambiguous, unassailable.

The statistics of her goodness does not fit my spreadsheet. The growth in her goodness has always been exponentially higher than my over optimistic projections.

Such is my mom, easily the most difficult. 

Deepak Sonthalia

This one's for you ma
 
I do some good cooking, even if I have to say it myself. I cook by smell, the aroma has to be just right, the taste, a perfect blend of hot, spicy and yet tart or sweet. I learnt this from my mother, a lady who like me, didnt do much cooking while she lived with her mother.
There is a lot I learnt from my mother and as she came through her operation (for the removal of a malignant tumour), I pondered why I have not been able to give in to my urges to go see her. Someone pointed out today, that it looks a lot like I am trying to run away from my mother's medical problems. A fact that made me think. I may be trying to run away, it is likely, because I cannot bear to think of my mom suffering, I certainly cannot bear to watch her suffer and most likely cause a tension filled atmosphere because I will not like how other people act around her. But is this an excuse for me? Or is this a reason that is genuine?
My mother has had to move around a lot in her life. First she followed my grandfather as he worked in different places around the country, and then she followed my dad. She created a home for my sister and me. She was there at home when we left, and when we returned. She protected us from the harsher side of life, till we were ready to face it. Then she took us by the hand and dragged us to face it. She emerged through life scarred, but unscathed. She was always a woman of determination.
I've often said I didnt want to end up like my mother(having to choose between her home and her work), but I've probably never said how I wish I was just like her. A lot of people say I am, and she says I am to some extent, but she makes a difference to people's lives. She cares. I've never brought home a stray kitten or a stray puppy, but over the years I've brought a lot of people home, people that I cared for, took under my wing, people who other people may not have cared for. And she always helped me. My dad never understood, but she did. She still does. She welcomed all of them into our lives as if they meant something, even though they probably meant something mostly to me.
I know I've had my share of conflict with her. I've never been very docile. I know whom I inherited that from too. She's passionate and loyal, and I hope I am too. She's stubborn, opinionated and on occasion displays a fabulous temper. But I wouldnt change her for any mom, no matter how Picture Perfect or Susie Homemaker.
This one's for you Ma. For having made it through that operation fighting. For helping me. Continue fighting. Cheers.

I just want to talk to her once

My mother is the best mom in the world and i thank god
for giving me such a wonderful mother. However i am
angry with the same god as he snatched her away from
me and my family last year on 13th April 2005.

I love and miss her so much. I just want to talk to
her once. Thats all i have been praying since last
year.

Dearest Mummy - Wherever you are , i just want you to
know that i love you so much.

Thank you for giving me a life and everything and i
pray to god to be your son in all my future lives.

your loving son,
 
Sudhir Suvarna

The beginning and end of life

I think, mother is the best thing that has ever
happened to man-kind.
For me the word "Mother" itself brings the soothing
feeling.
It does not matter, whose mother it is, for me, life
starts and end at this very word.

Shyam Daga

The greatest of the greatest

Is your mom your hero?

Undoubtedly. God has sent mothers as his representative. Mothers in general
are the closest relationship that anyone can have.

My mother was greater than the greatest. While I lost my father when I was
hardly 9, it was my mother who brought me up with all love being showered on
me. She was not only my mother but also played the role of my father, my
teacher and God. Yes, it is due to her hard work, encouragement and love
that I now have a PhD in chemistry and am in a good position. She showered
my love on me all the time. She used to get so scared when I was late from
University or late from work. The PhD that I have, I should rightfully owe
it to her. While my other relatives thought that I should go to take up a
job after my Bachelor's, she was the one and only one who wanted that I
pursue higher studies and do my PhD. She was the one who was more interested
in my welfare than me. While I was studying during late hours, she used to
make tea for me and also stay up reading books to see that I did not fall
asleep. But for my mother, I would not be even close to what I am today. My
position, self confidance and all other virtues are those that my mother
transferred to me due to her love and affection for me. If I am asked to
chose between my mother and god, I would undoubtedly say that my Mother is
the greatest in this world, even greater than God.

Vasu Devanath

It is because of my mother

When people around tell me what a great saint my father was, my reaction always had been "It is because of my mother". Had she not been strong, brought up her two children to the best of her abilities and got them settled in life without stretching her hand in front of others, he would have been called a failure or good for nothing fellow instead. She was a practical and practicing vedanti, with a never say die attitude.

I learnt my life lessons from observing her. My work culture had been emulated from her. She took up her responsibilities at home and office seriously. Though we wanted her to be at home when we came back from school, there was always a trust that she will not stay back in the office more than a minute than necessary.  But her smiling face and her hearty laughter never belied the tensions and stresses she was undergoing. Despite the hostilities she had to face in her work, because of their realization as to how important her job was for her and her children, she never let her fighting spirit come down. Though she never forgave the people who harmed and hurt her, she never bore ill for them. She always says that heaven and hell are in each one of our mind. Though others may not realize, we will pay for our bad deeds in this life itself. Even today, in my major decisions in life, she is my pillar of strength.

I never saw her following any rituals; she knows the hows and whys of all the rituals. She always tried to explain how they became traditions.

Ever cheerful, full of laughter, always helpful to all and sundry, she is the epitome of strength, independence and self-respect. I hope I can be like her when I reach her age.

I salute her and her spirit.

Lakshmi Sakuntala

No mom=no me

Well all i would say is MY MOM IS THE BEST IN THE
WORLD. I deserve to be her son. Probably people say we
cannot see GOD i feel GOD wants us to see him in
disguise of MOM.

My philosophy is NO MOM = NO ME. I can't even imagine
a world for me without my mom in it. 

yogesh

A gentle soul

this is not being written with an objective to win prizes because i stay far off in the US. so i just want the world to read about the gentle soul who helped me shape my future. she passed away in 2003 but then she lives on in spirit , in love and in all the small things that brings me happiness. she was a doctor by profession but most of all she was a mother to us, her patients and everyone who came in touch with her. she worked tirelessly in villages when no one would go there taking us along. she made us study in the schools there  making us understand that all are the same. she gave us love and patience and in turn made us like her. i'm proud to say i have the patience to move mountains all because of my mother. she managed home and work like all mothers do without any complaints . she had a smile on her face always. she was all that i could ask for a mother and more. losing her makes me feel more closer to her as i feel her in everything i do. i know she watches over us wherever she is.
she spoke no ill about anyone or anything and made us understand the values that make us humans. yet she won no awards or made no material riches... all the riches she made were the love and adoration of the patients who trusted her, the respect and unflinched love and support of her wonderful husband and the total awe and love of her children. she was a gem who was innocent, intelligent and strong. a beautiful lady who could bring smiles in every gathering ,invoke respect from anyone who would come in contact with her and spread loads of positivity wherever she went.
she was just a doctor to many. but a loving m'am to all who knew her and amma to all the poor who got her treatments in the villages of karnataka. we know her as amma but her friends called her Dr.Leela nair.
this piece is dedicated to every selfless mother in the world. every lady who loves all things good ......because in the end every mother is the best in the world. every mother is a hero in the truest sense... we realise this when we lose them. after that nothing matters. you see your mother in every mother irrespective of who they are and u salute them for wht they are and for what they make of their children.

Ranjini Krishnan
USA

The face of god

Usko nahi dekha humne,
par uski zarurat kya hogi,
Aai MAA teri surat se aalag,
Bhagavan ki surat kya hogi !!

Mahal Patel
The Netherlands.

The softness of her pallu

My mother is the knock on my door, waking my soul from sloth and slumber;
My mother is the bookmark in the middle of a book, telling me to pick up from where I have left;
My mother is the comfort of Sunday morning, the signal and station between my busy-ness;
My mother is the old hunched shadow outside my mosquito-net, my enemy's fiercest enemy;
My mother is the ring of a phone, reading my daily horoscope in my voice;
My mother is the patch of wet sunshine outside my window, my only means of recovery from loss;
My mother is the hard pressed white jasmine between the pages of my old notebook, making me fragrant even with her pain;
My mother is the tickle at my earlobes, full of translations of her happiness at my pleasures;
My mother is the verdant road to sacrifice, often full of the white painful beauty of hailstones;
My mother is the sound of a thousand sighs, for the pink dress her young purse failed to buy for me, and the sound of a thousand claps, for the sack race I finished second-last in;
My mother is the smell of the prayer-room, even filling the holy books with goodness;
My mother is the birthmark on my right cheek, telling me that we are never apart;
My mother is the softness of her pallu, wiping leftover food at my lips and the occasional rustiness of my conscience;
My mother is the hand fan in an April afternoon, the wet footprint on my adolescent canvas of delirium;
My mother is the heavy glasses on her nose, looking out without telling me, that she is my lighthouse;
My mother is the soft, thinning hair, which lets me be, the little girl as often as I want to be.

Sumana Roy dedicates this piece to her mother Sati Roy, Siliguri, West Bengal, India

Sumana Roy

God's best gift

I think my mom is the best gift to me by god. My mother always understands me better then myself , as i am in london right now she is always their whenever i need her , it is her love that gives me energy to move forward, it is her teaching and values  that never allows me to go to wrong way.Whenever my chips were down i just close my eyes and remember my mom and i get charged for facing any challenge.She always shows me the right path by examples.She is role model for me , she showed me the path for success and how to achieve that with hardwork and dedication. I have seen her working hard and honestly in toughest conditions.There is no word as impossible in her word she always used to say me that word impossible itself says that I+M+POSSIBLE so never say that i can't do this it is impossible.I got lesson from her only that it is love that wins the heart so love and respect everyone and everything which comes to your way and you will be winner 

Kunal Kumar Sinha

The best gift

I would never use the term greatest cos im very sure that each every mom on this earth is the greatest�
They r wit us in all times�I believe no one on this earth luvs u more than ur mom�she is the best gift to all living beings in this universe.
This ones for all the moms on earth�" Ur kids luv u too�just the way u do..:) "

Vishal Prabhakar, Bangalore

My hero, my ma

God could not be everywhere and therefore he made mothers.

The moment I was born, mother was also born. She suffered unexplainable pain while giving birth but within fraction of seconds had an unexplainable happiness in seeing the birth of her little one. She can endure so much pain but she always has the last laugh!!

Whoever serves humankind without any condition is my hero- My mom who believed in the job of being a mother 24/7.  She resigned from her government job, Knowing well that henceforth, there will be no Bank Account under her name; there will be no awards or bonuses. She jumped in to choose this job of being a full-time mother and does the thankless to raise a child into a good human-being providing unconditional love, and countless sacrifices, at today's world, who has so much of guts???

Whoever is honest to the utmost is my hero- My mom is so honest with me that I know she is the only person I can believe in, that makes her my true friend for life.

Whoever has passion for life, is my hero- My mom a 53 year old grandmother passionately joins tabla classes to buddy her 4-year-old grandson!

Whoever has visions as bright as gold, as solid as diamonds and has sharp instinct, as knife is a hero to me- My mom has shown me the vision to cherish life, to cherish my ideals, to cherish the soft music of life, the beauty of mind, as she tells me out of them will grow my bright present, my solid future, leaving behind a wonderful past.

She has built the world around me that is heaven on earth!
Thank you dear mom- I miss u when I'm writing this seven seas away from you!!!

Shilpi Bose

The unsung hero

As I look back on the years gone by, on the truants I played, on the perseverance I witnessed, on the unconditional love I exploited so often, on the sacrifices I bore the fruit of, on the warmth and patience that I couldn't reciprocate with, on the trust & belief in me which I may not have always lived upto but which kept increasing without questions � on the very reason of my existence today, the relentless & consistent support that made me capable of supporting myself today � the thankless gestures which personified living upto expectations without expecting anything in return � just about everything I do and say reflects the heroics of the hero..or should I say the unsung hero in my life � my mom�the least I could do is write these few lines and salute her on this special day- Happy Mother's Day mom! As they say-all of life's experiences can be summed in 3 words:"Life Goes on..", I think it just requires three letters to sum up love, sacrifice and selfless commitment �"MOM"

Arpan 

MY MOM
 
                                Right from the moment
                                           I could walk
                                                and talk
                                  She was there for me.
                                      She wiped my tears
                                            allayed my fears
                                      through my growing years.
                                        She was there for me.
                                     When someone broke my heart
                                        and I felt the  world fall apart
                                      She was there for me.
                                         As I tried keeping pace
                                        in life's crazy rat race
                                 many times falling on my face
                                         She was there for me.
                                    Marriage happened
                                              children followed
                                  in life's problems i got swallowed
                                           She was far away
                                              and yet in some way
                                     She was there for me.
                                        Now the children have grown
                                                        and they have flown
                                                       and the wife?
                                      she has moved on to a better life
                                           and through all this
                                               She is still there for me.
                                                    bent with age
                                                         frail of health
                                             She still has her wealth
                                                   of her blessings for me.
                                          Without her my life
                                                         would have been one big Zero
                                           She is my MOM
                                                                She is my Hero.
 
V S Shirali
Mahim, Mumbai

MOTHER

This is a truly BEAUTIFUL piece please
read this at a slow pace, digesting every word and in
leisure...do not hurry....this is a treasure...

 For those lucky to still be blessed with your Mom,
 this is beautiful. For those of us who aren't, this is
 even more beautiful. For those who are moms, you'll love this.
 
 The young mother set her foot on the path of life. "Is
 this the long way?" she asked.   And the guide said:  "Yes, and the way is hard.
And you will be old before you reach the end of it. But
 the end  will be better than the beginning."

 But the young mother was happy, and she would not
 believe that  anything could be better than these years. So she
 played with her children, and gathered flowers for
 them along the way, and bathed them in the clear streams; and
 the sun shone on them, and the young Mother cried,
 "Nothing will ever be lovelier than this."
 
 Then the night came, and the storm, and the path was
 dark, and the children shook with fear and cold, and the mother
 drew them close and covered them with her mantle, and the children said,  
"Mother, we are not afraid, for you are near, and no harm can come."

  And the morning came, and there was a hill ahead, and
 the children climbed and grew weary, and the mother was weary.
 But at all times she said to the children," A little  patience and we are there."
 So the children climbed, and when they reached the top
 they said, "Mother, we would not have done it without you."

  And the mother, when she lay down at night looked up
 at the stars and said, "This is a better day than the last, for my
 children have learned fortitude in the face of hardness. Yesterday I gave them courage.
Today, I 've given them strength."
 And the next day came strange clouds which darkened
 the earth, clouds of war and hate and evil, and the children groped
and stumbled, and the mother said: "Look up. Lift your eyes to the light.
" And the children looked and saw above the clouds
 an everlasting glory, and it guided them beyond the
 darkness. And that night the Mother said,
"This is the best day of all, for
 I have shown my children God."

 And the days went on, and the weeks and the months and
 the years, and the mother grew old and she was little and bent.
 But her children were tall and strong, and walked with
 courage.  And when the way was rough, they lifted her,
 for she was as light as a feather; and at last they came to a hill,
 and beyond they could see a shining road and golden gates flung wide. And
 mother said, "I have reached the end of my journey. And now I know the end
is better than the beginning, for my children can
 walk alone, and their children after them."

 And the children said, "You will always walk with us,
 Mother, even when you have gone through the gates."
 And they stood  and  watched her as she went on alone, and the gates
 closed after her.  And they said: "We cannot see her
but she is with us still. A Mother like ours is more than a memory.  She
 is a living presence......."

 Your Mother is always with you.... She's the whisper
 of the leaves as you walk down the street; she's the smell of bleach
 in your freshly laundered socks; she's the cool hand
 on your brow when you're not well. Your Mother lives
 inside your laughter. And she's crystallized in every tear drop.
 She's the place you came from, your first home; and
 she's the map you follow with every step you take. She's your first love
 and your first heartbreak, and nothing on earth can
 separate you.

 Not time, not space... not even death!

MAY WE NEVER TAKE OUR MOTHERS FOR GRANTED...

Anil Kumar Kalle

She never loses her balance

We had gone to Mumbai for our annual holidays to be with our father in an apartment complex which was occupied by all the families of my father's bank. In the next flat to ours, a young couple lived with a 2.5 year old mentally retarded baby. One day, the lady got locked out and didn't have the spare keys for the house. The worst part was that balcony was open and the baby was asleep who could wake up anytime and run to the balcony searching for her. The thought was scary as the balcony was not safe and the child could fall off from the 6 th floor. Being a week day, all the men were out at work and the women folk simply gathered around the young mother and criticized her for her carelessness. My mother, a simple village woman was the only person who could think fast. This was when I realized why architects have to be creative and how helpful they can be during a crisis. There was a narrow cement bridge(about 1 and a half feet wide) which was running thru each apartment's balconies in our floor that enhanced the beauty of our building. The risk was tremendous, but my mother dared it. My mother walked thru it from our balcony, got into their balcony, went into their house and opened the door. Everyone was relieved. Today, 10 years after that incident, I still dread to think what could have happened if my mom had lost balance. But she is a woman who never lost/loses her balance under any circumstances :-) Luv u ma

Narmadha Chandrashekar

A replica of god

My mother is god's GREATEST blessing to me. She is the rock solid foundation of my home and my life. She is the pillar of support to which I can cling to, when I am faced with life's stormy weather's and showers of sadness.

It is not easy for her, I know. She is a working mother who has to balance her life between work and home. Yet she shoulders all these burdens without an unkind word, in fact making it seem like child's play.

My mother is everything to me. 300 words are not enough to describe her. It would take me volumes of books and several lifetimes to highlight her qualities. I know, try as I might, I will never be able to accomplish what she has done and continues to do for me every single day.

My mother never puts herself before her family. She sacrifices her pleasures so that we can have a better life. My mother is the most humble and down to earth person I have ever come in contact with. Her selfless nature and her ability to love unconditionally makes her the most beautiful person I have ever known and will ever know. 

Each one of us has a guardian angel who protects us and guides every step of our way. We were always told that we would be able to see this angel only when we left this earth forever. Today I can proudly say that I have had the greatest happiness in seeing my guardian angel when I am alive.

Through the eyes of the world, my angel doesn't have wings or a halo. But I know those things will be rewarded to her in heaven.

Through my eyes, my angel is my darling mother who is a replica of GOD and in whose arms I find Heaven.

Love you mama forever��.

Kara Fernandes

"My mother is the most beautiful woman in the world."

That's the line that stayed with me from my English lesson in primary school. It was about a little lost boy who when asked to describe the mother he was crying for, told everyone that she was the most beautiful woman in the world. To cut to the end, his mum was finally found and she turned out to be not so beautiful. But in that child's eyes she was and would always remain the most beautiful woman in the world.
What makes 'Mama' the most beautiful woman in my world is the perfectly balanced love that she brought her children up with. She could be our friend and confidant when we wanted one while still being our "strict mother" when she felt we needed one. I guess that's what made her the universal mom or 'Mama' as each and every of my friends know her as. Once we had been to a wedding and the brides dad � he says "Thank you, Mama" � way older that her� but I guess he's heard everyone call her that so many times, he did so too!
It's that aspect of hers that makes her so special. She is a mother, not only to me and my brother but everybody else who makes her acquaintance. Its someone like her who shows us that truly, love cannot be divided, only multiplied.
Mama has been always supportive, always there. She is ready to sacrifice a million things for her kids � but in a way that you won't even realise she is doing it. There is an old Jewish proverb that sums it all up.
'God could not be everywhere and therefore he made mothers.'
Happy mothers Day, Mama - from all of your children.

Clive Fernandes

Precious mother

I like this quote bcz it is inspired me abt my mother. Bcz she is my best friend, philosopher & guide.

"M" is for the million things she gave me,
"O" means only that she's growing old,
"T" is for the tears she shed to save me,
"H" is for her heart of purest gold;
"E" is for her eyes, with love-light shining,
"R" means right, and right she'll always be,
Put them all together, they spell "MOTHER,"
A word that means the world to me.

If I could had chosen, I would have picked no other.
Than for you ... to be my lifelong friend and Precious Mother.

Trupti Kadam

She gives advice only

If our mother act her role in every efficient our family will successes, no
doubt for that, best example is my family and mother. I am from seven member
middle class family, my father is framer and mother is house wife. My mother
is motivating everybody with their abilities. She is very supporting and
ready to give freedom to everybody to select their own carries and she is
giving advice only. She is able to face any danger situations. I was
surprised about her when a big lost have been happened for us, everybody in
the family were very disappointed, but she had gave more courage to us
especially for my father, but every thing come into normal stage with in two
years. I know she has suffered much from my grandmother and other's
realties; however she didn't seek any help from her realties that is more
appreciable things.

Now she is 66 years old and waiting for some more good things to happen.

George Mathew

She is close to my heart

When I am sad, she comforts me by cracking jokes
When I feel lost hope, she gives me the ray of hope by telling stories of winners
When I get angry, she bends me with her smiles
When I get injured, she soothes my pain with her home medication like a doctor
When I am in doubt, she guides me like a teacher
When I get into some problem, she rescues me with her argument like a lawyer
When I am sick, she sits besides me praying to God for my wellness
When I feel happy, her happiness is more than mine
In fact, I am stuck with words to describe her innumerable roles in my career
All in all, my mother is a GOD sent Precious Gift to me
Who acts as my friend, philosopher, guide, teacher at different times of my life
A gift which is priceless,
A gift that will be cherished in my whole life,
A gift that cannot be bettered by any other gift in my whole life,
I thank GOD for this precious gift.
Though I am now away from her, she is always close to my heart and will be forever.
Only my death will take her away from me.

Seshadre R.

My ideal

"When you have teeth, you don't know their importance" was my mother's
favorite quote, which I have realized, when she is no longer in this
world.

As a friend, guide, philosopher and a selfless companion, she kept our
comforts over her discomforts. Her selfless and dedicated service
started with carrying us in her womb for nine months, followed by
carrying our worry, lifelong.

Like every other son, my mother was and will ever be my ideal. Though
not much literate, she was worldly wise and always had a patient and
bold approach towards the problems, she faced. Apart from being a
perfect house wife, she was an excellent manager. Her money management
skills, coupled by her efficient home making skills, helped my father a
lot in bringing up his four children in spite of his meager earnings.

The first teacher to all four of us had clear academic concepts and
would ensure that we don't acquire half baked knowledge. Hard work was
her "Mool Mantra" which she inculcated into the young minds of each one
of us. She would never allow us to withdraw from a situation without
facing it with full vigour; success or loss never mattered much to her.

She had a religious bend of mind but was never a fanatic. She would
apply the preaching of great religious leaders to her worldly life and
was never demonstrative in her belief. Service to humanity was her own
way of serving the GOD. Only thing she wanted from the God was that she
should live independently and should not spend even a single day of
dependent life. God listens to good souls; she died a peaceful death,
without giving trouble to any body.

May her soul live in peace.

Sanjiv Saraswati

A job well done

Is your mom your hero?� true to the knowledge of we 1 sister + 4 brothers. She strived, infact striving, a lot for us in each and every of our step(s).
After losing our father in the year 1979 when we all were kids, me the youngest one being 4 years old that time, she bravely stepped ahead shouldering the responsibilities and went on to educate us: sister is a Commerce Degree holder enjoying her life as a beautiful & responsible house wife and we four are Engineers � working with utter satisfaction. WHAT MORE DO WE NEED???
Thanks to you� AMMA, YOU HAVE DONE A GREAT JOB!!!
 
Ramu Pulupula
Narasaraopet
Andhra Pradesh

Best

I am Sonal Mishra, well I don't know where to start from about my MOM but its just a small effort to let you know how great my MOM is!!!!

The only word in the dictionary that can describe MY MOM is 'BEST'. She is more than a friend to me and a guide whenever I am confused about anything under the sun. Whenever there is a problem I know where to find the solition. When I am not well she is the one who does not sleep, when I am happy, she is happier than I am. She is a perfect mom as she has always been there whenever I needed her, even when i don't know that I am in trouble, she knows it before I do!! She has completed all my needs as per the circumstances and the age that I was in, the needs seem to vary all the time, and she always understood it before I even gave the indication. Now that I am old enough to make my own decisions, I still trust her's more than my own. When I had my first boyfriend she was happier than I was, and always told me that I was wrong, wherever I was. Now that its not confirmed that I will marry my boyfreind or not, she is the one who has more faith in things working out, where as I am more scepticle about it. When I was worried that I will get my job or not, she had more faith in me than I did, and when I picked my first job, her tears said it all. She cries on every little thing I do for her, and forgives me all the bad things I happen to say to her at times. She is someone who has held the family one, the bonding is so very strong between the members of the family, just because of her.
I don't care weather I win or not, but just hope that my MOM gets to read this, and get to know that I care, and she is the most lovely thing on the earth and the best gift that God could have ever given me. I am sorry for all the fights I have had with you MOM. I have not been able to express even half of that i feel for you, but yes you are everything to me and I love you the most.Thanks for always being there. I can't imagine my life without you, never ever leave me.
LOVE YOU MOM

Sonal Mishra

Selfless

A Mother lives her own life only till her child is born...for she starts living with the struggles and difficulties of her child, feeling it
to be her own one.. She alone can feel the hunger as well as the pains of her child ...Mothers are Selfless...My mom was one...
,u know why? she 'even' gave up, " Her Beauty to me and Bestowed her Brains to my sister. I wondered what else she had for
herself .Then I realized the last thing she held throughout her life were only the  colorful dreams of both our lives in her
heart...the most safest place her children could ever be.... she was a pillar of strength to my sister and myself. Most of her life
was in pain and suffering, she was awake when the whole world slept. But  yet all she projected to us was only a colorful
world, hope and confidence. we learnt to smile seeing her smile and only when we grew up we know how many tears were
hidden behind those precious smiles...That's because Mothers always bring out their best hiding their tears and wants her child
to be unaware of sadness. she was a one who silently suffered. she taught us who GOD was, in return ,GOD told me He confided
himself in her to take care of us.

Viji Angel

Ma yani sirf Ma

Ma, a small word and no other word stands beside this word, it has a great meaning.  Ma means only and only Ma and it is not only true for my Ma but all Ma in the world. 

My Ma is what for me I couldn't explain.  She is everything for me.  All big or small matters I put before her and I never displease because she suggest the appropriate way to me. 

This moment my memory is going very past and gives me a lot of happening.  My both grand parents were came India during 1947 partition.  At that time my grand mother was pregnant and Papa came in Oct 1948.    My Ma came in March 2, 1952.  We saw very difficult days in our lives.  My Ma always equally participates with Papa in this struggle.  I have two younger sisters also but a big difference (around 9 & 11 years) is there between me and my sisters. Obviously, I spend lot of time alone with my mother.  She sang songs for me, told me stories, left and took me to school.  When she prepared food for us I stood beside her and helped her. She taught how to cook, how to use spices for accurate test.  She wanted that I could do my job independently.  I asked many questions, as small kids used to ask, and she tried to satisfy me.  My Ma is a great reader.  When I was very little she purchased Bangla, English and Hindi magazines (like Anando Bazaar Potrika, Dharmayug, Sapthahik Hindustan, Kadambini, Illustrated Weekly, Reader's Digest etc).  I learn from her how one can absorbs great thought of learned persons.

She not only insists to me to be an utmost one but also suggests the right way for it. 

Ma yani sirf Ma, bus�..!

Goutam Banerjee

Three letters

Well I am supposed to describe my mom in 300 words. But to tell you the truth i can only describe her in three letters, GOD, AAI, MAA, MOM, MUM. These are the different combinations of words i can describe her. She is the best. 
                                                                  Luv you maa.

Aditya Bavdekar

God is mother

Every human on earth believes in one god or the other. Everyday they pray that invisible god for better things in their lives. But who is this god? Has anybody seen him/her? For these questions the simple answer in NO! But these is one god who is always visible to us & who always strives hard in her entire life for the well being of her children & this god is the "MOTHER".  We do not know whether the invisible god that all of us pray everyday, is there are not but we all know the god "MOTHER" is always there struggling for her children.
 
 Whether rich or poor, mother always wants her children to be the elite people in the society. To make her children reach such levels she sacrifices her joys from the moment the child starts growing in her womb & spends the entire life working for the growth of her children.
 
 Hailing from a poor Brahmin family, my ma who had three children & with only my father earning to run the entire family kept her focus on educating the there of us in order to make us grow to lead respectable life in our respective lives. At one period in my life, when all the three of us were studying in the universities (with my father's earning a just about INR 1500/- per month), it was her focus & determination that made her to be successful in achieving her goals. She was never allowing us to go & play cricket or any other games & many times she used to come to the playground to take us back to the home for studies. She had one goal & that was to educate us well. Today every moment in my life I remember her for her sacrifice & achievement.  I, my elder brother & elder sister today lead highly respectable life in the society & the entire credit for this goes to MY Ma, without whose sacrifice, struggle we never would have been what we are today.
 
 I simply believe in one god & that god is my ma, the living legend, love you ma�
 
S Ramakrishna,
Zhong Shan City
China.

The juggler

Bina Raju is a skilled juggler. She juggles with a passion and her deft hands seldom allow anything to slip and fall. Juggling in Chennai? Does she work in a circus? She works in the circus that my home turns into on occasions, juggling her million responsibilities with care and caution.
She is the editor of a famous woman's magazine in Chennai that highlights the story of women achievers in Chennai. More than a decade ago, she sensed the need for a women's magazine that did not focus on beauty, glamour and film news. 'Eves Touch' was born from that idea and has gained respect and recognition for women achievers in the South Indian community.
She parents three daughters, two dogs and a host of people who come into her life and are touched by her warmth and love. When she is not editing her magazine, she is busy collecting funds for a nearby orphanage, singing bhajans with the inmates and mentoring women from less fortunate backgrounds on how to make the best of their situation.
She has taught me to be ambitious and motivated, leading by example in helping me realize that true happiness stems from compassion and service. Her busy schedule has never kept her away from family. She has made every birthday and festival a special memory, read and sang and played with us and seldom asked for anything for herself but her children's happiness. 
Today my sisters and I are proud, confident and compassionate human beings because of Amma's influence in our lives. She dreams of retiring in a little cottage with her own tiny vegetable garden. She has made my dreams come true and I cannot wait for my turn now.
Her favorite star may be Julie Andrews, but she is certainly mine.

Sunanda Seshadrinathan
Syracuse, New York

Every guy loves his mother

where to star from, i dont even remember my struggling days as a new born baby boy,who had to go through from the scratch to get set in life. who knows where to pee or to poo. who knows what are these creatures around when a baby opens his/her eyes in this world. one can just feel the warmth in those motherly hands which are so blessed to soothen our every worry and sttrange thoughts.
MY MOTHER is my soul, i am 20 and as back as i can remember my mother has been my strength, my weakness, and my will. i can proudly say that my mother is my only acheivment till now. and i am more than satisfied with that acheivment.
GOD could not be everywhere so he created MOTHERS. my mother is a ultimate goddess to me. my morning starts with touching her feet and only i know how fresh i feel when she kisses my forhead and says"joog joog jiyo". i feel like a winner all the way. i feel that i have accomplished everything in life. my mother gives me the power to be responsible from heart.
i know every guy loves his mother and i am one of them but the motions i go through when i feel her "SPARSH" over me are not explainable.
wheather i am in a good or bad mood,my mothers mood remain as solid as a rock and as smooth as a sand. rock solid in stability and smoother sand her heart is.
my mom is my world and i can sacrifise my anything for her. not going over he top but she is a gem of a person and a mother to be proud of. i love the way she scolds me and then hugs me to make it even. 
my motive aim or" LAKSHAY" in this modern world is to give as much love and affection as i can give to my parents. by doing this will give me the ultimate satisfaction and "MOKSH" in life.that will be the prime acheivment in life. i need you always and at every stage of my life and i promise to make your life a heaven which you already rule....my heart.
 
love you ma and just be my ma for evry birth.
ma u may not be the best but you are best thing happend to my life and you will be...

Vipul Nagpal

Like a great fighter

My mother is my real hero. She guided all the way to my maturity, like a leader. She protected me against all the odds, like a great fighter. She explored all the things within me to erect my human stature, like a teacher. What else a hero can do to carry out responsibility to the world, what better fashion is there in our imagination. 

Sujit Mallick

I salute mummy

My mummy is an angle for me who always shower love, on me and my brother. And always take care of us, this is a chance to express my gratitude to her. She is my inspiration in every thing as the saying "god created mothers, because he cannoth be there at every time" this is really true, i salute to my mummy i am really lucky to have a mom like you.

Ashwini Prasad

An angel

My mother Mrs Satnam Kaur Grover, died in the small age of 58 on 11th April, 2006 due to Breast cancer which later spread in whole body. 
We children and all those who knows her including her doctors of Apollo, Fortis Hospital, New Delhi considered as Hero as in all these 5 years (cancer age) she never lived like a patient.  She was actively participating in training programs held by Apollo hospitals [Get Quote] for cancer patients struggling with life.  She was interviewed by channel 7, aajtak also.  Apart from very actively involved in social (specially taking care of cancer patients, helping poor etc) and political life (taking care of parks, water, electricity etc) she was Head of Shrimani Gurudwara Prabandhak Committee's Stri Satsang Sabha of DDA Flats Kalkaji Gurudwara.  She had visited Pakistan twice and in Punja Sahib Gurudwara she did a 'PAATH' which all Janata of Pakistan said that they never heard such a sweat and 'Nuraani' voice.  She was 'Brahamgyani' on her own, very knowledgeable, intelligent and all 'Paaths' from Guru Granth Sahib was on her mind.  Her memory was so sharp that she never opened telephone book for dialing numbers.  At gold shops or while dealing in property she calculates everything in 1-2 minutes for which dealers have to use calculators.
She was born on 15th August, 1947, 2 hours before freedom.  Whole train was killed by Pakistanis but that was the only 'dubba' of my mother's family which was safe which itself is like a miracle.
All I can say that she was not like a normal old woman / mother living in house, taking care of home and children � we never saw her lying ill on bed, always charming and smiling face.  She was angel not only for her family but for the world who knows her.
 
Rashmi Budhraja (elder daughter)
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Kudos to ma

The woman of substance? Naah she can beat men at that. She refused to give in after losing my dad. And she won. How? Today, I am a software engineer, my 1 sister's a CA and the other is happily married. Kudos to you MA. And like Jay Leno said-"You're not famous until my mother has heard of you".

Sumit Gupta
Bangalore.

Just to see me smile

My mom is the best!!! For the gift of life she has given me, I have always taken her for granted assuming she'd be there for me, until I realised the unconditional love & tenderness that has gone in to bring me up � God made her to be mine, her smile to be the sunshine of my life and gifted her to me!!! My mother has taken the pain & walked that extra mile jus to see me smile�So now, for all the times I didn't say it before and taken u for granted, thank you, Mom...I love you so very much!

Sukanya Rangarajan

A hero to hundreds

My mother, Dr Saudamini Bambah, my Hero

My mother is the most unusual woman I have ever met. If my world was small this would not be a big statement, but my world is large and I have met many women and traveled far. She is a combination of modernity and tradition.  She has molded the definition of the modern emancipated woman into her personality and her work, but still retained a firm grip on her spirituality. She can be harsh and stern , yet she is absolutely stoic in her forbearance. She has experienced much suffering and little joy except in her idyllic childhood. She is a woman much ahead of her times and little appreciated by her family, but highly valued by the community, which she untiringly serves.  At the age of seventy nine when most people retire to their beds , my mother goes out at 9.15 A.M. to the blood bank society , travels, gives seminars motivating voluntary blood donations, takes an active part in community health welfare and education , was until recently on the municipal corporation, campaigns for the cancer society and still finds time to read whodunits from the British Library and take people in need of healthcare to the local hospital. When she recently fell ill with diagnosed breast cancer, we were walking into the hospital and the watchman asked. "Aaj kisko leke aaye ho ,doctor ko dikhane (who have you brought to see the dopctor today?)?", My mother answered " aaj apne aap ko! (today it is myself)". The watchman was surprised, he was so used to my mother bringing others in need to the hospital, advising them as to which doctor to see, helping them in getting appointments and filling out forms, that he never expected my mother to be ill, she seemed invincible. But Lo and behold, when her mastectomy was over , within a moth my mother was on her feet again, advising and aiding people in need and bringing people to the  hospital again and taking an active part in the blood bank society.
This is my mother , not only my  hero, but a hero to the hundreds she has helped .!

Bindu [Images] A Bambah
Hyderabad

Vision, quality

My mom...can simply be described as symbol of selfless and sacrifice.
Well... what she has done? To highlight a few...

1. We were a family(economically poor at that time) of eight children, though our mom was less educated(may be upto class IV), she had great VISION that their children to be educated and she strived for it and we are all educated. How?
  *she took some time off to knit palm leaves to be sold to small hotels for serving food..excellent knitting Quality..always in demand.. QUALITY of work was imbibed in our mind right at young age.   
  *during seasons made us to take out outer shell of aereca nut, so that we can buy & stitch school uniforms.

2. Perfect planner...
  *her meticulous preparations for festivals were a treat to watch.
  *her 'rangoli' on special occasions...superb

3. Though we were from upper caste, that never bothered her...taught us non-descrimination at childhood itself.
  *took the role of 'nurse/dadi' whenever required and helped them(lower caste people) during pregnency...they liked my mom very much.

4. Helping neighbors...always available at odd hours.. to console them.

5. She was reading even news papers and was aware of all happening in the outside world...we were remarking that she can outsmart Indira Gandhi [Images], our late PM

6. She has stayed in nursing homes during night to take care of me when in distress...scene can be visualised even now... and taking care of grand children

7. Thro'out her life always active, never lazy

8. What we have done inturn? though something... not much.

  My mom...really great...symbol of sacrifice and selflessness.

  Thanks for rediff for sharing views.

Keshava murthy

Long live ma

My mom is an lovable person whom i can believe in for any matter, though i am naughty at times, she is the one who cares and make me understand the situation to live a better life and be a proud son of India. I love my ma more than anything in this world, long live ma, i love u,i love u,i love u,i love u,i love u,i love u,i love u,i love u,i love u,i love u,i love u,i love u,i love u,i love u,i love u,i love u,i love u,i love u,i love u,i love u,i love u,i love u,i love u,i love u,i love u,i love u,i love u,i love u,i love u,i love u,i love u,i love u,i love u,i love u.....
 
Subra

Ma is the best gift
 
You are very true when you say every mother is special and specially to her kids.

My mom ( Ammi ) gave us two brothers and eldest sister ( 3 of us ) best of manners and ateqates and taught us every good thing in life, and who herself did not and could not ever have done any bad thing for others, this was not in her nature.  MY MOTHER IS NO MORE WITH US.

We are from the middle class family, and to get us admission in good school, she sold her only gold ornaments for donation in school.  My father was paralysed on legs and she took him every possible place for his treatment which was unfortunately invain.  My father was great even, he did govt. job, in that condition, and my mom while doing the activities of house hold, from preparing food and giving lunch boxes for dad and ourselves and for her self, as she worked as incharge in a cooperative store, later she opened her own departmenta store.  The courage my mother had was a inspiration many might have had.  Supporteded my father largely financially for the marriage of my eldest sister by working as i mentioned. and lastly the price she received from god was , SHE WAS AWARDED WITH CANCER, and she died in Aug. 24, 2005, last year.  She evern fought a lot with her disease baring the pain, I am living in Jeddah and whenever i call her, I ask KAISE HAI AMMI, she use to say, achcha hoon baba, the doctors detected the disease in 2000 and said may be only one year she can survive, but, she fought until last year.  To me she is the greated person I had ever come accross.  I used to pray to Allah , take all my pleasures and my life as well, if that is substitute for my mother's health and if she can be reliefed from the pain she was going through.

I would like to give you one last example. I came from Jeddah, to see her last time when she was in CARE hospital, i took the next available flight and came to hospital directly, where my mother was lying on bed,  with life support oxygen and everything, could not able to speak,  But, believe me what she asked me removing the mask, KHANA KHAYE KYA BETA,  only a MAA can ask this and no other can.  if i live 100 generations  I cannot match her one last sentense that she said.

In short I would like to give a message, that, I lost my Ammi, but, for heavens sake those who have this treasure with them, Please please give respect and do what ever you can first for her after 10 will come the number of others who ever that might be.  Maa is the best gift Allah had given to humanbeing.

Urooj Mohammed Khan Lodhi
Jeddah

Is she too good?

The more I look at my mother, the more i think that whoever said "Since god Cant be everywhere he created mothers" was true. All the words of allthe languages in the world fall short in describing the gift that my mother is. If i believe in god, its bcos i have seen Godly sacrfices thru my mother, Experienced divine love thru her.
her selflessness, service mindedness, love also put me to shame for i am selfish. i wonder how can she only think about others good. she is like the candle that got burnt and became nil while giving light to others. Yes my mother is the selfless homemaker. how can i ever thank her for all that she has done to us. she has been the cook, washing machine, maid etc all, for all these long years. and i hve never seen her complaining a  bit.
not only the her children, she is nurturing even her grandchildren. i sometimes wonder in this modern times, in times of individuality how can someone be so selfless, so giving? is she a fool? doesnt she have desires? doesnt she want to wear good saris, gold? even if she doesnt ask for these, she wants others to wear them. i dont understand these acts of hers. Is she too good or are we all fools?
she only has basic education, but her words are full of wisdom. she speaks peace. she may never have read mother teresa saying "Find ur own calcutta, do ur work there", but she is the one who makes our house, a home. she doesnt know what internet is, but can tell you how a family should be networked. she doesnt know how to operate the TV channels, but will guide you on how to channelise your energy. She may not have read theological dogmas, but she will pray for you.
i know for sure, all at my home will be lifless like wooden pieces if there wasnt love flowing thru us - the love that our mother shared with us. i am only sure of two things - i can never repay her and i can never thank god enough for giving a mother like my Amma.

God Bless Us
Santhosh Paulose
 
My life inspiration

My mother is my best friend and my inspiration in life. As all mothers do, my mother also took care of me, fed me, bathed me, taught me and loved me. But my mother taught me few very important things in life, which are dear to me even now. Even though my mother is from a small town, but she always had very open-minded views and well-grounded principles. She taught me the value of education, to be proud to be a woman and to always have an identity in life�-something which Indian mothers rarely teach their daughters. Along with this, she also taught me the value of having a family, giving love to others, and being a gentle and caring person.

    After my marriage into a typical orthodox Indian family, I initially faced lots of struggle trying to adjust with my in-laws notion of them being superior and hence controlling my wishes. I was totally sad and broken thinking of the helplessness of being a girl and hence trapped by our conservative culture which differentiates between girls and boys and accepts the superiority and dominance of a boy's parents. At that time, my mother was like a "big bank, where I deposited my hurts and worries." And she always tried to remind me to try to adjust with my in-laws, and at the same time not to lose my identity. This was difficult, but it carried me through that time, and now I am on my feet again.

    Now, I am balancing my studies, a job, and a baby all together--
and my parents and my husband are proud of me. I owe all this to my mother�-she has always guided me and helped me and that is why I am now where I am today. Although I am in U.S. and my mother lives in India�-but her values and confidence in me give me strength every day of my life.
 
Payal Saxena

Great mom

My mom who gave me a life to live, a life to succeed and a life to win in all walks of my life.
She is the great mom of all days. God bless her.

Muralidharan  Laxmanan

My respects

I am highly excited on finding this matter in the rediff.com wherein you can pen something about your mom. I would difinitely not like to miss this opportunity of scripting all the great things that my mom did for me.
 
Right from the time when my mom was pregnant with me and my twin sister , she was very caring. Even to the extent
that after my sister was delivered my mom had to wait for another 17 hrs before I came out of her womb.
 
I just can't forget those good old days when during my schooling she used to be so particular about our food ( knowing our tongue ) and during those summer vacations she used to sit with us and play all sorts of indoor games ( playing cards, carrom, ludo etc., ) just to make sure that her kids don't fall sick by running around in the scroching heat of Delhi.
 
I will always remember the yummies that she used to prepare for all of us ( delicacies like sambar, rasam , vadai , pal payasam etc., ).  She was also particular about inducing faith towards GOD on us by taking us along to all the religious bhajans ( she was a classical singer ). I would like to that this opportunity and inscribe the most motherhood of my mother that even when she was counting her days ( it was very very unfortunate that I lost my mom 27 days prior to my marriage ) she inserted all the invitation cards into the envelope and also applied turmaric on all the cards.
 
I pay my respect to one of the greatest of moms. I LOVE U AMMA.

BALA

Maa Kasam  Yeh Meri Mummy Hei !!!!

Mummy o mummy how I ache for you today as a wake up from a hang over from last nights Mirchi Kaan Radio Awards  . My throat is parch and dry all that alcohol , tandoori chicken and tones of ice cream that I gobbled up ,  has left me dizzy . On top of that I have a sore throat , which thanks to the booze has gotten worse . My head is spinning and I want to cry out " Mummy help" but alas you are far away from me all the way in Delhi .

My room looks like New York  after 9/11  . The fridge hasn't been cleaned for ages and who the hell did I bump into as I walked dreamy eyed to the loo to take a leak .Oh my good friend Tiwari is lying on the sofa .  He is as bad as I am when it comes to waking up in the morning.

Oh mummy how I miss the freshly squeezed orange juice along with the  cheese omelets that you use to make for me at breakfast . How I miss the early morning gyaan sessions that I would get from you " you are a big boy tinku , for god sakes stop leaving your underwear on the sofa , get a job and stick to it . Become a human being ".

But no I would never listen and look at me now , I am living in a fishing village in Khar leading a life of a common Mumbai struggler .

"But I have chosen my profession ma I am an actor , and will go to Mumbai to full fill my dreams " .  She would look at me with a taunting look " Ah but that's the problem last year you were a writer , the year before that you were a radio jockey , the year before that you were a marketing executive , you in fact  are a failed engineer with a MBA Degree , what am I do  with a son like that ,"

Well what ever you say ma I am your son and like always you will love me for ever.
Anuj Tikka

y role model

My mother divorced when i was 3yrs and with a sister of 4yrs.left father house with weared cloths left to 600kms from my birth place.she joined as warden in a school started a salary of Rs.170/-per month in 1986.she educated us in an Ashram school where they teach decipline.finally my sister finished graduation joined as receptionist at Bangalore and me working abroad.you can imagine how a lonely lady in 80's have self confident to educate us and always teches us decipline.so my mother is role model for me in all my life inspirations.

 Raveendra Kumar. 

Mamma's boy

All Mothers have institution and the great ones have radars. I believe that
my mother sensed long ago that which track will be right for me.
Right from kindergarten age, I was labeled as mamma's boy. Traveling down
the memory lane, I remember a few funny incidents, when I
used to consult my mother for almost everything. At times people used to ask
me simple questions like, Have you finished
your breakfast? and I used to reply with all my innocence "Let me ask my
Maa?". However, as time passed by, that innocence with a
hint of stupidity lost but my love for my mother has grown exponentially.
As a child, I was never deprived of any basic amenity but my mother never
showered any luxury on me. If I wanted to play in the
evening, I had to finish my homework, there was no alternative route crafted
for my convenience. There were small milestones set for me.
Those milestones were not in terms of positions secured in the class.
    Today, I realize how well crafted were my mother's plans. My mother
spent her own savings to buy dictionary for me. She recognized
my aptitude for reading and encouraged me to read good books. At the same
time, she never laid down strict rules, she believes that every grown
individual has his/her own set of rules and they are free to believe what is
right for them? This gave me my own space for which most kids aspire for
and instilled in me a sense of responsibility in me to not to let down the
confidence shown in me  . So, I just want to say that I love you Maa and
wonder
what a nice world Mothers can make if they want to.

Siddhartha Tambe

'Maa of course'

Mother is an angel, the divine manifestation of God on Earth. I, Anujaya Krishna, too have a brilliant maa,Dr.Anupma Srivastava.She is the most amazing and caring person in my life. I am grateful to God beyond limits for having endowed on me the invaluable gift of my Maa.
        My five-year old brother once asked me,"Who do you hold in greatest respect and reverence?" I immediately told him," Maa, of course. And then, God. and then you!" He said," But has created us all. So I think God should be the first one on the list!" To this I had one reply,"And where do you think God came from?" He smiled and said,"Ah,yes,His Mother!"
        I love my mother limitlessly and so does my little brother! She is an accomplished Economics lecturer in a prestigious college and heads the department. she balances her professional life and personal life astonishingly well. She is an epitome of humanity and motherly affection. She, not only is our support, but our biggest strength.Here's a poem specially for her:
The sunshine of sunflowers,
The comfort of bowers.
The warmth of sunlight,
The freedom of flight.
The strength of an anchor,
Full of love as if in a tanker.
The beauty of God,
The fluorescence of a zinc sulphide rod.
The will to go on,
Innumerable roles she dons!
We love you (tons x infinity),Maa. Happy Mother's Day!

Anujaya
Lucknow.

'The best friend god gave me'

'My mom is the coolest'

'Ma tujh salaam'