2013: Dawn breaking for a new world order

"The signs of impending convulsions and chaos can now be discerned, inasmuch as the prevailing Order appeareth to be lamentably defective,"

"Soon will the present-day order be rolled up and a new one spread out in its stead."

(More than 100 years ago, Bahá'u'lláh invoked the phrase to categorize a future series of momentous changes in the political, social and religious life of the world.)

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"This light hath come, of all the lights the fairest, The brilliant brightness hath been born, far-shining,

Urged on to prompt the sun-god's shining power. Night and Morning clash not, nor yet do linger."  

(Bloomfield 30/ from Rig-Veda)

Malala Yousufzai with nurses as she is discharged from hospital. 
Source: University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust
 guardian.co.uk, Friday 4 January 2013

Kolkata India, December 30, 2012. Photo: Reuters

 "Violence against women must never be accepted, never excused, never tolerated. Every girl and woman has the right to be respected, valued and protected"-UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon

New Delhi, India, December 30, 2012. Photo ASSOCIATED PRESS

  "we also recommit ourselves to changing attitudes and ending all forms of gender-based violence, which plagues every country in the world".The American embassy released statement on 29 December 2012

Google India's home page on 31st December 2012
with a virtual candle in memory of Jyoti.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2012_Delhi_gang_rape_case
The family, through this ordeal, has maintained that education is the tool that would empower their children for better lives. 

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"Lead me from the unreal to the Real.
Lead me from darkness unto Light.
Lead me from death to Immortality."

"Asato ma sad gamaya.
Tamaso ma jyotir gamaya.
Mrtyor ma amrtam gamaya."

  (original Sanskrit version/The Upanishads/Vedanta)

Fireworks explode over Elizabeth Tower housing the Big Ben clock to celebrate the New Year in London, Jan. 1, 2013. Kirsty Wigglesworth / AP

Balinese dancers perform as they take part in a cultural parade during a New Year's Eve celebration at a main road in Denpasar, Bali, Indonesia, Dec. 31, 2012. MADE NAGI / EPA

A reveller joins festivities at a count-down event for the new year at the Summer Palace in Beijing, China, Dec. 31, 2012. Ed Jones / AFP / Getty Images

People watch fireworks along Copacabana Beach in Rio de Janeiro, Jan. 1, 2013.

ARI VERSIANI / AFP / Getty Images

A lightshow illuminates the Summer Palace during a new year during a count-down event in Beijing, China, Dec. 31, 2013. Ed Jones / AFP / Getty Images

A lightshow illuminates the Summer Palace during a new year count-down event in Beijing, China, Dec. 31, 2013. Ed Jones / AFP / Getty Images

White spheres floating in Singapore's bay, each penned by revellers with different wishes for 2013, are illuminated with colourful lights to usher in the new year, Dec. 31, 2012. ROSLAN RAHMAN / AFP / Getty Images

People release balloons to celebrate the New Year's during an annual countdown ceremony in Tokyo, Japan, Dec. 31, 2012. KAZUHIRO NOGI / AFP / Getty Images

Special lanterns for the New Year celebration at the People Square in Dalian, northeast China's Liaoning Province, Dec. 31, 2012. Lv Wenzheng / Xinhua / ZUMA PRESS

A long exposure shows the year 2013 written with sparklers in front of the New Palace in Stuttgart, Germany, Dec. 31, 2012. MARIJAN MURAT / EPA

Revellers write the number 2013 with sparklers during the Hogmanay (New Year) street party celebrations in Edinburgh, Scotland Dec. 31, 2012. David Moir / Reuters