The Gift of a Magi

By birth she is an English national, who had married a Bengali gentleman and since then her love for India , especially Bengal has been profound. Her name is Mrs. Eileen Chakravarty hailing from the United Kingdom who had resided in India for forty years in the past. Mrs. Chakravorty had a ling desire of revisiting India since her association with Bishop Probal Kanto Dutta when the Bishop was the pastor of Sudder Street Church in Calcutta and she was its parish member. Later she had heard, from the Bishop , a lot about the Diocese of Durgapur, its various ministries and specially the ministry towards the slum children which is being taken care by the Diocesan Women’s fellowship for Christian Service and was overwhelmed by it. Her longing desire came to reality when she visited the Diocese in December 2008 when the Projects under the Women’s Fellowship were holding their Annual Sports. So much was she overcome with compassion and love for the children the care is being extended towards them that she sold off her most prized possession in her life- the jewelries that were given by her mother in law after her marriage and donated the money for the ministry towards the deprived children. It is hard to believe that, in this fast changing and selfish universe where everyone is thirsty for each other’s blood, persons like Mrs. Eileen Chakravorty still exist who care for the needy and can sacrifice their most prized possession for that cause. Truly she is like the magi who had visited Jesus on His birth and gifted him with Gold, Frankincense and Myrrh and then Diocese of Durgapur is glad to have her as its friend well wisher.