NEW YORK (AP) – Yoko Ono is calling for the anniversary of the death of her husband, John Lennon, to become a day of worldwide healing.

In a full-page advertisement appearing in Sunday editions of The New York Times, Ono urges readers to mark the anniversary by apologizing to those who have suffered because of violence and war.

“Every year, let’s make December 8th the day to ask for forgiveness from those who suffered the insufferable,” writes the former Beatle’s widow, who signs the letter Yoko Ono Lennon.

Ono urges readers to take responsibility for failing to intervene on behalf of victims around the world.

“Know that the physical and mental abuse you have endured will have a lingering effect on our society,” she writes in a portion of the letter directed to victims. “Know that the burden is ours.”

Ono was with Lennon when he was gunned down as he returned home from a recording studio on Dec. 8, 1980. The shooter, Mark David Chapman, remains in New York’s Attica state prison. His fourth request for parole was denied last month.

Of her own loss, Ono says: “I don’t know if I am ready yet to forgive the one who pulled the trigger. … But healing is what is urgently needed now in the world.”

“Let’s wish strongly that one day we will be able to say that we healed ourselves, and by healing ourselves, we healed the world.”

NEW DELHI (AP) – Star Entertainment India television channel is reviving the most popular show in Indian history with top Bollywood actor Shahrukh Khan as its new host, a news report said Sunday.

“Kaun Banega Crorepati” – based on “Who Wants to be a Millionaire” – was scrapped in January following its famous host Amitabh Bachchan’s illness. The program drew millions of viewers.

The channel will start shooting the program next month and expects it to go on air by the end of January, the Press Trust of India news agency quoted Samir Nair, chief executive officer of Star Entertainment India, as saying.

Khan is one of the biggest Bollywood heartthrobs of the past decade and one of the highest paid actors in the Indian movie industry. Khan said he was pleasantly surprised when the STAR network offered him the show.

“It is a huge act to follow, that of Bachchan … But it also excites me that I am getting an opportunity to reach out (and) talk and interact with my audience through a medium where I began my career as an actor years ago,” he said in a statement.

Bachchan had spent nearly three weeks in a hospital in Mumbai, India’s financial and entertainment capital, in December after having surgery for an intestinal ailment. He resumed work in Bollywood movies but didn’t resume the television program.