Quite like how Swami Vivekananda enthralled the audience so many years ago in Chicago, chief minister Mamata Banerjee moved a packed Biswa Bangla Convention Centre on Wednesday, saying: "My sisters and brothers from the industry and the world of entrepreneurship, come and help us grow and transform the state further."
Swami Vivekananda - The Socialist, which was banned by the British government has been reprinted almost after a century.
Swami Vivekananda, one of India's most revered spiritual figures, is widely known for his transformative impact on modern Hindu thought and global spirituality.
Haryana Chief Minister Nayab Singh Saini on Sunday dedicated the 163rd birth anniversary of Swami Vivekananda to the youth of the state and announced several initiatives for their upliftment.
Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) Commissioner Ashwani Kumar, onSunday, paid homage to spiritual leader Swami Vivekananda on his birthanniversary and said he symbolises the spirit of youth.
Fifteen students were given scholarships at a function organized by the Barasat Gate Cultural Association, a well-known organization involved in social service in Hooghly recently.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi is slated to meet a select few monks from different religious organizations at Sarada Maa's house in Bagbazar on 28 May. After holding a public meeting in Baruipur, the Prime Minister will go to Bagbazar as per the schedule.
Vivekananda once wrote: “Religion is a question of fact, not of talk. We have to analyse our own souls and find what is there. We have to understand it and realize what is understood. That is religion.”
The PM-Suraj portal was virtually launched by Prime Minister Narendra Modi today at Gana Bhavan in Uttarpara.
The 19th century Bengal Renaissance had been the force behind the influx of Western rationality and thought in India. Fed up with the superstition accumulated over the ages, educated Indians decided to do away completely with religion. It is now fashionable to speak of secular education where the word secular is interpreted to mean devoid of any particular religious beliefs whatsoever. But this apparently neutral stand has often sucked out the life-giving components from culture and education. In the attempt to remove the weeds from a plant, the very plant has been cut down, as it were
