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150th year celebrations of Swami Vivekananda
Mayor of Chennai Corporation Sri Saidai Duraiswamy lit the lamp and inaugurated the yatra marking the 150th year Celebrations of Swami Vivekananda organized in SKNS PMC Vivekananda Vidyalaya, Perambur. He also unveiled the logo of Swamiji. Alumni, parents and students of Montford School, Chennai Girls Higher Secondary School and Chennai […]
Swami Vivekanand Sardhshatti Samaroh Samiti – Delhi 12-1-2013 Press Hand Out The year long celebrations to commemorate 150th birth anniversary of Swami Vivekanand were inaugurated today by a massive ‘Shobha Yatra’ (Celebratory March) in which more than 15,000 persons belonging to various walls of life participated. The march started from […]
150th Birth Anniversary of Swami Vivekananda — who showed the world the legendary culture and Hindu Dharma, is being celebrated all over the country starting from January 12, 2013. Sri Ramagopalan, Hindu Munnani ‘Desiya Chinthanai Kazhagam’ in its contribution to the great celebrations, has launched a website www.vivekanandam150.com. This […]
A get-together of VES (Vivekananda Educational Society) family was held on 8th January 2013 in Chennai to commemorate their 40 years of establishment. Sri N.Gopalaswami, Former Chief Election Commissioner and President, VES presided over the function. Sri S.Gurumurthy, Columnist and Vice President, VES in his address highlighted and compared the […]
He gave us back our dignity Prema Nandakumar SOURCE OF INSPIRATION: Swami Vivekananda faced innumerable difficulties and disappointments in moves towards women’s empowerment and caste equality, but he won in the end. Does one write deliberately as a woman or man when taking up pen and paper? I do not […]
Queerly, the 135 year old English Newspaper of Chennai, ‘The Hindu’, chose to celebrate the 150th of Jayanthi of Swami Vivekananda in a highly objectionable manner, for which it finds itself at the receiving end of massive public protest. ‘The Hindu’ daily published an article ‘Taking the aggression out of […]
Wake up Bharat and enlighten the world! In the last two centuries, no individual has captured the hearts of the youth of Bharat the way Swami Vivekananda did. He blew energy into Bharat which was indulging in self-loathe. He exhorted people with his words: “This is the ancient land where […]
Chicago, January 1: Chicago has decided to celebrate Swami Vivekananda’s 150th birth anniversary on a grand scale. Chicago was the place where Swamiji got international recognition for himself, for India’s Vedanta and Vedic spirituality and for Hinduism with his maiden powerful “Sisters and Brothers of America” speech at the World’s Parliament […]