Swami Vivekananda (1863-1902) was born on 12 January 1863, 163 years ago. He left at the age of 39, on 4 July 1902. By then he had spread spiritual fire in Chicago, America, at the World’s Parliament of Religions, on 11 September 1893.
Trade, artificial intelligence, and the role of diaspora media are among the key issues for the bilateral relationship between the two largest democracies of the world, as eminent community members, business leaders and diplomats observed as they examined the future trajectory of India-US relations in this windy city on Sunday.
Moments of crisis and transformation have often brought forth voices of profound wisdom that guide humanity toward unity, tolerance, and peace.
Today is September 11. This day evokes two contrasting remembrances. The first dates back to 1893, when Swami Vivekananda delivered his iconic Chicago address.
COOK The United States is one of the top three most visited countries in the world. The big draw cards – cities such as San Francisco, New York and Chicago and national parks such as Yosemite – have attracted international tourists for decades.
“Evening calm sets the stage for new dreams,” the Chief Minister said in a post on ‘X’ along with a short video of his cycle ride, probably mesmerized by the cool evening sea breeze. While riding the high-end model cycle, he was also humming a number from an old Tamil film.
According to organizers who spoke with The Hill on Sunday, each celebrity will host one night of the four-day convention in Chicago and help guide viewers through the programs both in the event hall and on television.
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.”
A student from Hyderabad was injured when four armed robbers attacked him in Chicago, as per his family here.
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
