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Ramakrishna Mission

New co-ed school run by the RKM opened

The primary section of the first ever co-education school for general students, run by the Ramakrishna Mission in West Bengal was inaugurated by Swami Suvirananandaji Maharaj, general secretary of Ramakrishna Math and Mission on Sunday.

Swamiji’s relevance

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