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Swami Vivekananda

Religion is One

“ The world is in the chains of superstition,” said Swami Vivekananda in 1896. He had also said then, “Religions of the world have become lifeless mockeries.”

Monk and revolutionary

Bengal has long been a land of dualities, a unique soil that nurtured the spiritual fire of Swami Vivekananda and, decades later, became a stronghold for the revolutionary zeal of Karl Marx. For much of the 20th century, the intellectual history of this region oscillated between these two poles: the ochre robe and the red flag.