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Sunday, March 15, 2026
TopicRuth Harris

Topic: Ruth Harris

Human side of a global guru: Lecture focuses on Vivekananda’s anti-colonial enterprise

Author Ruth Harris says her aim was ‘not to reinforce the narrative of Vivekananda as the 1st global guru in the West’ but to ‘part from vision of him as Hindu revivalist’.

Vivekananda rejected image worship and the guru cults of contemporary Indian spirituality

In Guru to the World: The Life and Legacy of Vivekananda, Ruth Harris shows how Swami Vivekananda’s thought became a touchstone of Hindu nationalist politics.

New lecture series to discuss life and legacy of ‘iconic’ monk Swami Vivekananda

‘The Lecture’ will host its inaugural session on Ruth Harris’ Guru to the World: The Life & Legacy of Vivekananda on 27 January, at the Indian Habitat Centre.

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Gulf conflict pushes Dubai diamond traders to eye Surat for rough stone auctions. But there are hurdles

Industry leaders say India’s complicated customs process and GST levies are deterrents for traders to come to Surat for auctions.

Supreme Leader Mojtaba, the man Iran must keep alive & the secret force ‘tasked with it’—all about NOPO

The Nirouyeh Vijeh Pasdaran Velayat, or NOPO, was the only force Ali Khamenei trusted.It was founded in 1991 and is more feared than the Revolutionary Guards.

Peaceful power transfers followed uprisings in India’s neighbourhood. It’s a sign of mature democracies

Rating democracies is a tricky business. I am only using the simple metric of who in the Indian subcontinent has had the most peaceful, stable, normal political transitions and continuity.