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TopicSwami Vivekananda

Topic: Swami Vivekananda

Who is Amogh Lila Das — ISKCON monk sent to the hills to ‘atone’ for insulting Vivekananda

The 43-year-old monk came under flak after a video of him criticising Swami Vivekananda and Ramakrishna Paramhansa went viral online.

ISKCON bans monk Amogh Lila Das for ‘derogatory’ comments on Swami Vivekananda, Ramakrishna

In a video clip that has gone viral on social media, Das criticised Swami Vivekananda for eating fish, stating that a 'virtuous person can never harm a living being'.

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.

Swami Vivekananda was Buddha for the West. He was more than just Hindu mystic

Known for teaching Hinduism in the West, Vivekananda was one who battled cultural inferiority.

Can’t expect world to eat greens, Vivekananda said meat was needed to make Indians mighty

In ‘Vivekananda’, Sankar writes that Vivekananda did not believe in the concept of vegetarianism for the hardworking poor of India.

‘Dismantle Hindutva’ vs ‘understand Hinduphobia’: Battle of narratives now in foreign campuses

Pro- and anti-Hindutva academics have taken their debate abroad in the last few months, with both sides organising conferences and publishing articles.

With education, India can cover its present with glory, instead of harping on glorious past

Vivekananda referred to the masses as the 'sleeping leviathan'. He felt they possessed infinite power but never got a chance to play their role in tackling national problems, writes Bindu Sikand.

India is helping poor, solving world’s problems in line with Vivekananda’s vision, says PM Modi

On 125th anniversary of a journal started by Swami Vivekananda, Modi said in a virtual address that schemes like Jan Dhan, Ayushman Bharat were inspired by the icon.

On Camera

Profit margins in lottery industry are tiny. Here’s how Future Gaming paid for its electoral bonds

Neither state govts nor companies earn large profits from lotteries. However, a look at the system shows there’s ample evidence of murky dealings and financial irregularities. 

Amid plans to lift AFSPA, Army starts training Jammu & Kashmir cops 

In an interview with Gulistan News this week, Union Home Minister Amit Shah said the government would leave law and order to J&K Police and slowly withdraw troops.

For BJP, Kejriwal is an idea whose time has come to be destroyed

The ‘idea’ Kejriwal's politics grew around was a no-holds-barred fight against corruption. That is the reason Modi govt has now tarred him and his entire party with the same paint.