The Hindu Book Review - Photographs of Swami Vivekananda

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Date:10/12/2002 URL:

http://www.thehindu.com/br/2002/12/10/stories/2002121000020300.htm

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Pictorial history

 

PHOTOGRAPHS OF SWAMI VIVEKANANDA (1886-1901): Compiled and researched

by the Vedanta Society of North California; published by the

president, Sri Ramakrishna Math, Mylapore, Chennai-600004. Rs. 200.

 

 

THIS BOOK of photographs recaptures Swami Vivekananda in all his

myriad moods and moments, the funny, the humorous, the sober, the

serious, the paternal, the friendly and the spiritual. Beautifully

produced on art paper, the 106 photographs present a hitherto-unseen

pictorial history of a period in world history which might have

vanished had it not been for the painstaking research and

organisation of his followers and admirers all over the U.S.

 

Each photo is accompanied by careful and exhaustive notes, which

afford a glimpse into the background of the scene.

 

In every way it is a great buy for many devotees and for the

followers of the Swamiji, it is a work of art to be owned and

cherished, to historians and preservers of our heritage it is a

valuable addition to their libraries, and to collectors of objects de

art, it is a coffee table book with a difference — it may herald the

start of a great new dialogue.

 

PREMA RAGHUNATH

 

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