Guest guest Posted December 24, 2005 Report Share Posted December 24, 2005 The following is an excerpt from Op-Ed page of Indian Express on 24 Dec 2005, by Victor Banerjee. ......It is quite a different matter that Sri Sri Ramkrishna for most of his life had just one staunch drunk playwright and actor as his true devotee and it was only after his great disciple, Swami Vivekananda's trip to America and the twist our creative marketing geniuses gave to his famous speech in Chicago, that two more heroes entered our lives. That Vivekananda's trip to the US was funded by a Tamil prince and that he sat on the rock off Kanya Kumari contemplating a Vedantic future for his own people in Bengal, is something we glorify and grapple with every day in our personal lives.... Wrong on at least three counts. 1. Sri Ramakrishna had more than one devotee in his lifetime. 2. Swami Vivekanada's Chicago speech was made famous by the US press of the day and not by " our creative marketing geniuses " . 3. Swami Vivekanada's trip to the US was funded by Maharaja of Khetri from Rajasthan and not a Tamil prince. The whole article can be found at the following link, though I doubt whether it will work by clicking here. http://www.samachar.com/showurl.htm? rurl=http://www.indianexpress.com/full_story.php? content_id=84560 & headline=I~have~my~heroes,~therefore~I'm~Bengali Partha Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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