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Huh this is interesting. I had no idea their paths had crossed 🤔
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Fascinating story of a meeting between Swami Vivekananda and Jamsetji Tata, onboard a ship heading from Japan to Canada (and U.S.) in 1893, and their future interactions - leading to among other things, the birth of @iiscbangalore thebetterindia.com/127599/swami-v via @thebetterindia
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I memorized Vivekananda’s 1893 world parliament of religions speech for my 5th grade elocution test. And one of my first pieces of non-school writing was a one-page essay about a trip to Vivekananda Rock at Kanyakumari that pleased my grandfather so much he had copies typed up.
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Takes me back. The Ramakrishna mission/Vivekananda Society was quite active in Jamshedpur when I was growing up. I wonder if that can be traced to this encounter.
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