#43, it is to Amerique — there where the heart is
In May 1896 Swami Vivekananda wrote to Ms. Alberta Sturges (age 19) that he liked Amerique - the yankee land. He called India a jelly fish. " ... I have had two classes already — they will go on for four or five months and after that to India I go. But it is to Amerique — there where the heart is. I love the Yankee land. I like to see new things. I do not care a fig to loaf about old ruins and mope a life out about old histories and keep sighing about the ancients. I have too much vigour in my blood for that. In America is the place, the people, the opportunity for everything. I have become horribly radical. I am just going to India to see what I can do in that awful mass of conservative jelly-fish, ... " BLOGGER'S VIEWS Let Swamiji love the yankee land as much as he likes. Why call India a jelly fish? *Ms. Indra Nooyi, C.E.O. of Pepsico is reported to have said: “Where I am has a lot to do with the United States. I think the United States represents the greatest ...