#052, Get hold of all the big bugs
"I WANT A RESOLUTION THAT HINDU COMMUNITY SENT ME!" On 9th April 1894, Swamy Vivekananda writes from New York to Alasinga: "... Try to make this meeting as big as possible. Get hold of all the big bugs who must join it for their religion and country. Try to get a letter from the Mysore Maharaja and the Dewan approving the meeting and its purpose — so of Khetri — in fact, as big and noisy a crowd as you can. The resolution would be of such a nature that the Hindu community of Madras, who sent me over, expressing its entire satisfaction in my work here etc. ... " BLOGGER'S VIEWS *Wants big bugs! *Wants letter from Maharaja! *Wants noisy crowds! *On Sept. 1895 he wrote to Alasinga: "I belong as much to India s to the world"