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#114, VIVEKANANDA'S INFLUENCE ON FREEDOM MOVEMENT

BLOGGER'S VIEW Today, I fell on a gold-mine. Here is the link. http://www.andamancellularjail.org/B1.htm This website of Cellular Jail of Andamans has the photographs of our freedom fighters incarcerated at Port Blair, where they languished for several years, anyway more than ten years. (Mahatma Gandhi and top Congress leaders were exceptions. Their relations with the British were at a very high level. Hence they were never incarcerated at Andamans which was real punishment.) There is a general impression that Swami Vivekananda influenced all our revolutionaries, particularly those who chose use of force (I do not call these terrorists as Govt. of India called them at some places). Right now, I do not deny this, but I have my own doubts. REQUEST TO MY READERS I request my readers to check up from the biodata of the freedom fighters (prisoners at Andaman) whether they got their due credit. Are they revered at least in their District or State? Readers may have to do plenty of

#113 I am busy in Himalayas directing the famine work in districts

Swami Vivekananda, wrote from Almora, to Ms. Joe Joe (Josephine Macleod) on July 10, 1897: "... I have taken to the Himalayas, tired of lecturing and orating. I am so sorry the doctors would not allow my going over with the Raja of Khetri to England , and that has made Sturdy mad. The Seviers are at Simla and Miss Müller here in Almora. The plague has subsided, but the famine is still here, and as it looks (on account of no rain as yet), it may wear yet a terrible aspect. I am very busy from here directing work by my boys in some of the famine districts. ... " BLOGGER'S VIEW Swamiji is sorry because he could not go to England with the ruler of Khetri for attending the Victoria Jubilee Function (Jubilee of Queen Victoria's Coronation). Vivekananda was said to be a great patriot. But he was craving to accompany a servile ruler who was visiting England to fall at the feet of the Queen, at a time when the country was reeling under Plague and famine which he h

#001E REPLIES TO COMMENTS of N. Vineeth

Shri nvineeth said... stop spamming, I really don't care what you think about my master , nor will the link you post in my blog improve the page rank of your blog and increase the ad revenue. December 1, 2007 12:47 AM REPLY Well, friend: My mission is to provide you information. If I provide you the information free by visiting your blog spending sometime and reading what you write about Vivekananda, I do not consider it as a spam. Whenever somebody comes to our homes and offer to sell something we treat him virtually as a beggar. But when we go to Malls and High Market Show Rooms, we feel elated and buy inferior goods at FIXED PRICE offered with 90% discount. You can freely delete my link at your will. Nevertheless, I thank you very much for bearing with my visit to your blog. If you do not use the benefit extended to you free of cost, I lose nothing. In the words of your master Swami Vivekananda: [(Vivekananda wrote to Swami Shivananda from Almora, on July 9, 1897,