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Chief Ministers on a spending spree in the name of 150th birthday of Vivekananda

1. Narendra Modi, the Chief Minister of Gujarat, will not lag behind, in spending in the name of the 150th Birth Anniversary. He will not, of course, bother to verify the truths about Vivekananda or read his Complete Works. 2. How can, Mamata Banerjee, the Chief Minister of West Bengal, lag behind? She has inaugurated a bronze statue of Swami Vivekananda at Dakshineswar. She is organising and leading a rally to his birth place. She is also going to organise a World Conference, spending millions. Paschim Banga people will pay. 3. N. Kirankumar Reddy will not hesitate to spend millions on the Youth Day and 150th Birth Day Celebrations as long as the word 'KIRANALU' is used everywhere. 4. Sadananda Gowda, the Chief Minister of Karnataka, has kicked off, at Mangalore, a Youth Festival. Veerappa Moily and Ajay Maken will be present. 5. Arjun Munda, BJP Chief Minister of Jhar Khand, how can he sleep, when the entire Nation is gaga! He is organising a big bash. 6. Shivraj Chauh...

2012 Jan 12 will not be different

YBREMS: We have two solstices every year, June 21 and Dec. 21. We have, in the same way, two Vivekananda Platitude Flattering Days-- Jan. 12 and July 4. Jan. 12 is his birthday. July 4 is his death anniversary. Every country has this type of solstices. United States may have the Birthday of George Washington, Death Anniversary of George Washington, Birthday of Abraham Lincoln, and Death Anniversary of Abraham Lincoln. Jan. 12 is also celebrated as Indian Youth Day which was started in 1984 by the Government of India because somebody in the powers that be suddenly had developed a fad for Swami Vivekananda. What, Indian youth have, actually in common with Vivekananda? Indian youth in its today's devotion to clubs, pubs, bikes and cars, liquor do not much to share with Vivekananda though Vivekananda spoke and taught to American Aristocratic top-rich women even when they were drunk and didn't mind to stay at casino-like places as guest. Somehow American and European males, pa...