#258 If 30 vivEkAnandas are produced every year
Today, is the birth anniversary of swAmi vivEkAnanda. Every newspaper from India, carried one article on their Editorial pages, a eulogical biographies of swAmi vivEkananda, mostly cut-copy-and-paste affairs of last year's stories. Entire next fortnight, media will be full of rallies and celebration stories of the event, conducted often from Government grants. Ok,let go. The trigger for me to write something here, is not the above celebrations, but it is one wish, said to have been expressed by a Senior Police Officer transferred from Hyderabad to Mumbai. He was reported to have said that, after his retirement from his service, he would start a school and present 30 vivEkAnandas every year to the Nation. ybrao a donkey's personal view: Gujarat Chief Minister and projected propspective Prime Minister of India will probably be happy. He can present on his speech platforms, human vivEkAnandas produced by schools, instead of some flexi-boards of swAmi vivEkAnanda printed