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Swami Vivekananda in California: His Swansong

  1. Preface
  2. The Blessed Golden State
  3. The Mead Sisters
  4. Welcoming the New Century in Los Angeles
  5. Work begins in Pasadena
  6. Four weeks with the Meads: The Swami’s Californian family
  7. The World Teacher sets foot in Northern California
  8. At Turk Street, San Francisco
  9. His Many Moods
  10. Recasting Lives – Ida Ansell
  11. Recasting Lives: Tom and Edith Allan
  12. Intensely Touching Lives – Frank Rhodehamel and Some Other Blessed Ones
  13. Swami Vivekananda Arrives in Alameda (East Bay)
  14. A fortnight in the Redwoods of Northern California
  15. Last Fortnight in California

Exalted Lives

  1. An Outpouring of Pure Love : A Brief Sketch of Sri Ranchhoddas ji Maharaj

Biographical Essays on Ramakrishna Order Monks

  1. Swami Tyagishananda : Master Renunciate
  2. Swami Tapasyananda : Austerity Personified
  3. Swami Atmananda : Swamiji’s Soldier in Central India
  4. Pioneering Soldiers of Vivekanada’s Mission : Swami Shubhananda and the Making of the Varanasi Sevashrama

Writings on Sister Nivedita

  1. India’s Daughter
  2. Sister Nivedita : Her Literary Legacy
  3. Sister Nivedita among Prominent Contemporary Indians
  4. Sister Nivedita : Her Call to the Nation
  5. Elements in Sister Nivedita’s Educational Vision
  6. Sister Nivedita’s Project of ‘Nationality’
  7. Sister Nivedita’s Championing of Indian Art
  8. The Scientist and the Nun – How Nivedita was a pillar of support in JC Bose’s work
  9. The Role of Vivekananda and Nivedita in IISc’s Making

New Series on Sister Nivedita (Continued)

  1. Have even the admirers of Vivekananda understood Sister Nivedita?
  2. In the Orbit around a Great Star
  3. Arrival in India: Training and Orientation
  4. Nivedita’s Work Begins (1898 to 1900)
  5. At the turn of the century: Nivedita In the West again
  6. The Master departs: Nivedita becomes India’s Daughter
  7. Nivedita during the Nationalist Movement at the time of the Partition of Bengal (1905-07)
  8. India-Intoxicated
  9. Flood and Famine in East Bengal of 1906: The Herculean but forgotten efforts of Ashwini Kumar Dutta
  10. Sister Nivedita – With Important Contemporaries
  11. Sister Nivedita’s Literary Legacy (Part 1)
  12. Sister Nivedita’s Literary Legacy (Part 2): Her Magnum Opus (The Master as I Saw Him)

The Couple Extraordinary of Almora – Boshi Sen and Gertrude Emerson

  1. Preface
  2. Boshi Sen of Bishnupur and Bosepara
  3. Gertrude Emerson : Vita Incredibili
  4. Science in the Hills, for the Entire Country
  5. Among the Greats of the Country and the World
  6. In the Evening of Their Lives

Writings on Narmadakhand

  1. Narmada: The Giver of Joy
  2. The Narmada Parikrama Tradition
  3. The Eastern Narmadakhand : From Amarkantak to Bhedaghat
  4. Between Bhedaghat to Narmadapuram
  5. Between Narmadapuram and Omkareshwar 
  6. Omkareshwar: The Crest-Jewel of Narmadakhand
  7. Between Omkareshwar to Maheshwar and the Story of Ahilyabai Holkar
  8. Between Maheshwar and Mandu (Malwa’s Marvel)
  9. In the Bhil country – Alirajpur, Barwani, Shoolpani Jhadi and the story of Baleshwar Dayal
  10. Entering Gujarat – Chhota Udaipur, Statue of Unity, Garudeshwar, Karnali-Chandod and the story of Sri Tembe Swami and Sri Dongre ji Maharaj 
  11. Towards the Sea
  12. Amritlal Vegad – Soaking in Narmada’s Sublimity

Writings on Culture and Society

Biographical

  1. Aurobindo Ghose: 14 Years in England
  2. Thirteen Years In Baroda: Sri Aurobindo’s Discovery of India
  3. Bhupendranath Datta: Patriot, Revolutionary, and Scholar
  4. Dilipkumar Roy and Romain Rolland: Meeting of two great minds
  5. Harindranath Chattopadhyay – A life lived to the fullest 
  6. This one is for you Ludwig: Wittgenstein’s brilliant and tormented mind
  7. Kailashnath Katju: Lawyer and Nationalist
  8. Forgotten Titan of Madhya Pradesh: Dwarka Prasad Mishra
  9. Ruma Guha Thakurta: The first lady of Indian Choir Music
  10. Satyajit Ray in Madhya Pradesh – Chhattisgarh
  11. Honouring an Extraordinary Philanthropist (80th Birthday Tribute to Ramesh Kacholia)

Social and Cultural

  1. Calcutta Theatre and Me
  2. Bhopal: From Dost Mohammad Khan to the Pataudis
  3. The Chittagong Tale: Flashes from Bengal’s Revolutionary Past
  4. Somewhere under the canopy of the Central Indian Forests: A brief sketch of the Baigas tribe

Plays

  1. Paris House Rahasya (Bengali)
  2. Paris House Rahasya (Hindi)
  3. नील युग का साक्षी

Short Stories

  1. The Bear-Bite
  2. The Parting Gift – A Tale from the 74 Bungalows, Bhopal