During all those years Nivedita had always been aware of a heavy responsibility upon her shoulders - to leave for posterity what she had received from her Master. She also had a strong feeling that …
Sister Nivedita’s Literary Legacy (Part 1)
“I have attained Samadhi in grammar, whatever I write becomes the language”, wrote Nivedita once to a friend. She was a prolific author. As narrated earlier in this series,, Nivedita had honed her …
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Preface
Due to the generosity of a few friends I had the occasion to visit California, in 2015 and 2019. Apart from a few work related fixtures (vapid though I found them but which were, nevertheless, …
Sister Nivedita – With Important Contemporaries
Sister Nivedita and Sister Christine's house located at 16 (and 17) Bosepara Lane in Bagh Bazaar had become a rendezvous of sorts for many eminent Calcuttans of the day. Here we take a brief look at …
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Have even the admirers of Vivekananda understood Sister Nivedita?
There is a considerable ambivalence about not just the contributions made by Sister Nivedita but even whether she was true to what her discipleship after being chosen and initiated by Swami …
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Amritlal Vegad – Soaking in Narmada’s Sublimity
In 2018 a man passed away in Jabalpur. Though reasonably well-known in refined literary circles of Hindi and Gujarati readers, he has been unknown to a large majority of people even in these regions, …
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