Vinayak Lohani, the Founder of Parivaar
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Tom Allan, a Scotsman, was a marine engineer, and worked as draughtsman in the Risden Iron and Locomotive Works in San Francisco. His wife Edith Allan was very ill when Swamiji first came to Oakland …
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It was in Bay Area that Swami Vivekananda came in touch with a few such persons whose life would then be spent in the glow and grace they received through the time spent with him. Among them were Ida …
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Through Mrs Hansborough’s memoirs we come to know of a range of moods that Swamiji had. Swamiji could be a strict disciplinarian and did not like work done in a careless manner. Mrs Hansborough …
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A month at a rented apartment in San Francisco Swamiji did not seem to be very comfortable and free at the ‘Home of Truth’ at the Pine Street on account of its high occupancy which obviously was …
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Swami Vivekananda set foot for the first time in the Bay Area of Northern California on 22nd Feb 1900, alighting from a Southern Pacific train at Oakland mole. Alice Hansborough, who, as planned in …
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While he was still at Mrs Blodgett's home, Alice Hansborough had once suggested that he come and stay with them. The Meads were a family of modest means and lived in a rented house in South Pasadena …
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