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Statue of Vivekananda at the Ramakrishna Mission Swami Vivekananda's Ancestral House and Cultural Centre. Vivekananda was born as Narendranath Datta (name shortened to Narendra or Naren) [18] in a Bengali Kayastha family [19] [20] in his ancestral home at 3 Gourmohan Mukherjee Street in Calcutta, [21] the capital of British India, on 12 January 1863 during the Makar Sankranti festival. [22]
From 1891 Ajit Singh started sending a monthly stipend of ₹ 100 to Vivekananda'a family. On 1 December 1898 Vivekananda wrote to Ajit Singh from Belur requesting him to make the donation permanent so that even after Vivekananda's death his mother Bhuvaneswari Devi would get the financial assistance on a regular basis. [20] From 1891 Ajit ...
In 1895, she began attending classes in New York City that were being taught by the Hindu monk and philosopher Swami Vivekananda. [6] [7] During this time, she began dating Francis Howard Leggett, a wealthy New York wholesale grocer from a family with colonial New York roots, and he began attending the classes with her.
Ram Chandra Datta was a relative of Swami Vivekananda and persuaded him to go to Dakshineswar and meet Ramakrishna. Ram Chandra was the nephew of Bhuvaneswari Devi, mother of Narendranath Datta. He was twelve years older than Narendranath, but, Bhuvaneswari used to consider him as her another son.
Vishwanath was born to an aristocratic Hindu family of North Calcutta. His father Durgaprasad ... who later became famous as Swami Vivekananda, was born in 1863. [5]
Ramakrishna Mission Swami Vivekananda's Ancestral House and Cultural Centre is a museum and cultural centre. It is located at 105 Vivekananda Road, Kolkata, India. [1] In this house, Swami Vivekananda (then called Narendranath Datta) was born on 12 January 1863. [2] The house remained Vivekananda's home throughout his childhood and early youth.
Bengali Swami Vivekananda has been the primary topic of many films, dramas ad folk-plays. Bengali film director Amar Mullick made two different movies: Swamiji (1949) and its adaptation in Hindi, Swami Vivekananda (1955). The film Swami Vivekananda (1955) is considered a "faithful and memorable documentation feature" on Vivekananda. [49]
The family was devoted to the Hindu deity Rama, ... The Ramakrishna Math and Mission is the main organisation founded by Swami Vivekananda in 1897. The Mission ...