Swami Vivekananda: The Charm of His Personality and Message

On the occasion of Swami Vivekananda's 150th Birth Anniversary, the Vedanta Kesari, the cultural and spiritual monthly magazine of the Ramakrishna Order, issued a special edition commemorating the event. This special edition is now available as a book, making it available to a much wider audience. The volume contains inspiring and learned articles by people from various walks of life, religious and lay, presenting Swami Vivekananda as a great saint, thinker, scholar, educationist, organizer, nationalist, traveler, writer, poet, musician, cultural ambassador of India, etc.

The articles include many vignettes from Swamiji's life and excerpts from his writings, as well as the writers' perceptions on how and why Swami Vivekananda proved so inspirational to millions around the world.