Dwarkanath and Vivekananda’s Bengal and how to revive it
Dwarkanath and Vivekananda’s Bengal and how to revive it
Before spirituality and high culture, there was enterprise. This has been forgotten. It must be remembered.
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Dwarkanath Tagore and Swami Vivekananda (Photo credit: Live History India and India Today)
By the time Swami Vivekananda was a teenager (he was born in 1863), the industrial revolution that Dwarkanath Tagore and his ilk had dreamt of on the shores of the Hooghly had stuttered, and Bengal was already losing its place as the home of business in the Indian subcontinent to Bombay.