New Delhi [India], December 16 (ANI/PRNewswire): HarperCollins & Harvard University Press today announced a new collaboration - The Lecture. A series of talks by writers and thinkers from around the world brought to Indian audiences. The inaugural lecture by Professor Ruth Harris - Vivekananda, Guru to the World - will be based on the definitive biography of Vivekananda, the Indian monk who shaped the intellectual and spiritual history of both East and West. Prof Ruth Harris is Senior Research Fellow at All Soul's College, University of Oxford; Fellow of the British Academy; and Professor of European History at the University of Oxford. In her book published by Harvard University Press, Prof Ruth Harris offers an arresting biography, showing how Vivekananda's thought spawned a global anticolonial movement and became a touchstone of Hindu nationalist politics a century after his death. The iconic monk emerges as a counterargument to Orientalist critiques, which interpret Eas