Vivekananda, young at 150

Sisters and brothers of America’. These five words that issued from the lip of the young Hindu monk Swami Vivekananda set the 6,000 strong audience of academics, intellectuals and spiritualists on fire at Chicago on September 11, 1893 at the first World Parliament of Religions. Rev John Henry Burrows, Pastor of the First Presbyterian Church of Chicago and a chief organiser of the parliament, recorded that the audience went into rapture with ‘a peal of applause that lasted for several minutes’. After silence was restored, he delivered his historic address...

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