Today is the 151st birthday of Sister Nivedita who dedicated her life for India. Actually, she was an Irish lady named Margaret Noble. Swami Vivekananda asked her to go to Kolkata for the progress of Indian women. She was a teacher of a renowned school of London. And was raising funds for the education of poor people of India. At that time, Swamiji told her to leave London for India. Then she was just 31 year's old lady. We don't exactly know how much money she had at the time of boarding on Mombasa ship in London, but can anticipate that, Miss Henrietta Muller was the contributer of money who contributed money to Swamiji to purchase land for establishment of Belur Math. But Swamiji was not agreed with the special dependence of Margaret on Muller. Swamiji wrote to Margaret from Almora in a letter on 29th July, 1898 t...
The City of Joy 'KOLKATA' one of the oldest city of India. Its lifestyle, festivals, flavours, characteristics and colours are depicting in my blog. You can grab the hue of a heritage city in this blog ASIM BANDO'S KOLKATA BLOG