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Some of the student and faculty members of the team participated in the week-long institute program of 150th birth anniversary of Vivekananda. This ended on 11th September, the day Vivekananda delivered his famous 'Chicago Address' in 1893 in the world conference of religions. There were play, movie, lecture, musical evening during Sept. 07-11.
The 9th September program had a special flavour. Director, IIT Kharagpur from administration side and Vice President of Students Gymkhana garlanded the Vivekananda idol. Then all of us walked together along a 2 KM stretch, from Gymkhana to Kalidas auditorium where there were presentation from students and keynote speech from Mr. Tarun Goswami, City Editor, The Statesman. We heard from Mr. Goswami excerpts of Vivekananda's Chicago address.
"If the Parliament of Religions has shown anything to the world, it is this: It has proved to the world that holiness, purity and charity are not the exclusive possessions of any church in the world, and that every system has produced men and women of the most exalted character. In the face of this evidence, if anybody dreams of the exclusive survival of his own religion and the destruction of the others, I pity him from the bottom of my heart, and point out to him that upon the banner of every religion will soon be written in spite of resistance: "Help and not fight,""Assimilation and not Destruction," "Harmony and Peace and not Dissension.""
In today's (11th Sept., 2013) work out session, we had Mr. Soumen Mandal, senior most Physical Training Instructor of students' Gymkhana. It was a great learning experience for us. We captured excerpts of this session in two videos available here (Link1, Link2) and also in embedded player given below.
Few pictures from the work-out:
Some of the student and faculty members of the team participated in the week-long institute program of 150th birth anniversary of Vivekananda. This ended on 11th September, the day Vivekananda delivered his famous 'Chicago Address' in 1893 in the world conference of religions. There were play, movie, lecture, musical evening during Sept. 07-11.
The 9th September program had a special flavour. Director, IIT Kharagpur from administration side and Vice President of Students Gymkhana garlanded the Vivekananda idol. Then all of us walked together along a 2 KM stretch, from Gymkhana to Kalidas auditorium where there were presentation from students and keynote speech from Mr. Tarun Goswami, City Editor, The Statesman. We heard from Mr. Goswami excerpts of Vivekananda's Chicago address.
"If the Parliament of Religions has shown anything to the world, it is this: It has proved to the world that holiness, purity and charity are not the exclusive possessions of any church in the world, and that every system has produced men and women of the most exalted character. In the face of this evidence, if anybody dreams of the exclusive survival of his own religion and the destruction of the others, I pity him from the bottom of my heart, and point out to him that upon the banner of every religion will soon be written in spite of resistance: "Help and not fight,""Assimilation and not Destruction," "Harmony and Peace and not Dissension.""In today's (11th Sept., 2013) work out session, we had Mr. Soumen Mandal, senior most Physical Training Instructor of students' Gymkhana. It was a great learning experience for us. We captured excerpts of this session in two videos available here (Link1, Link2) and also in embedded player given below.
Few pictures from the work-out:
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