Swami Vivekananda in Contemporary Indian News Vol. 1

When Swami Vivekananda left Bombay by steamer to attend the Parliament of Religions in Chicago, there were hardly a half a dozen people to see him off. But when he returned home three and a half years later, thousands of people received him wherever he went. What made the difference? It was the ideas he preached. To preserve first-hand reports of these events for future generations, Sankari Prasad Basu painstakingly searched through old newspapers and journals of the time and collected huge amounts of materials. Both Indian and Anglo-Indian dailies, as well as Christian, Brahmo, Theosophist, Buddhist and Social Reform journals have been covered.