![]() Interestingly, Vivekananda wasn’t vegetarian and consumed fish and mutton. In this book, Sankar, after going through almost 200 books on Vivekananda and a number of letters by him, brings out the monk's passion for food. Later it was translated to English by Penguin India and released as ‘The Monk as Man’. Eminent Bengali novelist, Sankar, penned down a book in 2003 titled ‘Achena Ajana Vivekananda’. ![]() However, what many people don’t know is Vivekananda’s love for food and cooking, and his passion for tea. Today, the world is remembering Swami Vivekananda and his teachings on his death anniversary. ![]() Not just a Swami, but a lover of food too! While there is no denying the fact that we cannot give credit to popularizing the glory of Indian culture in the west to a lone Swami, but he was among the first indeed and hence commands all the respect that he deserves. Had that session at the World Parliament of Religion in Chicago in 1893 not happened, the presence of Indian yogic practices and culture on the world map and the respect they garner in the West today would have been difficult to imagine. The contribution of Swami Vivekananda in catapulting the Indian culture on the world panorama is priceless.
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