
Vivekananda literature continues to grow and thrive even as
one gets the sense that the man himself is being read less and less. Swami
Vivekananda has become one of the enduring icons in the national imagination
and, like Gandhi and Ambedkar, is in acute danger of being confined to
bookshelves, public functions and rituals of empty adulation. With Vivekananda,
the danger is greater, not only because the historical distance is vaster but
also because, unlike other figures in our national pan