From Colombo To Almora : Being A Record of Swami Vivekananda's Return to India After His Mission To The West, Including Reports of Seventeen Lectures

About The Book : Lectures from Colombo to Almora is a book of Swami Vivekananda based on the lectures he delivered in Sri Lanka and India after his return from the West. Vivekananda reached Colombo, British Ceylon on 15 January 1897. After delivering lectures in Colombo and Jaffna, Vivekananda arrived at Pamban in South India. In the brief account of journeys given below, no complete description of this characteristic feature has been attempted, nor of the picturesque oriental displays which everywhere greeted the Teacher. In fact the descriptive portion has been made to serve the purpose alone of presenting each lécture in the circumstances in which it was delivered. About The Author : Swami Vivekananda (1863-1902), born Narendranath Datta, was an Indian Hindu monk, philosopher, author, religious teacher, and the chief disciple of the Indian mystic Ramakrishna. In 1871, at the age of eight, Narendranath enrolled at Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar's Metropolitan Institution, where he went to school until his family moved to Raipur in 1877. In 1879, after his family's return to Calcutta, he was the only student to receive first-division marks in the Presidency College entrance examination.