The saga of a journal

KOLKATA, India: This journal enters its 114th year this month. Its subscriber base spans 125 countries. Its editorial office is in the sylvan surroundings of Mayavati in Uttarakhand at 6,400 feet. Prabuddha Bharat, started by Swami Vivekananda, seeks to build an awakened India.

Published without interruption since 1896, it is the oldest of its kind in the subcontinent. It is through this journal that Swami Vivekananda let his views be known first. Some of the greatest minds of India and the world have spoken their minds through writings on Indian culture, spirituality, philosophy, history and psychology. It is printed and published from Kolkata by the Advaita Ashrama that belongs to the Ramakrishna Order.

Among the contributors have been Leo Tolstoy, Rabindranath Tagore, Bal Gangadhar Tilak, Jawaharlal Nehru, Carl Gustav Jung, Arnold Toynbee, Jadunath Sarkar, Rhys Davids, Ramesh Chandra Mazumdar, Sir C.P. Ramaswami Aiyar, Sarojini Naidu and Jagadish Chandra Bose. Read Article

By Indrani Dutta