Swami Vivekananda Short Biography - 450 words

Swami Vivekananda (real name: Narendra Nath Datta) was born on 12th January 1863 in Calcutta (the Capital of British India at that time). He was an Indian Hindu monk and chief disciple of the 19th-century saint Ramakrishna Parahamhans. He took the responsibility of spreading Hinduism in India and contributed to the concept of nationalism in British India. Vivekananda founded the Ramakrishna