Overview
- January 12 has been designated as National Youth Day since 1984 to commemorate Vivekananda’s birth anniversary and inspire youth participation in nation-building.
- Schools, colleges and youth organisations mark the day with debates, speeches, seminars, workshops, essay contests, community service and state-run festival events.
- Media outlets publish features, interviews and quote collections that translate his ideas into practical takeaways for today’s students and young professionals.
- Vivekananda’s legacy includes introducing Vedanta and Yoga to the West, with his 1893 Chicago address remembered for its message of universal brotherhood and spiritual humanism.
- Commentary stresses self-belief, disciplined effort, service and purposeful education as correctives to instant-success culture and distraction-heavy online life.