India celebrates National Youth Day on Swami Vivekanand's birthday 12th January every year.
about Swami Vivekanand :
Date of birth: 12 January 1863
Place of birth: Calcutta, Bengal Presidency, British India
Birth name : Narendranath Dutta
Date of death: 4 July 1902 (aged 39)
Place of death: Belur Math near Kolkata
Guru/teacher : Ramakrishna Paramahamsa
Quotation: "Come up, O lions, and shake off the delusion that you are sheep; you are souls immortal, spirits free, blest and eternal; ye are not matter, ye are not bodies; matter is your servant, not you the servant of matter."
about Swami Vivekanand :
Date of birth: 12 January 1863
Place of birth: Calcutta, Bengal Presidency, British India
Birth name : Narendranath Dutta
Date of death: 4 July 1902 (aged 39)
Place of death: Belur Math near Kolkata
Guru/teacher : Ramakrishna Paramahamsa
Quotation: "Come up, O lions, and shake off the delusion that you are sheep; you are souls immortal, spirits free, blest and eternal; ye are not matter, ye are not bodies; matter is your servant, not you the servant of matter."