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He loved French cookbooks invented a new way of making khichdi was interested in the engineering behind ship-building and the technology that makes ammunition. More than 100 years after his death do we really know or understand the bewildering fascinating complex man Swami Vivekananda was? Vivekananda is one of the most important figures in the modern imagination of India. He is also an utterly modern man consistently challenging his own views and embracing diverse even conflicting arguments. It is his modernity that appeals to us today. He is unlike any monk we have known. He is confined neither by history nor by ritual and is constantly questioning everything around him including himself. It is in Vivekananda’s contradictions his doubts his fears and his failings that he recognize his profoundly compelling divinity-he teaches us that to try and understand God first one must truly comprehend one’s own self. This book is an argument that it is not just because he is close to God but also because he is so tantalizingly immersed in being human that keeps us returning to Vivekananda and his immortal wisdom. Review 'Splendid . . . invigorating effervescent and crammed with dramatic insights'Asian Age'Sengupta . . . provokes fresh thinking and inspires hope' The Hindu 8. 'Refreshing in style and narration'Financial Express About the Author Hindol Sengupta is an award-winning writer journalist public speaker and social entrepreneur. He is the author of seven books. He is the youngest ever and only Indian to be nominated for the Hayek Prize given by the Manhattan Institute in memory of the Nobel laureate economist F. A. Hayek. He is the youngest winner of the PSF award for public service which has also been won among others by the late Indian President A. P. J. Abdul Kalam. He is the founder of the not-for-profit Whypoll Trust. He was invited to present his research on Hinduism and technology at the XXI World Congress of the International Association for the History of Religion. An alumnus of the Australia-India Youth Dialogue (AIYD) he won the 2015 grant to write a people’s history of India's in Australia and Australians in India. He was part of IdeaMensch’s 2012 list of 33 entrepreneurs who are making the world a better place to live in for his work on ideating India's first women safety mobile app. He is Editor-at-Large for Fortune India where he wrIt's on the political economy and entrepreneurship.