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Detailed explanation-1: -Vivekananda was born as Narendranath Datta (name shortened to Narendra or Naren) in a Bengali family in his ancestral home at 3 Gourmohan Mukherjee Street in Calcutta, the capital of British India, on 12 January 1863 during the Makar Sankranti festival.

Detailed explanation-2: -Swami Vivekananda (1863–1902) is best known in the United States for his groundbreaking speech to the 1893 World’s Parliament of Religions in which he introduced Hinduism to America and called for religious tolerance and an end to fanaticism.

Detailed explanation-3: -Swami Nikhilananda wrote Vivekananda: A Biography which was first published in 1943 from Advaita Ashrama.

Detailed explanation-4: -Swami Vivekananda real name was Narendranath Dutta. He was born on January12, 1863 in Calcutta. His father’s name was Vishwanath Dutta and his mother’s name Bhuvaneswari Devi. Narendranath acquired the name of Swami Vivekananda when he became a monk.

Detailed explanation-5: -Talking to another Nobel laureate, Romain Rolland, Tagore said, “If you want to know India, study Vivekananda.”