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By Our Special Correspondent
NEW BEGINNINGS: Sanyasins at a ceremony to mark the opening of the recently-restored ancestral house of Swami Vivekananda in Kolkata on Sunday.
KOLKATA, SEPT. 26. After nearly a century of neglect, the almost 300-year-old ancestral home of Swami Vivekananda in Central Kolkata has been restored to its original grandeur. It is to be a part of a cultural complex that will be inaugurated by the President, A.P.J Abdul Kalam, on Friday. From early today, amidst the chanting of Vedic hymns and the strains of bhajans, monks belonging to the Ramakrishna Math congregated at the renovated premises to mark the start of a new chapter in the history of the house where Swami Vivekananda was born on January 12, 1863. Special `prasad' was offered to devotees after the gates were opened to the public.Nearly Rs. 20 crores has been spent on the restoration of the dilapidated structure that was being used by unauthorised occupants ever since the property was divided between the Vivekananda's relatives in 1885 following the death of his father. Swami Vivekananda left home to become a monk and only returned occasionally to visit his mother. For several decades, virtually no repairs were carried out on the house built by Vivekananda's great-grandfather.The Ramkrishna Mission authorities acquired the house in the year of Vivekananda's birth centenary. It took another three decades for the process of restoration to begin. Bricks were brought from West Bengal's Bankura district and limestone from Madhya Pradesh as experts belonging to the Archaeological Society of India supervised the work.
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