Public Television Stations, The PBS World Channel, PBS.org and The PBS App premiere 'America's First Guru' this May, tracing Yoga and Hinduism's entry into the popular American conversation in 1893 with the arrival of an unknown Indian monk, Swami Vivekananda, at the first World's Parliament of Religions in Chicago.

Swami Vivekananda will remain great not only in India yesterday and India today but also in India tomorrow as he is undoubtedly the one who harmonized the East and the West, Religion and Science, Past and Present.

It is indeed unfortunate that the youth in India today know more about English Poet - Playwright William Shakespeare than all in one Poet, Novelist, Musician, Painter and Playwright Nobel Laureate Tagore.

India aptly observes the birthday of Swami Vivekananda who was born on January 12, 1863 and became immortal on July 4, 1902 as National Youth Day. William James, the Harvard philosopher, called Swami Vivekananda the "paragon of Vedantists."