 In the summer of 1893 on a ship, two Indians won a 30-year-old monk and another, a successful industrialist, got into a conversation as co-passengers. The monk pressed on his idea of setting up an institute in India to train the Indians in science and technology to take India ahead on the road of development and self-sufficiency. Well, the idea resonated well with the industrialist. Four years after this incident, the industrialist wrote a letter to the monk, asking the monk to apply himself to the mission of setting up the institute. The industrialist was even ready to defray 30 lakh rupees for this cause. Who are these two characters that I am referring to? The monk whom I am referring to here is the visionary Swami Vivekananda and this patriot industrialist is Jamshedji Tata. So yes, my friends, these two noble spirits set up a premier institute in Bangalore, which today is better known as the Indian Institute of Sciences. Arise, awake and stop not until the goal is reached. So this is a small tribute on the birth anniversary of Swami Vivekananda.