12 Jan. National Youth Day

National Youth Day.

National Youth Day is celebrated in India on 12 January on the birthday of Swami Vivekananda. In 1984 the Government of India declared the day as the National Youth Day and since 1985 the event is celebrated every year across the country.
Swami Vivekananda, known in his pre-monastic life as Narendra Nath Datta, was born in an affluent family in Kolkata on 12 January 1863.
In many ways he was a modern thinker and brought about changes in the ways religion used to perceived and practiced.
To know more about his contributions and teachings, see this:
http://www.belurmath.org/swamivivekananda.htm#Teachings