Jai Ma.
We are all well aware that 12th January which marks the Birthday of Swami Vivekananda is celebrated as National Youth Day through out the world every year. Swami Vivekananda's contribution in awakening the Youth is enormous. He has shaped, shaping a millions of youth through his powerful words or sayings. In relation to Swamiji's birthday, Sri Ramakrishna Vijayam (a monthly magazine coming out from Sri Ramakrishna Math Chennai with over a Lakh subscribers all over the world) started conducting Youth Day Competitions(YDC) in shaping the Young India of today in a way which Swami Vivekananda wished. YDC which began its journey in the year 2003 has successfully completed its 7th year by 2009 with a overwhelming participation from the students every year.Though till 2008 YDC witnessed writing competitions under different topics, in 2009 it went a further step ahead to make everyone feel the presence of Swami Vivekananda in various powerful gestures through an art form by conducting a drawing competition for the students in Tamilnadu State Level which surprsingly witnessed 20,300 entries including a handful no of entries from various parts of India and foreign countries(as Sri Ramakrishna Vijayam has subscribers all over the world, entries from various places fell on though it was announced a state level competition).
