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National Youth Day• National Youth Day is celebrated in India every 12th

January on the birthday of Swami Vivekananda.

• In 1984 the Government of India declared the day as the National Youth Day

• It was felt that the philosophy of Swamiji and the ideals for which he lived and worked could be a great source of inspiration for the Indian Youth

Todays Distinguished Entities • Narain Karthikeyan: 30 years old, this young

man is on the fast track to success. After graduating from the Elf Winfield Racing School in France, Narain is now racing for GP and represents India.

• Sania Mirza: This young tennis star needs no introduction. The first Indian woman to play in a Grand Slam Tennis Open, she is strong-willed and has an undeterred passion for tennis.

• Mahindra Singh Dhoni: Captain of the Indian ODI team at only 27, Dhoni led the T20 squad to win the World Cup and restore India’s cricketing pride.

Todays Distinguished Entities

• Rahul Gandhi -Rahul Gandhi is the Vice President of the Indian National Congress and the Chairperson of the Indian Youth Congress and the National Students Union of India

• Anoushka Shankar: The young and beautiful daughter of sitar maestro Pandit Ravi Shankar, She is now composing and performing in the United Kingdom.

• Chetan Bhagat: is an Indian author, columnist, and speaker. Bhagat is the author of bestselling novels, Five Point Someone, One Night @ the Call Center, The 3 Mistakes of My Life, 2 States, Revolution 2020, and What Young India Wants

Kids of wonderS Sanjay and Shravan Kumaran: Sanjay Kumaran (11) and Sanjay Kumaran (13), two brothers from Chennai build a mobile phone applications firm that have witnessed over 10,000 downloads across the world already. Sanjay is probably the youngest CEO in the world. Shravan is in the eighth grade and Sanjay in the sixth at Vael’s Billabong International School, Chennai

Keshav: He is a 10 year old tabla player and has performed at Delhi Commonwealth Games already. He started when he was 2 years old.

Akrit Jaswal: He is a 15year old child prodigy who conducted a successful surgery on a girl whose fingers were fused together after serious burns

Famous Youth Quotes

• He who cares only for himself in youth will be a very niggard in manhood, and a wretched miser in old age.—J. Hawes.

• Unless a tree has borne blossoms in spring, you will vainly look for fruit on it in autumn.—Hare.

• In early youth, as we contemplate our coming life, we are like children in a theatre before the curtain is raised, sitting there in high spirits and eagerly waiting for the play to begin. -Arthur Schopenhauer

• Youth, enthusiasm, and tenderness are like the days of spring. Instead of complaining, O my heart, of their brief duration, try to enjoy them.—Rückert.

• The pride of youth is in strength and beauty, the pride of old age is in discretion.-Democritus