<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;mso-fareast-font-family:times new roman">Vice President Venkaiah Naidu has said India followed the noble practice ofgiving shelter to people from many parts of the world who are persecuted and isstill following it.  <o:p /></span></p>''<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">He participated in the centenary celebrations of themagazine "Sri Rama Krishna Vijayam" being published by the RamaKrishna Mutt in Chennai, today.</span></p>''<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">In his address, he recalled Swamy Vivekananda's Chicagospeech saying, Swamiji took pride in India giving shelter to people ofdifferent faiths of the world including the Jews and the Zorashtrians.</span></p>''<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;mso-fareast-font-family:times new roman">Mr Venkaiah Naidu appealed to the youths of the country to strive to spread themessage of Swami Vivekananda. He said, on this National Youth Day, the youthshould re-dedicate themselves to the ideals of Swamiji, whom he said is theembodiment of Indian culture.<br />''<br />''TN Governor Banwarilal Purohit, Minister D Jayakumar, Head of the ChennaiRamakrishna Mutt Swami Gouthamanandji Maharaj and many others participated inthe function.<o:p /></span></p>''<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><br />