Narendra Modi to address Sivagiri pilgrimage, Satyendra Nath Bose's birth anniversary celebration via video conference

New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi will address two events — 85th Sivagiri Pilgrimage Celebrations on Sunday, and the commemoration of professor Satyendra Nath Bose's 125th birth anniversary on 1 January — via video conferencing.

File image of Prime Minister Narendra Modi. AP

The prime minister will deliver the inaugural address for the 85th Sivagiri Pilgrimage Celebrations, at Sivagiri Mutt, Varkala, Kerala, via video conference on 31 December.

Sivagiri is the holy abode of one of the great saints and social reformers Sree Narayan Guru.

He will also address via video conference the curtain-raiser ceremony of the commemoration of professor Satyendra Nath Bose's 125th birth anniversary at Kolkata on 1 January.

Bose was an Indian physicist best known for his work on quantum mechanics, providing the foundation for Bose–Einstein statistics. The class of particles that obeys Bose–Einstein statistics has been named Bosons, after Professor Bose.