Sri Chinmoy answers forty-five questions on ‘America’s Bicentennial’, at the United Nations Headquarters in New York.
Sri Chinmoy is interviewed by talk show host Joel Martin in New York, NY, USA.
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert together with a piano performance at the Circus Krone in Munich, Germany.
Sri Chinmoy offers a Peace Concert, the second of 39 Peace Concerts dedicated to Swami Vivekananda’s 39 years on earth, at Public School 86 in Jamaica, NY, USA.
Sri Chinmoy offers the opening meditation at the New York Games, held at Lawrence A. Wien Stadium at Columbia University in New York, NY, USA.
Sri Chinmoy meets with Princess Diana at Kensington Palace in London, England, UK.
Sri Chinmoy offers his 500th Peace Concert in honour of India’s 50th Anniversary of Independence — the 31st in a series of 50 concerts during 1997 — to an audience of 5,400 at the Royal Albert Hall in London. It is introduced by Dr. L.M. Singhvi, India’s High Commissioner to the UK; Countess Mountbatten, daughter of Lord Louis Mountbatten, the last British Viceroy of India, addresses the audience; and messages from outgoing Prime Minister John Major and incoming Prime Minister Tony Blair are read out.
Sri Chinmoy is interviewed on ‘Q&A with Riz Khan’ and broadcast live around the world by CNN International. It is Sri Chinmoy’s first international live TV interview.
Sri Chinmoy delivers a lecture. entitled ‘Art: The Beauty of Earth and the Fragrance of Heaven’, and also receives an honorary degree from the Rector of the Mongolian University of Culture and Arts, at the State Academic Theatre of Drama in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia.