Tuesday, June 26, 2012

Does Sri Aurobindo’s Poetry Stand the Test of Critics and Time?









“I was a poet and a politician, not a philosopher!” Sri
Aurobindo said. (Sri Aurobindo to Dilip. Ed. Sujata Nahar and Shankar
Bandopadhyay. Pune and Mysore; SariKrishna Mandir Trust and Mira
Aditi. V-2.p.100)

     Whereas the poet claims himself to
be a poet contributing so much in poetry, above 50000 lines, experimenting in
various metres including those of the other languages like

Tuesday, June 19, 2012

Who is the Mother? What is her Work? What she really said?









Mother’s Work

While in her body,
Mother entrusted certain works to certain persons according to the suitability
of one’s inner conditions, according to the necessity of time and place, which
she must have reconsidered had she been a witness to it till today. From a letter
of Sri Aurobindo dated 28.9.1933 we find that this point was hinted at, “As for
Mother, one will not find in her this

Friday, June 15, 2012

"Aurobin Dogos" in the book “The Lost Footsteps”




 
















        Silviu
Craciunas’s only book, “The Lost Footsteps” is a record of his experiences in
Rumania as a nationalist leader fighting against the Soviet occupation of his
State, in his own way. It is not a novel but more than a novel. It is an
autobiography but not in the conventional way. It speaks of the reality in
intimate fashion. The book is a human document against

Tuesday, June 12, 2012

REVIEW OF “CONCEPT OF MAN IN SRI AUROBINDO’S POETRY” BY SHRUTI BIDWAIKAR


                                                             





     The poetic genius of
Sri Aurobindo has attracted many a scholars and poetry lovers. Some simply
admire his poetry and some choose to think and write about them. The Concept of Man in Sri Aurobindo’s
Poetry by Dr. Jitendra
Sharma is an admiration of and reflection on Sri Aurobindo’s poetic
genius. 



     Separating Sri