"The Spirit of Storm" painted by Promode Kumar Chatterjee

Promod Kumar Chatterjee-a painter and a seeker






Promod Kumar Chattopadhyay (1885-1979) was an interesting personality who travelled through many vicissitudes in his life. He was a traveler and travelled extensively all over India, Nepal and Tibet for pilgrimage. But it was not merely for the purpose of pilgrimage –though its spiritual significance was not absent in his

Darshan of the Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram

March 7,197O
He sat, it seemed, for eons on the porch outside her room. He
had been waiting already for years, then months, then those
days since he was told he could go up to her on his birthday,
sitting in his solid little block of a Peace Corps house, trying to
concentrate on a name, a tiny face glimpsed above a railing;
eyes that blinked at the brightness of the Bay of Bengal then
swept

Bilkees Latif reminisces Sri Aurobindo and the Mother

Courtesy: "The Fragrance of Forgotten Years" by Bilkees Latif, pp. 159-165, Rupa & Co.,

New Delhi, 2009.

An Aurovillian: Energy but it is not my energy...

Energy but it is not my energy...





                                    Roy in the seventies     
 Energy…It is not my energy...


When I came to Auroville, it was like an extension of that existence I already was living.

"Here is your ticket for Sunday."

"But I can't leave on Sunday, I don't have a visa!"

On Friday I go to the Indian Consulate. The Indians there hate India, they really

Poet Harindranath Chattopadhyaya and Shelley

Courtesy : "The Illustrated Weekly of India", dated December 1, 1985

"God, Religion and Rites" by Aju Mukhopadhyay

The whole of India is replete with stories of Rishis, Munis and Sadhus from ancient time who realized God, established relationship with God and inspired people to live a pious and righteous life. There were deviations as in every field of life but usually spiritualism is an accepted fact of Indian life which gradually got mixed up with various other modern motives and ways of living;

"The World of Sri Aurobindo’s Creative Literature" Book Review by Prof. Vasudeva T. Reddy

                                                  Aju Mukopadhyay’s latest work The World of Sri Aurobindo’s Creative Literature, recently published by AuthorsPress, N. Delhi in 2013, is yet another contribution to the ever increasing world of appreciative evaluation of Aurobindo literature. The writer has done tremendous work before undertaking the writing on the creative literature of Sri