Saturday, December 22, 2012
Evolving Towards a Consciousness of Unity by Lori Tompkins
Dante and Beatrice gaze upon the highest Heaven (The Empyrean);from Gustave Doré's illustrations to the Divine Comedy, Paradiso Canto 31
[I wrote this article in July of 2011 and I almost forgot about it. Here it is, an offering for the New Year.]
In 1908-1909, while spending a year in jail for being a seditionist against British rule in India, Sri Aurobindo (1872-1950) came to the
Saturday, December 1, 2012
Politics
Politics
Sri Aurobindo withdrew
from politics; and, in his Ashram,
a most important rule is that one must abstain from all politics
― not because Sri Aurobindo did not concern himself with
the happenings of the world, but because politics, as it is
practised, is a low and ugly thing, wholly dominated by
falsehood, deceit,
Saturday, November 24, 2012
Aju Mukhopadhyay's recent books
Two recently published books by Aju Mukhopadhyay on Sri Aurobindo and the Mother. The blurbs of the books give glimpses of their life and work.
Sri Aurobindo’s Creative Literature
Sri Aurobindo could be a remarkable dramatist and fiction writer too apart from poet but he was either engaged as a secret revolutionary leader or a political leader in the open field; either professor,
Wednesday, October 31, 2012
Thursday, October 25, 2012
Wednesday, October 3, 2012
Affable Writer: Aju Mukhopadhyay
An Interview by: Dr. T. S. Chandra MouliAju Mukhopadhyay, the poet, critic and biographer, is a bilingual writer of fictions and essays. He has done some important translations on his way. He has authored 12 books in Bangla and 16 in English. His works have been recognized with awards by such bodies as The Writers Bureau, Manchester, Poets International, Bangalore, International Library
India forever India by Aju Mukhopadhyay
India, a vast country like a continent, containing almost all
the physical, mineral and environmental varieties of the world, a fountain
head of spirituality, was the cradle of one of the oldest civilizations on
earth. I think like Swami Vivekananda that it was the swing of my childhood,
grove of my youth and it is the
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