24 January 2024: Centenary of Dilip Kumar Roy’s First Meeting with Sri Aurobindo
Dear Friends, Dilip Kumar Roy (22 January 1897—6 January 1980) had first heard of Sri Aurobindo as a great Yogi in 1923 from his friend...
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Abinash Chandra Banerji: The First Commentator in India on Specific Relief Act by Anurag Banerjee
‘He is not dead whose noble life Leads thine on high; To live in hearts we leave behind Is not to die.’ These were the...
A Tribute to Aurovillian Pashi alias Prakash Chandra Kapur by Paulette Hadnagy
Pashi Kapur, who marked Auroville in many ways, left us on Friday evening, October 20th, 2023. He was 91. From the Sri Aurobindo Ashram’s Nursing...
Four Hundred and Fifty Photographs of the Mother with Pranab Kumar Bhattacharya
Dear Friends, Born in Berhampur, West Bengal, Pranab Kumar Bhattacharya (18 October 1923—8 January 2010) was the eldest son of Dakshinapada Bhattacharya and Prafullamoyee Devi....
Sri Aurobindo and the Modern Academic World by Dr. Sachidananda Mohanty
The most direct path to catastrophe is to treat complex problems as if they are obvious to everyone. —Stephen Marche on the Artificial Intelligence (AI)...
Suresh Chandra Banerji: The Doctor with a Golden Heart by Anurag Banerjee
On 5th August 1921, a doctor passed away at his hill-top residence named ‘Alma House’ in Nainital. At the time of his death, he was...
Publication of ‘Sri Aurobindo and His Ashram in Contemporary Newspapers’ in two volumes
Dear Friends and Well-wishers of Overman Foundation, We are happy to announce the publication of our new book entitled Sri Aurobindo and His Ashram in...
A Misadventure of Consciousness —The Story of Satprem by R.Y. Deshpande
Here is a significantly telling entry in the Mother’s Agenda dated 27 August 1969: “They’ve found a paper I wrote soon after Sri Aurobindo’s departure,”...
The Systems Engineering Galaxy of Auroville: As Approved by the Mother by Paulette Hadnagy.
In 1985 I moved from the Sri Aurobindo Ashram to Auroville. After working for one year at the Matrimandir construction site, on the roof, I...
A Painting of the Mother made by Chinmayi
Dear Friends, Chinmayi was born as Mehdi Begum into an aristocratic family of Hyderabad which was, in the pre-independence era, a princely state ruled by...