Kusum-ben Nagda: In Memoriam by Anurag Banerjee
Dear Friends, On Sunday, 12 May 2019, one of the senior-most inmates of the Sri Aurobindo Ashram community as well as one of its most...
Author: Anurag Banerjee
One Hundred and Eighty-Two Photographs of the Mother with Pavitra
Dear Friends, Philippe Barbier Saint-Hilaire (16.1.1894—16.5.1969) was a French sadhak who graduated from the prestigious École Polytechnique with a degree in engineering in 1914. During...
Dr. Aster Patel awarded the “Auro Ratna Award” for the year 2018
Dear Friends and Well-wishers, The ninth ‘Auro Ratna Award’ ceremony was held on Sunday, 25th November 2018, at the ‘Hall of Harmony’ in Pondicherry; hosted...
Chum: the Silent but Radiant Jewel by Anurag Banerjee
Chum: the Silent but Radiant Jewel There are people who speak a lot but convey nothing substantial. And there are people — alas, only...
Washing of Sri Aurobindo’s Clothes by Chitra Sen
Clothes used personally by Sri Aurobindo or in his service were taken care of by different people who washed, ironed, and when needed, mended them....
Photographs of the Mother’s Darshan of 24 April 1963 and 1966
Dear Friends, The Mother came to Pondicherry for the first time and met Sri Aurobindo on 29 March 1914. In February 1915 She went back...
Sri Aurobindo and the Nobel Prize
Dear Friends, Deeply impressed by Sri Aurobindo’s The Life Divine, Sir Francis Younghusband had nominated Sri Aurobindo’s name for the Nobel Prize in Literature. The...
Seventy Photographs of the Mother taken on 21 February 1972
Dear Friends, 21 February 2019 marked the 141th Birth Anniversary of the Mother. As our humble homage to Her, seventy photographs of Her taken on...
Some Letters of Sri Aurobindo to Amal Kiran: A Personal Correspondence of 1938
Dear Friends, A set letters of Sri Aurobindo addressed to K. D. Sethna alias Amal Kiran written from Pondicherry to Mumbai has been published without...
Fifty-five Photographs of the Mother with K. Amrita
Dear Friends, Amrita was the name given by Sri Aurobindo to Karlapakam Aravamudachari Iyengar (19.9.1895—31.1.1969), a Tamil Brahmin who became a close disciple of Sri...