The Ideal Flag for India THE flutter of our flag on high is answered by a flutter of joy in every Indian heart. Our flag is the symbol or our fulfilment. It is intended to hold aloft in victory all that is most dear in our national life. With absolute devotion we stand under its happy flying sign, and wherever it beckons we are prepared to follow. But our love for it does not imply that the pattern it bears is completely satisfying. No matter what the pattern, it can count upon our allegiance. And yet we have the right to question whether those who have designed it have dipped their imagination sufficiently into the true heart of our land. The Flags that ar

Vivekananda and Our Spiritual Future WE who live in this day of India's reawakening to the Yogic secrets of her own past cannot but pay homage to the mighty figure of Vivekananda. Together with his guru, Rama-krishna, he was the most potent early shaper of the resurgence of our national genius. His also was a tremendous impact on the mind of the West. And yet, if we are to work for a complete spiritual fulfilment, we must see that Vivekananda's philosophy, though a golden torch of truth when compared to the conjectural ingenuities of metaphysicians who are not Yogis, falls short of what we may term the integral God-view and world-view. No more inspirin

THE INDIAN SPIRIT AND THE WORLD'S FUTURE THE INDIAN SPIRIT AND THE WORLD'S FUTURE K. D. Sethna (Amal Kiran) SRI AUROBINDO INSTITUTE OF RESEARCH IN SOCIAL SCIENCES SRI AUROBINDO SOCIETY, PONDICHERRY First Edition: October 1953 Second Impression: 2004 ISBN: 81-7060-227-0 ©Clear Ray Trust Published by Sri Aurobindo Institute of Research in Social Sciences, A Unit of Sri Aurobindo Society, Pondicherry Printed at Sri Aurobindo Ashram Press, Pondicherry, India. Website: www.sriaurobindosociety.org.in Publisher 's Note

Our Real National Anthem OUT of all the fatuities with which modern India is infested, the most egregious is the long drawn-out discussion on the choice of a national anthem. The two songs that have been pitted against each other are really like two worlds apart and it is supreme lack of insight to set them up as equal candidates for election posing us a most perplexing problem. Once we understand, first, the prerequisites of the ideal national anthem and, secondly, the living associations and potencies of Bankim Chandra's Bande Mataram on the one hand and Tagore's Jana Gana Mana on the other, there cannot remain the slightest doubt that nothing except Bande Mat

The Significance of the English Language in India INDIA'S decision to remain a member of the Commonwealth in spite of being an independent sovereign Republic has given a new lease of life amongst us to the English language. Until recently English was apt to be regarded as the remnant of a foreign imposition, an inappropriate growth in the way of an authentic indigenous literature. Today it seems an appropriate and desirable link between us and the group of English-speaking nations with whom we have formed a voluntary association: it has become the medium of a larger existence in which we have elected to share. This is all to the good - es