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Resource name: /E-Library/Works of Sri Aurobindo/English/CWSA/-06-07_Bande Mataram/Bande Mataram 3-9-06.htm
Bande Mataram
{ CALCUTTA, September 3rd, 1906 }
By the Way
The Bengalee publishes an apologetic explanation of the Kamboliatola ceremony on which we passed a few strictures, more
in sorrow than in anger, the other day. The defence seems to be that Babu Surendranath Banerji was bediademed neither with
a crown of gems nor a crown of thorns, but only a harmless chaplet of flowers. Moreover, the ceremony was not in the nature
of an abhishek or coronation but a shanti-sechan or homage of hearts from Bengal's assembled Pundits. We do not think the
explanation betters things in any way. In whatever way we look at it, the whole affair was a