Sakharam Ganesh Deuskar (1869-1912) a close associate of Sri Aurobindo.  A Marathi Brahmin who had settled in Bengal, Sakharam was born in Deoghar. He studied in the Deoghar School and later became a teacher there. He was Barin's teacher of History. "One of the ablest men in these revolutionary groups," Sri Aurobindo reminds us, "[he] was an able writer in Bengali (his family had been long domiciled in Bengal).... He published a book entitled Desher Katha describing in exhaustive detai

SADHANA IN PRISON -I   We saw in the previous chapter that during the months of march and April 1908 - especially April - an atmosphere of tension and crisis was building up, the known parties to the undeclared war being the Moderates, the alien bureaucracy and the Nationalists. The Moderates had their Convention and their new Congress Constitution, the bureaucracy were paring their nails to come to closer grips with the Nationalists so as to be able to liquidate them, and the underground revolut

Bagha Jatin (Bāghā Jatin, lit: Tiger Jatin), born Jatindranath Mukherjee  (7 December 1879 – 10 September 1915) was an Bengali revolutionary philosopher against British rule. He was the principal leader of the Yugantar party that was the central association of revolutionaries in Bengal. Having personally met the German Crown-Prince in Calcutta shortly before World War I, he obtained the promise of arms and ammunition from Germany; as such, he was responsi

Orissa Review   Bagha Jatin : An Unsung Hero   Dr. Rup Narayan Das   It is an irony of history that the supreme sacrifice made by Jatin Mukherjee or Bagha Jatin, as he is popularly known, is little known outside Bengal and Orissa, although there is no dearth of well documented historical record in this regard. Much before India achieved Independence in 1947, there was an attempt under the leadership of Jatin Mukherjee, M.N. Roy, et al, in 1915 during the First World War to attain Independence through armed insurrection in cooperation with Germany. Although, the initiative did not fructify, the efforts deserve to be recalled and given due importance in the p

Bipin Chandra Pal Early life and background Bipin Chandra Pal was born on 7th November 1858 in Poil Village, Habiganj District, now a part of Bangladesh, in a wealthy Hindu Vaishnava family. B.C. Pal is known as the 'Father Of Revolutionary Thoughts'   He was imprisoned for six months on the grounds of his refusal to give evidence against Sri Aurobindo in the Vande Mataram sedition case. and was one of the freedom fighters of India.

Sri Aurobindo on Bipin Chandra Pal   "When Bipin Chandra Pal came out of jail, he came with a message, and it was an inspired message. I remember the speech he made here. It was a speech not so much political as religious in its bearing and intention. He spoke of his realisation in jail, of God within us all, of the Lord within the nation, and in his subsequent speeches also he spoke of a greater than ordinary force in the movement and a greater than ordinary purpose befo

THE YOUNGEST REVOLUTIONARY MARTYR    KHUDIRAM BOSE   It was this young lad who threw the first bomb at the British who were ruling India. Even while at school, he was attracted towards the sacred words ‘VandeMataram’ (I bow to Mother India!) and plunged into the war of independence. The boy of sixteen defied the police. And at the age of 18 years 7 months & 11 days had already become a martyr. The hero was Khudiram Bose, born on Dec 3, 1889 in a tiny village in Bengal. He was the only surviving son of his parents who also passed away when he was barely six yrs of age. Brought up by his elder sister and her husband who aspi

Khudiram Bose, a young political activist from Bengal, was not only one of the most prominent figures in India's fight for freedom from British rule, but also the youngest revolutionary that the Indian independence movement had witnessed. Khudiram Bose led a life of risk and adventure, never for once flinching from his goal of acquiring freedom for his country. Apart from possessing the spirit of a fighter, Khudiram Bose was also known for his leadership qualitie

The Complete Notarised Letter Forest Lawn Memorial-Park Glendale 5, California TELEPHONES LOS ANGELES, CLEVELAND 6-3131 GLENDALE. CITRUS 1-4151 CABLE ADDRESS HUBERT. LOS ANGELES May 16, 1952   Self-Realization Fellowship 3880 San Rafael Avenue Los Angeles 65 California Gentlemen:   The absence of any visual signs of decay in the dead body of Paramhansa Yogananda offers the most extraordinary case in our experience. Had the muscle protein and blood stream of the deceased not been comparatively free of bacteria, deterioration of the body could have set in as early as six hours after life had

Sri Aurobindo.On Yogananda   The ARYA Office Pondicherry French India July 2. 26   To The ADVANCE DISTRIBUTING Co. Pittsburgh. Pa. I am in receipt of your letter dated May 2d 1926 and the sum of Rs 500 and over sent by you for the complete set of the "ARYA". The complete set will be kept here in the office according to your suggestion; if needed at any time, it will be at your disposal. As to the missing numbers of Vol. VII — Nos 3 and 6 — as I underst