Photo - Bresson In The Ashram main building Henrie Cartier Bresson In The Ashram   During his youth and early manhood Sri Aurobindo was photographed around a dozen times. As many pictures were taken during the four years (1906-10) that he was a public figure. After his withdrawal to Pondicherry he was photographed more rarely; still about ten portraits from the 1910-26 period exist. Several of them show him posing before artificial backdrops of the kind used in studios in those days.

  Biography   Henri Cartier-Bresson (August 22, 1908 – August 3, 2004) was a French photographer considered to be the father of modern photojournalism who visited India photographed Sri Auobindo & Sri Ramana Maharshi. He was an early adopter of 35 mm format, and the master of candid photography. He helped develop the "street photography" or "life reportage" style that has influence

Documents in the Life of Sri Aurobindo   THE LAST PHOTOGRAPHS OF SRI AUROBINDO Written documents nave been reproduced verbatim, unedited except within square brackets. Oral and transcribed documents have been edited for clarity but not altered in substance. The fact that a historical document comes from an authentic source does not guarantee the truth of every statement in it. Observant readers will find many statements in the present series of documents that are not consistent with one another or simply untrue. Many of these inconsistencies and inaccuracies are discussed in Archival Notes.

The Solution   In this part of the book, we shall try to suggest some lines along which a solution to the problem of Indian political unity may be brought about. It has to be clearly understood that when we speak of the political unity of India, we mean the unity of the whole subcontinent and not just the unity of India and Pakistan. The question whether the unity will take the form of a federation or a confederation depends on circumstances and is not of paramount importance. But the creation of this unity is of great importance not only for India, but also for the whole world. In fact, one might go so far as to say that unless India becomes united, there is little hope of

Sri Aurobindo Ashram A Pilgrimage : K. M. Munshi                                                                        "August 15. It is a wonderful day, the day when Freedom came, Sri Aurobindo was born, and Lokamanya Tilak left us the legacy of our birthright."   ‘On March 12, 1952, I got off at the Madras station and went by car to Pondicherry. The Yuvaraja of Pithapuram—a zamindar of Madras—joined me on this occasion, as on a previous one. Sri

(Photo - From right : K.M. Munshi,  Nolinikant Gupta and MadhavPandit In the Ashram sports Ground) K. M. MUNSHI AND SRIAUROBINDO   MYSTERIOUS SACRIFICE   It was on 9 July 1950 that K.M. Munshi, once Sri Aurobindo's pupil at Baroda and now a Cabinet Minister at the Centre, had private darshan of the Master. After the passage of

SRI RABINDRANATH TAGORE  IN  SRI AUROBINDO ASHRAM     SRI AUROBINDO ON RABINDRANATH   The human intelligence seems on the verge of an attempt to rise through the intellectual into an intuitive mentality; it is no longer content to regard the intellect and the world of positive fact as all or the intellectual reason as a sufficient mediator between life and the spirit, but is beginning to perceive that there is a spiritual mind which can

Biography Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941) was the youngest son of Debendranath Tagore, a leader of the Brahmo Samaj, which was a new religious sect in nineteenth-century Bengal and which attempted a revival of the ultimate monistic basis of Hinduism as laid down in the Upanishads. He was educated at home; and although at seventeen he was sent to England for formal schooling, he did not finish his studies there. In his mature years, in addition to his many-sided lite

Dr Hedgewar in Pondicherry 1   ..In January 1920, Dr. L.V. Paranjpe started the Bharat Swayamsevak Mandal. Doctorji was his chief colleague. Efforts began in the month of July that year to organize a corps of some 1000-1500 volunteers for the Congress session. Doctorji threw himself heart and soul into that task. While such fervent efforts were afoot, the tragic news of the passing away of Lokmanya Tilak at Bomboy on the night of 31st July came like a bolt from the blue. The entire nation was plunged in indescribable grief. And more so the people of Nagpur. With a heavy heart, Doctorji attended to the work for organ