Among the Not So Great
20+ intimate pen-portraits of old sadhakas with whom Batti was in close personal touch. These reminiscences brings to life the spirit of utter devotion to Sri Aurobindo & the Mother that marked the early days of the Ashram.
- Introduction
- Manibhai
- Haradhan-Da
- Mridubhashini (Mridu-di)
- Nishikanto Roy Chowdhury (Kobi)
- Roopanagunta Subramanyam Pantulu
- Bholanath Ghosh
- Poornananda Swami
- Yogananda
- Biren Chunder
- Dara, Chinmayee and Prashanto and Others of a Family
- Bula-Da (Charu Chandra Mukherjee)
- Bihari-Da
- Gangadhar
- Kalyan-Da
- Sunil
- Rajangam
- Tinkori-Da
- Kiran Chowdhury
- Dadoo (Charu Chandra Dutt)
- Selvanadin
- Sitaram
- Charu-Da
- Dr. Nripendra
- Stranger
- Manoranjan Ganguli
- Pavitra
- Louis Allan
- Ravindra-Ji
- Pranab Kumar Bhattacharya
- Birendra Kumar Palit
- Bheeshmadev Chatterjee
- Conclusion
Bholanath Ghosh
Well done, thou good and faithful servant; thou has been faithful over a few things, I will make you ruler over many things.
New Testament
Bholanath Ghosh hailed from old Benares. Born on 4 December 1923, he was neither very old nor was he an ancient arrival here. He joined the Ashram in 1949, a day before the February Darshan, and expired on 18 July 1989. Even his life in the Ashram was not too long — just over 40 years. Yet the many happy memories he left in so many prevailed on me to include him as one of the “Not so Great”.
