Basumati : Bengali weekly started in 1896 by Upendra Nath Mukherji. In 1914, he founded the Dainik Bāsumati, a Bengali daily.
... Mataram A Misunderstanding 30-March-1908 We have noticed a paragraph in the last issue of Basumati which may lead to some misunderstanding in the public mind and needs therefore to be corrected. The Basumati practically charges the National Council with disregarding the claims of Srijut Aurobindo Ghose to reoccupy the post of Principal and Srijut ...
... He held this nightingale poet of Bengal in high esteem. "I used to order many books from the Gurudas Library of Calcutta for Aurobindo. He also purchased many of the books published by the Basumati Press in Calcutta.... Two well-known booksellers of Bombay, Atmaram Radhabai Saggon and Thacker Spink & Co., were his regular suppliers of books. They sent him long lists of new publications every ...
... November 13, 1909. In SABCL "Karma" and "Appeal" appear in Volume 8. SABCL; Collected Poems , Vol . 5 Translations , Vol . 8 4 . ANANDAMATH Basumati Sahitya Mandir, Calcutta (no date) A translation of Bankim Chandra Chatterji's Bengali novel. The prologue and the first thirteen chapters of Part I were translated by Sri Aurobindo ...
... at Deoghar, particularly Arabindo's maternal grandmother, Rajnarain Bose's wife, were stricken with anxiety." The family's worry found expression in Sukumar Mitra's article in the Bengali monthly Basumati. "They wrote us letters in Calcutta for Arabindo's news, but we were unable to tell them anything about him." Sukumar, one of the key players in that crucial period, naturally knew all about Sri ...
... Nagendra Kumar Guharoy's Farewell to God (Devata-Biday), Arnaren-dranath Chattopadhyay's letter to Nagen in the same book , and Sukumar Mitra's Aurobindo Acroyd Ghose, an eight-part article in Masik Basumati Page 537 procured a closed carriage, put Sri Aurobindo inside, and directed the coachman to Harrison Road, where he stopped the carriage. He then sent Manmatha to Sukumar at nearby ...
... John – I still remember these titles – and several other titles of the type used in my college as textbooks. Some works of Vivekananda came and also the Brahmavaivarta and the Vishnu Puranas in the Basumati edition. All of these books we went through over and over again, times without number, for new books could not be had for the asking. But questionings too began to arise: and what next? Must we ...
... he had done to save my life, not even incidentally. Whether in word or in deed, I have never seen such control." Sukumar Mitra, in his article on Sri Aurobindo in Page 144 Basumati, mentions that at one time Usha, a cousin of theirs (daughter of Sukumari, Rajnarain's third daughter) was ill with fever for a prolonged period. When Sri Aurobindo went to Deoghar he heard that ...
... repository of the stream of events of the time; he had also close links with several other revolutionary institutions. Sukumar's eight-part article on Sri Aurobindo, published in the Bengali magazine Basumati (1951), alludes to a phonograph recording of Sri Aurobindo. He was in Baroda when their grandfather, Rajnarain Bose, died, and wrote a poem on his passing. The next time he went to Calcutta, Sri ...
... fondness for reading as Aurobindo's." Carton-loads of books! D. K. Roy used to order for him many Bengali books from the Gurudas Library of Calcutta: "He liked most of the titles published by the Basumati Press." But Sri Aurobindo's main supply of books came from Bombay's two big booksellers: Atma-ram Radhabai Saggon and Thacker Spink & Co. "He seldom received books by book post; they came by railway ...
... Frontispiece, From old issues of The Modern Review (courtesy Patrice Marot) 23 , 54, 214 , 425, 475, 557 12 Krishna Dhan Ghose, from Sukumar Mitra's article on Sri Aurobindo in Basumati, Phalgun 1358 38 Bankim Chandra Chatterji 59 Sarojini Ghose (courtesy Sri Lab Kumar Bose and the late Sri Nirmal Ranjan Mitra) 66 Sri Aurobindo at Deoghar, c.1894 (detail from ...
... helped fill the kitty, coming as often from remote villages or poor labourers as from the educated elite. Swarnakumari Devi, well-known litterateur and Rabindranath's elder sister, gave Rs. 100. The Basumati reported on 18 July about the touching contribution of one rupee from a blind beggar, and related the story of a poor schoolboy. "The boy used to spend two pice every day for his lunch and he has ...
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