Benoy Bhushan : (1867-1947), eldest brother of Sri Aurobindo, known as Beno in the family circle; he failed at the entrance test for St. Paul’s, & in 1884, when the brothers were abandoned by the family who had sheltered them, Benoy was employed by James Cotton & for some time he & Sri Aurobindo lived together. He returned to India early in 1894 & sometime later found employment under the Maharaja of Coochbehar & sent money to Manmohan for his return to India.
... participate in all this, and Benoy Bhushan often conducted the worship. On one occasion, however, Manomohan was in a puckish mood and said that old Moses got only his deserts when his people disobeyed him! Mrs. Drewett was understandably furious and declared she would not live with an atheist, since the whole house might fall down! After she had left, Benoy Bhushan and Sri Aurobindo moved to 128... was born around 5 a.m., that is, about twenty-four minutes before sunrise, at the house of Dr. Krishnadhan's friend. Barrister Manmohan Ghose in Theatre Road, 10 Calcutta, on 15 August 1872. Benoy Bhushan and Manmohan had preceded Sri Aurobindo, who was thus the third son of Dr. Krishnadhan and Swarnalata Devi. The time of unfolding dawn, an hour before sunrise: It was the hour before the... Aurobindo that thus stands charmed and enraptured, gazing at the "immortal summits"? Probably, it is both! III In 1879, Dr. Krishnadhan and his wife took Sri Aurobindo and his brothers, Benoy Bhushan and Manomohan, and their sister, Sarojini, to England. The boys were entrusted to an English family, the Rev. William Drewett, a congregational minister, and Mrs. Drewett, who lived at 84, Shakespeare ...
... tragic misunderstanding due to defective communication, for as a latter of fact Sri Aurobindo had left England by a later boat, the Carthage. His elder brothers too arrived, though later; Benoy Bhushan was to serve under the Page 45 Maharaja of Cooch-Behar, and Manomohan was to become Professor of English at the Presidency College, Calcutta. The prodigal boys returned home at long... yet indirectly, he compliments his sister! No wonder people found his private talk full of wit and humour and gentleness and infinite understanding. The latter part of the letter shows that Benoy Bhushan and Manomohan were still in England (though they were expected any day in Calcutta), and that Sri Aurobindo was trying to learn in real earnest both Bengali and Gujarati. The letter concludes... at Bankipore and the maintenance of their mother. His younger brother, Barindra, was also with Sarojini at the time, though later he often stayed at Baroda. Even after their return to India, Benoy Bhushan and Manomohan were not in a position to help the family. For this Sri Aurobindo offered a good-humoured yet disarming explanation: "Dada is in Cooch-Behar State service and so he was to maintain ...
... England, and wished his children to have an English education, as far as possible uncontaminated by 'native' ways and 'native' speech. He accordingly sent Sri Aurobindo, along with his elder brothers Benoy Bhushan and Manomohan, to the Loretto Convent School at Darjeeling. Thus, from the age of five, Sri Aurobindo moved mainly with English children and learned to speak English as a matter of course. In 1879... King's, too, Sri Aurobindo did very well. He had his £80 scholarship, and, having passed his preliminary test for the I.C.S., he had a probationership stipend as well. However, all three brothers —Benoy Bhushan, Manomohan and Sri Aurobindo—were often in difficulty, owing to irregular or insufficient remittances from their father but Sri Aurobindo seems on the whole to have done somewhat better than his ...
... Friar, Kimon 398,401 Future Poetry, The 42, 293, 344,359,459 Gandhi, M.K. 17,19,25,28,30 Gayley, CM. 374 Ghose, Barindra Kumar 6 Ghose, Benoy Bhushan 6-7 Ghose, Krishnadhan 6 Ghose, Lotika 53 Ghose, Manomohan 6-7 Ghose, Swarnalata 6 Gide, Andre 267-268 Giradoux, Jean 268 Goethe 40,273,377 ...
... 237 Ghose, Barindra Kumar, 29, 30, 62ff, 189, 192ff, 195, 208, 211, 217, 219, 229, 266m, 274, 275-76, 281, 284, 288, 289, 290, 298fn, 320, 329ff, 523, 531, 537, 574, 763 Ghose, Benoy Bhushan, 28, 29, 31, 35, 36, 45,49 Ghose, Biren, 367 Ghose, Hemendra Prasad, 222, 324, 763 Ghose, Krishnadhan, 25ff, 33,35ff, 183,192; death of, 45ff Ghose, Manomohan, ...
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