Hooghly Hughly Hugly : district on the Hooghly River is c.20 miles north of Calcutta. In c.1859, Sir William James Herschel discovered that fingerprints remain stable over time & are unique across individuals; as Chief Magistrate of the Hooghly district in 1877, he was the first to institute the use of fingerprints & handprints as a means of identification, signing legal documents, & authenticating transactions. The fingerprint records collected at this time were used for one-to-one verification only; as a means in which records would be logically filed & searched had not yet been invented. Sir Edward Henry, I.G. Bengal Police, influenced by Galton’s fingerprinting system that included the patterns formed by loops, whorls & arches ordered Bengali Police in 1896 to add prisoners’ fingerprints to their anthropometric measurements. He developed his own classification system in which he was mainly assisted by Azizul Haque who developed a mathematical formula to supplement Henry’s idea of sorting in 1024 pigeon holes based on fingerprint patterns, & Hem Chandra Bose, another of Henry’s assistants helped refine the system, for which, years later & only on Henry’s insistence did the two receive recognition by the Govt. In 1901 Henry was appointed Asst. Commissioner, Scotland Yard, heading its CID. In the same year, the first UK fingerprint bureau was established at Scotland Yard.
... lly cowherds (like Krishna's father Nanda Ghose). Page 87 Page 88 Page 89 Hooghly District of Bengal. Konnagar is a small township, about fifteen kilometres north of Calcutta, on the west bank of the river Hooghly. Some of Bengal's remarkable leaders of religious and social movements —such as Raja Rammohan Roy —came from this fertile riverine... 1869 to May 1871—later extended by six months to 10 November 1871. Page 94 Krishna Dhan Ghose - Sri Aurobindo's Father berthed at the Garden Reach wharf in the Hooghly river, at Calcutta. The Mooltan weighed anchor on the morning of 15 February 1870. Steaming south in the Bay of Bengal, the ship's ports of call were Madras on India's Coromandel coast, Galle in ...
... Editorship of Sri Aurobindo 28.May-22.Dec.1907 Bande Mataram District Conference at Hughly 30-July-1907 We are glad to hear that arrangements have been made for holding a District Conference at Hughly, some time in September next. Hughly, as some earnest workers of the District complain, has not been much stirred by the new impulses. A District Conference... Conference, whether held or prohibited, has everywhere been instrumental in giving an impetus to the Swadeshi cause. We are thoroughly confident that Hughly, which claims now the best intellects of Bengal, will rise equal to the occasion and recover the lost ground by imparting a swifter pace to their patriotic activities. ...
... Karmayogin No. 11, 4 September 1909 Karmayogin No. 11, 4 September 1909 Karmayogin The Hughly Resolutions We publish in this issue the draft resolutions of the Hughly Reception Committee which have reached our hands in a printed form. Formerly our information had been that the Committee had based its resolutions on the Pabna Conference resolutions and... opinion and guide the public activities of the people of Bengal in matters affecting the country and the province as a whole. These resolutions deal with particular local interests of the people of Hughly and the riparian towns and districts on the banks of the Ganges. If the Conference is to handle local matters, there is no reason why they should ignore similar wants and necessities in the districts... Nationalists or even to consult all who are in Calcutta. We have however sent copies to the Mofussil and hope that the delegates will be ready with any suggestions they may have to make when they meet at Hughly. The want of a Nationalist daily at this time is being severely felt; we have to do what we can with the means at our disposal. The alterations made in the Committee's draft have been dictated by ...
... his own resolutions. They said, 'What a democratic leader he is! He listens to and considers all our opinions and resolutions.'" After a moment's pause, Sri Aurobindo continued. "Then at the Hooghly Provincial Conference we met again to Page 385 consider the Morley-Minto reforms." The Morley-Minto reforms provided separate electorates for Indian Muslims, and after the... name there was a 'Hush, hush' and he shut up." With his customary modesty —notwithstanding his disclaimer —Sri Aurobindo did not breathe a word about his own part in the drama that preceded the Hooghly Provincial Conference in September 1909. But Professor Jyotish Ghose recorded it in 1929. "Alone and single-handed, Sri Aurobindo was called upon to break the clique of the moderate caucus who... of twenty-one for delegates from the delegation certificate issued by the Reception Committee, printed the certificates for his own party from his own press ... advised his Nationalist followers at Hooghly to organise a students' volunteer corps in open protest against the rules of the Reception Committee who had refused to enlist students even as volunteers on the ground that it was not permissible ...
... 1909 Karmayogin The Hughly Conference The chances of politics are in reality the hidden guidance of a Power whose workings do not reveal themselves easily even to the most practised eye. It is difficult therefore to say whether the successful conclusion of the Provincial Conference at Hughly without the often threatened breach between the parties, will... ts consented to waive the reaffirmation of the policy formulated at Pabna and refrained from using the preponderance which the general sentiment of the great majority of the delegates gave them at Hughly. If things go by the counting of heads, as is the rule in democratic politics, the Nationalist sentiment commands the greater part of Bengal. But in leaders of recognised weight, established reputation... not, in view of the slightness of the chance in favour of which everything else was thrown overboard, create any dissatisfaction in the party. All shades of Nationalist opinion were represented at Hughly and they consented to be guided in the matter by Srijut Aurobindo Ghose on whom the responsibility of leadership fell in the absence of older colleagues who have been temporarily or permanently removed ...
... Karmayogin No. 11, 4 September 1909 Karmayogin No. 11, 4 September 1909 Karmayogin Speech at the Hughly Conference Delivered at the Bengal Provincial Conference, held at Hughly, Bengal, on 6 September 1909. Report published in the Bengalee on 7 September and reproduced in a Government of India Home Department file. Aurobindo Ghose spoke ...
... accepted it at Pabna and Hughly because it was the opinion of an influential minority whom we did not wish to alienate. If we had been asked to subscribe to it as a creed or even as the objects of the Congress in 1906, we should have at once and emphatically refused. At Pabna the Moderates did not venture to demand any such subscription from the delegates, they did not ask it at Hughly. They knew very well ...
... divided counsels to obtain as to the disposal of the fund, the only result will be that it will remain where it is, useless and unused. We note that the opposition to the proposal unanimously passed at Hughly emanates from a few individuals whose justification for professing to speak in the name of the subscribers is not yet clear,—the Anglo-Indian papers who are interested in preventing the erection of... its most vital features. We are not aware that any organ of the popular party, Moderate or Nationalist, has opposed the sense of the country as formulated in Sj. Surendranath Banerji's resolution at Hughly. Page 284 ... know how the people will take it. Their attitude will be some sign of the present altitude of the political thermometer. The tone and temper of the movement showed a distinct rise till the Hughly Conference, subsequently it seems to have been sinking. And no wonder, with such leadership. Even a nation of strong men led by the weak, blind or selfish, becomes easily infected with the vices of ...
... the Moderate leaders negotiating on one side and at the same time holding a meeting to send delegates to the Three Men's Congress at Lahore. There is no such condition underlying the negotiations. At Hughly Sj. Surendranath expressly reserved his liberty to attend Sir Pherozshah's Congress and there is no reason why he should not do so if he thinks that his duty or his best policy. Nor do the Nationalists... imperil the success of the negotiations, it was with great difficulty they could bring themselves to consent, and Bengal Nationalism has never accepted the surrender on the subject of the creed. At the Hughly Conference, when the four Nationalist members of the Committee were named, great anxiety was expressed by the delegates that men should be chosen who would not repeat this Page 340 surrender ...
... teacher of Radicalism and democracy. Under the circumstances, which is the more unpractical and idealistic, the impatience of the Nationalist or the supine and trustful patience of the President of the Hughly Conference? The Question of Fitness It is possible the President had his eye on the question of fitness or unfitness which is the stock sophistry of the opponents of progress. One of the delegates... Karmayogin No. 12, 11 September 1909 Karmayogin No. 12, 11 September 1909 Karmayogin Facts and Opinions Impatient Idealists The President of the Hughly Conference, in reference to the formal statement by Sj. Aurobindo Ghose of the adherence of the Nationalist party to the policy of self-help and passive resistance in spite of their concessions to the ...
... in now and then. We also know that Ramsay MacDonald and his wife visited 6 College Square. Then there were the students. How they adored Sejdal With reason, of course. When, for instance, at the Hooghly Conference of the Bengal Congress Committee the Moderates conspired to eliminate the student community from participating in the deliberations, 'Aurobindo Babu' it was who, single-handedly, manoeuvred ...
... was long ago raised by Srijut Bipin Chandra Pal on similar grounds. The danger of an invasion of our market by British capital on a gigantic scale, the transference of Manchester to the banks of the Hughly is not a danger of the immediate moment. But in the future, if the pressure of a spreading Boycott and the growth of Indian industry on English trade with India becomes a strangling pressure, the first ...
... was a gentleman. He Page 61 was "the fountain of moral and intellectual energy," to borrow the words of the British administration. Arabindo Babu refused to stoop low. Remember the Hooghly Conference in September 1909? The Extremists were a democratic party. The policy makers presented their decisions to the rank and file, who adopted or amended them. Just before the start of the official ...
... purposes. (2) The draining of the rural areas. (3) The clearing of jungle in the inhabited areas of towns and villages. (4) The prevention of noxious discharges from septic tanks into the River Hughly which form the principal cause of Cholera in the riparian towns and villages on both banks of the said river. IX. That this Conference recommends— (a) That all local self-governing bodies and... Karmayogin No. 11, 4 September 1909 Karmayogin No. 11, 4 September 1909 Karmayogin Appendix: Bengal Provincial Conference Hughly - 1909 The draft resolutions in the left column were written by the Moderate Congress leaders. The Nationalist draft resolutions were written by Sri Aurobindo. DRAFT RESOLUTIONS I. That this Conference places ...
... excluded and the menace to our unity in Bengal would increase every year. Others of the advanced Moderates see more clearly and can understand that only a freely elected Congress, as freely elected as the Hughly Conference will be, can accept this constitution or form any other. Any resolution passed on this subject must therefore contemplate a freely elected session and the submission to it of any constitution... constitutional procedure when they imposed a constitution on the body they chose to call the Congress without allowing it to be submitted for acceptance or amendment by that body. The resolution at Hughly ought to be differently framed so as not only to make a United Congress possible but to bring it about so far as Bengal can help towards that consummation. In Bengal there are three classes of opinion ...
... promise was saved by the prudence of its guardians from the altar of High Education, the Moloch to whom we stupidly sacrifice India's most hopeful sons, so it was saved at Hugly College by his own distaste for hard work. At Hugly College Page 91 quite as much as at Midnapur he had the reputation of an intellectual miracle. And indeed his ease and quickness in study were hardly human. Prizes... feels how immensely his labour was simplified by a fine and original use of his Sanskrit knowledge. At the age of seventeen, being then a student of five years' standing, he cut short his attendance at Hugly College. He left behind him a striking reputation, to which, except Dwarkanath Mitra, no student has ever come near. Yet he had done positively nothing in the way of application or hard work. As with ...
... persons, that too, mostly passers-by. And I had the honour to preside over several such meetings!' " Those small matters could easily have been set right by Sri Aurobindo, as he proved at the Hooghly Conference in September. But the diagnostician that he was, he had perceived that India was already infected by a virus. Instead of a nation rising to fulfil her true function, India was rising "as ...
... policy. Great hopes have been entertained that, whatever may be done in the Councils, the Municipalities will be made really free and popular bodies, and, we remember, that expectation was urged at the Hughly Conference as a reason for not rejecting the reforms. We doubt whether this expectation will be any more fruitful than the hopes of a great advance towards popular institutions in the reform of the ...
... themselves, in spite of the majority they had, with placing their dissent on record through the mouth of Sj. Manoranjan Guha. The Bengalee cannot have forgotten that incident. It was revived again at Hughly when the Moderates insisted on whittling down the Boycott to a mere commercial measure as a price of their adherence to the Conference and Sj. Aurobindo Ghose desired to bring forward an amendment ...
... there. He stopped at several places on his way back to Calcutta and was the speaker at large meetings called to hear him. 6 He led the party again at the session of the Provincial Conference at Hooghly. There it became evident for the first time that Nationalism was gaining the ascendant, for it commanded a majority among the delegates and in the Subjects Committee Sri Aurobindo was able to defeat... in Bengali, the Karmayogin and Dharma , which had a fairly large circulation and were, unlike the Bande Mataram , easily self-supporting. He attended and spoke at the Provincial Conference at [Hooghly] 7 in 1909: for in Bengal owing to the compromise at [Pabna] 8 the two parties had not split altogether apart and both joined in the Conference, though there could be no representatives of the... 1948 edition Barisal. See Table 1, page 566 .—Ed. × 1948 edition Hooghly. See Table 1, page 566 .—Ed. × 1948 edition Benares. See Table 1, page 566 .—Ed. ...
... flies over the English Channel. August 23 - First issue of the Dharma (Bengali weekly). September - Sri Aurobindo is the leader of the Nationalists at the Bengal Provincial Conference at Hooghly. 1910, February — Halley's comet becomes visible to the naked eye; its perihelion is on April 20. It is preceded in January by the Great Daylight Comet. mid-February — Sri Aurobindo abruptly ...
... bidding of Sri Aurobindo. A few days later, the Karmayogin made an assessment of the results of the Hooghly Conference. For one thing, the situation at Hooghly wasn't strictly comparable to the one at Surat, where the order for the breaking-up of the Congress had to be given. Again, at Hooghly the Nationalists were in a position of commanding strength, and therefore they could the more easily... improbable! The fourth issue of the Karmayogin gave a balanced and detailed rejoinder to these immaculate rationalists of Calcutta and Bombay. Again, when Baikunthanath Sen, President of the Hooghly Conference (5th and 6th September 1909), described Sri Aurobindo as an 'impatient idealist', the Karmayogin commented: The reproach of idealism has always been brought against those who work... party by giving it both a policy and a programme. Taking advantage of the precarious "freedom" he still enjoyed, Sri Aurobindo led the Nationalist party at the District Political Conference held at Hooghly on the 6th and 7th September 1909. The main question at the Subjects Committee was the issue of acceptance or rejection of the Minto-Morley Reforms. The Nationalists, with their majority, were in ...
... 314,389,391, 397,408,411,413,414,453 Emerson, R.W. 332 Erie 47,50,51 Essays on the Gita 25,294,359 Euripides 243 Fausset, Hugh I'Anson 434 Ferrar, Hugh Norman 53 Fischer, Kuno 425 Fitts, Dudley 394 Friar, Kimon 398,401 Future Poetry, The 42, 293, 344,359,459 Gandhi, M.K. 17... Bankim Chandra 9 Chaucer, Geoffrey 9 Chetty, Shanker 14 Chitrangada 363,458 Clark, A.B. 9 Clemens, Prudentius 336 Clough, Arthur Hugh 53 Cocteaujean 268 Collected Poems and Plays 39 Collins, Douglas C. 455 Cotton, James S. 8 Coulton, G.G. 412 Cousins, James H. 17... Kalidasa 46,52,340,341,374,376 Karmayogin 11-12 Kazantzakis, Nikos 330,377,398-408,436, 441,460,461 Keats, John 174,313,315,365 Kenner, Hugh 391-393 Knight, G. Wilson 33,410,458 Krishnaprem, Sri (Ronald Nixon) 339,461, 463 Kurtz, Benjamin 306 Lal,P.357 Last Poems 41,458 Lawrence ...
... I5, in Calcutta at the house of his father's friend Monmohan Ghose, a barrister and a public man of the time. Father, Dr. K.D. Ghose, I.M.S., belonged to the well-known Ghoses of Konnagar, Dist. Hooghly, Bengal. Mother, Srimati Swarnalata, daughter of Rishi Rajnarayan Basu, 'the grandfather of Indian Nationalism.* Sri Aurobindo had three brothers and one sister, Eldest Benoybhusan... which later appeared in book form under the title Kara Kahini. September: As leader of the Nationalists Sri Aurobindo took a bold hand in the Bengal Provincial Conference at Hooghly. 1910 January: Sri Aurobindo's prediction of India's freedom to a correspondent of a Tamil Nation- alist weekly. February: In response to an Adesh (Command) ...
... Chief Secretary "or is it that the Government has found out a new way to pay its old debts? Resolve me, for I am in doubt." The gibe told. He had hardly set foot in Orissa, when he was gazetted back to Hugly. After a lapse of time,—Munro, I believe, had in the mean time been struck by his own astonishing likeness to the founder of Christianity and was away to spread the light of the Gospel among the he... above any Englishman in the country, we might have regarded it as such. Barhampur was the next step in his journey, and after Barhampur Maldeh, and after Maldeh the important Suburban district of Hugly. He was now nearing his high-water mark and his official existence which had been till then more than ordinarily smooth, began to be ploughed up by unaccustomed storms. The Government wanted to give ...
... Facts and Opinions The Two Programmes There could hardly be a more striking contrast than the pronounced dissimilarity between the resolutions passed at the Hughly Provincial Conference under the pressure of the Moderate leaders' threat to dissociate themselves from the proceedings if the Pabna resolutions were reaffirmed and the resolutions passed at the en ...
... and resolutions of the delegates but at the end pass his own resolutions. They said, "What a democratic leader he is! He listens to and considers all our opinions and resolutions." Then at the Hooghly Provincial Conference we met again to consider the Morley-Minto reforms. The Moderates argued in favour of accepting the reforms. We were against them. We were in the majority in the Subjects Committee ...
... President, and how utterly impossible it will be even to suggest, either in Subjects Committee or in full meeting, any idea which will not be wholly palatable to the autocrat. Sj. Surendranath Banerji at Hughly advanced the strangely reactionary conception of the President of a Congress or Conference as by right not less absolute than the Czar of all the Russias, bound by no law and no principle and entitled ...
... that Khudiram Chattopadhyay left his village Dere to go and settle at Kamarpukur, about seven kilometres away from Dere, and some twenty kilometres south of Burdwan. Both these villages are in the Hooghly District of Bengal. Khudiram got a small mud house with thatched roof, a small plot of land on which stood a few fruit-bearing trees, and a little garden to grow flowers and vegetables. Khudiram's ...
... 565 61 Barisal Hooghly For the Hooghly Conference, see Sri Aurobindo: Karmayogin: Political Writings and Speeches 1909 - 1910 , pp. 209 - 35. See also p. 59 of the present volume, where the events of the Hooghly Conference (September 1909) are discussed between events of late 1907 - early 1908 and ... Aurobindo, Karmayogin , pp. 33 - 42). Bakarganj District was sometimes referred to as Barisal District. 61 Hooghly Pabna For the compromise at the Hooghly Conference of September 1909, see p. 59 of the present volume. An earlier compromise had been reached at the provincial conference held... 59 He led the party again . . . at Hooghly. The first four sentences in this paragraph refer to events that took place late in 1907 and early in 1908. The rest of the paragraph refers to occurrences at the Hooghly session of the Bengal Provincial Conference, which took place in September 1909 (see Sri Aurobindo ...
... incidentally, his young companions lead? Let me try to be logical—chronological should I say?—and begin at the beginning. S.S. Dupleix had left her berth, N°l Esplanade Moorings, on the Hooghly river on Friday the first April, at 6:30 a.m. Under the command of Captain Musseau, the French mail steamer made steady progress as she steamed down the Bay of Bengal with her precious 'cargo.' On ...
... and it has always been an evil day for the Empire when statesmen have turned their backs on English traditions and adopted the blind impolicy of the Continental peoples. They have seen at Lahore and Hughly that Moderatism is a dead force impotent to help or to injure, that whatever the lips may profess, the hearts of the people are with Nationalism. Impolitic severity may transfer that allegiance to ...
... attend the birth of a son. Stephen's great-grandfather had male issue, Hugh and Walter, and one daughter, Bertha, who died tragically, murdered in her chamber, no one knew by whom. It was after this incident that the fatality seemed to weigh on the house and popular superstition was not slow to connect the fatality with the deed. Hugh Abelard had already a wife and two sons at the time of the occurrence... death of his young wife, went into foreign lands where he too died. The tongues of the countryside did not hesitate to whisper that he only paid in his affliction the penalty of an undetected crime. Hugh's sons grew up and married, but the same fatality fell upon the unions they had contracted; they died early and their sons did not live to enjoy the estate they successively inherited. Then Walter Abelard's... and he refused to sleep there after the first night." "Why?" "Nervous imaginations! Somebody resenting his presence, somebody in the armchair opposite. What will not men imagine? The other was Hugh Abelard's youngest son and he—" A shade crossed the face of the master of the house. Page 973 "And he—" "Was found dead in the iron bed the next morning." Armand Sieurcaye quivered ...
... Nationalist on the platform of self-help and passive resistance. It was in order to provide an opportunity for the reestablishment of this union, broken at Surat, that the Nationalists gathered in force at Hughly in order to secure some basis and means of negotiation which might lead to united effort. The hand which we held out, has been rejected. The policy of Lord Morley has been to rally the Moderates and ...
... eight days of counter-arguments to defend Sri Aurobindo. The court was occupied with these up to 13 April 1909. Charles Portent Beachcroft was the District and Sessions Judge for 24-Parganas and Hooghly at the time of the Alipore Bomb Case trial. A good cricketer, he had been a scholar at Clare College, Cambridge, during the same two years that Sri Aurobindo was a fellow at King's College of the same ...
... interlocutors’. He possessed, she said, ‘the receptivity of a medium and at the same time the magnetism of a hypnotist’.” 853 Schroeder’s statement is confirmed by numerous testimonies. The historian Hugh Trevor-Roper, for instance, mentions “that compelling enchantment of Hitler”; the annotator of the “table talk” writes about “ that remarkable magnetic fluid which he emanated with such mastery ” and... mystery”, Speer said. “But the fact is that it is impossible to explain Germany before 1933, and from 1933 to 1945, without Hitler. He was the centre of it all and always remained the centre.” 868 Hugh Trevor-Roper, serving as a military intelligence officer, had been the first to examine a mass of authentic documents in order to write his report The Last Days of Hitler. Although in the course of ...
... Sharp-hewn yet undertoned with mystery, A brief black sign from the Incommunicable Making the Eternal's Night mix with our day To deepen ever the shallow goldenness We hug to our heart! Laughing whip-lash of love That leaves a wonder-weal holding bright secrets Within its snake whose coils art centuries But whose straight sweep is the backbone of One Bliss ...
... The district of Hooghly in West Bengal — the district that has given to Bengal and to India two such world-famous figures as Raja Rammohan Roy and Ramakrishna Paramahamsa — can almost be called the cradle of the Bengali or even of the Indian renaissance.* Konnagar is a thickly populated area, almost a small town, in the Hooghly district; situated on the west bank of the river Hooghly (otherwise known ...
... all Even when we strive in vain to voice it, mother! Why else do we go on participating Page 8 In this lila of bubbles, this cosmic dance of hues, This kaleidoscopic may a we hug as Life! ( He goes on abstractedly as though in a muse ) Why else do we uphold it, new-create Symbols and sounds and words... why else, when baffled At every turn, do we still probe, explore... CHAITANYA Because ... I quail to ask you ... SACHI ( tilting his face up with trembling hand s) Look up, my son! You quail to ask me — me, for anything? Or am I dreaming? ( She hugs him, drowning his face in her heaving bosom ) Know you not, my child, Who — what you are to me — my life and heart And the hub of my universe? ... How could you, Gora? Can I deny you anything... him ) SRI CHAITANYA ( nodding ruefully ) You see why now I said I quailed... knowing how this must come To you as a dagger-thrust from a loved one To whom you opened your dear arms to hug. SACHI ( gazing at him like one stunned ) I... understand ... but oh, what shall I say? ( She steps back and rivets her eyes on the image ) SRI CHAITANYA ( placing his hand ...
... Sharp-hewn yet undertoned with mystery, A brief black sign from the Incommunicable Making the Eternal's Night mix with our day To deepen and deepen the shallow goldenness We hug to our heart! Laughing whip-lash of love That leaves a wonder-weal holding bright secrets Within its snake whose coils are centuries But whose straight sweep is the backbone of One Bliss! ...
... Tyger lies between her conclusions and those towards which I worked my way. The latter stand mightily besieged. Whether they can hold out is an issue not to be prejudged by their author. All he can hug to his heart is the keen joy of living dangerously face to face with so gallant an enemy. October 10, 1983 K.D.S . vi ...
... woman's face resembled the Mother's in the photograph in our room. I felt it was the Mother who was swimming towards the horizon and calling out to me behind. Ma was very happy to hear my dream and hugging me close to her, she said, "The Mother is calling you. Who can stop You then?" And that is what truly happened. Baba changed his decision inexplicably. Maybe my dream had something Page 5 ...
... deported. August 23 First issue of the Dharma, a Bengali weekly directed and mostly written by Sri Aurobindo. September Leader of the Nationalists at the Bengal Provincial Conference at Hooghly. September Attends a political conference at Sylhet. October 9 - November 13 The Brain of India in the Karmayogin. October 10 Speech at College Square, Calcutta. October 13 "Swadeshi ...
... great hunter-conservationist Jim Corbett while in India. It flows past Farakka Barrage, built to divert more water from Ganga to Hooghly to prevent the latter from silting. Soon thereafter, the Ganga splits into the numerous tributaries that form the Gangetic delta. The Hooghly, regarded as the true Ganga, is one of these tributaries. The main channel proceeds to Bangladesh as the river Padma, so dearly ...
... coming weeks and months with the assurance and urgency of the man who knew and could say like Hamlet: "It will be short; the interim is mine!" The Kumartuli speech, the launching of the Dharma, the Hooghly Conference, the Sylhet Conference were pointers to the new directions of Sri Aurobindo's thought. Frail, yet intent and indomitable, Sri Aurobindo was seen scouring the confused ocean of public life... was only the pretence of representation at the centre, while the reality of Swaraj was far, far beyond even the circumference. Secondly, the move for a united Congress, initiated by Sri Aurobindo at Hooghly Conference, hadn't succeeded, and there was no doubt that the proposed Moderate Convention was foredoomed to failure, and was likely to "perish of inanition, and popular indifference, dislike and ...
... 48 By resolved limitation, it has achieved a limited perfection; there is no looking before and after or a pining for what is not; there is no striving for what is beyond the reach, no hugging of excess and the sad recoil of satiety, 49 all is order and completeness and contentment: In their narrow and exclusive absolutes The finite's ranked supremacies throned ...
... one copy was sent to her, and another was given to me by the Mother. It was taken by Pranab Kumar Bhattacharya—Director of Physical Education. When the time came for her to leave, my mother hugged me and kissed my cheeks. She wanted me to go with her. I was torn between my emotion and my aim. Weak tears rolled from my eyes. I felt as miserable and terrifed as a child who has suddenly found itself ...
... there. He stopped at several places on his way back to Calcutta and was the speaker at large meetings called to hear him. He led the party again at the session of the Provincial Conference at Hooghly. ¹ There it became evident for the first time that Nationalism was gaining the ascendant, for it commanded a majority among the delegates and in the Subjects Committee Sri Aurobindo was able... public session explaining his decision and asking the Nationalists to acquiesce in it in spite of their victory so as to keep some unity in the ¹ The Bengal Provincial Conference at Hooghly was held in September 1909, i.e. after Sri Aurobindo had been released from the Alipore Jail. (See p. 126 and also note p. 258.) [Ed.] Page 256 political forces of Bengal... circulation and were, unlike the Bande Mataram , easily self-supporting. He attended and spoke at the Provincial Conference at Barisal in 1909 ¹ : for in Bengal owing to the compromise at Hooghly the two parties had not split altogether apart and both joined in the Conference though there could be no representative of the Nationalist Party at the meeting of the Central Moderate Body which ...
... skyscrapers, for are they not truly abhramliha?—but some houses very showily built have an ugly habit of descending suddenly in ruin without any previous warning either to their inmates or to the envious huggers of the plain in the vicinity. Then they are said to have been jerry-built. Now, modern European civilisation is just such a jerry-built skyscraper. You have not misapprehended my meaning, though ...
... Dada and some other people of the house were standing around us. As soon as I opened my eyes, I saw Dada come near me and patting my head, ask tenderly, "My darling Khuku, what happened to you?" I hugged my brother and exclaimed, "Dada, bhairavi!" I am told that I did not allow Ma or Dada to leave me alone for the whole day. The very next day, Dada sent a telegram to the Mother, "Shobha very unwell... dragging herself towards me. She no longer had that terrifying look or power. She was losing her force and dying. With great effort she tried to touch my feet. Frightened, I withdrew closer to Dada and hugged him tight. Then, looking at me the bhairavi said, "My girl, who are you?" "She is nobody," Dada at once retorted, "she is just an ordinary little girl. The strength that is inside her is the power ...
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... It was he who had given me the clue to the real hexametre in English." It was his recitation of a very Homeric line from Clough that gave Sri Aurobindo the real swing of the metre. 1 1. Hugh Norman Ferrers was admitted scholar at King's College on 4 October 1889, became a barrister and practised in Malaya States, then served in the First World War. Page 195 But Sri Aurobindo's ...
... “a work now regarded to have so little authenticity that it is best to disregard it altogether”. It may therefore be appropriate to point out here that Rauschning’s testimony was highly regarded by Hugh Trevor-Roper and Alan Bullock as well as by the respected German historian Günter Moltmann. The younger generation of German historians – Giordano, Köhler, Kirchhoff, Reuth, Hesemann, and others – refers ...
... are a sort of Golden Ass." 36 Writing again eighteen years later, Tate declared that his views had not changed; the Cantos remained "formless, eccentric, and personal". 37 But others, notably Hugh Kenner, have tried to infer the form underlying the apparent formlessness and incoherence. An epic certainly, though a "plotless" one. Waves start and swell and recede and subside and start again; ...
... shall change in God's transfiguring hour. 151 Having seen what he has seen, having glimpsed the great crests of future Possibility, must Aswapati still return to this bank empty-handed, hugging only the phantom of Hope and donning only the armour of Patience? A cry is wrung from Aswapati: How shall I rest content with mortal days And the dull measure of terrestrial ...
... things took place which I do not clearly remember, except one. My father approached the newcomer with a profound reverence to welcome him in respectful terms. The being of light responded with a warm hug. I was so affected that I did not quite grasp what passed between them. Except that when they separated, my father who had gone from his place in his grey, dark dress came back all transformed and ...
... hammer of God, 342; "Our object, our claim", 343; intimate glimpse, 343; religion and education, 344; the Chariot of Jagannath, 346; "Open Letter", 346, 359, 361; "no control, no cooperation", 347; at Hooghly Conference, 348, 362; at Sylhet Conference, 349; on Education, 353fr; on the uses of Art, 354; on the Leader of the Future, 360,361; "To My Countrymen", 362; on Nationalism and Terrorism, 3623, 366;... Nirad C., 450 Chidanandam, Veluri, 531fn, 544,546fh Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, 78 Chirol, Sir Valentine, 269 Chitrangada, 100, 106, 185 Clough, Arthur Hugh, 639 Colebrooke, Henry, 13 Confucius, 212 Continent of Circe, The, 450 Conversations of the Dead, 338 Cornville, 134,140 Cotton, Sir Henry, 36-7 ...
... through the farce because they cling to the shadow of moral prestige even when the substance of it is gone: they like to adopt Russian methods, but they do not like them to be called Russian and still hug the delusion that by going through the legal forms of which Justice makes use they can cover the nakedness of their tyranny with the rags of law. The accused go through the farce with the sole object ...
... Mother's Chronicles - Book Three 30 The Inner Divine She hugged her pain. "I was thinking of nothing but that: concentrating -concentrating, as though I were sitting in front of a closed door, and it hurts!" Mother touched her breast in a poignant gesture. "For months on end, sometimes years, you may be sitting before a closed door ...
... ng und Missbrauch der Mythen in Nationalsozialismus und rechter Esoterik Sydnor, Charles (ed.) in Ronald Smelser and Enrico Seyring: Die SS Toland, John: Adolf Hitler (1977 ed.) Toye, Hugh: The Springing Tiger Subhash Chandra Bose Trevor-Roper, H.R.: The Last Days of Hitler Tuchman, Barbara: The Proud Tower Turner, Stephen (ed.): The Cambridge Companion to Weber Ulbricht ...
... for formulating what the soul-sense perceives or intuits. So, when as has happened with quite a number of people at present, the soul-sense gets covered up and the intellect has only the earth left to hug, the vital-physical movements, though not unpleasurable, lack the sparkle which is necessary to make smiles automatically break out even when no real happiness Page 107 glows in the ...
... stretched across the space of a dark eternity; it is superlative emptiness, it is the zero of all zeros, it is the ultimate Nihil. This all negating featureless spectre taunts Savitri that she is but hugging the illusion of her secret soul's sovereign identity: I have created all, all I devour; I am Death and the dark terrible Mother of life, I am Kali black and naked in the world, ...
... position: Lie on the back. feet together, arms along the body. (i) Raise the left leg till it is at right angle to the body. Breathe in. (ii) Bend the left leg and bring the left knee to the chest. hug it with both arms and press it against the chest. Breathe out. (iii) Arms along the body. straighten the left leg till it is at a right angle. Breathe in. (iv) Return to the starting position. ...
... “You are our Mother.” I felt as if the Mother was forgiving us all our ignorance and our impudence. Isn’t She forgiving us all the time? She held me close to Her bosom. My body still remembers that hug of love and feels it with gratitude. The Mother told Champaklal-ji: “You see me in my human form. That is all that your eyes can comprehend. You behave with me as if I were really a human being ...
... device used for measuring heavenly bodies, helped calculate the latitude of any place at any time of the year from anywhere on the sea. Navigators could now cross the ocean at large, instead of having to hug the coast. But the truth of the matter is that most of these 'inventions' were 're'-inventions. China for instance. By c. AD 1000, the Chinese had developed science and technology, including gunpowder ...
... ends cannot feel his brotherhood with his fellows, for he is always striving to raise himself above them and assert petty superiorities. If caste makes him superior or money makes him superior, he will hug to his bosom the distinctions of caste or the distinctions of wealth. If political freedom is absent, the community has no great ends to follow and the individual is confined within a narrow circuit ...
... towards the main gate of the Playground where Her car would be waiting to take her to the Ashram. As She walked towards the gate, She suddenly stopped in front of me and gave me the most tender and divine hug. She praised me for my conscious dedication to duty and said this is what She expected from an ideal captain. This small gesture of recognition has remained with me for the rest of my life and I am always ...
... expatriates living in South-Asia. He also formed a Provisional Government of Free India with himself as head of state, prime minister and minister of war and foreign affairs. One of his biographers, Hugh Toye, writes: ‘Everywhere Bose met adulation, near adoration, devotion which moved him so that sometimes, simply in answer to the popular mood, he would make claims and promises which his most sanguine... British Crown, was a foregone conclusion. But the monsoon rains came suddenly, totally unexpected because more than a month early, and ‘the Japanese chances of success were washed away.’ It became, writes Hugh Toye, ‘a military catastrophe of the first magnitude.’ 29 The Japanese, no more than the Germans, had never intended relinquishing any power over India to somebody else — supposing the country... revered as a national hero, and in documentary films one still can see him smile, basking in the company of Hitler, von Ribbentrop or Tojo Hideki, without any of the viewers present taking umbrage. Hugh Toye says that Subhash Chandra Bose had only three friends in his life: his brother Sarat in the early years; Emilie Schenkl, a German girl who at first was his secretary, whom he later married, and ...
... paralysed. She yelled again. Then she pushed Björn away, caught hold of her sari—a bright yellow sari; in one bound, she was on her feet. Björn turned towards me. She fled through the acacia forest hugging her garments to her... It was Nisha, Meenakshi's daughter. Björn sat up, he looked at me calmly. I must have slipped down on my knees, my legs folding under me. He leaned back against the banyan... pressed it against my hand. —It's nothing Björn, I assure you, it's nothing. He dropped his knife. —Get out. —Björn... —Get out, I tell you. My heart turned over, I wanted to weep, to hug him, to tell him... —Björn, you are my brother. —I'm not your brother, go away. I am good for nothing but destruction, that's all. That's my power, go away. He jumped to his feet and planted ...
... speak, I took good care -to refrain from thinking, and held it tight, held it tight against me. I said to myself, 'Make it last, make it last, make it last.......'' For eight to ten days she hugged it close. She was living in her inner joy, while nothing inside her stirred. "I spoke as little as possible and it was like a mechanism, it wasn't me. Then slowly, slowly, as falling drop by drop, ...
... hoped against hope, supplicating: He might abide with me as my one stay. But why hast Thou my guileless prayer shattered By a cruel blow which filched from me my all ... All I had hugged in rapture — treasuring The very sound of his footfall in the vault i Of my maiden soul to feed for ever on Its echoes when he was not by my side? Page 54 Was it because... freedom born Of the last emancipation from our craving Page 67 For a little living? And what is thy compassion If not the all-forgiving sympathy Which, at its peak, accepts to hug the blackest Sinners whose sins its very touch absolves ? And this forgiveness I need most today, For surely my indictment of Thy Grace Is graver far than all the insane acts ... wend, For them as loyal I know Who call me their one Friend! 'Tis the low lands that yield the richest harvests And not the highest peaks which stay for ever Barren and gaunt hugging their haughty glare. The great saints will nor flare nor dazzle like these But sparkle even as grass athrill and bowing With divine humility. If you I call 'My dear beloved', 'tis not from a mere ...
... metres, it was but natural that Sri Aurobindo should feel particularly attracted to the hexameter. It appears that one of his classmates at Cambridge, Hugh Norman Ferrar, once read out a line from Homer or a line from Arthur Hugh Clough that was typically Homeric which he thought was the most characteristic line, and that gave Sri Aurobindo the swing of the metre. 118 Beside ...
... accused of some of these offences including conspiracy and complicity in terrorist plots. The stage was now set for the main trial to commence before the District and Sessions Judge for 24-Paraganas and Hooghly, Mr. Charles Porten Beachcroft. As evidence 4000 documents, 300 to 400 exhibits including explosives, bombs and weapons were produced. Nearly 200 witnesses were examined. The case commenced on October ...
... imprisonment for Arabindo Babu. He was back in Calcutta and upon hearing about his acquittal, he went to 12 Wellington Square, at Subodh Mullick's. Many others had gathered there, of course. Rabi Babu hugged Sri Aurobindo in a big embrace. After congratulating him he said to the younger man (in Bengali), "What! You have deceived us!" Replied Sri Aurobindo in English, "Not for long will you have to wait ...
... poetry 158,174,201,223,226 sensitivity 124 spirit 269 Yogi 6 Avatar's work 63,273 Avidya 259,302 avyakta 302 B Beddoes 197 Benson, Robert Hugh 23 Binyon, Laurence 210,223 Blake 153,197 blank-verse 102,215 Brahma-muhurta 253 Brihadaranyaka Upanishad 302 brhat 302 Browning, Elizabeth 60,161 C ...
... wince with pain — but came back for more. As was the case of a small child I saw. He would massage and the child lay writhing in pain. But when he stopped for resting (himself and the child), the child hugged and kissed him and played with him. One would expect a child to cringe from him and even run away. An onlooker, a German, surprised, asked him, “Why does the child come back and submit itself to so ...
... Beast to man, man to God; or average ordinary man to the evolved spiritually awakened saint: how is this progression started, how achieved? "Spiritual evolution as distinct from revolution", says Hugh I' Anson Fausset, "consists of this gradual dying to the old life of the divided senses and gradual growing of the new life of wholeness within the decaying body of the old. It is a growth, often i ...
... Purusha is the purblind man, he is the hesitant voyager, timid explorer: An expert captain of a fragile craft, A trafficker in small impermanent wares, At first he hugs the shore and shuns the breadths, Dares not to affront the far-off perilous main. He in a petty coastal traffic plies, Page 347 His pay doled out from ...
... only destroying the world that was, He is creating the world that shall be; it is therefore more profitable for us to discover and help what He is Page 16 building than to lament and hug in our arms what He is destroying.... Kali is the age for a destruction and rebirth, not for a desperate clinging to the old that can no longer be saved." Henceforth Sri Aurobindo was going to devote ...
... loves, that's all. He understands nothing but he loves. Sometimes, he tells himself that he is stronger than the gods because he loves... Björn looked at me for a moment; and I wanted to hug him—I had never hugged Björn. —Erik did not love, he could not love. One day, he married his prostitute out of defiance—My “fine de joie” as he used to say. —Your brothers are very much alike... And the fourth ...
... resistance was a foregone conclusion. But suddenly the monsoon set in, more than a month early, and “the Japanese chances of success were washed away”, together with those of Bose’s INA. It became, as Hugh Toye puts it, “a military catastrophe of the first magnitude”. 1170 Bose died on 18 August 1945 when the twin-engined bomber in which he was flying to Japan crashed on take-off at Taipei. In India he ...
... adoration surpasses all words and my reverence is silent." After her second meeting with Sri Aurobindo, when her mental constructions so carefully built up over the years had crumbled and she had hugged the gift of silence, Mirra wrote on April 1: "It seems to me that we have entered into the heart of Thy sanctuary and become aware of Thy will itself. A great joy, a deep peace reign in me, and ...
... athirst for delight, is overwhelmed with the mass of Nature's wealth, luxuriant in colours and smells, in peals of laughter and rhythms of dance; his senses enamoured of beauty are eagerly prone to hug the richness of external things; he wants to seize upon the Self, God, through the embrace of the senses and the fivefold life-force. Still, there is the other side where through all these varied vi ...
... The Story of Civilization: part II, The Life of Greece. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1966 Hare, R.M. Plato. Oxford University Press, 1982. Plato, The Last Days of Socrates. Translated by Hugh Tredennick. Penguin Books, 1961. Russell, Bertrand.A History of Western Philosophy. London: Unwin Paperbacks, 1979. Taylor, A. E. Socrates. 1933 Page 138 ...
... unconscious in the course of his “illness.” “It was during this period [on the very last day] that he often came out of the trance and each time leaned forward, hugged and kissed Champaklal who was sitting by the side of his bed. Champaklal also hugged him in return. A wonderful sight it was, though so strangely unlike Sri Aurobindo who had rarely called us even by our names in these twelve years.” 13 ...
... Xavier had come with the firm resolve to uproot paganism from the native soil and plant Christianity instead. So it was sauve-qui-peut with our Saraswat Brahmins. It was a precipitate flight. Hugging the coast they sailed down south 1 As quoted by Sita Ram Goel in History of Hindu-Christian Encounters. Page 141 and found their new home in South Kanara "where life ...
... During the First World War a German submarine named Emden used to ply in the Indian Ocean. And whenever it got an opportunity to sink a British ship it would do so. Once it seems to have entered the Hooghly near Calcutta. Sometime later a few British ships got together and managed to destroy the Emden. The Mother knew about this. She said: 'It wasn't a submarine but a U-boat.' I said: "No ...
... through all contrary external appearances for the fulfilment of His purpose. Man is only an instrument of the Divine. In September 1909 Sri Aurobindo piloted the Bengal Provincial Conference at Hooghly. The political situation was similar to that at the Surat Congress in 1907. The reception committee was formed of the Moderates who had framed draft-resolutions welcoming the reforms granted by the ...
... fondly believed to be his selfless work. How can an action be selfless so long as our ego, the false self, has not faded in the eternal radiance of our true self, the psychic ? Deluded by the ego, we hug the illusion of disinterested work and drown Page 85 the inner urges to self-discovery in the fervour of social and humanitarian activities; but however beneficial the activities may ...
... time, you saw things very clearly. When the psychic state fixes Page 24 itself, that discrimination also will become a part of the nature. Opposing Points of View Don't accept and hug and dandle these [ conflicting ] ideas. Everybody has thoughts opposing each other—it is the very nature of mind—one has to draw back from all that and fix on the straight things alone that lead to the ...
... leaning against one of the columns of the peristyle like a round-cheeked Moghul miniature. —Oh! Batcha, you are there... She looked at me quietly, steadily, her head on her knees, her arms hugging her legs; a long pomegranate-coloured skirt fell down to her feet. She was white and serious, as white as Balu was bronzed, a golden white, with that black plait falling over her breast. And that little ...
... probably why the Mother had named him so. Lakshmibai used to take a lot of care of her dog. Everyday Goldy would go straight to the Mother without bothering about anybody and lift his front paws and hug the Mother. The Mother showered a lot of affection on Goldy and talked to him. Looking at Goldy one would imagine he understood everything. He was delighted to show his love for the Mother. Then he would ...
... Bend one knee, hold it close to the chest, other leg straight, head on the ground. Repeat with the other knee. Repeat with both knees. Sit with legs stretched in front. Bring one foot close to hips, hug the knee to chest, other leg stretched on the ground, back straight, head normal. Repeat with the other knee. Repeat with both knees. Benefits: Removes gas from the abdomen and reduces abdominal ...
... clasped her hand and kissed it. The hand was wet with perspiration; but I found it wonderful to touch my lips to the moisture. Then I knelt and practised my "special discovery" — the ecstasy of hugging her legs. I would not let go the old ecstasy even — that of touching my head to her feet. Twice the Mother blessed me, her fingers brushing through my hair gently. When I got up, she pointed ...
... company of birds and beasts and monkeys and tigers and lions it was. Far away from the company of you people. I saw a royal Bengal tiger poised on a rocky eminence, majestically. I have seen a bear hugging a bearess ... I have seen monkeys coming down as soon as they saw me and stretching their arms to shake hands with me, knowing I was their descendant (Laughter), open their mouths, stretch their ...
... redoubled force. He went to his bed and plunged within. ‘It was during this period that he often came out of the trance, and each time leaned forward, hugged and kissed Champaklal on the cheek, who was sitting by the side of his bed. Champaklal also hugged him in return. A wonderful sight it was, though so strangely unlike Sri Aurobindo who had rarely called us even by our names in these twelve years.’ ...
... redoubled force. He went to his bed and plunged deep within himself. It was during this period that he often came out of the trance, and each time leaned forward, hugged and kissed Champaklal who was sitting by the side of his bed. Champaklal also hugged him in return. A wonderful sight it was, though so strangely unlike Sri Aurobindo who had rarely called us even by our names in these twelve years. We knew ...
... is not only destroying the world that was, He is creating the world Page 55 that shall be; it is therefore more profitable for us to discover & help what He is building than to lament & hug in our arms what He is destroying. But it is not easy to discover His drift, & we often admire too much temporary erections which are merely tents for the warriors in this Kurukshetra and take them for ...
... physical appearance, which was a little deformed, and in working capacity: he could give himself to non-stop work almost the whole of the working day. He often called Amrita his brother and sometimes hugged him. Amrita always took the relationship with a twinkle of humour. What on the whole struck everybody about Amrita was not only his extreme devotion to the Mother and Sri Aurobindo but also his ...
... his temper and said, "Then, sala, 306 why do you come to me?" and began to abuse him. And Vivekananda gave a reply, "I come to you because I love you." Then Ramakrishna forgot all his anger and hugged him, embraced him. That is what love is. We have only to love the Divine and do everything for Him or for Her. Then it does not matter where you go or what you do; you may be a scientist, you may ...
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