Sarojini Saro : (1877-1957) the only sister of Sri Aurobindo. In 1879, Dr Ghose took his family to England; in 1880 Swarnalata returned to India with her last two offsprings Saro & Barin. The three lived in a house in Rohinie; about four miles from Rajnarayan Bose’s house in Deoghar. Later she was sent to the Aghōra family in Bankipore for her education. In January 1894, Sri Aurobindo visited Rohini to meet his mother, Sarojini, & Barindra. It was their first meeting after about fifteen years. After his marriage in 1901, Sri Aurobindo returned to Baroda with Mrinalini & Sarojini, via Nainital where the Gaekwad was holidaying at the time. He went to the railway station to receive Sarojini when she came to Pondicherry in 1921, & again to see her off. He gave her the publication rights of his book War & Self-determination.
... mouth of the river Arelho, about eighty kilometres from Lisbon, on 27 October 1892. According to Sarojini Ghose, her father had sent a cable to Bombay's Grindlays & Co. asking when the ship was to berth at Bombay. The reply came, 'The ship has sunk.' Dr. K. D. Ghose was then in Khulna. Said Saro, "He was on the Page 13 point of getting into his tandem in the evening when the telegram... indoors and placed on his bed. Three or four days later he expired owing to this blow." No one from his immediate family was present at his bedside. His three elder sons were still in England. Saro and her younger brother Bari were in Calcutta; they were given the news after the funeral. Krishna Dhan died in December 1892, most probably on Wednesday the 14 th . An obituary was published on... last look at its beloved doctor. Stricken with grief Khulna mourned the death of the great physician. Page 15 His mother's grief was beyond description. "For one whole year," said Saro, "The news of Krishna Dhan's death was concealed from his mother Kailasbasini. Then, when she insistently demanded that she be shown his handwriting, we were compelled to give her the news. Instantly ...
... him he shrank bashfully. Dadababu [grandfather] put his arms around him and embraced him in a warm welcome." Both Sarojini and Barin were living with their grandparents after the death of their father, Dr. K. D. Ghose. Thus, it was at Deoghar that 'Sejda' found his sister Saro, quite a different person now from the little two-year-old he had last seen ; and for the first time he laid eyes on his... feeling of Sejda when he had to leave behind his new-found family and return to Baroda ? He expressed it in his inimitable way to his sister Saro in a letter dated 25 August, 1894. We quote it here in full. "Baroda Camp 25 August, 1894 "My dear Saro, "I got your letter the day before yesterday. I have been trying hard to write to you for the last three weeks, but have hitherto failed... has two Shivas: one is immobile, the other is mobile." It is a place of pilgrimage and its salubrious climate has made it a health resort. How did the young man appear to his family? His sister Sarojini, in an interview, 1 recalled in 1940 a forty-six-year-old memory. She was a little hazy on some points, but remembered others quite clearly. "First came a telegram," she said, "then arrived Sejda ...
... over and above the rest, Krishna Dhan had to maintain his wife and the two younger children, Sarojini and Barin. In Rohini, a village not far from Deoghar where lived Swarnalata's parents, he had rented a bungalow set in an extensive ground, with fruit-bearing trees, flower and vegetable gardens. There Saro and Bari were growing up wild. Their father seems to have been a rare visitor. Barin's first... ill-fitting knickerbockers and Saro in a peculiarly cut frock that their mother had made herself. And both completely illiterate. Barin says that he knew not how to write or even read until the age of ten. Then one day in 1888, when Barin was going on eight, to put it in his own words, "a tiger fell amid the herd," and his Didi was gone. Swarnalata had let Saro be taken away to Khulna by her father... of India but of the world. "I have vowed not to let my Barindra stay unlettered. It is my resolve that the son of Krishna Dhan Ghose shall not keep his head bowed in the world. "The way Sarojini is now being educated gives me good hope that she will be able to introduce herself as her father's daughter. Poor Bari has no more time —now or never is the case with him. A girl's education is ...
... him the least bit annoyed." But sister Sarojini used to get pretty annoyed at Sejda's lack of anger. When they lived in Deoghar she frequently asked him to scold their cook who, she said, never listened to her. One day she got exasperated. Sejda then called the cook and said, 'Thakur, why don't you listen to my sister? Please listen to my sister.' Saro never asked her brother again to scold anybody... home in N°6 College Square which was their house as well as the Sanjibani office. It was to remain Sri Aurobindo's anchor from then on until he left Calcutta and politics behind in February 1910. Saro was living there as well. For after Sri Aurobindo's arrest she had gone to live with Na'masi, and not with her elder brothers, Beno or Mano. Needless to say that it was not in Sri Aurobindo's nature ...
... Dhan Ghose, now thirty-four, again left for England, but this time with his family. Wife Swarnalata was twenty-seven; sons Beno, Mono, Ara were respectively twelve, ten and going on seven ; daughter Saro was not even two. The Doctor had taken a 'Privilege Leave' for three months from 6 June. This second trip was not for himself but for his three sons who, decided their father, should be educated... that his mother was a prey to storms. "Storms came alternately. A storm of joy Page 120 Krishna Dhan, Swarnalata, and their four children (left to right: Benoybhusan, Sarojini, Aurobindo and Manmohan) in England in 1879 Page 121 when she would laugh and laugh, followed by a storm of anger when she would pace about the room like a caged tiger, muttering ...
... remember that cut in his finger. How greatly Sri Aurobindo enjoyed this visit to the family can be appreciated from a letter to his sister Sarojini on his return to Baroda. Here are some extracts from the letter. Baroda Camp 25th August, 1894 My dear Saro, ... It will be, I fear, quite impossible to come to you again so early as the Puja, though if I only could, I should start tomorrow. Neither... or indeed any other language of the country, I may find it convenient to bring my clerk with me. I suppose there will be no difficulty about accommodating him. I got my uncle's letter enclosing Saro's. The letter might have presented some difficulties, for there is no one who knows Bengali at Baroda — no one at least whom I could get at. Fortunately the smattering I acquired in England stood me... did pay a visit to Bengal that year, the first since his return to India. He stayed for some time at the house of his grandfather at Deoghar. Naturally all the members of the family were jubilant. Sarojini, his sister, gives a pen-picture: 'A very delicate face, long hair cut in the English fashion, Sejda was a very shy person.' When his mother saw him, she exclaimed: 'He is not my Auro. My Auro was ...
... The Indian Spirit and the World's Future The Central Sarojini INDEED we have lost many things with the passing of Sarojini Naidu, but what exactly was her central quality, what constituted the very heart of her genius? It is always desirable to ask such a question, for in answering it we get clear of the plethora of conventional or merely emotional panegyric... best enabled to keep astir in ourselves what the departed greatness had most attempted to evoke. The central Sarojini is summed up in the words: happy visionary. The description must not mislead us. It does not mean a dweller in either the ivory tower or the fool's paradise. Sarojini was always possessed of a finely shrewd practical sense and she knew also the humiliations and sorrows that are ... liberty. But the visionary intoxication which seemed to make all burdens drop was peculiar to Sarojini. And even leaders greater from the constructive and energetic point of view were avid of this intoxication, for it took the edge, off difficulties which the reasoning mind could not help taking too seriously. Sarojini did not overlook difficulties but she rendered them transpicuous, as it were, and showed ...
... India The inspiration of Sarojini Naidu A Defence against Colour-blind and Tone-deaf "Debunkers" "Debunking" is the favourite sport of our time —often a healthy necessary sport; but futile and thankless is the attempt to "debunk" skylarks and nightingales and Sarojini Naidu! Critics have begun to find her work void of true emotion;... should convey an impression of exuberance and heat, for, on the whole, Sarojini the poet lives not in high reflective moments nor even in profoundly emotional ones but in a brilliant beauty of suggestive sensation. Yet to deny genuineness to poetry of such a character is to conceive the aim of inspiration too rigidly. Sarojini loves to be luxurious; she has a texture of rich warmth, because she... All authentic poetry goes beyond the crude data of life and if Sarojini touches a picturesque lucency behind the surface rather than a significant luminosity, she fails to be like Wordsworth or Shelley but she does not fail to be a genuine poet in her own way. In addition to her flair for the shiningly picturesque, Sarojini has a style in which simple feeling blends a graceful pity, a ...
... little in his lifetime—nothing ever came my way. 25 January 1935 You write in your note to Harin [of 24 January 1935] about Toru Dutt and "Romesh of the same ilk" and Sarojini Naidu that you know of no other Indian than Sarojini to have published in English anything that is really alive and strong and original. I can understand your forgetting your own work, but how is it that you have omitted Harin... fire or in flood. But I suppose he became more fluent afterwards and I am ready to change my opinion if I have materials for doing so. I made no comparison with Sarojini. The two poets are poles asunder in their inspiration and manner. Sarojini has a true originality whatever its limits; even if she does not live for ever, she deserves to live. My brother was perhaps a finer artist, but has Manmohan's... critics think it first-class in its own kind; of course he was educated at an English public school, but I suppose he Page 442 was not born to the language. Some of Toru Dutt's poems, Sarojini's, Harin's have been highly placed by good English critics, and I don't think we need be more queasy than Englishmen themselves. Of course there were special circumstances, but in your case also there ...
... Interest Letters on Personal, Practical and Political Matters (1890-1926) Autobiographical Notes To His Sister [Baroda Camp 25 August 1894] My dear Saro, I got your letter the day before yesterday. I have been trying hard to write to you for the last three weeks, but have hitherto failed. Today I am making a huge effort and hope to put the letter ...
... without himself rejecting the Service, which his family would not have allowed him to do. [According to Aurobindo's sister Sarojini, Aurobindo was playing cards at his London residence when he was to have gone to appear for the writing examination.] Sarojini's memory is evidently mistaken. I was wandering in the streets of London to pass away time and not playing cards. At last when I went ...
... cal Notes To His Uncle c/o Rao Bahadur K.B. Jadhava Near Municipal Office Baroda 15ᵗʰ August 1902 My dear Boromama, I am sorry to hear from Sarojini that Mejdada has stopped sending mother's allowance and threatens to make the stoppage permanent unless you can improvise a companion to the Goddess of Purulia. This is very characteristic of Mejdada;... rather a pull when Mrinalini comes back to Baroda. However even that could be managed well enough with some self-denial and an effective household management. But there is a tale of woe behind. Sarojini suggests that I might bring her or have her brought to Baroda with my wife. I should have no objection, but is that feasible? In the first place will she agree to come to the other end of the world... violent change and the shock of utterly unfamiliar surroundings, strange faces and an unintelligible tongue or rather two or three unintelligible tongues, have a prejudicial effect upon her mind? Sarojini and my wife found it intolerable enough to live under such circumstances for a long time; how would mother stand it? This is what I am most afraid of. Men may cut themselves off from home and everything ...
... on 'Aurobindo' or 'Auro-dada.' This letter gives Sri Aurobindo's own view on his life as it then unfolded itself. It was his 30 th birthday. "My dear Boromama, "I am sorry to hear from Sarojini that Mejdada has stopped sending mother's allowance and threatens to make the stoppage permanent unless you can improvise a companion to the Goddess of Purulia. 1 This is very characteristic of Mejdada... rather a pull when Mrinalini comes back to Baroda. However even that could be managed well enough with some self-denial and an effective household management. But there is a tale of woe behind. "Sarojini suggests that I might bring her [their mother Swarnalata] or have her brought to Baroda with my wife. I should have no objection, but is that feasible? In the first place will she agree to come to... violent change and the shock of utterly unfamiliar surroundings, strange faces and an unintelligible tongue or rather two or three unintelligible tongues, have a prejudicial effect upon her mind? Sarojini and my wife found it intolerable enough to live under such circumstances for a long time; how would mother stand it ? This is what I am most afraid of. Men may cut themselves off from home and everything ...
... Anyway, I would like to see him go as soon as possible. PURANI: In the Maharshi he has found his right Guru, he says. I hope he will be able to stay half the time there. Premanand was waiting for Sarojini Naidu's visit to the Library. Pujalal remarked, "Keep both parts of the door open!" Premanand did not understand the joke, so I said, "She may not be able to pass through only one open part of the... action of the glands. SATYENDRA: Yes, women get fat after menopause. PURANI: Not all women. SRI AUROBINDO: Otherwise the world would be full of fat women. Suvrata 3 is tolerable compared to Sarojini Naidu. PURANI: Oh yes, because she is taller too. NIRODBARAN: Sisir had a vision of the Mahakali aspect of the Mother in meditation as a sort of reply to his sorrow over the fall of Paris and ...
... India Pacifism and the Indian Spirit The Significance of the English Language in India Sri Aurobindo - The Poet: Rejoinders to Recent Criticisms The Central Sarojini A Defence of Hinduism The Real Gandhi: An Impartial Estimate of His Greatness Revivalism and Secularism August 15: Its World-Significance The Passing of Sri Aurobindo: Its ...
... resound everywhere in Tamil Nadu. Weaklings became patriots, and cowardice turned into valour. Bharati with his magic verse had waved the wand, and the age of sloth and slavery was ended for ever. As Sarojini Naidu said in her finely worded message sent at the time of the opening of the Bharati Memorial Building at Ettayapuram on 13 October 1947: 'Poet Bharati has fulfilled the true mission of... bitter that it had brought about the fragmentation of Indian humanity. He therefore affirmed - Religion and caste shan't divide us. We conclude with tributes paid by Shri C Rajagopalchari and Shrimati Sarojini Naidu. 'Just as in ancient days, Vyasa and Valmiki served human progress, Poet Subramania Bharati has served the Tamils in recent times by his writings. There can be no limit to reading Bharati's... by his genius and his work, to rank among those who have transcended all limitation of race, language and continent, and have become the universal possession of mankind.' Shrimati Sarojini Naidu Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay Fewpresent-generation Indians would have even heard of Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay, who was a pioneer among women participants in the ...
... yesterday's Hindu the review of an annual of English literature. It is a symposium of many writers of the British Empire. From India four names have been chosen—one Kashi Prasad Ghose, Toru Dutt, Sarojini Naidu and yourself . Do you know this Kashi Prasad Ghose? SRI AUROBINDO: No. Who is he? NIRODBARAN: Only poets have been included, and the Indian selection has been made by an Indian professor... SRI AUROBINDO: I wonder which poems of mine he has taken. Does he not mention Harin or my brother? NIRODBARAN: No. SRI AUROBINDO: Then I don't understand the rationale of the selection. Sarojini is alright. But, except for a few things, Toru Dutt does not come to much. And, if Toru can be included, surely Harin and Manmohan ought to be. They are better writers than she. If Romesh Dutt was ...
... various temperaments will have a chance" — I feel that we have a right to use new words and thus help enlarge the English vocabulary, as Sri Aurobindo, Sarojini Naidu and many others have done. (Sri Aurobindo has used words like ras, apsara, etc.; Sarojini — tilak, koel etc. Koel has since passed into English usage though words like tilak, ras, lila etc. have not. But they will, when, in the near... autobiography? Many English critics think it first-class in its own kind; of course he was educated at an English public school, but I suppose he was not born to the language? Some of Toru Datt's poems, Sarojini's, Harin's have been highly placed by good English critics, and I don't think that we need be more queasy than Englishmen themselves. Of course there were special circumstances; I don't find that you ...
... as published in Evening Talks. Page 1 K. D. Ghose and Swarnalata had six children, – five sons and a daughter : Benoybhushan, Manmohan, Aurobindo, a son who died in childhood, Sarojini and Barindra Kumar. K. D. Ghose had a brother, Bama Charan Ghose, who served at Bhagalpur as a head clerk. The two brothers did not agree with each other. Page 2 ...
... there any point, then, in saying that romanticism ended with Sarojini Naidu? Did it end with her death or the publication of her last collection of poems during her lifetime? There is a considerable gap of time between these two events. Quite apart from Sarojini Naidu, what do we mean by saying that romanticism "ended" with Sarojini Naidu? A particular verbal mode of expressing romantic s... inversion is a poetic device not infrequently patronised even by so sophisticated a poet as Dylan Thomas. P. Lai goes on to say: "We claim that the phase of Indo-Anglian romanticism ended with Sarojini Naidu: 'I bring for you aglint with dew a little lovely dream.' Now, waking up, we must more and more aim at a realistic poetry reflecting, poetically and pleasingly, the din and hubbub, the confusion... this mean that we must aim at a realistic poetry in order to appeal to idealistic minds? Why bring in "realism" and "idealism" into the discussion in this unhelpful fashion? We know that Sarojini Naidu was influenced considerably by the Decadent Poetry of the late nineteenth century, especially in her style and diction. The jewelled phrases and the preciosity were peculiar to her age and ...
... in this matter. The lines we have quoted from Eliot I have considered the surgeon's delight. Well, the husband of the Indian poetess was a doctor and it is by marrying him that Sarojini Chattopadhyaya became Sarojini Naidu. Once an Indian admirer of hers made the fact of her marriage responsible for not only her new name "Mrs. Naidu" but also her original maiden name. At a public gathering which... Poetry TALK TWENTY-THREE We have brought Shakespeare and Eliot together apropos of the latter's lines on evening as an etherized patient. But Eliot and Sarojini Naidu would indeed be strange associates, the one a sophisticated modernist, the other a romantic traditionalist, the one intellectually inspired, the other emotionally beauty-swept. Yet there are... dance-movement: at once we are drawn from the physical to the psychological, from the outer to the inner form, the mind's way of feeling and seeing, the way which is the true stuff of art-expression. Sarojini Naidu is ingeniously phanopoeic Page 191 also in that brief description of the crescent moon, where she discloses by a sharp gleaming touch the high and sacred sense her country's ...
... SRI AUROBINDO: He thought Vyasa had made a mess of it. Even present-day Bengalis are fond of weeping. They expect everybody to weep. When Barin was condemned, they reported that Sarojini wept and that when I met Sarojini I too began lamenting and crying! Barin had to contradict the report. PURANI: Also when Manmohan died, some people thought you were mourning him. SRI AUROBINDO: We brothers ...
... One who was closely associated with Sri Aurobindo's revolutionary activity, and had great responsibility, was his younger brother Barin. After their father's death in December 1892, Barin and Sarojini were taken to their grandfather's at Deoghar, where for the first time they were to meet their three elder brothers. It was at Deoghar that Barin went to school. He passed his Matriculation from... and nights. Then after donning Sejda's shirt and clean dhoti, and my long hair combed in Rabindric style, when I came out everybody heaved a sigh of relief." By 'everybody' Barin means his Didi (Sarojini), Sejda and Sejo-baudi (Sejda's wife). It was several months after Sri Aurobindo's marriage in April 1901 that Barin turned up. "By Page 239 and by I met the Jadhav brothers in ...
... adaptation to music and melody. His thought is profound, his technical devices are commendable but the music that enchants or disturbs is not there. Aurobindo is not another Tagore or Iqbal or even Sarojini Naidu." I confess the words fairly take my breath away. They deny inspiration altogether and in all its forms to Sri Aurobindo's poetry. For, evidently, music in poetry does not stand just for one... clinchingly proves the inspired poet? Sri Aurobindo's being very strikingly successful in it gives the lie, with quintessential force, to the charge that he is less a poet than Tagore or Iqbal or even Sarojini Naidu. Page 161 ...
... 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 a group photograph, courtesy Smt. Lahori Chatterjee) 76 Rajnarain ...
... birthday and am beginning to get dreadfully old") and also to Sarojini's progress in her English studies: I hope you will learn very quickly; I can then write to you quite what I want to say and just in the way I want to say it. I feel some difficulty in doing that now and I don't know whether you will understand it. 12 Sarojini's education was very near to his heart, and he used to make ... he was small," she is said to have exclaimed. But she remembered a childhood cut on his finger, and finding it still there, she was satisfied that it was her own Aurobindo. His younger sister, Sarojini, found that he had "a very delicate face, long hair cut in English fashion; and she described him Page 48 as "a very shy person". 10 Sri Aurobindo was also delighted to see again his... uncle, Jogendra, and especially his grandfather, Rajnarain Bose. The return to Baroda after family reunion was not quite to Sri Aurobindo's liking, as may be inferred from a letter he wrote to Sarojini on 25 August 1894: There is an old story about Judas Iscariot, which suits me down to the ground. Judas, after betraying Christ, hanged himself and went to hell where he was honoured with the ...
... Mrinalini's cousin; he gives no date. Sarojini and Mrinalini could not get on well together. It was Sarojini who used to pick quarrels with Mrinalini over trifles. Mrinalini would complain to Sri Aurobindo about Sarojini's bad temper, but each time his advice would be, "Endure, endure", which did not please her much. She wanted that at least for once Sarojini should be administered a mild rebuke, but... fine sonnet on him in English. After the marriage Sri Aurobindo left for his maternal Page 4 uncle's place at Deoghar with his wife and then for Baroda via Nainital, taking his sister Sarojini with them. The Maharaja of Baroda was vacationing at Nainital, during that time. Mrinalini lived for a full first year with Sri Aurobindo. After that reports vary. Whatever the truth, I believe this... do any household chores. Now Sri Aurobindo had to act. Fixing his gaze upon Mrinalini he said, "Look here, do you think anybody's conduct can be changed in the way you want it? If I rebuke you or Sarojini, will it immediately make either of you give up your defects? Rather, instead of the peace you are asking for, it will have quite the opposite effect. I have told you to endure. If you follow sincerely ...
... The Thinking Corner The Peacock Lute Sarojini Naidu flashed out that phrase in a poem - Professor Bhushan has caught it on the title-page of his excellent new anthology of poems written in English by Indians. Both are acts of inspiration. The fine phrase becomes a focus of special significance when applied to Indian poetry in any form. A peacock is commonly ...
... father will be able to send me a cook when you come. I have got a Maratha cook, but he can prepare nothing properly except meat dishes. I don't know how to get over the difficulty about the jhi . Sarojini wrote something about a Mahomedan ayah , but that would never do. After so recently being readmitted to Hindu society, I cannot risk it; it is all very well for Khaserao & others whose social position ...
... Sri Aurobindo to his family were few and are hard to find. The following letter to Sarojini shows him as an affectionate brother. It also shows that Benoybhushan did not return to India till 1894. One sees how scarce the correspondence between the brothers was. Baroda Camp 25th August, 1894 My dear Saro, I got your letter the day before yesterday. I have been trying hard to write to... Europe! Sri Aurobindo seems to have visited Bengal for the first time after his return from England in 1894. He met all his relations – his mother Swarnalata, Sarojini, Barin, Jogendra, as well as his grandfather Rajnarayan. This is how Sarojini describes his appearance: "a very delicate face, long hair cut in English fashion, Sejda ["older brother", i.e. Sri Aurobindo] was a very shy person." His... Aurobindo was in the habit of reading far into the night and retiring very late. He was a late riser. During this period he used to send money regularly for the maintenance of his mother and for Sarojini's education at Banki-pore. The two elder brothers Benoybhushan and Manmohan who had returned from England were earning also but they rendered no help to the family. When asked about this Sri Aurobindo ...
... auspices. English poetry written by an Indian writer who uses the foreign medium as if it were his mother-tongue, with a spontaneous ease, power and beauty, the author a brother of the famous poetess Sarojini Naidu, one of a family which promises to be as remarkable as the Tagores by its possession of culture, talent and genius, challenging attention and sympathy by his combination of extreme youth and... heights he may attain,—the book at once attracts interest and has come into immediate prominence amidst general appreciation and admiration. We have had already in the same field of achievement in Sarojini Naidu's poetry qualities which make her best work exquisite, unique and unmatchable in its kind. The same qualities are not to be found in this book, but it shows other high gifts which, when brought ...
... magazines.' I then said, ' If we give you those, you won't search th e house and Page 66 ransack everything?' To which he said, 'No.' I then gathered all the Karmayogin issues both Sarojini-didi [Sri Aurobindo's sister] and I had with us; and gave all to the Police officer. He took them all and then quite as usual searched the house leaving everything in a mess ." Sukumar adds bitterly ...
... of History When Sri Aurobindo was imprisoned and it became apparent that it would be a long-drawn-out case, K. K. Mitra persuaded his niece to make a public appeal for her brother's defence. Saro's appeal was as a sister for the defence of her brother to every brother and sister in the country. Her brother was a sannyasin who was a devoted servant of the Motherland, he was the brother of all ...
... 1920 the first three of these, along with a Foreword and a newly written essay, "The League of Nations", were brought out as a book by S. R. Murthy & Co., Madras. A second edition was published by Sarojini Ghose (Sri Aurobindo's sister) in 1922. Sri Aurobindo dictated a few scattered revisions to these essays during the late 1940s or in 1950. A third edition of the book was brought out in 1957. "After ...
... forget all innovators and to fall into an error that should have been swept away for good when Symons and Gosse sponsored Sarojini Naidu or Fowler-Wright and Laurence Binyon hailed Harindranath Chattopadhyaya. It is curious to remember that Gosse's advice to Sarojini Naidu amounted to saying: "If you, an Indian with such a flair for our tongue and our literary technique, want to write good ...
... the moral stature of man. Non-violence can do that. SRI AUROBINDO: But he is putting the cart before the horse. The moral stature has to be improved before man becomes non-violent. SATYENDRA: Sarojini Naidu seems to have visited Raman Maharshi. She writes that she has seen two Mahans. One is Maharshi and the other Gandhi. Maharshi gives peace. SRI AUROBINDO: And Gandhi gives Charkha? (Laughter) ...
... functioning from 1 October 1917 with the Central Hindu College as its first constituent college. Besant received many tributes during her lifetime. Perhaps the most beautiful one came from Sarojini Naidu: 'Mrs. Annie Besant was a great woman, a warrior, a patriot and a priestess. Many creeds were reconciled in her. Her essential qualities were her unquenchable thirst for freedom.' She ...
... Puraskar. He was the Founder-President of Paschimbanga Bangla Academy. 13 . Toru Dutt (1856-1877) was one of the earliest poetess of Bengal to write in English and French. 14 . Sarojini Naidu (1879-1949) was born in Hyderabad. She was a poetess and a nationalist. She was the first lady Governor of Uttar Pradesh after India’s independence. 15 . Sotuda, a Royal Chartered ...
... alongside the British if only she is given the opportunity. We have no arms, no ammunitions, no training. How can we help? If the Government made some gesture, then everybody would willingly help. Sarojini Naidu has said that nobody in India wants Hitler's victory. If the British gave some self-government—for instance, Dominion Status—all would help the Allies." SRI AUROBINDO: Is what she says true ...
... Benoybhushan, Manmohan, Aurobindo and Sarojini. In 1880 Dr. K.D. Ghose returned alone from England to rejoin his service. He left Swarnalata and the children in England. On January 5, a son, Barindra Kumar, was born at Croydon, England. His name is listed in the birth register as "Emmanuel Ghose"! Swarnalata later returned to India with Barin and Sarojini. Dr. Ghose stayed alone at Khulna after... after his return and when Swarnalata came he arranged for her to stay at Rohini, a town two miles from Deoghar, with Barin and Sarojini. ¹. Cf. A.B. Purani , Evening Talks, Third Series (Pondicherry: Sri Aurobindo Ashram, 1966), p. 166. ². Cf. A.B, Purani, Evening Talks, Second Series (Pondicherry: Sri Aurobindo Ashram, 1961), p. 140. Page 4 He found it impossible to stay... one of his letters expresses his wish to have a home in England where he could bring his sister and brother for education. This never came to anything. In fact Aurobindo had to support his sister Sarojini at Bankipore after his return to India in 1893, when he joined the Baroda state service. He used to send money regularly from Baroda to' his mother at Rohini. Later on (in 1901) Barin also came and ...
... with the prevailing situation there. In November or December 1909 he was in Calcutta along with his wife. At Sukumar's invitation they paid him a visit. "My mother, sisters Kumudini-didi, Basanti and Sarojini-didi welcomed them and offered them sandesh, rosogolla, kochuri, singara) and other Bengali food items." When in 1911 his book, The Awakening of India 1 —highly appreciated by the Nationalist ...
... younger brother Barin writes that when Page 106 they were living together in Calcutta their sister Sarojini used to complain to Sri Aurobindo about the misbehaviour, the rude conduct, of the cook. Sri Aurobindo paid no heed, he kept quiet; finally Sarojini applied her 'brahmastra' and began to weep. Now Sri Aurobindo had to do something; he called for the servant; everybody was ...
... happening now in the ‘Bijoli’ office?” Without pausing for breath, she replied, “Bibhuti-da is playing the harmonium, Barin-da’s room is closed, and so is Upen-da’s but Upen-da is writing something. Sarojini-di is reading a book.” Since all this tallied with my knowledge of their habits, I asked again, “Now tell me what Sri Aurobindo is doing.” For a long while she gazed at the ceiling, then replied ...
... was not a party of rich men ; nor were those Gandhian days when the 'third-class' carriage in which Mr. M. K. Gandhi travelled was often converted to one with the comforts of a first -class. As Sarojini Naidu commented wryly, "It costs the people of India a lot of money to maintain the poverty of the Mahatma." In the event, this was a real third-class, and the Bengali Nationalist leaders were ...
... in Sri Aurobindo’s house for more than a year. The others worked at Manicktala Garden making bombs. And they came to meet Sri Aurobindo only occasionally. But my father stayed with Him. Barin-da, Sarojini Devi, and Mrinalini Devi were living there and the five of them shared the little that Sri Aurobindo earned. During this time Sri Aurobindo was translating the Mahabharata into English verse. While ...
... May), Sarojini his sister rushed into his room in terror and woke him up. The small room was now filled with armed policemen, some senior officers like Superintendent Craegan, and "red turbans, spies and search-witnesses". Pistols in hand, some of them struck heroic attitudes, as if they were out to storm a fortress. It was even reported that "a white hero had aimed a pistol" at Sarojini's heart... powers and reputation, was engaged by the Government to conduct the prosecution. It was therefore necessary to organise the defence of Sri Aurobindo on a reasonably efficient basis. His sister, Sarojini Devi, accordingly made the following fervent appeal for funds: My countrymen are aware that my brother Aravinda Ghose stands accused of a grave offence. But I believe, and I have reason to... and other leading papers. Response to the appeal was not very slow in coming; and it came - as it often does - from the most unexpected places. A blind beggar - all deathless honour to him! - gave Sarojini one rupee out of the alms he had assiduously collected over a period of months; an impecunious student, by denying himself his daily tiffin, gave a modest contribution; the Poona Sarvajanik Sabha ...
... something higher than his quotidian consciousness, he strains and poises himself and rarefies his mood in order to catch the inevitable phrase, the authentic rhythm, the real-sense of inspiration. Sarojini Naidu, after a brief spell of delicate music, grew dumb because she was not jealous enough of the gift bestowed on her: the drum and trumpet of politics deafened her to those flute-voices of her young ...
... might not leak out through him. On 8 May the house of Subodh Mullick at Banaras was searched. On 17 May the case was brought up before Mr. Birley and on 18 May the case was officially begun. Sarojini issued an appeal for funds for the defence of Sri Aurobindo : "My countrymen are aware that my brother Aravinda Ghose stands accused of a grave offence. But I believe, and I have reason to think... – my brother and theirs too. "Contributions should be sent either to me at 6, College Square, Calcutta or to my Solicitors Messrs. Mamal and Agarwala, No. 3, Hastings Street, Calcutta." SAROJINI GHOSE "Ferrar who had been my classmate could not come to see me in Court when the trial was going on and we were put in a cage lest we should jump out and murder the judge. He was a barrister... sat on the verandah with hands crossed, in the freezing cold of the winter, with only a dhoti and a shirt on. One day he got so absorbed while expounding the Gita that he went on until one o'clock. Sarojini came out with the food. Then the young men knew that it was his lunch time and they left him; only then did he eat. When Sri Aurobindo came out of jail the whole political atmosphere had changed ...
... schooling had to be undergone in England itself. Krishna Dhan was not deterred by all this. In 1879 he took his pregnant wife, his three sons of twelve, nine and seven, and their younger sister Sarojini on a voyage to Great Britain. A friend, the British magistrate of Rangpur, had given him the address of an excellent person to look after the boys: the Reverend William H. Drewett, Congregational... ordinary life. When the awakening and the new consciousness come, one leaves it – nothing puzzling in that.’ 25 And so Aurobindo returned home in the company of his young wife and of his sister Sarojini, after having spent some time in Nainital, the beautiful hill station where the Gaekwad was holidaying. ‘Despite the differences in their ages and interests, Aurobindo and Mrinalini had an affectionate... tenth year or so had been extremely miserable as his mother, with whom he was staying in Deoghar, succumbed more and more to her mental illness. At last Krishna Dhan succeeded in kidnapping first Sarojini and then Barin from their mother’s house. (These painful episodes must have contributed considerably to undermining the doctor’s health.) When Aurobindo had first seen Barin, somewhere in 1894 ...
... force, Radhakrishnan has achieved through it a striking lucidity of versatile intellectual exposition, R. K. Narayan has made by its help the novelist's art a rare blend of the simple and the subtle, Sarojini Naidu has been enchantingly lyrical in it, Tagore has given with it to his Gitanjali an immortal poignancy, Vivekananda has forged from it a thrilling Page 101 clarion of the ...
... 198 Moses, 9-10, 108 Mother, The (La Mere), 228, 287n -Prieres et Meditations, 287n Mukherjee, Prabhat, 230 Mussolini, 274 NACHIKETAS, 19-20, 32-3, 35, 105 Naidu, Sarojini, 62n Nazism, 262 Newton, 300 Nietzsche, 126, 243, 297 North Pole, 27 Norway, 175 PAKISTAN, 267 Panis, 13 Parasara, 162 Pascal, Blaise, 107-13 -Le Pari, 110 -Les ...
... Benoybhusan and Manmohan Page 107 were born. Calcutta was Sri Aurobindo's birthplace. After him one child, the fourth son, died. Then at Rangpur, on 3 September 1877, was born Sarojini, their only sister. The youngest brother, Barindra Kumar, was born in England. We shall come to him in due course. "I was born in the lawyer Manmohan's house on Theatre Road," Sri Aurobindo ...
... super-knowledge and 346 thinking 234 transformation of 69 Mother birthday 272 experiences, described in Savitri 330 recording Savitri 282 N Naidu, Sarojini 147 Napoleon 150,152 Nature achievement of 273 and Supernature 12,208,315 divine manifestation 95 doings of secret 285 domain of 88 field of scientists 163 ...
... organic adaptation to music and melody. His thought is profound, his technical devices commendable, but the music that enchants or disturbs is not there. Aurobindo is not another Tagore or Iqbal or even Sarojini Naidu." The words fairly take one's breath away by their sweeping ineptitude. For, they deny inspiration completely and in all its modes to Sri Aurobindo's poetry. In poetry, music does not stand... the clinching proof of the genuine poet. Sri Aurobindo's being very striking in its music gives the lie, with quintessential force, to the charge that he is less a poet than Tagore or Iqbal or even Sarojini Naidu. None of these has produced blank verse in English. And no other Indian has anything to show in this "tricky" medium, which would bear comparison with the Aurobindonian afflatus, the ...
... rata or Dante's Divina Commedia as a nightingale's song. Least of all would we normally associate this song with Paradise Lost. The nightingale reminds us of Catullus and Campion, Sappho and Sarojini Naidu. It is a symbol of lyricism. And in a very evident sense the grandioseness of Milton's chant is at the opposite pole to the lyrical. But Milton the epic poet par excellence has a special ...
... technically, alter-native scansisons. But I believe there is always one scansion which is of true help to the significance and the feeling of a line. The critic Chapman has instanced the opening of Sarojini Naidu's Flute-player of Vrindavan as posing us a small problem in scansion. Technically both the following lines — Why didst thou play thy matchless flute 'Neath the Kadamba tree? — ...
... filled with great remorse and self-contempt. No more of it. I give up this sin for good. "To offer money to God means spending it for sacred causes. I have no regrets giving monetary help to Sarojini or Usha, because helping others is Dharma, to protect those who depend on you is a great Dharma, but the account is not settled if one gives only to one's brothers and sisters. In its present plight ...
... the Mother meant. A few anecdotes to illustrate the point. When Sri Aurobindo was living with his family in Calcutta, Sarojini, his younger sister, made frequent complaints about the rudeness and impertinence of their cook. Sri Aurobindo simply listened and forgot all about it. Sarojini at last lost her patience and urged upon him a drastic step. Sri Aurobindo called the cook in a grave voice and asked ...
... College to the Revenue Department, Baroda State. April 30 Marriage to Mrinalini Bose, eldest daughter of Bhupal Chandra Bose, in Calcutta. Afterwards goes to Nainital with Mrinalini and his sister Sarojini. 1902 April 28 On privilege leave until May 29. Sri Aurobindo uses his leaves and vacations, especially from 1902 onwards, for the organisation of revolutionary action in Bengal ...
... b, 305; arrest on, 5 May 1908, 308; at Police Station, 308,317; before chief Presidency Magistrate, 310; at Alipur Jail, 310ff, 317; "master mind" behind extremism, 311; Alipur "Yogashram", 312; Sarojini's appeal for defence fund, 312, 324; on Eardley Norton, 313ff; on Alipur Jail, 315ff; on God's manifestation in prison, 316; experience of Vasudeva, 319ff, 322-3, 362, 371, 387, 389; on the fellow-accused... Prasad, 222, 324, 763 Ghose, Krishnadhan, 25ff, 33,35ff, 183,192; death of, 45ff Ghose, Manomohan, 28,29,3 1ff, 35,43,46, 49,192,223,695 Ghose, N. N., 255ff, 258-59 Ghose, Sarojini, 29, 49, 66, 192, 211, 219, 235,308,312,324,326 Ghose, Sisirkumar, 690 Ghose, Sudhir, 722 Ghose (Ghosh), Surendra Mohan, 286fn, 701-02, 71 1ff, 728, 733, 754, 762, 763 ... 706-07,764 Muzzafferpore bomb action, 305ff, 387 Nag, Bejoy, 336, 370, 374ff, 377-78, 379ff, 382,405 Nag, Kalidas, 28, 763 Nagai Japata, Guru, 380 Naidu, Sarojini, 266 Nair, Sir Sankaran, 530 Nammalvar, 497 Nandakumar, Prema, 112fn, 133,134fh, 140, 148,152m, 341, 383m, 640, 646, 690 Naoroji, Dadabhai, 11, 190, 227, 228, 273 ...
... adaptation to music and melody. His thought is profound; his technical devices are commendable; but the music that enchants or disturbs is not there. Aurobindo is not another Tagore or Iqbal, or even Sarojini Naidu." – The Times Literary Supplement, July 8, 1944. Page 62 poetry is not merely beauty but power, it is not merely sweet imagination but creative vision – it is even the ...
... Brockington of Edinburgh University have laid a special emphasis on the pre-eminently ethical aspect of Rāma's conduct. Cf. Prof. J.L. Brockington's The Relevance of the Ramayana, 3rd Surendra Lai Kundu-Sarojini Kundu Memorial lecture, delivered at Calcutta on 18th December 1993. "Rama's moral grandeur", says Brockington, "comes from his willing submission to the apparently arbitrary requirement of his exile ...
... to the Revenue Department, Baroda State. April 30 Marriage to Mrinalini Bose, eldest daughter of Bhupal Chandra Bose, in Calcutta. Afterwards goes to Nainital with Mrinalini and his sister Sarojini. 1902 — Works in the office of Huzur Kamdar (aide to the Dewan, the chief administrative officer of the State). April 28 On privilege leave until May 29. Sri Aurobindo ...
... see this letter, for what I have said is extremely secret. I have not spoken about this to anyone but you; I am forbidden to do so. This much for today. Your husband P. S. I have written to Sarojini about household matters. When you see the letter you will understand that it is unnecessary to write to you separately about them. A reminiscence of the Bande Mataram days: Sri Aurobindo ...
... that he should keep away. He took the prohibition as the result of an adverse report having been made after a certain incident before the darshan. At that time the daughter of the poet Sarojini Naidu was on a visit to Pondicherry. She had a friend in the Ashram who took Purani and me as well as the man in question to see her. At a meeting the last-named had aired some unfriendly views ...
... even at St. Paul's in the last three years he simply went through his school course and 3. The whole family went to England - Dr. Ghosh, Mrs. Ghosh, and their three sons and daughter Sarojini. Barindra, the fourth son was born in England. 4. Unless otherwise stated, the quotations are from "Sri Aurobindo on Himself and on The Mother”, published by Sri Aurobindo Ashram. Page ...
... on the Englishman and how he did it. Dilip argued: "The Gitanjali of Tagore was appreciated and highly praised by many English poets. Conrad's prose ranks as high as any great English writer's. Sarojini Naidu and some others were praised by Gosse, Binyon and De la Mare." Add Santayana whose prose is better than most Englishmen's Thompson rejoined: "Well, the merits of the latter people you... expression, feeling—even Polish or Russian—can be legitimately expressed in English, however unEnglish it may be, but an Eastern spirit, tradition or temper cannot? He differs from Gosse who told Sarojini Naidu that she must write Indian poems in English—poems with an Indian tradition, feeling, way of expression, not reproduce the English mind and turn, if she wanted to do something great and original ...
... round the Sun that was the elder brother. Barindra was born in England, and while still a boy lost his father and was denied a mother's constant affection and solicitude. He first leaned on his sister Sarojini, but from early years he had also a mind and a style of his own. After passing the Entrance examination, he joined the Patna College, then moved to the Dacca College where his brother Manomohan Ghose... one morning in 1901 "with a dirty canvas bag and very dirty clothes". After a bath, he was presentable enough, and made a fourth in the family, with Sri Aurobindo, his wife Mrinalini, and his sister Sarojini already there. 23 Barin, however, had even earlier caught the revolutionary "virus", and he reached Baroda at the time when Sri Aurobindo was fast sending out his revolutionary tentacles to ...
... great world bare and bright. 10 IV It was mentioned in an earlier chapter (III.vii) that, following his marriage to Mrinalini Bose in 1901, Sri Aurobindo went with her and his sister, Sarojini, to Naini Tal; and after their return to Baroda, Barin also joined them some time later. The next few years were the period of Sri Aurobindo's increasing association with secret revolutionary activity... periods, and the range and altitude of his interests and preoccupations were unfortunately inaccessible to the simple girl full of tender human qualities who had come to share the life of her husband. Sarojini of course was an understanding and helpful companion and a source of considerable solace. But the fact that Sri Aurobindo was far off and far above her, that the distance was but increasing with the ...
... Songs of Love and Death would readily take them as the work of an English poet trained in the classical tradition." Sarojini, the only sister, was much younger than Sri Aurobindo, and extremely devoted to him. We shall presently quote a letter from Sri Aurobindo to Sarojini, which shows how dearly he too loved her. Barindra, the youngest brother, was born, as we have already seen, in England... Page 20 O plains, O hills, O rivers of sweet Bengal, O land of love and flowers, the spring-bird's call And southern wind are sweet among your trees. "My dear Saro, I got your letter the day before yesterday. I have been trying hard to write to you for the last three weeks, but have hitherto failed. Today I am making a huge effort and hope to put the letter... narrative. Sri Aurobindo visited Bengal in 1894 for the first time after his return from the West. He went to Rohini, which is about four miles from Deoghar. There he met his mother, his sister Sarojini, and Barindra. It was their first meeting after about fifteen years. From Rohini, Sri Aurobindo went to Deoghar and met his maternal grandfather, Rajnarayan Bose, and other relatives, and stopped ...
... Calcutta. Monmohan was a poet. While in England his poetry received appreciation from a number of English critics including Edmund Gosse. Next to Monmohan was Sri Aurobindo followed by their sister Sarojini and the youngest brother Barindra who is alive. 1872-77 With parents in Khulna where his father was Civil Surgeon. 1877-79 At Loretto Convent School, Darjeeling ...
... Devi, Pilgrims of the Stars) 17. Sri Aurobindo's own experience in Alipore jail. 18. Harindranath Chattopadhyay (1897 -1990), a poet and cinema actor, brother of Mrinalini Chattopadhyay and Sarojini Naidu. Husband of Kamala Devi Chattopadhyay. 19. aksaravrtta: system of versification in which the number of letters and not the sounds is taken into account. 20. Vairagya: disgust ...
... instruct him. I will instruct him."' You can imagine the enormous expenses involved in fighting a long drawn-out legal battle of such magnitude. To meet these costs, a Defence Fund was started by Sarojini, Sri Aurobindo's sister and people from far corners of the country sent in their contributions, big and small, which were of great practical help to Sri Aurobindo's supporters in those difficult days ...
... Masses of men act upon their vital push, not according to reason—individuals too mostly, though they frequently call in their reason as a lawyer to plead the vital's case. 30 January 1936 Sarojini Naidu's daughter Padmaja told me today that when Subhas issued his manifesto from Europe to the effect that he and Jawaharlal were great friends and at one on every point, he actually had been scheming ...
... nature. In that case great care must be taken. It must be found out what it is and the thing be put right without any too rough handling. I shall write to you separately about Arun's money and Sarojini. AUROBINDO GHOSE Arya Office, Pondicherry 30 December, 1922. My dear Barin, It is unfortunate that Krishnashashi's Sadhana should have taken this turn. As things stand however a general... success in the future. It is enough that these forces should have destroyed such fine psychic possibilities as of Krishnashashi. I do not like their being successful in other directions also. As to Sarojini, it is out of the question that she should come here. Make it plain to her that the Yoga I am doing is now too much difficult for her. Her coming here would be waste of time and money. If she is in ...
... nature. In that case great care must be taken. It must be found out what it is and the thing be put right without any too rough handling. I shall write to you separately about Arun's money and Sarojini. Aurobindo. Page 342 [5] Pondicherry January 1923 My dear Barin It is unfortunate that Krishnashashi's Sadhana should have taken this turn. As things stand however a general... success in the future. It is enough that these forces should have destroyed such fine psychic possibilities as Krishnashashi's. I do not like their being successful in other directions also. As to Sarojini it is out of the question that she should come here. Make it plain to her that the Yoga I am doing now is much too difficult for her. Her coming here would be a waste of time and money. If she is ...
... baffling the reader is carried off in a mysterious manner that carries the overtone of some universal presence - "seen nowhere though felt everywhere". I am reminded of the last stanza of a poem by Sarojini Naidu: I, leaning from my sevenfold height, Shall teach thee of my sevenfold grace: Life is a prism of my light And death the shadow of my face. Your whole piece is ...
... which then was part of the princely state of Baroda. To His Sister. 25 August 1894 . Sri Aurobindo wrote this letter to his younger sister Sarojini (1877 - 1956) shortly after his first visit to his home province after his return from England. Sarojini had been an infant when he went to England. The letter was published by their brother Barindra Kumar in Jugantar (Puja number 1364 B.S.). ... against him in the Alipore Bomb Case. It was published in the Bengalee on 18 May 1909. The "defence fund" mentioned was set up by his uncle Krishna Kumar Mitra in the name of Sri Aurobindo's sister Sarojini. To the Editor of the Hindu . [1] 7 November 1910. Sri Aurobindo left Calcutta for Pondicherry on 1 April 1910. Shortly thereafter the Government of Bengal issued a warrant for his arrest ...
... as before, and she was accepted too, and acquired from Sri Aurobindo the spiritual name of' 'Datta' 22 (meaning 'Entirely Self-given' 23 ). When Mrinalini Chattopadhyaya (sister of the well-known Sarojini Naidu) visited Pondicherry in mid-1920 to see Sri Aurobindo, she also initiated Mirra into wearing the sari; and even as the kimono in Japan had fitted her as if to the culture born, now the Indian ...
... members of Mullick's family. Accordingly, Sri Aurobindo's resourceful factotum, Abinash Bhattacharya, found a separate place, first at Chhaku Khansama Lane, then 23 Scott's Lane, where Mrinalini and Sarojini (and for a time Barin) could also join them. What with the associate editorship of the newly started Bande Mataram and the Principalship of the Bengal National College - not to mention the... His infinite Grace which He has shown me, but it all depends upon His will.... The letter was written from the Scots Lane residence, and Mrinalini was at the time living at Deoghar with Sarojini. But what the letter really reveals is that Sri Aurobindo, already in early 1908, was a descended God, or at east a God-driven human instrument, engaging in multiple-tasks with a sense of preordained ...
... Eventually, some money passed into the hands of an obliging Brahmin priest and saved the face of society and shastra! After the marriage Sri Aurobindo reached Baroda along with his wife and sister Sarojini, via Deoghar and Nainital where the Gaekwad was holidaying at the time. About this time Sri Aurobindo's youngest brother, Barin, also joined him at Baroda. Because of his mother's illness and the ...
... house at 12 Wellington Square. There all his requirements were well looked after, but not wishing to inconvenience his host Sri Aurobindo moved to a house irt Chukku Khansama Lane, where Mrinalini, Sarojini, Barin and Abinash came to stay with him. Later when they shifted to 23, Scott's Lane, Barin went over to stay at the Murari Pukur Gardens. At first Sri Aurobindo was absorbed in work connected ...
... of poetry". Amal had a notebook of his own in which he had copied poems of rare poets who were usually omitted in academic studies, for instance, the War-poets, our Indian poets like Sarojini Naidu, Toru Dutt, Manmohan Ghose. He tried to inculcate in us the beauty of form, structure, rhythm. But alas the rhythmic beauty of English poetry was alien to my Bengali ears in spite of my ...
... Aurobindo wrote a letter to the Editor of the Bengalee, a popular daily newspaper of thattime, to express his gratitude to all those who had sent in contributions to the fund opened by his sister Sarojini for his legal defence. The letter is beautifully worded, simple yet moving. Here is the text: Sir, Will you kindly allow me to express through your columns my deep sense of gratitude to all ...
... of the associative magic of the words themselves." 89 Here we have another comment, from P. Lai as quoted by V. K. Gokak. 90 P. Lai considered that Indo-Anglian romanticism ended with Sarojini Niadu. "Now, waking up we must more and more aim at a realistic poetry reflecting, poetically and pleasingly, the din and hubbub, the confusion and indecision, the flashes of beauty and goodness... facts with her. It is also strange that several decades ago a critic in the The Times Literary Supplement said that Sri Aurobindo's poetry did not have the magical rhythm of Tagore, Iqbal and Sarojini Naidu,—which only shows that he was not perceptive of the deeper and subtler rhythms that go far beyond just the lyrical. However, in his defence it may be said that much of Sri Aurobindo's poetry ...
... 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 Street, Manchester. Mr. Drewett was ...
... opposition to the British government. All the time our eyes are turned to the British and their actions. We must look to ourselves irrespective of them and having found our own nationhood make it free. Sarojini, Sri Aurobindo's sister, came in 1921. Sri Aurobindo went to the railway station to receive her as well as to see her off. He gave her the publication rights of his book War and Self-determination ...
... She looked at Dada and asked 'So, it isn't going down, is it?' * Page 126 In the beginning, Dada told us, the Mother did not know how to wear a sari. Sri Aurobindo's sister Sarojini first taught Her how to wear one. At first the Mother had only two saris. She would use them for daily wear. One would be washed and the other worn. But within the house She would wear a gown. ...
... What do you think of them? Sri Aurobindo : They do write poetry in English and it may even be successful, but it is not the real man who is speaking. Very few can do it in another language. Sarojini Naidu Page 235 had a small range but had the Capacity to express- herself. Disciple : The general impression is that poetry is not in vogue in England, or perhaps anywhere ...
... nearly 24,000 lines cannot just be ignored or bypassed. And, reading on in Mr. Lai's Introduction, we come across some light on the positive side of that see-saw passage. He says: "Toru Dutt..., Sarojini Naidu, and Sri Aurobindo - whatever their weaknesses - have this great strength in common though in varying degrees: they have Indian responses to life and things." And also a little before those ...
... there could be no real confinement. But when on acquittal the human body too was freed from captivity, he had to act a human role and speak in human accents. He knew that, on his arrest, his sister Sarojini had appealed for funds because, having "taken a vow of poverty in the service of the Motherland", he had no means of engaging the services of a barrister, and she had therefore been driven to the ...
... accurate nor dependable. 2. Girija relies, in the second instance, on personal talks, reports and impressions of certain relatives of Sri Aurobindo; for example, he often quotes Barindra and Sarojini. Here also he is relying on slender evidence, because Barin in his autobiography actually admits that his "memory is unreliable" and the remarkable thing about his autobiography is that at no place... explain Ramakrishna Paramahansa or Shelley or Keats whose greatness could not be attributed to heredity. 3. His explanation of Sri Aurobindo's failure in the riding test is probably based on Sarojini's memory. But this is not a reliable source. Sri Aurobindo was not playing cards at that time. 4. The speeches of the Congress presidents are reproduced unnecessarily in this so-called biography ...
... nature. In that case great care must be taken. It must be found out what it is and the thing be put right. without any too rough handling. I shall write to you separately about Arim's money and Sarojini. Aurobindo Ghose January 1923 Pondicherry January 1923 My dear Barin, It is unfortunate that Krishnashashi's Sadhana should have taken this turn. As things stand however a general... success in the future. It is enough that these forces should have destroyed such fine psychic possibilities as of Krishnashashi. I do not like their being successful in other directions also. As to Sarojini, it is out of the question that she should come here. Make it plain to her that the Yoga I am doing is now too much difficult for her. Her coming here would be waste of time and money. If she is in ...
... of nearly 24,000 lines cannot just be ignored or bypassed. And, reading on in Mr. Lal's Introduction, we come across some light on the positive side of that see-saw passage. He says: "Torn Dutt..., Sarojini Naidu, and Sri Aurobindo— whatever their weaknesses—have this great strength in common though in varying degrees: they have Indian responses to life and things." And also a little before those zigzag ...
... 1921 Arun Chandra Dutt of Chandernagore came to Pondicherry. He stayed for some months at 41, Rue Francois Martin. Sri Aurobindo's sister Sarojini came with Sudhamayi Sen and Pratap Sen the same year. Sri Aurobindo went to the station to receive them. He gave Sarojini publication rights to his book War and Self-Determination in order to help her financially. Another visitor this year was Kumud Bandhu ...
... to us a letter of yours which we liked immensely - the one you wrote to your sister Saro, relating the story of Judas Iscariot." Vinit curiously asked, "Which letter? Which story? Nirodda does not take our class, so we don't know it." Sri Aurobindo asked with a sweet smile, "Oh, you mean the one I wrote to Saro from Baroda, about not being able to go to Baidyanath for the Puja?" "Yes, yes!"... " "Of course! It was that your father sent you and your brothers to England." "He didn't send us, he took us there with him. We all went, our mother, we three brothers and our little sister Sarojini. Nowadays travelling to England is a commonplace affair. Even here, sitting in the small town of Pondicherry, you get to know about the whole world, you can see Europe, America, China and Japan and... very great man - certainly not half but a whole man, in fact more than a whole. Few sons of India have been as great. I'll tell you about him by and by.... Well.... My mother came back to India with Sarojini and Barin." "Weren't you sad?" "I'm not very sure. Are boys' hearts as sensitive as those of girls? Also, right from our earliest childhood we were being brought up to be English gentlemen away ...
... the background. Politics in those days was a conveniently part-time affair, a hobby almost, and involved no risks; professional or domestic life was hardly interrupted A colourful visitant like Sarojini Naidu was merely the proverbial exception. As the tempo of the movement changed, however, politics became a whole-time mission or vocation; and there was the danger of disruption of family life ...
... Many English critics think it first-class in its own kind; of course he was educated at an English public school, but I suppose he was not born to the language. Some of Toru Dutt’s 13 poems, Sarojini’s, 14 Harin’s have been highly praised by good English critics, and I don’t think we need be more queasy than Englishmen themselves. Of course there were special circumstances, but in your case ...
... Plain statement of the closing couplet, actually described the ________________________________ 1- Harindranath Chattopadhyay, a poet and cinema actor, brother of Mrinalini Chattopadhyay and Sarojini Naidu. Husband of Kamala Devi Chattopadhyay. Page 57 poem as the poet's memory of a girl running past him on the seashore!! I refuse to fall into your trap about Tagore. In vain ...
... management of the house and the kitchen, and, as in every- thing else she took up, there was a marked and progressive improvement. Order, harmony and beauty flowed spontaneously out of her touch. Sarojini Ghose, Sri Aurobindo's sister, came to Pondicherry in 1921. In order to render her some financial help Sri Aurobindo gave her the right to take the sale proceeds of his book, War and Self-determination ...
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