Category: Reminiscences

Publishers Publishers' Note   In this collection of essays only two were originally written in English ("The World War" and "The Situation of To-day"), the…

 I   SUBHAS — OATEN ULLAS — RUSSELL   The Subhash-Oaten encounter has attained some notoriety, as a number of people have on several…

MURARIPUKUR— MURARIPUKUR — (1)   At last I made up my mind finally to take the plunge, that I must now join the Manicktolla Gardens…

Ill IlI MURARIPUKUR (2)   Now I come to the last phase of our life at Manicktolla Gardens, that is when we turned towards terroristic…

DEOGHAR DEOGHAR   The scene was Deoghar, though not exactly the town itself. About five miles before you reach the town, there is the Jesidih…

v v SHYAMPUKUR   On coming out of jail, Sri Aurobindo found shelter in the house of his maternal uncle, Krishna Kumar Mitra; the place…

V I V I PONDICHERRY (1)   Sri Aurobindo came to Pondicherry1 and took shelter here. We might say of course from another point of…

VII VII   PONDICHERRY (2)   I have said that this cemetery that was Pondicherry had been infested by ghosts and goblins. These had a…

V III VIII   PONDICHERRY CYCLONE   I have once spoken to you of an earthquake and a small fire. Today I shall say something…

IX IX TWO GREAT WARS   We have been through two great World Wars in the course of our life in Pondicherry. This was quite…