July 2024
Intermediate to advanced
536 pages
19h 8m
English
—Sangit Kumar Ragi
Aurobindo, a creative genius and a multifaceted personality, was a towering figure of the Indian national movement. Nationalists worship him as an apostle and prophet of Indian nationalism.1 He was not a mass leader of the national movement like Gandhi2 but was no less forceful than him. He was named Aravinda Akroyd Ghose, and was born on 15 August 1872 in Kolkata. His father, a district surgeon in Rangapur in West Bengal, had studied medicine in Britain and wanted his children to be educated there, free from any kind of Indian influence. After a few years of schooling in Loreto Convent, Darjeeling, Aurobindo and his two elder brothers were packed off to Manchester, England, ...
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