Sri Aurobindo Ghose Little Aurobindo Ghose •Sri Aurobindo Ghose was born on 15th August‚ in the year 1870 at Calcutta. •At the age of 7‚ he was sent to England for his formal education. •He graduated from Cambridge‚ here he distinguished himself as a student of European classics. •Aurobindo was an accomplished scholar in Greek and Latin. •His early life and education in England‚ gave him an insight into the modern scientific mind and brought him into close touch with western civilization. •In
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Amitav Ghosh (born July 11‚ 1956)‚[1] is a Bengali Indian author best known for his work in English fiction Life : Amitav Ghosh was born in Calcutta on July 11‚ 1956 in a Bengali Hindu family‚ to Lieutenant Colonel Shailendra Chandra Ghosh‚ a retired officer of the pre-independence Indian Army‚ and was educated at The Doon School; St. Stephen ’s College‚ Delhi‚ Delhi University‚ India; the Delhi School of Economics and St Edmund Hall‚ Oxford‚ where he was awarded a D. Phil. in social anthropology under
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CONTENTS * Background and Introduction * Objectives * Hypothesis * Brief Evaluation of Research Plan Background and Introduction Sri Aurobindo Ghosh (15 August 1872 – 5 December 1950) was an Indian nationalist‚ freedom fighter‚ philosopher‚ yogi‚ guru‚ and poet. He was the first Indian to create a major literary corpus in English. His works include philosophy; poetry; translations of and commentaries on the Vedas‚ Upanishads‚ and the Gita‚ plays; literary‚ social‚ political
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After seeing this house‚ Ila and the narrator qurrel about the importance of radical politics. Ila considers the death of Alan‚ Mike and Dan who raised their voices against war-mongering as sad because they were casualties of a ruthless nationalism. She also thought that Alan and his friends‚ who were witness to the war and the fight against fascism‚ must have been happy as she was in her political activism. The quarrel about courage and political activism continues between Ila and the narrator
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SUMMARY Amitav Ghosh can be seen as the flag bearer of the fearlessness and freedom that the contemporary Indian writer in English embodies. Although Salman Rushdie is the pioneer who put the post colonial scene on the literary map‚ yet Amitav Ghosh has become one of the central figures to emerge after the success of Rushdie`s Midnight`s Children. Yet when compared to Rushdie‚ published criticism on Ghosh is not very substantial. Most of the critical essays are limited to his more popular
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Sri Aurobindo was a revolutionary‚ poet‚ philosopher‚ writer‚ and Spiritual Master. One of India ’s great modern philosophers‚ Aurobindo was a prolific author who expressed his views on humankind‚ nature‚ God‚ and the cosmos in numerous works of poetry and prose. He believed in the unity of all things material‚ intellectual‚ and spiritual‚ and a central theme that runs throughout all his writings is the divinization of life on earth. Sri Aurobindo‚ not only expressed his spiritual thought and vision
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Aurobindo Ghosh was born in Calcutta‚ India. His father‚ Dr. Krishna Dhan Ghose‚ was District Surgeon of Rangapur‚ Bengal. His mother‚ Swarnalata Devi‚ was the daughter of Brahmo religious and social reformer‚ Rajnarayan Basu. Aravinda means "lotus" in Sanskrit. Aurobindo spelled his name Aravinda while in England‚ as Aravind or Arvind while in Baroda‚ and as Aurobindo when he moved to Bengal. The surname Ghose is pronounced‚ and usually written in English‚ as "Ghosh"‚ and Aurobindo’s name often
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The essential question with regard to Hinduism is if it is in fact a single religion or if “Hinduism” is a blanket term for a vast array of cultures and traditions? In essence this question pits Gandhi against Aurobindo. In a nutshell‚ Gandhi held a simplistic view of Hinduism while Aurobindo acknowledged its complexity. Moreover‚ these two great thinkers embody the age-old duel between monism and dualism. Despite having grown up in front of similar backdrops‚ each man responded in a different way—forming
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Sri Aurobindo developed an education system which is popularly known as integral education. Integral Education aims at bringing about change not merely in the society but primarily in the human behaviour or nature itself. According to him‚ the essence of education is the recognition of a child as a soul and developing its other faculties. He is of the view that the education must begin with as well as build on sound theoretical understanding of the child. Aurobindo’s idea of education is holistic
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Philosophy and Spiritualism of Sri Aurobindo From Wikipedia‚ the free encyclopedia This article has multiple issues. Please help improve it or discuss these issues on the talk page. This article needs attention from an expert on the subject. (May 2009) This article needs additional citations for verification. (June 2009) This article possibly contains original research. (June 2009) The Philosophy and Spiritualism of Sri Aurobindo is a theory of evolution detailed in Sri Aurobindo’s "The Life
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