On the invitation of the SRI AUROBINDO STUDY CIRCLE at JNU, was happy to deliver the Inaugural Address on the Life & Legacy of Sri Aurobindo. A very energetic and engaged group of scholars, students and faculty is at the core of this creative effort. Immensely enjoyed speaking to this young group and engaging with them on one of my favourite topics – Sri Aurobindo’s life, his politics, his philosophy, his vision of India. Today one can see Sri Aurobindo’s vision for a free and great India being fulfilled in every dimension of our national life.

A laudable endeavour, may the effort grow from strength to strength – Thanks Prof Atrayee Saha and team!

“Political freedom is the life-breath of a nation; to attempt social reform, educational reform, industrial expansion, the moral improvement of the race without aiming first and foremost at political freedom, is the very height of ignorance and futility…The primary requisite for national progress, national reform, is the free habit of free and healthy national thought and action which is possible in a state of servitude. The second is the organisation of the national will in a strong central authority…”

(Sri Aurobindo, The Doctrine of Passive Resistance, 1907)

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