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PM Participated in a Programme Commemorating Sri Aurobindo’s 150th Birth Anniversary

PM Participated in a Programme Commemorating Sri Aurobindo’s 150th Birth Anniversary

PM Participated in a Programme Commemorating Sri Aurobindo’s 150th Birth Anniversary: On December 13, 2022, a programme commemorating Sri Aurobindo’s 150th birthday was attended by Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi. The programme, which was organised by Azadi ka Amrit Mahotsav and was held in Kamban Kalai Sangam, Puducherry, saw the release of a commemorative coin and postal stamp in honour of Sri Aurobindo by the prime minister.

December 2022 Current Affairs Quiz

About Sri Aurobindo:

He is popularly known as yogi Rishi Aurobindo. He was a revolutionary, nationalist, poet, educationist and philosopher.

Birth:  On August 15, 1872, Shri Krishnadhan Ghosh gave birth to him in Calcutta. A rich doctor from Calcutta was his father.

Early life and Education: 

At the age of seven he was taken to England for education. He studied King’s College in Cambridge as well as St. Paul’s School in London when he was there.

As A Revolutionary: 

He also joined a revolutionary society and took a leading role in secret preparations for an uprising against the British Government in India.

As A Yogi :

His Literary works: 

He was a journalist as well, and his first philosophical publication, Arya, came out in 1914.  Among his many writings are The Life Divine, The Synthesis of Yoga and Savitri.

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