Mother India (magazine)

Sri Aurobindo

Family
Rajnarayan Basu (Maternal grandfather)  Manmohan Ghose (Elder brother)  Barin Ghosh (Younger brother)  Krishna Kumar Mitra (Maternal uncle)
Political career
Anushilan Samiti  Jugantar  Partition of Bengal  Alipore bomb case  Jugantar Patrika  Bande Mataram
Speeches and books
Uttarpara Speech  Collected Works  Life Divine  Synthesis of Yoga  Savitri  Agenda
Teachings
Involution (metaphysics)
Involution (Sri Aurobindo)  Evolution  Integral psychology  Integral yoga  Intermediate zone  Supermind
Places
Matrimandir  Pondicherry
Communities
Sri Aurobindo Ashram  Auroville
Disciples
The Mother  Champaklal  N.K. Gupta  Amal Kiran  Nirodbaran  Pavitra  M.P. Pandit  P.K. Bhattacharya  A.B. Purani  D.K. Roy  Satprem  Indra Sen  Kapali Shastri
Journals and Forums
Arya  Mother India  Collaboration
Integral education
Auro University  The Mother's International School  CIIS  Esalen

Mother India is the Sri Aurobindo Ashram's originally fortnightly, now monthly, cultural review. It was started in 1949, the founding editor being K. D. Sethna (Amal Kiran), who continues as editor for over fifty years.

History

Mother India began as a semi-political fortnightly, and needed Sri Aurobindo's sanction before material in it could be published. Although Sri Aurobindo himself did not write in Mother India, his interest in important issues of the time was reflected in the writings of his disciple Amal Kiran, the editor of the journal. For example, his message on Korea with its prediction of Stalinist communism's designs on South East Asia and India through Tibet, was originally sent in private to Amal Kiran and became the basis of one of the editorials. All the editorials were submitted to Sri Aurobindo for approval, and most were found to be impeccable, although on a few occasions small but significant changes were made. Sri Aurobindo once remarked in a letter to K.D. Sethna that he regarded 'Mother India' as "my paper".

A number of early editorials have recently been collected and published in India and the World Scene (ISBN 81-7060-118-5) and The Indian Spirit and the World's Future (ISBN 81-7060-227-0)

List of select articles

The following are some of the articles that have appeared in the journal.

The New Lead in Philosophy. Indra Sen November 1958
Grace and Self-effort in the Upanishads. Sisir Kumar Maitra Apr-May 1962
The Future Culture of India and the World. Indra Sen December 1966
History of The Future. M.S. Srinivasan June 2006

See also

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