PM participated in a programme commemorating Sri Aurobindo’s 150th birth anniversary

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Prime Minister Narendra Modi participated in a programme commemorating Sri Aurobindo’s 150th birth anniversary, on 13th December, 2022 via video conferencing.

Important facts

• The Prime Minister released a commemorative coin and postage stamp in honour of Sri Aurobindo at the event organised at Kamban Kalai Sangam, Puducherry under the aegis of Azadi Ka Amrit Mahotsav.

About Sri Aurobindo

• Aurobindo Ghose was born in Calcutta on 15th August 1872.

• He was a revolutionary, nationalist, poet, educationist, yogi and philosopher. 

• At the age of seven he was taken to England for education. There he studied at St. Paul's School, London, and at King's College, Cambridge.

• He became a state service officer on his return to India in 1893. 

• He worked for the next thirteen years in the service of the Maharaja in the princely state of Baroda and as a professor at Baroda College.

• Aurobindo's practical strategies to break free from British rule marked him as the "prophet of Indian nationalism".

• From 1902 to 1910, he participated in the struggle to free India from the British. 

• As a result of his political activities, he was imprisoned in the year 1908 (Alipore Bomb Case).

• In Pondicherry he established a community of spiritual seekers, which took shape in the year 1926 as the Sri Aurobindo Ashram.

• Aurobindo Ghose died on December 5, 1950.