''Mother India'' is the

Sri Aurobindo Ashram The Sri Aurobindo Ashram is a spiritual community (ashram) located in Pondicherry, in the Indian territory of Puducherry. The ashram grew out of a small community of disciples who had gathered around Sri Aurobindo after he retired from ...

's originally fortnightly, now monthly, cultural review. It was started in 1948, the founding editor being

K. D. Sethna Kaikhosru Dhunjibhoy Sethna (26 November 1904 – 29 June 2011) was an Indian poet, scholar, writer, philosopher, and cultural critic. He published more than 50 books. He was known by the diminutive Kekoo, but wrote his poetry under nom de ...

(Amal Kiran), who continues as editor for over fifty years.

History

''Mother India'' began as a semi-political fortnightly, and needed

Sri Aurobindo Sri Aurobindo (born Aurobindo Ghose; 15 August 1872 – 5 December 1950) was an Indian philosopher, yogi, maharishi, poet, and Indian nationalist. He was also a journalist, editing newspapers such as ''Vande Mataram''. He joined the ...

'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'' () and ''The Indian Spirit and the World's Future'' ()

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 Sisir Kumar Maitra (born 19 January 1887, Calcutta, India, died 1963) was Head of the Department of Philosophy and Dean of the Faculty of Arts, Banaras Hindu University. His writings compared Eastern and Western philosophy, and the teachings of Sr ...

Apr-May 1962 :The Future Culture of India and the World. Indra Sen December 1966 :History of The Future. M.S. Srinivasan June 2006

References

* Nirodbaran, ''Twelve Years With Sri Aurobindo'' * A B Purani, ''Life Of Sri Aurobindo'', Sri Aurobindo Ashram, Pondicherry 1948 establishments in India Biweekly magazines published in India Cultural magazines English-language magazines published in India Magazines about spirituality Magazines established in 1948 Monthly magazines published in India Sri Aurobindo {{reli-mag-stub

History

List of select articles

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