A public meeting had been organised at old Bengal National College building at 164 & 166 Bowbazar Street

from Anirban Ganguly anirbangan@gmail.com 18:19 (10 minutes ago)
to Tusar N. Mohapatra tusarnmohapatra@gmail.com date 23-Aug-2007 18:19 subject
Re: Centenary of Sri Aurobindo's Address to the students of the Bengal National College

Tusarji, Have just come back from the commemoration. A public meeting had been organised at old Bengal National College building at 164 & 166 Bowbazar Street in the same room that Sri Aurobindo had given his farewell address.

We had organised a marble-plaque re-installation programme at Muraripukur Road, where the garden house from where Barin Ghose & his associates, among them was my great-great-grandfather Upendranath Banerjee & Shri Nolini Kanta Gupta, were arrested stood. Next year shall be the centenary of that major event. The marble plaque gives brief info about Sri Aurobindo & a list of all those who were arrested from the Muraripukur Garden House.

Tomorrow is the centenary of Rabindranath Tagore's poem 'Namaskar'-Salutations addressed to Sri Aurobindo.

It was a glorious time, as you had once told me over our tele-discussion, it was the age of fire, if only now, Bengal & we were more responsive & aspiring. The nation has to one day be moved by His words, I am moved to think that you have at least started an action along these lines exactly a hundred years down that age. Happy to be able to share these with you. Anirban