ARTICLES
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- Jyotipriya's Diary
- From the archives of the Center, we present a few entries out of Jyotipriya's diary of 1972, when she had visited the Sri Aurobindo Ashram, Pondicherry, for Sri Aurobindo's Centenary.
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- Interview with Udar Pinto
- In December '99, Anie Nunnally conducted interviews with two nonagenarians at the Sri Aurobindo Ashram, who had both enjoyed particularly close relationships with Sri Aurobindo and the Mother. The two were Amal Kiran and Udar Pinto. The last issue of Jyoti carried the interview with Amal Kiran. Here, we have her conversation with Udar, an engineer who pioneered several major projects of the ashram under the Mother's direction and whose role was particularly important at the time of Sri Aurobindo's Mahasamadhi.
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- Who is Ashwapathy?
- In this article, Prof. Mangesh Nadkarni looks mainly at Part I of Savitri, highlighting the main features of Ashwapathy character, as delineated by Sri Aurobindo in the epic, and shows how the inner life, aspirations and yoga are portrayed through Ashwapathy.
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- The Aspiration of John Coltrane
- The saxophonist John William Coltrane revolutionized modern Jazz by expanding its idiom to express states of aspiration and consciousness that were entirely new to it. Jazz could never be the same after the brief advent of Coltrane. In this article, Richard Carlson explores the elemental and intense spirituality of Coltrane's music and personality, attempting to relate this to an Aurobindonian framework. In the process, Rich also discusses the question of aesthetics from a postmodern standpoint.
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