Background
He was born in Faridpur, East Bengal, to a cultured and prosperous Vaidya-Brahmin family.
He was born in Faridpur, East Bengal, to a cultured and prosperous Vaidya-Brahmin family.
University of Calcutta. Presidency University, Kolkata.
While in his teens he came under the influence of Sri Aurobindo, then a well known revolutionary fighting for independence against the British. When in his fourth year at Presidency College, Calcutta, he left a promising academic career and rejected a lucrative government job to join a small revolutionary group under Sri Aurobindo. In May 1908 he was among those arrested for conspiracy in the Alipore bomb case.
Acquitted a year later, after having spent a year in jail, he worked as a sub-editor for the Dharma and the Karmayogin, two of Sri Aurobindo"s Nationalist newspapers, in 1909 and 1910.
He was taught Greek, Latin, French and Italian by Sri Aurobindo himself and was among the four disciples who were with Aurobindo in 1910 at Pondicherry. When the Sri Aurobindo Ashram was founded in 1926 he settled permanently in Pondicherry serving the Mother and Sri Aurobindo as secretary of the ashram and later as one of its trustees.
A prolific writer on a wide range of topics, he has about 60 books to his cr of which about 16 are in English and 44 in Bengali, as well as many articles and poems in English, Bengali and French. Nolini Kanta Gupta died at the Sri Aurobindo Ashram on 7 February 1984.
1. The Coming Race
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3. 4-5. Light of Lights (poems)
6-7. Sweet Mother
8. Vedic Hymns
Reminiscences (with KAmrita)
Evolution and the Earthly Destiny
About Woman (a compilation, ed by Sacar)
Tributes to Nolini Kanta Gupta educated by Nirodbaran
Nolini: Arjuna of our Age by Doctor.V.M.Reddy
Lights from Nolini Kanta Gupta.