Kaikhosru Dadhaboy Sethna

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Kaikhosru Dadhaboy (KD) Sethna ( Hindi : कैखुसरो दादाभाई सेठना, Kaikhusaro Dādābhāī Seṭhnā; also Amal Kiran , Hindi: अमल किरण, Amal Kiraṇ; born November 26, 1904 ; † June 29, 2011 in Puducherry ) was an Indian poet , philosopher , Historian , cultural critic , author , editor and religious disciple of Sri Aurobindo.

Life

Sethna graduated from Bombay University . Born as a Zoroastrian Parse , the scholar went to the Ashram of Aurobindo Ghosh in 1927 , became his student and turned to Hinduism . Sethna dedicated himself to the integral yoga of Aurobindo and Mira Alfassa . Aurobindo named it "Amal Kiran" ( pure ray ) in 1930 .

Sethna's first volume of poetry, Inmost Beauty , was published in 1933. From 1949 he was co-editor of Mother India magazine at the Sri Aurobindo Ashram for almost 50 years . He published more than 40 books.

Sethna celebrated his 100th birthday in the Beach Office of the Sri Aurobindo Society. He last lived in the nursing home of the Aurobindo Ashram.

bibliography

  • Amal Kiran: Light and Laughter
  • Amal Kiran: Talks on Poetry
  • Amal Kiran: India and the World Scene ISBN 81-7060-118-5
  • Amal Kiran: The Indian Spirit and the World's Future ISBN 81-7060-227-0
  • KD Sethna: Altar and Flame
  • KD Sethna: The Mother, Past-Present-Future , 1977
  • KD Sethna: Obscure and the Mysterious
  • KD Sethna: The Problem of Aryan Origins 1980, 1992; ISBN 81-85179-67-0
  • KD Sethna: Overhead Poetry
  • KD Sethna: The Passing of Sri Aurobindo , 1951.
  • KD Sethna: Sri Aurobindo on Shakespeare
  • KD Sethna: Sri Aurobindo- The Poet
  • KD Sethna: The Obscure and the Mysterious: A Research in Mallarmé 's Symbolist Poetry
  • KD Sethna: Teilhard de Chardin and Sri Aurobindo - a focus on fundamentals , Bharatiya Vidya Prakasan, Varanasi (1973)
  • KD Sethna: The spirituality of the future: a search apropos of RC Zaehner's study in Sri Aurobindo and Teilhard de Chardin . Rutherford, [NJ] London, Fairleigh Dickerson University Press; Associated University Presses. (1981)
  • KD Sethna: The Vision and Work of Sri Aurobindo
  • KD Sethna: Problems of Ancient India , 2000, New Delhi: Aditya Prakashan. ISBN 81-7742-026-7

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://overmanfoundation.wordpress.com/2011/06/29/the-passing-of-amal-kiran-alias-kd-sethna/
  2. ↑ The First “Auro-Ratna Award” Ceremony: A Report (report on the award of the 1st Auro-Ratna by the Overman Foundation on August 27, 2010 with photo of the 105-year-old)
personal data
SURNAME Sethna, Kaikhosru Dadhaboy
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Seṭhnā, Kaikhusaro Dādābhāī; सेठना, कैखुसरो दादाभाई (Hindi); Amal Kiran (pseudonym); Amal Kiraṇ; अमल किरण (pseudonym, Hindi)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Indian poet, philosopher, historian, cultural critic, author and editor
DATE OF BIRTH November 26, 1904
DATE OF DEATH June 29, 2011
Place of death Pondicherry