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Historical Event on 8/15/1872

Sri Aurobindo Man Mohan Ghosh born in Calcutta. He was a renaissance yoga philosopher, freedom fighter and teacher. His 30-volume work discusses the 'superman', a metaphor for the divinely transformed individual soul. He withdrew from the world in 1910 and founded International Ashram in Pondicherry.

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4/13/1963Babu Gulab Rai, famous hindi critic, passed away.
8/18/1958Dr.Bhagwandas, famous Congress leader and theosophist, died.