SRI AUROBINDO THE PROPHET OF NATIONALISM

Description

While defending Sri Aurobindo in the Sessions Court in connection with the famous Alipore Bomb Trial, Chittaranjan Das had made the following impassioned appeal:

‘My appeal to you, therefore, is that a man like
this who is being charged with the offences imputed
to him stands not only before the bar in this Court
but stands before the bar of the High Court of
History and my appeal to you is this: That long after
this controversy is hushed in silence, long after this
turmoil, this agitation ceases, long after he is dead
and gone, he will be looked upon as the poet of
patriotism, as the prophet of nationalism and the
lover of humanity. Long after he is dead and gone
his words will be echoed and re-echoed not only in
India, but across distant seas and lands. Therefore, I
say that the man in his position is not only stand¬ing
before the bar of this Court but before the bar of
the High Court of History.’

Author : Anurag Banerjee
Cover Design : Kalidas Halder
Publisher : Sayantan Publication
Language : English