Sri Aurobindo Ghosh was born on August 15th, 1872 in the town of Konnagar near Calcutta. When Aurobindo was five years old he was tutored privately at home by reverend William Drewett. Later he matriculated from St. Paul’s school. There he began writing poetry at the age of 17 years. He studied Latin, English and French. He got scholarship to study in Cambridge University. After that he returned to India and worked with Maharaja Geakward of Baroda for 13 years. There he learned Sanskrit, Marathi and Gujarati. He moved to Calcutta and awakened the spirit of nationalism through his writings in different journals and news papers.
He was imprisoned in Alipur Jail for a year. There he experienced presence of silent mind. In 1910, he began two newspapers ‘Karmayogi in English and ‘Dharma’ in Bengali, where he wrote extensively on education and literature. He became editor for ‘Bande Mataram’ a nationalist newspaper.
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