Sujata Nahar (12 December 1925 – 4 May 2007) was born in
Calcutta
Kolkata, also known as Calcutta (List of renamed places in India#West Bengal, its official name until 2001), is the capital and largest city of the Indian States and union territories of India, state of West Bengal. It lies on the eastern ba ...
, and spent her formative years near the poet
Rabindranath Tagore
Rabindranath Thakur (; anglicised as Rabindranath Tagore ; 7 May 1861 – 7 August 1941) was a Bengalis, Bengali polymath who worked as a poet, writer, playwright, composer, philosopher, social reformer, and painter of the Bengal Renai ...
. At the age of seven, she lost her mother. Her father, searching for another meaning to life, turned to
Sri Aurobindo
Sri Aurobindo (born Aurobindo Ghose; 15 August 1872 – 5 December 1950) was an Indian Modern yoga gurus, yogi, maharishi, and Indian nationalist. He also edited the newspaper Bande Mataram (publication), ''Bande Mataram''.
Aurobindo st ...
and
the Mother. In this way, Sujata also came to Sri Aurobindo in 1935, at age nine. She received private tutoring, and became secretary to
Pavitra, the Mother's disciple. She met
Satprem
Satprem (30 October 1923 – 9 April 2007) was a French author and a disciple of Mirra Alfassa.
Early life
Satprem was born Bernard Enginger in Paris and had a seafaring childhood and youth in Brittany.
During World War II he was a member of t ...
in 1954. Later, the Mother entrusted her with the typing up of her private conversations with Satprem, which later became ''
The Agenda
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. '' From 1965 to 1973 Sujata regularly accompanied Satprem to his meetings with Mother.
Later, Sujata wrote the popular and well-researched 8-volume biography of The Mother and Sri Aurobindo, ''Mother's Chronicles''. So far, six volumes have appeared in
English
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. The books are also being translated into
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,
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, and several Indian languages.
She died shortly after her companion, Satprem, at age 81.
References
* Nahar, Sujata (1985–2002) ''Mother's chronicles''.- Paris: Institut de Recherches Evolutives, Paris & Mira Aditi, Mysore.- Bk. 1. Mirra—Bk. 2. Mirra the Artist—Bk. 3. Mirra the Occultist. Bk. 4. Mirra – Sri Aurobindo—Bk. 5. Mirra meets the Revolutionary—Bk. 6. Mirra in South India (6 vol. set)
External links
Satprem and Sujata– biography
Sri Aurobindo
1925 births
Hindu writers
2007 deaths
20th-century Indian translators
Scholars from Kolkata
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