Nolini Kanta Gupta

Nolini Kanta Gupta (13 January 1889 – 7 February 1984) was a revolutionary, linguist, scholar, critic, poet, philosopher, and yogi, and the most senior of Sri Aurobindo's disciples. Born in Faridpur, East Bengal, he was influenced by Sri Aurobindo's revolutionary activities and left his academic career to join a revolutionary group. He was arrested in the Alipore bomb case, spending a year in jail before being acquitted. After working for Sri Aurobindo's newspapers, he joined him in Pondicherry in 1910. He settled permanently in Pondicherry when the Sri Aurobindo Ashram was founded in 1926, serving as its secretary and later as a trustee. Gupta was a prolific writer, with approximately 60 books to his credit, including works in English and Bengali on various topics, as well as numerous articles and poems. He died at the Sri Aurobindo Ashram in 1984.