Sri Aurobindo: The Beginning of Spiritual Journey
(38 min; 2022; English)
Directed by Suraj Kumar who will introduce the film

Screening will be followed by a discussion

The film is based on Sri Aurobindo’s arrest for conspiracy on 5th May 1908 and the one full year that he spent in Alipore jail while the British government, in a protracted court-trial (which came to be known as the “Alipore Bomb Case”), tried to implicate him in various revolutionary activities. He was acquitted and released on 6 May 1909. The film has been shot on location in Alipore Jail