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  SOME DEALS—NO ACTION SAKIN—WEST BENGAL SARASIJ MAJUMDER CASE—1:BASANTI COTTON MILLS Basanti Cotton Mills was a cotton industry established in Panihati, West Bengal, on September 25, 1934. It has since gone through several corporate changes, and the original mill is now permanently closed. The company "Basanti Cotton Mills (1998) Private Limited" was later incorporated and dealt with weaving and manufacturing of man-made fibre and mixture fabrics, but its status is now listed as "Strike Off" (non-operational). History: The original Basanti Cotton Mill was organized by Sri Subodh Chandra Mitra and inaugurated by Rabindranath Tagore in 1934. The mill was named after the wife of Desh Bandhu Chittaranjan Das. A later entity, Basanti Cotton Mills (1998) Private Limited, was incorporated in 1998. This company's name was struck off by the Registrar of Companies in 2006, though it was briefly restored by court order in 2012. Its current status remains ...

INTELLECTUAL FREEDOM

 

HOW SHALL WE RECOVER OUR LOST INTELLECTUAL FREEDOM

Sarasij Majumder

Sri Aurobindo says ” How shall we recover our lost intellectual freedom? By reversing, for the time being, the process by which we lost it, by liberating our minds in all subjects from the thralldom to authority. The Anglicized ask us to abandon authority, revolt against superstition to have free minds. What they mean is that we should renounce authority of the Vedas for Max Muller, the Monism of Sankara for the Monism of Haeckel, the dogmatisms of Pandits for the dogmatisms of European thinkers, scientists and scholars. Let us break our chains in order to be free, in the name of truth, not in the name of Europe.

Our first necessity, if India is to survive and do her appointed work in the world, is that the youth of India should learn to think, – to think on all subjects, to think independently, fruitfully, going to the heart of things, not stopped by their surface, free of prejudgments, shearing sophism and prejudice asunder as with a sharp sword, smiting down obscurantism of all kinds as with the mace of Bhima…”. In India alone there is self-contained, dormant, the energy and invincible spiritual individuality which can yet arise and break her own and the world’s fetters.

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