Sri Aurobindo
Letters of Sri Aurobindo
Volume IV - Part 1
It is not against the principle of Yogic life to know what is happening in the world – what is unyogic is to be attached to these things [such as newspaper reading] and not able to 
do without them or to think of them as a matter of main importance. The all-important thing must be the sadhana, the growth into a new consciousness and a new inner life. The rest must be done with detachment and without getting absorbed in them. The feeling must be such that if the Mother were to tell you never to see a newspaper at all, it would be no deprivation to you and you would not even feel the difference.