Sri Aurobindo
The Mother

to Prithwi Singh

Correspondence (1933-1967)

3 September 1934

Prithwi Singh — Sri Aurobindo

Mother,

A friend of mine Haren Ghose¹ intends to publish an English annual “The Four Arts Annual” possibly during Christmas. He wishes very much to have a poem from the Master for this journal. Will it be possible for the Master to give him one? What shall I write to him?

I never write for publication. If something happens to be there then I may give to publisher, but I have none.

He also seeks permission to print a photo of the Master Can he do it?

We are giving you a photo he can print.

He would also like to take photographs of the Asram buildings for publication and is quite willing to come for the purpose himself with an expert photographer if the permission is given.

Very well.

Sri Aurobindo
3 September 1934

¹ The first Indian impresario. He is best known as having presented Uday Shankar and his dance to the Indian public in 1930. Indeed, it is thanks to him that dancers like Bala Saraswati, Rukmini Devi, and a number of others got their first chance to perform at Calcutta, then the cultural capital of India. He was a good photographer, and published many photographs of well-known personalities in his mid-thirties periodical, The Four Arts Annual, as well as articles contributed by them, whether from India or from overseas.

Just weeks before India won her freedom in 1947, during the Calcutta riots, he was gruesomely murdered in his office.

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