Dr. Kireet Joshi
With the demise of Dr. Kireet Joshi on 14 September 2014,
the Aurobindonian firmament has lost one of its brightest stars. Born on 10
August 1931, he studied philosophy and law at the Elphinstone College under the
University of Bombay. In 1952, at the suggestion of Prof. Chubb, he met K.D.
Sethna alias Amal Kiran at Bombay at the latter’s residence. The interview with
Amal Kiran which lasted for more than an hour made young Kireet feel ‘greatly
widened’ and ‘deeply happy’ (to quote his own words) and he began to regard
Amal Kiran as his first teacher in regards to the teaching of the Mother and
Sri Aurobindo.
In 1953 Kireet Joshi was awarded a gold medal and the
Vedanta Prize for topping the Master of Arts examination. In 1955 he was
selected for the I.A.S. and in the following year he was posted as Assistant
Collector of Surat. However, in November 1956 he resigned to join the Sri
Aurobindo Ashram at Pondicherry as an inmate. In 1958 he was made th...
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