Sri Aurobindo Ghosh was a renowned and important personality in the history of the Indian Resurgence and Indian nationalism. He was born on 15th August 1872 in Calcutta (Kolkata). He received his education in England and returned to India in 1893. Aurobindo's political career is divided into two periods, the first dating from his arrival in India and extending to his Ashram in Pondicherry. He was associated with a secret society of the Indian revolutionaries. He edited the newspaper Bande Mataram, which was founded in 1905. The Bande Mataram was almost unique in journalistic history in that it converted the mind of the people and prepared them for revolution. The Upanishads, the Bhagavad Gita and other ancient Hindu texts influenced Aurobindo's thought. He founded two weeklies, the Dharma in Bengali and the Karmayogin in English. In 1910 he left active politics and became a yogi. The Ideal of Human Unity, The Life Divine, The Human Cycle, Essays on the Gita, The Foundations of Indian Culture, The Future Poetry and works on Yoga and the Veda were the prominent works of Sri Aurobindo.