Nolini Kanta Gupta

Nolini Kanta Gupta (13 January 1889 – 7 February 1984) was a revolutionary, linguist, scholar, critic, poet, philosopher and yogi, and the most senior of Sri Aurobindo's disciples.

[1] He was born in Faridpur, East Bengal, to a cultured and prosperous Vaidya-Brahmin family.

While in his teens, he came under the influence of Sri Aurobindo, then a well known revolutionary fighting for independence against the British.

When in his fourth year at Presidency College, Calcutta, he left a promising academic career and rejected a lucrative government job to join a small revolutionary group under Sri Aurobindo.

Nolini Kanta Gupta died at the Sri Aurobindo Ashram on 7 February 1984.