K. D. Sethna

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pseudonym = Amal Kiran
birthdate = birth date and age |1904|11|26
birthplace = India
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occupation = Poet, scholar, writer, philosopher, and cultural critic
nationality = flagicon|India Indian
period = 1933 - 2000
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debut_works = "Inmost Beauty"
influences = Sri Aurobindo
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Kaikhosru Dadhaboy (K.D.) Sethna (born 26 November 1904) is an Indian poet, scholar, writer, philosopher, and cultural critic. He has published more than forty books. He is also known as Amal Kiran.

Kiran studied at Bombay University and was one of Sri Aurobindo's earliest disciples, arriving at the Ashram in 1927, age twenty-three, to take up the path of Integral Yoga under Sri Aurobindo and The Mother. He was named Amal Kiran, or "Clear Ray", by Sri Aurobindo in 1930. His book of poems "Inmost Beauty" was published at 1933.

In 1949 he was a founding editor of the Sri Aurobindo Ashram journal "Mother India", which he edited for almost fifty years. He has recently celebrated his centenary at the Beach Office of the Sri Aurobindo Society.

Originally, Amal Kiran was born a Parsi-Zoroastrian but, after meeting with Sri Aurobindo, embraced Hinduism.

Partial bibliography

*Amal Kiran, "Light and Laughter"
*---- "Talks on Poetry"
*---- "India and the World Scene" ISBN 81-7060-118-5
*---- "The Indian Spirit and the World's Future" ISBN 81-7060-227-0
*Sethna, K.D. Altar and Flame
*---- "The Mother, Past-Present-Future", 1977
*---- "Obscure and the Mysterious"
*---- "The Problem of Aryan Origins" 1980, 1992; ISBN 81-85179-67-0
*---- "Overhead Poetry"
*---- "The Passing of Sri Aurobindo", 1951.
*---- "Sri Aurobindo on Shakespeare"
*---- "Sri Aurobindo- The Poet"
*---- "The Obscure and the Mysterious: A Research in Mallarmé's Symbolist Poetry"
*---- "Teilhard de Chardin and Sri Aurobindo - a focus on fundamentals", Bharatiya Vidya Prakasan, Varanasi (1973)
*---- "The spirituality of the future : a search apropos of R. C. Zaehner's study in Sri Aurobindo and Teilhard de Chardin". Rutherford, [N.J.] London, Fairleigh Dickerson University Press; Associated University Presses. (1981)
*---- "The Vision and Work of Sri Aurobindo"
*---- "Problems of Ancient India", 2000, New Delhi: Aditya Prakashan. ISBN 81-7742-026-7

External links

* [http://www.sriaurobindosociety.org.in/feb05.htm Sri Aurobindo Society Newsletter February 2005]
* [http://www.auroville.com/vijnana/spiritual/soulpower.htm The Miraculous Power of the Soul - A meeting with Amal Kiran] , Pondicherry, by Craig Hamilton
* [http://members.tripod.com/~ramkumaram/book.html Contains a review of one of Sethna's books]
* [http://www.boloji.com/history/033.htm New Light on Ancient India] [http://www.boloji.com/history/035.htm]