Indra Sen's correspondence with the Mother deals mainly with the running of the Ashram Press during the period 1945 to 1947 and letters on education in 1965.
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Born on 13 May 1903 in the Jhelum District of Punjab, now in Pakistan, Indra Sen joined the Ashram in 1945 at the age of forty-two. For many years he was a university professor in New Delhi. As his first work, the Mother asked him to water flower-pots in the Ashram courtyard. Then she placed him in the newly-formed Ashram Press, where he worked for ten years. Later she arranged for him to teach a course in Integral Psychology in the Ashram school. He also established an Ashram centre in North India and helped to set up two Ashram orchards there. His final years were spent in the Ashram. He passed away on 16 March 1994 at the age of ninety.
Indra Sen's correspondence with the Mother deals mainly with the running of the Ashram Press during the years from 1945 to 1947. At the end are several questions about education raised by him in 1965.
The composing section has a lot of work. Feeling the need of regulating the work of the new sadhaks who are learning, I told them that we shall take proofs only at the end of the day, between 4.30 and 5.30. Do you approve of it, Mother?
Is it not possible to teach them some teamwork? That is to say, can they not take up one thing to be printed—like the [New Year] prayers from 1933 to now, and each one will contribute to the general work so that the result will be a whole holding together? It is indispensable to teach them from the beginning to do a collective work in which each one plays his part; otherwise the whole thing will remain only as an interesting play for a few children.
13 September 1945
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