Remembering The Mother-Pondicherry On Stamps

The Mother -Pondicherry Was Born Today February 1878

Today’s Stamp 4 the day is tribute to The Mother-Pondicherry.On this day in 1878 was born “The Mother-Pondicherry”

Mirra (or Mira) Alfassa was born in Paris on February 21, 1878 , of a Turkish Jewish father, Maurice, and an Egyptian Jewish mother, Mathilde. She had an elder brother named Matteo. The family migrated to France the year before she was born.For the first eight years of her life she lived at 62 boulevard Haussmann.

She came to Sri Aurobindo's retreat on March 29, 1914 in Pondicherry, India to collaborate on editing the journal Arya. Having to leave Pondicherry during World War I, she spent most of her time in Japan where she met the poet Rabindranath Tagore. Finally she returned to Pondicherry and settled there in 1920

In 1956 she established the Sri Aurobindo Ashram, Delhi Branch, together with Surendranath Jauhar and Alfassa's International School. In 1967 plans were made and some land acquired to found a universal city of spiritual seekers in Gujarat, which she named Ompuri. This project, like earlier plans of 1957, did not go any further. But in 1968, Alfassa, working with architect Roger Anger, began Auroville as a 'more external extension' of the Sri Aurobindo Ashram (Mirapuri - Biography).

Alfassa died on 17 November 1973

First Day Cover For The Stamp Of The Mother - Pondicherry Released On 21st Feb.1978

The City Of Paris Where The Mother-Pondicherry Was Born

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