In a widely publicised debate at the Calcutta Club recently, lawyer J Sai Deepak made a reference to Aurobindo Ghosh’s (Sri Aurobindo) famous Uttarpara Speech.

The speech, delivered on May 30, 1909, shortly after his release from Alipore Jail, is a treatise which did not just sound the conch shell of Hindu nationalism from Bengal’s soil for the whole of Bharat, it has become deeply relevant for the decaying state as it goes to elections this year. Torn by decades of deracination and stagnation under the communists, and appeasement of Islamists and wanton corruption by the Mamata Banerjee government now, West Bengal seems to have forgotten its profound spiritual legacy from which sprung its fierce nationalistic instincts.

Which makes every word of Sri Aurobindo’s Uttarpara speech so pertinent. He says:

“We speak often of the Hindu........

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