Sri Aurobindo and the rise of the Asian century

Sri Aurobindo and the rise of the Asian century

My friend and colleague, the American historian Peter Heehs, who has lived in Pondicherry, India, for decades, recently published a compelling new biography, The Mother: A Life of Sri Aurobindo’s Collaborator (2025). Heehs previously authored The Lives of Sri Aurobindo (2008), which remains one of the most balanced and scholarly accounts of Aurobindo’s life. According to Heehs, most previous biographies of the Mother were written for devotees an…