Release of Renaissance, Volume VII, Issue 1
Date: January 21, 2026
Renaissance releases its first issue of 2026 with 8 thoughtful and thought-provoking offerings. Released on January 21, the issue highlights the ideal given by Sri Aurobindo that our efforts to rebuild a New India must be on the lines of the living spirit of the nation, her innate genius, the nation-soul of India. Our concern should not be about a conflict between modernism and antiquity, but rather between “an imported civilisation and the greater possibilities of the Indian mind and nature, not between the present and the past, but between the present and the future”.
The issue explores the New Ideal given to us by Sri Aurobindo through two specific sub-themes — Literature and Nation, and Science and Spirituality. Authors featured in this issue include Amal Kiran, Jugal Kishor Mukherji, Nolini Kanta Gupta (translated by Narendra Murty), Norman C. Dowsett, Beloo Mehra and Preeti Mahurkar. Also included is a book review by Ashish Iyer of Sanjeev Sanyal’s bestselling book on Indian Revolutionaries.
Read full editorial by Beloo Mehra HERE.
Browse through the entire issue.
- Mother India, a Spiritual Light (Amal Kiran)
- Revisiting Sri Aurobindo’s “The Hour of God” (Norman C. Dowsett)
- Woman and Nation in ‘Rajmohan’s Wife’ (Parts 1 & 2 – Beloo Mehra)
- Science and Spirituality: An Unnecessary Antimony and a Harmonious Reconciliation – 3 (Jugal Kishore Mukherji)
- Book Review – Revolutionaries: The Other Story of How India Won Its Freedom by Sanjeev Sanyal (Ashish Iyer)
- Bankim’s Heroines: A Conversation Translated from Bengali (Narendra Murty)
- Science and Spirituality: A Tango of Spirit and Matter (Preeti Mahurkar)