Pretty remarkable how well Shri Aurobindo’s newspaper writing holds up, though perhaps this more a testament to the lack of progress in indian political thought...

“The barefaced hypocrisy of our enthusiasm for the Queen-Empress, — an old lady so called by way of courtesy, but about whom few Indians can really know or care anything — could serve no purpose but to expose us to the derision of our ill-wishers.”

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Aurobindo on the notion that the Congress was a national body:

“The old school of politics was chiefly remarkable for a blithe indifference to facts and an extraordinary predilection for vague abstractions which could not possibly apply to the conditions with which our political action had to deal.”

Plus ca change...