In 1955, Shrii Prabhat Rainjan Sarkar founded Ananda Marga, a spiritual and social service organization which spread world-wide in the 1970's. Based on a blending of the spiritual practices of Tantra Yoga and social welfare ideals, Ananda Marga teaches meditation and various yoga practices, as well as running schools, homes and a wide range of social welfare projects.
In 1959, …
Marxist politician Kanti Ganguli (left) with Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee, former Chief Minister of West Bengal
[June 27, 2016] – Honourable Justice Dipankar Dutta of Calcutta High Court rejected the plea of Mr. Kanti Ganguli, an accused in the Bijan Setu Massacre, to declare Justice Amitabha Lala Commission illegal. A battery of lawyers, led by Senior Lawyer Bikash Chandra Bhattacharjee argued in …
Past and present West Bengal communist heads will be called in for questioning for their alleged role in the massacre of 16 monks and a nun of Ananda Marga in Kolkata in 1982.
Photo: The late communist chief Jytoi Basu, Chief Minister of West Bengal 1977-2000 (left) with former WB Communist Party leader Somnath Chatterjee, one of several former communist…
Picture above: Wholetimer volunteer workers of Ananda Marga carrying urn pots, in memory of the massacre victims, on the streets of Kolkata.
(Kolkata, 30 April 2015) – Ananda Marga Pracaraka Samgha (AMPS) took out a silent procession today from Deshapriya Park marching to Bijan Setu to pay homage to the 17 Dadhicis (martyrs) brutally killed in broad daylight on this day 33 …
By Dr. Susmit Kumar
From Dr. Susmit Kumar’s book Ananda Marga - Victim of Communist Conspiracy During 1969-77.
Ananda Marga is a worldwide socio-spiritual organization with centers and various social service operations in every region on all continents. At present it is active in more than 130 countries, running 1200 schools only in India (2013) and renders disaster relief …
The following interview with Shrii Prabhat Rainjan Sarkar was published by the Indian fortnightly India Today (1-15 August, 1978), titled “The Mystery Man”. The interview came about just days before Sarkar’s release from Bankipur Jail (Patna, Bihar) as a …
A boy joining the procession of Ananda Margiis and supporters in Kolkata on April 30, 2014.
(Kolkata, 1 May, 2014) – A commemoration of the 1982 communist massacre of 17 Ananda Marga monks and a nun were held in Kolkata on Wednesday. In spite of government assurances and the establishment of two investigating committees, the truth about the heinous crime …
(April 2012) – A seminar on PROUT at Moulali Yuba Kendra, Kolkata earlier this month has caught the interest of the Bengal media. Kolkata’s most popular anti-communist newspaper Bartaman, as well as Pratidin, the Bengali Statesman and Times of Indiaall covered the event in detail.
At the event, economist …
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The 1982 Bijon Setu massacre, where 17 whole time workers of Ananda Marga were brutally killed, and its pathetic aftermath is the subject of a new book out from Ananda Marga, Kolkata. Based on the undaunted film by …
(March 10, 2012) – 30 years after 17 Ananda Margis were burnt to death in Kolkata, the West Bengal government has formed an inquiry commission to look into the massacre.
The brutal killings took place on the Bijon bridge and two nearby locations …
