Dilip Kumar Roy
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Dilip Kumar Roy (22 January 1897 6 January 1980), a well-known musician and vocalist who specialised in Dhrupad, Khayal, and devotional music; also an author and a poet. He was an author of 75 books in Bengali and 26 books in English.
He was born at the one of the most aristocratic families of Bengal. His father, Dwijendralal Ray (19.07.1863 17.05.1913), was the Bengali poet, playwright, and composer. On his fathers side, the family descended from one of the apostles of the medieval Bengali saint Sri Chaitanya. His mother Surabala Devi (?-1903) was the daughter of distinguished homeopath physician Pratap Chandra Majumdar. His sister Maya Devi.
He joined the Presidency College of Calcutta. Here he came close to Subhas Chandra Bose. With a first class honours in mathematics, he went to Cambridge in 1919 for a tripos. In 1920, in addition to the first part of his tripos, he passed also, the examination in Western music. Along with his lessons in piano, he grew fluent in French, German and Italian, before leaving for Germany and Italy to pursue his studies in music. Roy met personalities like Romain Rolland, Bertrand Russell, Hermann Hesse, Georges Duhamel. From Vienna, invited by president Masaryk, Roy visited Prague, on his way to Budapest, Rome, Florence and Naples, to discover the heart of the tradition of European music.
At 1923 he knew on Sri Aurobindos workings. At 1924 he visited Sri Aurobindo at Pondicherri and talked with him, but did not got permit to stay. After a second visit to Europe, in August 1928, he returned to Pondicharry and was here till 1952. During this period he was occasionally subject to fits of doubt, restiveness and even rebellion. Sri Aurobindo wrote to him, It is a strong and lasting personal relation that I have felt with you ever since we met and even before and it is only that that has been the base of all the outward support, consideration, care and constant helping endeavour which I have always extended towards you and which could not have arisen from any tepid impersonal feeling. On my side that relation is not likely to change ever. Even before I met you for the first time, I knew of you and felt at once the contact of one with whom I had that relation which declares itself constantly through many lives and followed your career (all that I hear about it) with a close sympathy and interest. It is a feeling which is never mistaken and gives the impression of one not only close to one but a part of ones existence... The relation that is so indicated always turns out to be that of those who have been together in the past and were predestined to join again (though the past circumstances may not be known) drawn together by old ties. It was the same inward recognition (apart even from the deepest spiritual connection) that brought you here. If the outer consciousness does not fully realise this, it is because of the crust always created by a new physical birth that prevents it. But the soul knows all the while.
A few years after leaving the Ashram and on returning from a world tour, accompanied by his disciple Indira Devi, he founded the Hari Krishna Mandir in 1959 at Pune. Here he died on 6 January 1980.
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In English
Roy, Dilip Kumar
Among the great: conversations with Sri Aurobindo, Mahatma Gandhi, Rabindranath Tagore, Romain Rolland, Bertrand Russell
. Bombay: Nalanda Publications, 1945. xx p., 4 l., 5-330 p. front., ports. 22 cm. SERIES: Nalanda publications. NOTES: "First published 1945.". Label mounted on t.p.: sole distributors, Vora & Co., Publishers Ltd.
Roy, Dilip Kumar
Chaitanya and Mira: two plays
. [Pondicherry]: Sri Aurobindo Ashram, 1979.
Roy, Dilip Kumar
Eyes of light poems
. Bombay, Nalanda [1948]
Roy, Dilip Kumar
Hark! his flute: poems and translations
. Poona : Hari Krishna Mandir, [foreword 1972]
Roy, Dilip Kumar; Ramakrishna
Immortals of the Bhagavat, or Nectar of immortality, and Sri Ramkrishnas parables
. Agra, Lakshmi Narain Agarwal [1957?]
Roy, Dilip Kumar; Indira Devi
Kumbha; Indias ageless festival
. Chaupatty, Bombay, Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan, 1955.
Roy, Dilip Kumar
Mira in Brindaban: a play in two acts
. [Poona, M.J. Shabani, 1961]
Roy, Dilip Kumar; Indira Devi
Miracles do still happen: a novel
. Bombay: India Book House; Poona: Available from Hari Krishna Mandir, 1984.
Roy, Dilip Kumar
Netaji, the man; reminiscences
: Biography. Bombay, Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan, 1966.
Roy, Dilip Kumar
Pilgrims of the stars: autobiography of two yogis
. Porthill, ID: Timeless Books, 1985. xiii, 406 p.: ports.; 21 cm. NOTES: Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN: 0931454107 (pbk.)
Roy, Dilip Kumar
Six illuminates of modern India
: Biography. Bombay: Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan, 1982.
Roy, Dilip Kumar
Sri Aurobindo and Rabindranath
// Banasthali Patrika, Rajasthan, India. Article in: vol. 17-18, for 1971-72. PAGES: 106-13. LANGUAGE: Englis
Roy, Dilip Kumar
Sri Aurobindo Came to Me: reminiscences
. Pondicherry: Sri Aurobindo Ashram, 1952. xxv, 556 p. 19 cm.
Roy, Dilip Kumar
Subhash I knew
. Bombay: Nalanda Publications, 1946.
Roy, Dilip Kumar; Indira Devi
The beggar princess: a historical drama in five acts
. Allahabad: Kitab Mahal, [1955?]
Roy, Dilip Kumar
The Bhagavad Gita: a revelation
Hind Pocket Books. ISBN: 812160284X
Roy, Dilip Kumar
The Dynamic Absolute: A Preface to Sri Aurobindos Integral Advaita
. 165 pp. Rs 125.
Roy, Dilip Kumar
The flame and the flute: a mystic novel
. Pune: Hari Krishna Mandir Trust; Calcutta: Best Books, 2001.
Roy, Dilip Kumar
The flute calls still: Letters on yoga
. Poona: I. Niloy, [1964]
Roy, Dilip Kumar
The rounding off: Biography
. Bombay: Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan, 1983.
Roy, Dilip Kumar
The sun shines, sometime somewhere: Biography
. Kolkata: New Central Book agency, 2008.
Roy, Dilip Kumar
The upward spiral: a novel
. Bombay, New York, Jaico Pub. House [1949]
Roy, Dilip Kumar
Wings and bonds: [Fiction]
. Bombay: Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan, 1978.
Roy, Dilip Kumar; Sri Krishna Prem
Yogi Sri Krishnaprem
. Bombay, Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan, 1968.
In German
Roy, Dilip Kumar; Indira Devi
Der Weg der groίen Yogis = Pilgrims of the stars
. [Frankfurt a. M.] : Suhrkamp, 1977.
Roy, Dilip Kumar
Sri Aurobindo kam zu mir = Sri Aurobindo Came to Me
: (Erinnerungen). Translated from English into German. Frankfurt am Main: Fischer-Taschenbuch-Verlag, 1978.
In Bengali
Roy, Dilip Kumar
Aghatana ājo ghate: Fiction
Kalikātā, Ānanda, 1956
Roy, Dilip Kumar
Aghaṭanera ghaṭā: Fiction
Kalikātā, Iṇḍiẏāna Ayāsosiẏeṭeḍa Pābaliśiṃ Koṃ [1965]
Roy, Dilip Kumar
Aghaṭanera pūrbarāga.
Roy, Dilip Kumar
Aghaṭanī galpamālā
Roy, Dilip Kumar; Bhattacharya, Gauri Shankar
Āmāra bandhu Subhāṣa
Roy, Dilip Kumar
Anāmikā sūryamukhī
Roy, Dilip Kumar
Bhābi eka haẏa āra: Fiction
. Kalikātā, Iṇḍiẏāna Pābaliśiṃ [1964]
Roy, Dilip Kumar
Bhrānyamāṇa
. Kalikātā, Iṇḍiẏāna Ayāsosiẏeṭeḍa Pābaliśiṃ Koṃ [1964]
Roy, Dilip Kumar
Chāẏāpathera pathika: Fiction
Roy, Dilip Kumar
Dharmabijńana o Sriarabinda
. 1970. 9, 396 p. NOTES: "Art for art's sake, by Sri Aurobindo": p. [392]-396.
Roy, Dilip Kumar; Rabindranath Tagore
Dhūsare raṅina
. Kalikātā, Bisvabāṇī Prakāśanī [1967]
Roy, Dilip Kumar; Sudhīra Cakrabartī
Dilīpakumāra Rāya: smṛti-bismṛtira śatabarṣa: Biography
. Kalikātā: Dhrupada: Paribeśaka Pustaka Bipaṇi, 1997.
Roy, Dilip Kumar
Doṭānā
Roy, Dilip Kumar
Kṛṣṇakathā-kāhinī
Roy, Dilip Kumar
Madhu muralī
Roy, Dilip Kumar
Pākhā o bāṅdhana: Fiction
. Kalikātā, Ānanda, 2006
Roy, Dilip Kumar
Patitā o patitapābana: Fiction
. Kalikātā, Surakābya Saṃsada, 1978
Roy, Dilip Kumar
Prema-abhaẏa
Roy, Dilip Kumar; Bāridabaraṇa Ghoṣa; Ujjvalakumāra Majumadāra
Racanāsaṃgraha
Kalikātā, Ānanda Pābaliśārsa, 1997
Roy, Dilip Kumar
ṛṣi, kabi, guṇī, śilpī
. Calcutta: Kalikata Bisvabidyalaya, 1978. 81 p.; 23 cm. SERIES: Dvijendra baktrtamala. NOTES: Includes bibliographical references.
Roy, Dilip Kumar
Sāṅgītikī
. Calcutta: Kalikātā Biśvabidyālaẏa, 1938.
Roy, Dilip Kumar
Smṛticāraṇa
Roy, Dilip Kumar
Smṛticāraṇe mahāyogī Anirbāṇa: Biography
. Kalikātā: Haimabatī: paribeśaka Śrīarabinda Pāṭhamandira, 1979.
Roy, Dilip Kumar
Smṛti joẏāre dukūla cheẏe: Biography
. Kalikātā: Surakābya ṭrāsaṭ, 1992.
Roy, Dilip Kumar
Smṛtira śeṣa pātāẏa: Biography
Roy, Dilip Kumar
Surāρjali
. Kalikātā: Surakābya Saṃsada, 1376 [i.e., 1970]
Roy, Dilip Kumar
Tirthaṃkara
Roy, Dilip Kumar
Yugaṛśi Srīarabinda
. 1967. 15, 269 p. 23 cm. NOTES: Romanized.
In Gujarati
Roy, Dilip Kumar; Indira Devi; Ramaṇa Sonī
Baṃsī āje Paṇa baje che
. Rājkota: Paravīṇa Pusataka Bhaṃdāra, 1991.
In Hindi
Roy, Dilip Kumar
Abhābanīẏa.
Kalikātā: Iṇḍiẏāna Ayāsosiẏeṭeḍa Pābaliśiṃ Koṃ [1965]
Roy, Dilip Kumar
Sri chaitanya: a drama in three acts
. Pondicherry: Sri aurobindo ashram, [1950]
In Spanish
Roy, Dilip Kumar
Sri Aurobindo vino a mi: Reminiscencias = Sri Aurobindo Came to Me: Reminiscences
Translated from English into Spanish