Anurag Banerjee
Founder and Managing Trustee, Overman Foundation
Born on 13th October 1984 to Jayanta Banerji and Sanghamitra Banerjee, eminent film actress of Bengali Cinema, Anurag received his early education from The Future Foundation School, Kolkata. His association with the Sri Aurobindo Ashram started from 1999 when, as a young boy of fifteen, he visited Pondicherry. A B.Com graduate from
Calcutta University with Honours in Accountancy and Finance, he obtained a diploma in Business Administration which was followed by another diploma in Business Management and an M.B.A. degree from ICFAI University, Dehradun, with specialization in Human Resource Management. At the age of twenty, Anurag penned a biography of Dilip Kumar Roy titled Achinpather Dibyapathik (thus he became the youngest Indian to pen a biography) and at the age of twenty-one he translated one hundred poems of Sri Aurobindo into Bengali titled Debotar Shrom; both the books were published in 2008. His first book in English, Nirodbaran: The Surrealist’s Journey, was published in December 2006 when he was twenty-two years old. In the past few years, he has established himself as a poet, essayist, researcher, biographer and translator. He was an Associate Professor at NexGen Institute of Business and Technology, Kolkata. He is also a faculty at Sri Aurobindo Centre for Advanced Research (SACAR), Pondicherry, where he conducts the course on Integral Management developed by him. He has lectured in several national symposiums and seminars organized by Sri Aurobindo Centre for Advanced Research, Sri Aurobindo Bhavan (Kolkata) and Jadavpur University. He is a Trustee of Sri Aurobindo Sakti Centre Trust which runs the “Sri Aurobindo Bal Mandir” School at New Alipore, Kolkata. At the age of twenty-five on 29 March 2010, Anurag established Overman Foundation, a non-profit organization which runs India’s only online research centre dedicated to the mission of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother and the ‘Auro-Ratna Awards’. Overman Foundation has published the following books penned and edited by Anurag: The Alipore Bomb Trial Judgment (2010), Sri Aurobindo: His Political Life and Activities (2010), Sri Aurobindo on Ethics (2011), Ananya Nishikanto (2011), Sujata Nahar: Loving Homage (2011), Sri Aurobindo and Rabindranath Tagore (2011), The Mother: The Birth and Growth of a Flame (2012), The Alipore Bomb Trial: Selected Documents (2012), Sri Aurobindo’s Integral Vision of Life (2012) and Sri Aurobindo As We Saw Him (2013). In April 2011 Anurag was felicitated with the ‘Nolini Kanta Gupta Smriti Puraskar’ by ‘Srinvantu’ and Sri Aurobindo Bhavan, Kolkata.
