Tapan Kumar Pradhan
b. 1972writer
Yogi, Kriya Yoga guru and founder of Self-Realization Fellowship (1893-1952)
Paramahansa Yogananda
1893–1952, born Gorakhpur, writes in English, writer, autobiographer
Paramahansa Yogananda was an Indian and American Hindu monk, yogi, and guru who founded the Self-Realization Fellowship (SRF)/Yogoda Satsanga Society of India (YSS), a religious meditation and Kriya Yoga organization, to disseminate his teachings. A chief disciple of the yoga guru Swami Sri Yukteswar Giri, he was sent by his lineage to spread yogic teachings to the West. He immigrated to the US at the age of 27, intending to demonstrate a unity between Eastern and Western religions and advocate for a balance between Western material growth and Indian spirituality. His longstanding influence on the American yoga movement, and especially the yoga culture of Los Angeles, led yoga experts to consider him the “Father of Yoga in the West”. He lived his final 32 years in the US.
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Books on record
On Open Library
Autobiography of a Yogi1946
Metaphysical meditations1967
Whispers from Eternity1935
The Bhagavad Gita1995
Man's eternal quest and other talks1975
Where There is Light1988Editions Open Library lists under this name; a namesake may slip in.
Elsewhere
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Also writing in English
Kishori Charan Das
1924–2004Odia writer
Sitakant Mahapatra
b. 1937writer from Odisha
R. K. Narayan
1906–2001English-language writer (1906–2001)
Annada Shankar Ray
1905–2002writer, poet, essayist (1905-2002)
Amitav Ghosh
b. 1956writer