Nolini Kanta Gupta was born on 13 January 1889 in Faridpur, East Bengal, to a cultured and prosperous Vaidya-Brahmin family.
In his teens, he came under the influence of Sri Aurobindo, then a well-known revolutionary fighting for independence against the British. When in his fourth year at Presidency College, Calcutta, he left a promising academic career and rejected a lucrative government job to join a small revolutionary group under Sri Aurobindo.
He was taught Greek, Latin, French, and Italian by Sri Aurobindo himself and was among the four disciples who were with Aurobindo in 1910 at Pondicherry. A prolific writer on a wide range of topics, he has about 60 books to his credit of which about 16 are in English and 44 in Bengali, as well as many articles and poems in English, Bengali, and French.
Nolini Kanta Gupta died at the Sri Aurobindo Ashram on 7 February 1984.
