K.D. Sethna, otherwise known as Amal Kiran- a name given to him by Sri Aurobindo, is a radiant multifaceted genius living unassumingly in the Sri Aurvindo ashram. Born in 1904 he joined the ashram in 1927and is one of the foremost disciples of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother, fortunately still amongst us today. He is a distinguished poet, a literary critic, an artist and a seer. Apart from his own poems he is a great prose write on a wide variety of subjects- poetry, literature, history, Christianity, philosophy and of course Sri Aurobindo and The Mother. He has been the editor of Mother India, a monthly review of culture published by the Sri Aurobindo Ashram, Pondicherry, since 1949.