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The Allied victory

This refers to the 60th anniversary celebrations of the Allied victory over Nazi Germany. In this context, the prophetic words of Aurobindo are still relevant.

In a letter to one of his disciples on September 3, 1943, he wrote: "The victory of one side [the Allies] would keep the path open for the evolutionary forces; the victory of the other side would drag back humanity, degrade it horribly and might lead even, at the worst, to its eventual failure as a race, as others in the past evolution failed and perished. That is the whole question and all other considerations are either irrelevant or of a minor importance... "

T.S. Pattabhi Raman,
Coimbatore, T.N.

This refers to the article, `Our common victory and its lessons' (May 9). It was a costly lesson learnt at the cost of millions of lives. It leaves a message, "No more wars; the world needs peace," to the next generation.

C. Rajendrakumar,
Tirupur, T.N.

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