List by Name | Sri Chinmoy Reflections

Amritananda Russell Barber
(4 November 1935–4 June 2007)
Former WNBC-TV Religion Editor,
Producer and Host

Letters dated: 21 April 1989 — 27 August 2000 — 21 September 2000
5 November 2001 — 17 October 2002 — 6 November 2003
6 November 2006

Leonard Bernstein
(25 August 1918–14 October 1990)
Composer and Conductor

Letters dated: 4 December 1989

Pranab Kumar Bhattacharya
(18 October 1923–8 January 2010)
Director of Physical Education,
Sri Aurobindo Ashram

Letters dated: 21 December 1993 — 15 August 1994
20 March 1995 — 7 April 1995 — 12 October 1995
18 October 1995 — 23 February 1996 — 24 May 1996
7 July 1996 — 12 July 1996 — 16 September 1996
18 October 1996— 27 November 1996 — 14 February 1997
24 July 1997 — 31 July 1997 — 12 September 1997
6 October 1997 — 22 March 1998 — 22 April 1998
27 May 1998 — 21 June 1998 — 12 August 1998
30 September 1998 — 1 December 1998 — 17 April 1999
6 March 2000 — 18 June 2002 — 15 October 2002
6 January 2003 — 10 July 2003 — 10 October 2003
2 September 2004 — 18 October 2004 — 18 October 2005
10 March 2006 — 5 May 2006

His Majesty
Birendra Bir Bikram Shah Dev
(28 December 1945–1 June 2001)
King of Nepal

Letters dated: 12 August 1996 — 3 December 1996
28 December 1996 — 8 November 1998

Harry A. Cahill
Minister Counselor, US Mission to the UN;
US State Dept Chief of Refugee Operations,
Bosnia

Letters dated: 20 April 1989 — 16 October 1999

Ossie Davis
(18 December 1917–4 February 2005)
US Actor and Civil Rights Activist

Letters dated: 16 December 2003

Dr. Ormond Drake
Professor Emeritus, New York University;
Host of ‘The Way to Go’ on WCBS-TV

Letters dated: 2 January 1992

Luis Ferré
(17 February 1904–21 October 2003)
Governor of Puerto Rico 1969–1973

Letters dated: 16 March 1989

Dr. Edmond H. Fischer
(Born 6 April 1920)
1992 Nobel Laureate in Physiology or Medicine;
Professor Emeritus of Biochemistry,
University of Washington

Letters dated: 12 April 2004 — 21June 2004

Jack Foster
(23 May 1932–5 June 2004)
New Zealand Masters Marathon Champion;
Silver medallist 1974 Commonwealth Games Marathon

Letters dated: April 2004

Joe Franklin
(Born 9 March 1926)
American radio and TV personality;
Host of longest running TV talk show in history

Letters dated: 2 December 1998 — 17 April 2005

Sita Gandhi
(1928–1999)
Mahatma Gandhi's granddaughter

Letters dated: 6 December 1996

Raisa Gorbachev
(5 January 1932–20 September 1999)
First Lady of the Soviet Union;
Wife of President Mikhail Gorbachev

Letters dated: 2 February 1994

Payton Jordan
(19 March 1917–5 February 2009)
Former USA Track and Field Olympic Coach;
Masters Sprinting Champion

Letters dated: 7 April 1989

Pir Vilayat Khan
(19 June 1916–17 June 2004)
Head of the Sufi Order in the West

Letters dated: August 1975 — 6 April 1989 — 17 May 1989
30 May 1989 — 19 June 1989 — 28 January 1990 — 7 February 1990
14 June 1990 — 19 June 1991 — 25 August 1991
27 August 1995 — 8 December 1995 — 19 June 1996 — August 1996
23 August 1996 — December 1996 — 11 April 1997 — 18 June 1997
28 August 1997 — 19 June 1998 — 5 January 1999 — 19 June 1999
27 August 1999 — 5 May 2000 — 19 June 2000 — 19 June 2001
30 June 2001 — 22 July 2001 ¹ — 19 June 2002 — 19 June 2003
27 August 2003 — 27 October 2003 — 4 November 2003
7 June 2004

Dr. Janis V. Klavins
Chairman, Dept. of Pathology, The Catholic Medical Center of Brooklyn and Queens;
President, IATMO

Letters dated: 23 March 1989

Edward Koch
(Born 12 December 1924)
Mayor of New York 1978–1989

Letters dated: 21 April 1989

Sri Girija Prasad Koirala
(20 February 1925–20 March 2010)
Prime Minister of Nepal

Letters dated: 1 December 1998

Donny Lalonde
(Born 12 March 1960)
WBC Light Heavyweight Champion 1987-88

Letters dated: 20 April 1989

Dr. Ralph Lazzaro
(1915–10 September 1994)
Retired Director of Language Studies
Harvard Divinity School

Letters dated: 4 April 1989

Dr. John McAleer
(1923–19 November 2003)
Professor of English, Boston College

Letters dated: 27 April 1989

Yehudi Menuhin
(22 April 1916–12 March 1999)
Violinist

Letters dated: 19 August 1992 — 8 September 1992
13 January 1994 — 2 May 1994 — 29 July 1995 — Undated 1996
18 April 1996 — 13 July 1996 — 14 October 1996 — 22 April 1997
21 April 1998 — 9 February 1999 — 12 March 1999

Lady Diana Menuhin
(2 November 1912–25 January 2003)
Wife of Yehudi Menuhin

Letters dated: 15 March 1999 — 30 March 1999

Ismail Merchant
(25 December 1936–25 May 2005)
Filmmaker

Letters dated: 16 December 2003

James Parks Morton
(Born 7 January 1930)
Dean, The Cathedral Church
of St. John the Divine

Letters dated: 13 April 1989

Lady Patricia Mountbatten
(Born 14 February 1924)
Daughter of Lord Louis Mountbatten,
last Viceroy of India

Letters dated: 17 November 1996 — 19 December 1998
11 February 2002 — 14 February 2003

Daniel P. Moynihan
(16 March 1927–26 March 2003)
United States Senator from New York

Letters dated: 13 April 1979 — 21 April 1989 — 16 March 1992
5 December 1995 — 23 March 1997 — 25 March 1999
29 April 1999 — 7 May 1999 — 21 May 1999 — 20 March 2000
13 April 2000 — 27 May 2000

C.V. Narasimhan
(21 May 1915–3 November 2003)
Former Under-Secretary-General
and Chef de Cabinet, United Nations

Letters dated: 8 November 1996 — 17 April 2000

Sister Nirmala
(Born 1934)
Superior General, Missionaries of Charity

Letters dated: 13 April 2004 — 27 August 2005 — 17 November 2005

Al Oerter
(19 September 1936–1 October 2007)
4-time Olympic gold medallist in discus

Letters dated: 22 February 2000 — 5 October 2000 — 22 June 2002

Linus Pauling
(28 February 1901–19 August 1994)
1954 Nobel Chemistry Prize Laureate;
1962 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate

Letters dated: 6 January 1994

Claiborne Pell
(22 November 1918–1 January 2009)
United States Senator from Rhode Island

Letters dated: 19 April 1989 — 19 November 1998

Alexandr A. Razvin
(1931–10 March 1998)
Ambassador of Russia to the United Nations

Letters dated: August 1996 — 9 August 1996

Siddhartha Shankar Ray
(20 October 1920–6 November 2010)
Grandson of Deshabandhu Chittaranjan Das;
Chief Minister of West Bengal 1972–1977;
Governor of the Punjab 1986–1989;
Ambassador for India to the US 1992–1996

Letters dated: 4 June 1998 — 3 August 1998 — 11 August 1998
27 September 1998 — 19 October 1998

Elliot Richardson
(20 July 1920–31 December 1999)
Former US Attorney General;
US Ambassador-at-Large;
Chairman UN Association USA

Letters dated: 26 August 1981 — 14 April 1989 — 29 July 1999

Manmohan Singh
(Born 26 September 1932)
Prime Minister of India since 2004

Letters dated: 19 August 2004 — 29 August 2004

H.E. L.M. Singhvi
(9 November 1931–6 October 2007)
High Commissioner for India to the UK

Letters dated: 31 October 1994 — 16 August 1995
30 August 1995 — 12 November 1995 — 13 October 1996
31 October 1996 and draft — 9 November 1996 — 20 September 1998
23 September 1998

Siegfried Emil ‘Sid’ Spindler
(9 July 1932–1 March 2008)
Senator for Victoria, Australia 1990–1996

Letters dated: 14 July 1995 — 28 July 1995 — 6 December 1996

Gennadi Strekalov
(26 October 1940–25 December 2004)
Cosmonaut, Space-Pilot of the USSR;
Chairman of the Russian Peace Committee

Letters dated: 13 April 2004

Thomas Whalen III
(1934–2002)
Mayor of Albany, New York 1983–1993

Letters dated: 2 February 1994