While studying Sri Aurobindo's works, one important fact should be remembered: Sri Aurobindo's consciousness was in a constant state of development, and there was a radical change in his views, particularly after 1910. Sri Aurobindo's earliest writings were poems that he penned as a student in England. This literary interest continued during his thirteen-year stay at Baroda, where he wrote a number of poems and plays, and afterwards in Calcutta and Pondicherry. He first rose to national prominence as a writer for his editorials and articles in Bande Mataram, a Calcutta daily (1906 and 1908).