Photo by Dominique Darr 1968-75 - barren land with boundary marker
Little is known about those early days before Auroville’s inauguration, when land purchase and the first Auroville developments were started by the Sri Aurobindo Society. Here are some memories of Dayanand, who, after resigning from the Indian Forest Service, was involved with land purchase from 1964 to 1976, and of his wife Anjani, (an IAS officer) who, from 1967 to 1973, was Chief-Secretary of Pondicherry.Dayanand remembers:My contact with the
Mother started in 1953, when I came to Pondicherry as a student of the
Postgraduate Course in Ecology in the Botany department of Annamalai
University. My professor Dr. T.C.N. Singh had brought us here, so that he could
place the entire team who were working on “The Effect of Music on Plants”
before the Mother. She used to encourage that experiment. The first time I saw
Her in 1953 was in the Ashram playground. We stood in a line and I bowed down
at Her Feet. She s...
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