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Issue No: 301, August 2014

Land purchase in the early years 

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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Issue No. 301, August 2014

  • “Have faith and stop criticising!”
  • Wanted: a Working Committee
  • Organisation: Satprem's letter to Kireet
  • Land purchase in the early years 
  • Yatra's journey through the arts
  • The craft of Making Place: Lessons for Auroville?
  • Exploring the history of Auroville
  • In Brief
  • Toshi Malik (Passing)
  • Rakesh Tiwari (Passing)
  • Jagran (Passing)

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