Chali
Chali was born in San Francisco in
1967. She attended the inauguration of Auroville and was taken to
Mother while still very young. She moved to Auroville in 1969-70 with
Mary Helen and Narad (who she mainly grew up with), but left with her
mother at the end of 1980. Narad followed a few months later. She
moved back to Auroville in the summer of 1995. Today, she is one of
the key members of the management team of Future School, which she
cofounded.
What are your memories of those
early years in Auroville?
I have very positive childhood memories
of freedom and fun, being out in nature, swimming in the mud-holes.
Later, I realized those days were much harder for the adults, and
particularly for sensitive people my mom. Actually, this is partly
why we went back to the U.S. in 1980.
You went from Equals One, a free
progress school connected to the Ashram, to Kodaikanal International
School, which was a much more structured, less individualized
environment. Was it diff...
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