The name of
Dominique Darr is indissolubly connected to the early days of
Auroville. Who in Auroville doesn’t know her photo of a lone
granite stone with the letters AV painted on it, marking Auroville
land? or the photo of men, goats and cows ambling through a dry,
eroded landscape? These are amongst her earliest photos of Auroville,
taken during her first visits to Pondicherry and Auroville.
Dominique first came
to Pondicherry in 1970, with her friend Klara Siritzky. “Klara was
a hatha yoga instructor and was aware of the teaching of Sri
Aurobindo,” she says. “We were both interested in spirituality,
and in 1968 we attended a conference on Auroville at the Trocadéro
in Paris, where we met Roger Anger and many other architects, the
physicist Gabriel Monod-Herzen, and various Ashramites. We came to
know about the Sri Aurobindo Association, and a week later we joined
Roger Anger. We became friends. We subscribed to the Bulletin o...
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