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Issue No: 306, January 2015

New Dawn Carpentry

The four-metre high doors of the new Centre of Indian Culture The doors are four meters high, each smoothly rotating on two ball bearings. The scene is the new Centre for Indian Culture at Bharat Nivas, the construction of which is in the finishing phases. The carpenter is Auroville’s New Dawn Carpentry, run by Aurovilians Ricardo Cosarinsky from Argentina and Danasu, from Tamil Nadu. “The doors are impressive,” confirms Ricardo. “But they were the devil in making. We used wood from the khaya trees that came down in cyclone Thane, as that was the only wood available that was large enough. But the wood is very unpleasant to work with. Though it had been seasoned for 28 days and the humidity content had come down to the normal 8-14%, the wood kept warping and twisting. I also wasn’t happy with the finishing touch, as khaya doesn’t allow for such a smooth feel as does ‘Work’ tree.” For the layman, however, the doors feel good, as do the other doors and windows tha...
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Issue No. 306, January 2015

  • Growing timber and firewood for Auroville
  • Kenji’s Woodwork
  • Aurorachana
  • Prakrit
  • Woodscapes
  • Reflections on a feedback process
  • The Auroville Statistics Initiative
  • Villages clean-up
  • Kindling the Viewless Fire
  • Combatting alcoholism
  • The Odd Couple
  • Prema (Passing)
  • We have a Working Committee
  • Population statistics 2014
  • Veenapani Chawla (Passing)
  • New Dawn Carpentry

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