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Issue No: 310, May 2015

"The Flute Must Be Played Through You"

Pandit Hariprasad Chaurasia in concert with Chandra One of the highlights of the Auroville Festival in Chennai was the sound of Chandra’s haunting flute which concluded the inauguration. But such mastery does not come easily. Here Auroville-born Chandra talks about her upbringing in Auroville, her three year apprenticeship with bamboo flute maestro Hariprasad Chaurasia, and her recent academic journey which led to her gaining a place at Cambridge University.   What was your school experience in Auroville? Interesting! I went to a number of different schools. The one I enjoyed most was Mirramukhi. It was a very alternative form of education. They created their own curriculum, they didn’t want to use anything that came from outside and everything was in French: I didn’t learn to read or write English until after I left. Their philosophy was based upon perfection; everything that you made or did had to be an expression of beauty in its most perfect form.  It ...
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Issue No. 310, May 2015

  • The Challenges of Farming in Auroville
  • Growing Food, Growing People
  • Farming in Auroville: the tensions of growing and selling
  • Experiments in Hydroponics
  • Growing a Green City
  • "The Flute Must Be Played Through You"
  • What is Really Going on Here
  • My Pumpkin Roof
  • Village Youth Reach High
  • The ADCERRA Dental Team Goes to Gujarat
  • The English of Savitri Volume 1
  • Klaus Groujean (Passing)
  • Johan Defour (Passing)

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