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Issue No: 310, May 2015

Klaus Groujean (Passing)

On April 16th, long-term Aurovilian Klaus (Groujean) of Nine Palms passed away after a year-long struggle with complications of liver cancer. He was 68 years old. Klaus was well-known, driving the Auroville roads in colourful attire, long hair flying in the wind and radiating his flamboyant easy-rider image Klaus was born in East Germany in 1947, from where. as a 17-year old, he managed to escape to the West through a minefield in the north of the country. After years of staying in Germany as a refugee, he teamed up with his long-to-be partner Ingrid and they made their way to India, landing in Forecomers in 1972. After The Mother accepted them for living in Auroville in 1973, they moved to the place that would become the Nine Palms settlement, which Klaus started by building a first major dam. During the next 42 years, he did important water conservation and afforestation work on some 80 acres of land and grew red rice and a variety of vegetables in order to raise a...
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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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