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Issue No: 320, March 2016

Roy (Passing)

On the evening of February 29th, Roy (Alistair Wicks) of New Creation passed away in his UK home in the presence of his daughter and son, due to kidney failure. He was 92 years old. In 1989, Roy, a retired British police sergeant and school welfare officer, visited Auroville after the demise of his wife and was approached by André Tardeil, who at the time was setting up extended training at New Creation for village youth and needed someone to coordinate the educational efforts there. Half a year later Roy returned and started funding and establishing New Creation Bilingual School, which is now the well running CBSE-accredited Aikiyam School. Throughout the years, Roy’s house in New Creation became an organised and educative boarding for pupils of the school who had no relatives to take care of them. ‘Roy’s Boarding’ has been a caring home from where many youngsters from the village have been guided into the world with love, an institution which survives today as ‘Ma...
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Issue No. 320, March 2016

  • Between the Gold and the Blue
  • Golden Day Thoughts
  • Celebrating Tamil Culture
  • Breaking Down Caste Distinctions
  • Exploring Auroville Farming
  • What Else Is Going on with Farming in Auroville
  • "Landing Auroville - The Time Is Now!"
  • Food on the Mind
  • Crossing an Invisible Boundary
  • Leaking Roofs, Lack of Privacy, Plenty of Sound Pollution
  • Three Months in Auroville, or Why I Think Auroville Is Perfect
  • News in Brief
  • The Joy of Learning Experiment
  • Auroville International
  • Mani (Passing)
  • Roy (Passing)

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