The dusty time tunnel
It is easy to remember because it hasn’t really changed in
48 years: the same scanty grove of eucalyptus trees; the same flat expanse of
fields now dotted with scrawny cashew trees and small, shadeless neems; the
same red earth playing fields of Certitude; the same blast of sun that, along
with the traffic, grinds the road into a fine dust coating its wayside shrubs
from green to a diseased brown.
It’s “Mother’s Golden Temple Road,” (address given on the
Dinesh restaurant sign) or the Auroville Main Road (Google maps), still the
main entrance to Auroville for hundreds of vehicles a day carrying Aurovilians
swathed in dust-protecting cloth on motorbikes, visitors on carbon belching
TVS’s, rickety bicycles, listless walkers pulled over staring blankly at maps –
plus lorries, small goods-vans, taxis, school buses, and me, with my memories
of it.
The road from Kuilapalayam that feeds into it has changed.
Joss’s trees, planted in the 70’s, provide sha...
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