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Issue No: 321, April 2016

Down Memory Road or The Tunnel

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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Issue No. 321, April 2016

  • Shalom Shanti Salam
  • The Auroville Economy: In Dire Straits
  • Is Auroville Moving Toward a Market Economy?
  • All for Water for All
  • Discovering Johannes Hohlenberg
  • Down Memory Road or The Tunnel
  • The English of Savitri, vol. 2
  • "You have to keep going forward": A Portrait of Pashi
  • German Volunteers in Auroville: The Weltwaerts Programme
  • Rockstar Racing
  • Eric Hughes (Passing)

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