On April 1, Rauf Ali passed away in his house at Aurodam, at
the age of 62 due to leukemia. He was lovingly surrounded by close friends and
his sister-in-law. In the mid-eighties he came to Auroville as a research
assistant from Bangalore’s Indian Institute of Science to document Auroville’s
afforestation activities. He fell in love with the place and its philosophy and
decided to stay. He officially joined in 1992.Describing himself on Auroville’s Auronet as a “maverick
biologist now working in the Andaman Islands”, the tall and slightly stooping,
Mumbai-born Rauf, was also the founder of the Foundation for Ecological
Research, Advocacy and Learning (FERAL), and a professor in the Department of
Ecology and Environmental Sciences of Pondicherry Central University. Throughout his years in Auroville, Rauf kept up his advisory
and academic work in India. His important research work, mainly centred on the
Andaman and Nicobar Islands and Western Ghats, was about the impact ...
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