JagadeshwariJagadeshwari hails from Annai Nagar, a small village on the northern side of Auroville, where she works as an administrator and facilitator in Thamarai after-school (an Auroville outreach project). She is part of the first generation in her village to gain a university education and to move into professional employment.
Her education began conventionally, attending nearby Tamil-medium government schools. But in 11th standard, her parents permitted her to stay in a hostel in Pondicherry to complete her two final years of high school in the city – allowing Jagadeshwari an unusual degree of freedom for a girl from her village background. “At that time, I felt sick travelling by bus, so my parents told me, ‘You can enjoy this different life’. It was a new experience. I learnt so many things, I enjoyed it a lot, and I spent time with my besties.”
Jagadeshwari then did a bachelor degree in computer engineering. While she remains unimpressed by the educational standard – “I...
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the bridge which Mother had visualised is being formed, by such simple souls who are being given the opportunity of their lives to participate in this experiment, too vast for human comprehension, it all began in 1968 when Mother asked a senoir sadhak who was the chief of General Hosptal and had been coming to the ashram since 1940's and had attended all her classes in the playground in the 50's , when he retied from govt.service and joined the ashram to go to aspiration with Dr Satyavrata Sen ( FRCS ,prof. and chief of surgery JIPMER)and Dr Surya ( chief of NIMHANS)with DRr Ponnu whom Mother had named Viswa-(L'Univers in french) to go and talk to the villagers about auroville thrice a week for a year, he would stand under the huge tamariind and wait for a few people to come and then began telling them about Mother's dream city of Auroville, a thanksless job, some days a few more would be there other days one or two ,and this went on for a whole year through the summer, rains and winter and a report he made of the composition of the population of AV villages and their activities exists in the AV archives...Roger wanted him to continue, but Mother said to him that I had asked him for year and it is over...