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Issue No: 364, November 2019

Keeping us connected

Suresh and MoorthyWhen your telephone line has been struck by lightning and your modem has gone up in smoke, you begin to appreciate the meaning of ‘service’. For, whatever the weather or the state of the roads, Suresh and Moorthy from the Auroville Telephone Service will soon be at your door to reconnect you to the rest of the world. They’ve been together a long time – Suresh joined the Telephone Service 25 years ago, Moorthy 22 years ago – and they make a fine team. While they come from different villages – Moorthy from Kuilapalayam and Suresh from Sanjeevinagar – it helps that they are cousins and have known each other almost from birth. However, it wasn’t always clear that they would end up working together. In 1990 Suresh was involved with construction work in Auroville. Later he became a painter and worked with fibreglass at Matrimandir. Moorthy studied at Isaiambalam School before training to becoming a cook at New Creation Corner, one of Auroville’s most popular former r...
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Issue No. 364, November 2019

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  • The employees of Auroville
  • Exploring the freedom to learn
  • A life with numbers and beyond
  • A special team
  • Keeping us connected
  • Embodying spirituality – the dancing world of Auroville
  • Transforming prisons through dance
  • Message in a bottle
  • Synthesis or separation?
  • The challenges of experimenting in Auroville
  • Passings: Sundharamurthy Murugesan family; Nilesh Premji Nisar
  • Letter
  • Tsunamika, the voice of the oceans
  • The beginning of collaboration with FTII

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