Letter

Dear friends of Auroville Today, With regard to your ‘Caring for the Sick and Elderly’ article in AVToday # 363, I would like to make two observations: 1. While you correctly mention that the Auroville Health Service officially came into being in 2001, it might be proper to mention here the ground-breaking work of then Aurovilian, Dr Beena R. Naik. It was Beena who, in 2000 with her enthusiasm and sense of urgency first started tackling the hygienic situation in Auroville’s collective kitchens and other eateries, and who fundraised for setting up a team, and staunchly braved the many resistances that each and every new service in the City of Dawn has to overcome. In an article like this, I think Dr Beena should be remembered and honoured. Kudos to her! 2. I also would like to observe that a misconception might be created in the reader’s mind by the following phrase in the article: “The absence of a waiting list [for the Mahalakshmi complex] may also be due to the commonly h...
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