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Issue No: 371-72, June-July 2020

Passings: Uschi Ernst; Vijayamala Ganapatrao; Jan Pieter Derksen

Long-term Friend of Auroville and Auroville International Germany member Uschi Ernst, passed away on Sunday 3 May at the age of 80. Her health had been gradually weakening this last half year.Uschi, and husband Helmut Ernst, had been closely connected to Sri Aurobindo and the Mother since the sixties. They were active members of AVI Germany and would regularly participate in the various AVI meetings in Auroville and/or abroad. They built a house in Grace in the mid-nineties which they co-stewarded throughout the years while yearly visiting for some weeks. Uschi was an energetic woman, an enthusiast trumpet player, and warmly received visiting Aurovilians in her large, plant and flower-rich Frankfurt home. On Tuesday May 26th, Vijayamala, a long-term volunteer at New Creation’s Crèche and Boarding School, passed away due to a heart attack at JIPMER at the age of 51.Mala came from the Sri Aurobindo Ashram in 2000 and has been living and working in New Creation, co-running the Boar...
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Issue No. 371-72, June-July 2020

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  • COVID-19: a wake-up call
  • Stepping up to the task: the work of the COVID Task Force
  • The new food regime: “Bring your own tiffin! Sanitize your hands! Wear your mask!”
  • The challenges facing Auroville’s commercial units
  • Lock down muse: A sample of poems, pictures, paintings, prose writings, music, dances, videos, films and other creative outpourings made by Aurovilians during the lockdown
  • Education during the pandemic: how schools are reaching their students after closures
  • Koodam: providing a heart connection during the lockdown
  • The Gratitude Cake Project
  • Passings: Uschi Ernst; Vijayamala Ganapatrao; Jan Pieter Derksen
  • COVID and the local villages: the response of Auroville’s Village Action Group
  • More than a number the work of Coast India Initiative for migrants from Jharkhand
  • In memoriam: Roma Hira

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