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Issue No: 371-72, June-July 2020

In memoriam: Roma Hira

In the late afternoon of April 25th, Roma Hira peacefully left her body at her home in Dana due to renal failure. She would have turned 73 in September this year. Her remains were cremated on the morning of April 26th at Auroville’s mandapam in Adventure community. Roma was perhaps best known as the person behind Roma’s Kitchen, one of the best of Auroville’s eateries with a reputation for serving gourmet Indian food. Every evening, seated in a quiet corner of the restaurant, she would keep watch over her staff and clients, guarding her restaurant’s reputation and welcoming friends and guests. One such evening a few years ago, Auroville Today asked her for her ‘story’, the story of one of Auroville’s pioneers who, more than 35 years ago, decided to make Auroville her home. Here it is published for the first time. The true inspiration for my coming to Auroville was my mother. Not The Mother – though you can argue she had a hand in it – but my own physical mother. She and my ...
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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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