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Issue No: 375, October 2020

Snapshots of 40 years in Auroville

JocelyneSome Aurovilians just do their work, don’t attend meetings and almost never express their views in public. One of those is Jocelyne, who lives in a difficult-to-find house behind Aurovelo. Here is her sharing.It was 1970. I was living in Paris and had lost my job. I decided to go and visit my sister who was living in a community in South India. I told our mother that I was going to check if it was a sect or not. As I had been fired, I had some cash to pay for the ticket.I flew to Mumbai and took a train to Chennai. This was my first time to India, so I was fully unprepared – I had brought no food, no water, no bed sheets, nothing. At every station I bought bananas, chickoos and tea, and so endured the slow two-day train ride. On the last leg of my trip, my luck turned. Instead of taking the bus alone to Pondicherry, as soon as I exited the train in Chennai I saw a few people waiting: Vincenzo, Jean-Claude B., Swapna and my sister Claudine! They took me to Auroville, to Asp...
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Issue No. 375, October 2020

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  • Raising the bar on mobility and urban planning
  • Is Auroville becoming a city of cars??
  • Change in Auroville
  • Auroville 80
  • Snapshots of 40 years in Auroville
  • A natural education
  • What’s in a community name?
  • In Memoriam: Dr. Kapila Vatsyayan
  • In Memoriam: Dr. Kamla Tewari

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