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Issue No: 376, November 2020

Let’s Talk Trash

One Saturday morning in November 2017, a bunch of Auroville youth hanging out in the Solar Kitchen parking lot had the ‘wild idea’ to clean-up some of the ever-increasing amounts of rubbish in Auroville. By the very next day, Bharathy Somasundaram and friends had gathered people and started cleaning up the Certitude to Pitchandikulam stretch of the tar road. “We finished the event and went for breakfast,” says Dinesh Arumugan, “and we didn’t expect the garbage to build up again.” “The team did not plan to do regular clean-ups”, says team member Induja Gandhiprasad, but to just do it once “and see how it goes”. However, as the group saw waste begin to reappear on the road, they started fortnightly outings. Now dubbed ‘Let’s Talk Trash’, the initiative’s team members have cleaned the Crown, around Town Hall, and Industrial zone, but they have concentrated mostly on the Certitude to Pitchandikulam stretch for the simple fact that it is the most polluted and, as Dinesh puts it, “If w...
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Issue No. 376, November 2020

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  • Too much bureaucracy?
  • The need to specify minimum conditions
  • How is Auroville doing?
  • Fostering goodwill towards the city
  • Let’s Talk Trash
  • Anitya: from vision to reality
  • Red feet: Growing up in Auroville
  • Which mask do you wear?
  • Plastic Alchemy
  • New Books: 50 More Poems from Auroville; Radicle Network
  • Resurrected in nature
  • Passings: Narayanaswamy Gopal; Akash Nandkumar
  • U.F.O. Unidentified Found Objects

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