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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