Narayanaswamy GopalAurovilian
Gopal Narayanasamy from Douceur left his body in the afternoon of 21
October at JIPMER due to a heart attack. He was 57 years old.Narayanasamy
was one of those kids from the villages around us who, at a very
early age, roamed Auroville in the seventies, came to the Matrimandir
workers’ tea times for a tea and a biscuit, and got to know and
charmed many of the pioneers of that time. He came from Alankuppam
and started living in Revelation in 1978, lived for some time in
Hermitage, helping them plant trees, and was part of the team that
created Horizon in 1980. In the beginning of the eighties he was
taken up at Matrimandir as ‘helper tractor driver’, of course
morphing into a much appreciated full time driver and working for
Matrimandir for some ten years.After
this, he joined Aurelec, where he worked as driver and messenger till
the end of the nineties.He
was a cheerful, friendly person who had many friends. While living in
Douceur, he married his wif...
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