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Issue No: 376, November 2020

Passings: Narayanaswamy Gopal; Akash Nandkumar

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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