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Issue No: 308, March 2015

La Caravane pour Auroville

Initially, I did not wish to speak or write about it. So far I have always refused to be interviewed on the subject. All my life I have never been keen on stirring up the past or dwelling on it too long. I tend to look forward, not back. And here we would be talking of something that happened not only many years ago, but many lives ago! How was I to restore a faded picture that has long lost for me its appeal, its shine? I said no. But my brother Cristof insisted I share whatever survives of this ‘mythical’ episode with Alan and others. Words, sentences, images started trickling in... So here is my take on the 1969 Caravan to Auroville. An account necessarily subjective, partial and woefully incomplete, since I have only dim recollections, and no vivid memories, except for a couple of incidents, or accidents rather, and an overwhelming experience in the grounds of the Taj Mahal, which I do not care to relate here. In retrospect, it was not the glorious Odyssey some wou...
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Issue No. 308, March 2015

  • Detailed Development Plans for the Residential Zone ready
  • La Caravane pour Auroville
  • The second caravan: a modern odyssey
  • Organizing the caravan
  • RERS hosts second PEC
  • Saarang: A space to experience Indian music
  • The clasp of civilizations
  • Czerwone Drogi Auroville
  • Run for the Joy of Running!
  • All-India Frisbee Camp in Auroville
  • Serge Cataneo (Passing)
  • European pavilion tree planted
  • Jayanth Thakkar (Passing)
  • 7 (Ramachandra Rao) (Passing)
  • Lachmanben (Passing)
  • The first caravan

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