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Issue No: 313-314, August-September 2015

A Testimony to Stubborn Persistence

Chandresh supervising the laying of the optical fibre cable. Watching YouTube is often vexing. Downloading is slow, the wheel appears time and again and much fun fades in the waiting. Auroville’s telephone-based internet of 700-odd lines is limited in capacity and unsuitable for high speed internet access. “The official requirement is 2 Mbps [Megabits per second], but if you live far away from a BSNL telephone exchange, the reality is 256 Kbps [Kilobits per second],” says Chandresh. “The lack of a reliable and fast intranet is a major constraint.” Together with JV Avadhanulu, popularly known as JV, he set out to do something about it. That was seven years ago. The path was uphill, he says, not only because of dealing with agencies outside Auroville, but also within Auroville where various working groups showed a tepid interest at best. In March this year JV declared he had had enough and left Auroville, to collaborate from a distance. Chandresh continued. Today, their w...
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Issue No. 313-314, August-September 2015

  • Scenes from Sri Aurobindo's Savitri
  • A Testimony to Stubborn Persistence
  • Initiators and Sustainers
  • Economics for People and Earth - part 2
  • Newcomer Housing
  • The Integral Entrepeneurship Lab
  • India, Land of Light
  • "There are many more Aurovilians in the world"
  • International Youth Day
  • Reading the Runes
  • New Books and DVDs
  • A 4000 Ladies' Special
  • Two New Land Campaigns
  •  Petra Janko (Passing)
  • Juanita Cole (Passing)
  • Brief News
  • Youth Link Takes Off
  • Auroville's Spirituality

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