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Issue No: 323-324, June-July 2016

Voices of the Floating Youth - The experiences of youth without permanent housing

SuhaSuhaMy parents separated when I was about 9 years old and ever since, my brother Satya I have been missing a place called home. During my parents separation, we bounced back and forth from staying in the farm house where my dad stayed (until our keet roof collapsed because the Farm Group didn’t give the Housing Group the permission to help us financially to fix our keet roof and so we were forced to move out) and at my grandmother’s house in the village and in friends’ houses. I stayed in Kailash for about a year during my teenage years and ever since I have been staying with my mother or house-sitting. Being brought up in Auroville and having only one parent earning just an Auroville maintenance and no other income from outside, it’s been a tough road to get to a place called home. My father still lives in his tiny (when I say tiny I am not exaggerating) pump house where the rice fields are. With my maintenance from Visitors Centre (I work in Le Zephyr) and the small income I...
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Issue No. 323-324, June-July 2016

  • The Housing Crisis
  • Tackling the Youth Housing Problem
  • Voices of the Floating Youth - The experiences of youth without permanent housing
  • Apprenticeships for Youth
  • How to Protect a Name?
  • Round and Round We Go
  • Roundabouts and Yoga
  • The Path of Pierre Legrand
  • The Healing Paintings of Marie-Claire Barsotti
  • The Abstract Expressionism of Nele Martens
  • Beyond Realism
  • Sri Aurobindo and J.S. Bach - A Personal Experience
  • A Pyrrhic Victory
  • Growing Food, Growing Children
  • Aurovilians are Winners in Indian Championships
  • Luise Hansen; N. Saravanan; Bomi Homawalla (Passing)

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