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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