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Issue No: 361, August 2019

A transformed eatery – the Aurelec cafeteria

Lunch at AurelecWhen Aurelec first started back in the early 1980s, it had no catering facility, only a small kerosene stove on which the cleaning lady brewed tea and coffee for the pioneer staff working there. Lunch was taken at Fraternity’s community kitchen, which one could easily reach in those days by walking across the completely open fields in the area now occupied by Kuilapalayam’s satellite village of Lakshmipuram. A year or two after completing the first proper building at the southern end of today’s complex, a small ‘kitchen’ was set up in the room now occupied by Mira Computers’ CEO, and meals were served under a shady neem tree at the back. It was all very relaxed and idyllic, but as computer sales took off and more staff were employed, there came an inevitable expansion, requiring more buildings and more sophisticated facilities. The Dining Hall was an early priority. Aurelec’s Dining Hall, alias Cafeteria, which has remained essentially unchanged structurally and ...
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Issue No. 361, August 2019

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  • A roller-coaster ride
  • Green cities – a way forward, today and tomorrow
  • The threats to Auroville’s physical integrity
  • A transformed eatery – the Aurelec cafeteria
  • Serving those who serve the community: the Auroville lunch scheme
  • The Solar Kitchen journey
  • Horses in Auroville
  • Cultivating unknowing
  • Letter
  • Passings: Myriam Isaac; Boris Mabilat; Ursula Loose
  • What has happened to our bonfires?
  • Chronicling Auroville – almost for free

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