Margarita and Guidelma
In November 2015, (issue # 316), Auroville Today reported on
the work of MGEcoduties, an Auroville unit that manufactures household and
well-being products that contain probiotics, live microbes that confer health
benefits. Today the unit is vigorously expanding in collaboration with four
TATA companies.
“We have been visited by at least five
vice presidents of various TATA companies,” says Margarita, the Colombian-born
chemical engineer who together with Italian-born Guidelma started MGEcoduties
(MGE) in 2011. “And they always tell me the story about the late J.R.D. TATA,
one of India’s foremost industrialists who was a member of Auroville’s first
International Advisory Council. After his visit to Auroville, he flew back to
Chennai by helicopter and, circling over the Matrimandir, blessed Auroville by
showering bougainvillea flowers, which Mother named ‘protection’. They all know
this story. And somehow, his contact with Auroville has created a...
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