Erica Shumacher

Will Always Be Missed

Auroville mourns the passing of young and vibrant Lucia (born in Spain, nationality French), who left her body in the afternoon of Friday 25th February after a road incident while returning from Rameshwaram with a group of her Kailash friends.

Tragic Passing

Young Aurovilian Tenzin Dolkar, born in Nepal of Tibetan nationality and mother of two, suffered in the early morning of Friday April 22nd an accident on her motorbike due to a stray dog that came in her way on the Auroville road near UTS transport office.  She underwent brain surgery the very same day in PIMS and although her condition initially appeared stable, she left her body on April 27th due to cardiac arrest. She was 31 years young.

Founder of Village Action Group, 1983

Born 13th September, 1943 in a small town in upstate New York, Dee, as she was then known, was the eldest of six children. She died peacefully at 2:20 am on 11th May, 2011Her pioneering spirit first manifested in the mid-1960s, when Dee chose to leave the confines of the US culture and education system to learn at what she called “the university of the road”. Some years spent wandering-while-seeking in Europe and Asia eventually led her to Auroville in 1971, where she soon became known as Bhavana.