Issue No. 383-384, June-July 2021

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Covid and the Villages

“Auroville must start a COVID-19 awareness drive for its employees”

Yoga and health education: Muthukumari taking a class in Nesal school“Vaccination lag in rural India points to a looming crisis” runs the May 19 front page article of The Hindu, one of India’s national newspapers. “In a time that the second COVID-19 w Read more >>

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Covid and the Villages

Auroville Village Action’s response to the second wave

Distribution of immunity boostersIn April and May 2021, India witnessed a surge in COVID-19 infections, with the country ...

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Auroville Foundation

New Secretary appointed

On June 2, 2021, the Working Committee informed the community that Gujarat-cadre IAS officer Dr. Jayanti S. Ravi, who has ...

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Education

Education during the pandemic

The lockdown which began in March 2020 required schools to shift from classroom teaching to online teaching. Auroville To ...

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No more ‘business as usual’

Making a wind chime at SvaramWhile Tamil Nadu is in a second lockdown, Auroville entrepreneurs reflect on how they handle ...

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COVID-19 pandemic

PRISMA reinvents itself. Again.

From left: Pranav. Loretta and FranzHaving been a niche publisher for many years, PRISMA, like many other productive unit ...

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History

Life in Kottakarai: reflections on an early Auroville community

A reunion of former and present Kottakarai community residents. On the staircase from left: Amudha, Lisa Brewer, Jeanne K ...

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New Books

Memories of Auroville

Janet Fearn was one of the very first people to settle in Auroville. In 1997, along with her friend, Philip Melville, she ...

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Auroville on Internet

Tube Thambi

One year ago, people searching YouTube for videos about Auroville would have noticed that many of the items that first sh ...

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Health

Nurturing mental health in Auroville

Gerard (Jerry) BeusenPsychologist Jerry Beusen implemented Mattram, Auroville’s first mental health unit, three years ago ...

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Reflection

I don’t know

Every day I am dumbstruck by how knowledgeable my fellow Aurovilians are. Take COVID. At a time when there is so much con ...

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Profile

Renu – an Auroville pioneer right from the start

That’s me - the baby sitting on the edge of the windowsill – one of the first children to live in Auroville. I was born i ...

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Community Services

EcoService Fairies

Rena and Agnes are a bustling duo raising our consciousness about waste in Auroville. They focus on promoting good segreg ...

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Animal care

Every dog has its day – in this shelter

Kannan surrounded by some of the 150 dogs at the Integrated Animal Care Centre.Integrated Animal Care Centre (IACC) was s ...

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Passings

Passings: Werner Stoff; Renzo Pezzato; Nolly Senden; A. Jothi; Kailas Jhavery

Werner StoffOn May 3rd, German Aurovilian Werner Stoff left his body in his house in Prayatna, at the age of 81, after a ...

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News in Brief

News in Brief

Entry issuesThe Entry Service reported that during the entire lockdown period it was fully engaged in discharging its dut ...

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to subscribers

Dear Subscriber, India is in the second wave of COVID-19 and Tamil Nadu and Pondicherry have been in many weeks of lockdo ...

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Vaccination

L’Entente Cordiale

At the end of May, an Auronet post announced that the French Consulate in Pondicherry would be providing free Moderna vac ...

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