Blogs from Auroville, Tamil Nadu, India, Asia - page 6

LAURIE I'm sitting here in the Ecodorm in the Pitchandikulim Bio Resource Centre. (PBRC). It's a bit cooler today only about 30C. It was such a lurch from winter in the mountains to the pre monsoon heat of India. We've been here about a week and it's been exhausting. Just starting to have energy again. There's a lovely view from our room into the Tropical Dry Evergreen Forest. Pitchandikulim is an environment education centre which focusses on reafforesting in the local area with this local indigenous forest. But they are doing so much more as we've discovered. They are also helping a group of local villages to develop sustainably. They have built an environment education centre and toilets at the local high school and a number of women's centres. They have helped replant a community forest ... read more

Vanakam. Sak yama? (Hello, how are you? In tamil - the language of the south) So i'm going into my 1st week of Auroville - the conceptual town that the Mother has created - with the foundation that everyone works/thinks as a collective whole w/no ownership, & not as separate people from different countries. It's been very, what's the word, interesting. Meeting ppl who have lived in this town from 30 years +. And it's really cool to hear the blood, sweat, & tears that went into building this town - as when it was first being settled, this region of tamil nadu was virtually turning into a desert. There were forests before, but b/c it is so flat & dry, it quickly dried up. And eventually, only the poorest of poor lived in this area ... read more

Namaste a tous, Nous avons encore fait 2 jours de train et de bus pour arriver a Auroville ,une communaute d etrangers qui vivent en Inde a environ 10 kms au nord de Pondichery. Il y a donc beaucoup de francais dans le coin car cette ville fut colonisee par la france. Francoise et Nolwenn sont toutes heureuses de retrouver les garcons! Ils vont rester dans la communaute dans une super hutte sous les palmiers,puis aller visiter leur famille a Karikal, donc pleins de bonnes choses encore a venir!!! Carey et moi partons pour un voyage romantique dans une reserve naturelle dans les nilgiris hills a la recherche d animaux sauvages sans nos petits sauvages adores!!!hihihihi!! Malheureusement le blog et nos aventures s arretent la! Snif... et voila la fin de nos 6 semaines de voyage ... read more

We planned to be in Auroville for 2 weeks at the most, and have ended up being here for 2 1/2 months. It's such a crazy place of juxtapositions and contradictions, crazy loons and the most sane down to earth people I've ever met. It's really inspiring and really frustrating but whatever you need to face, will somehow present itself to you. We spent an intense month working with the Colours of Nature, to help them launch their brand new line of jeans - 100 percent eco friendly, hand dyed, hand loomed etc etc. I ended up doing a lot of writing, writing press releases and writing the entire blurb for the website. It was a great experience, working alongside Jesus and Ruby who run the company, Simar, Jigme and Sahil the designers and Anita who ... read more

Bonjour à tous, Je suis présentement à Auroville au Tamil Nadu en Inde sur la côte est (côte de la Baie de Bengal). Dans mon dernier blog, j'étais rendu au Kerala. Lorsque nous avons débarquer de l'avion, il faisait 26C à 21h avec 85% d'humidité ( ici il ne parle pas du facteur humidex) donc très chaud et le lendemain il faisait 35C en après-midi et ce sans le facteur humidex!!! Bref, je ne me plains pas, cependant nous avons eu besoin de la climatisation pour dormir. Fort Cochin a été notre première destination, c'est une très jolie presqu'île avec de vieilles églises et cathédrales car encore une fois comme à Goa les Portugais s'était installer ici au 16ème siècle. Après 4 journées dispendieuses (très touristique) nous avons quittés Fort Cochin pour Allepey et c'est ce ... read more