In memoriam - N. Saravanan

N. Saravanan of Matrimandir Nursery passed away on May 28th at the age of 43 due to an accident. He was crushed under the 25 feet high chariot car of the Panchali Amman Koil temple at Thilaspet. While the car was being dragged during the ‘Theemedhi Vizha’, the wheels of the chariot got stuck in a pit and the car collapsed on the road.

Saravanan, who originally came from Pondicherry, was one of the staunch Matrimandir workers even before joining Auroville in 1999. Recently he had started working for Gold in Glass, the Golden Tiles unit.

To enable Aurovilians to bid farewell, Saravanan’s body was brought to Auroville’s Farewell Centre and was afterwards cremated at the Shanmugapuram mandappam in Pondicherry.