Letters to the Editor

Dear friends, Just received the April issue – heartfelt congratulations for continuing this work courageously and with so much care – and happened to read the article on the 40th anniversary of Auroville Press. Very interesting!

A small factual error in a statement of Claude’s: “If that had a consequence for the Press, it was that we did not get the order to print the English translation of the 13 volumes of the Mother’s Agenda. To our regret, it was printed at the Thompson Press in Chennai.” First, it’s “Thomson”, not “Thompson” (though readers of Tintin will not mind the typo). Secondly, only the first volume of Mother’s Agenda was printed there. All subsequent volumes, as far as I remember, were printed in the U.S.A. (not an ideal solution, but that’s another story). Thomson Press printed Vol. 1 neatly, but forgot to laminate the cover, as a result of which many copies had patches of discoloration in the course of time. Proof that bigger is not necessarily always better....

Warmly, Michel Danino

Reply from Claude Arpi

Noted. But it was so secret that we never got to know about the US. But I remember Patrice continuing to work with Thomson and Thomson... Claude