In memoriam - Danielle de Diesbach

Danielle de Diesbach, a friend of Auroville who for more than 20 years has been coming to Auroville for six months a year, left her body on the night of August 18th in her home in the south of France. Danielle had made the Center Guesthouse her second home, each time leaving a few more bags for ‘the next time’. In France she had been working as a photographer and in the fashion industry.

It was during one of her trips to Pondicherry that Danielle came across the Auroville Boutique. She asked to meet the designers who made the clothes. And that was how the Auroville virus took hold of her. Her passion for the people she photographed and talked with led her to making documentaries, such as ‘Conversations with Death’, ‘What you contribute to Auroville’, ‘What you will say to Newcomers’, ‘Diversity and Unity’, and ‘Women's Day’, which are now all available on YouTube.