Nata

Maggi Lidchi-Grassi, an esteemed Friend of Auroville, passed away on the 30th of September 2024, in the early hours of the morning at her residence behind Fertile, at the age of 94.

Why did Mother start the project of Auroville? And what did people experience on a dusty plateau on that morning of 28th February, 1968? These are the two questions Aurovilian Franz Fassbender set out to answer in this book.

The lake around the Matrimandir was foreseen by The Mother. Already in 1965, years before Auroville was founded, She had given Nata the task of studying the lake and how the water could be sourced.