Issue Nº411 – In Memoriam

Leo Boseman, who had returned to Auroville a year ago after having lived here in his childhood, met with a road accident on September 22nd and passed away the next day in JIPMER. He was 50 years old and had just started his re-entry process as a “returning Aurovilian”.

On September 27th his body was cremated at the Karuvadikupam cremation grounds in Pondicherry, as arranged by his family.

On September 19, Hashi Grandcolas, long-term Indian Friend of Auroville, passed away at Nallam’s Clinic in Pondicherry due to heart failure.

Hashi had been an Ashramite in the seventies, managing a guest house and functioning as a captain at the Ashram sports ground, and remained a steadfast sadhika all her life. She lived in Mumbai and Paris, as well as in Auroville and Pondicherry, and was a lively yoga teacher and dedicated painter, as well as a good friend of many in the Ashram, Auroville and the Auroville International world. The Sri Aurobindo Ashram took care of her last rites.