Isai Ambalam school

Aurovilians Ivar Jenten and Brigitte Vink, both originally from the Netherlands, have been working with village children for many years. In June 2021 they founded Isai Ragam under Auroville’s Auromitra Trust.

Dr. Sanjeev Ranganathan has been an executive of the Sri Aurobindo International Institute of Educational Research (SAIIER) since August 2021 and was a SAIIER board member from 2016 to 2020.

Dr. Sanjeev Ranganathan is the initiator of the STEM Land educational experiment, (STEM stands for Science, Technology, Engineering, and Maths) which we covered at its inception six years ago [see Auroville Today # 317].

In the October issue of Auroville Today, we published a humorous little piece that pondered how the names of Auroville’s communities came about.

On February 1, 2020, Subash (M.S. Subash Chandra) passed away in the Mahalakshmi Home. He had just become 74 and had been battling Parkinson’s disease since several years.

When your telephone line has been struck by lightning and your modem has gone up in smoke, you begin to appreciate the meaning of ‘service’.

In a quiet back street of Edayanchavadi village there is a neat house. Beside it is a beautiful garden of plants and creepers with a magnificent statue of Ganesh.

On August 22nd, Aurovilian Karpagavalli Selvanambi left her body in a Madurai nursing home to which she had been taken after a stroke in 2013.

On Tuesday 13 December, Stephen Raj (Jesudass) from Isaiambalam, left his body in Pondicherry’s Mahatma Gandhi Hospital. Being a heart patient and feeling quite unwell these last weeks, he was being prepared for treatment of a liver infection when the cardiac arrest occurred.