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In memoriam:
Halyna (Galyna) Kubarchuk, living at Prayatna, passed away at home on 7 June. Her body was cremated on 11 June at the Auroville Cremation Ground.
Subramanian M. passed away on February 28th following a train accident at Thambaram nearby Chennai. He was 72 years old. Subramaniam joined Auroville in 1984 and first lived in Fertile Windmill (Baraka), then at the Matrimandir workers camp, and when that got dissolved, in Prayatna.
Matriprasad passed away at the age of 65 in his apartment in Prayatna. His body was found around noon on 26 January; he had earlier informed his colleagues that he felt unwell and wouldn’t come to work for a few days.
On May 3rd, German Aurovilian Werner Stoff left his body in his house in Prayatna, at the age of 81, after a struggle with cancer. Werner was an architect and a Freemason.
On October 3rd, S. Vinod Kumar left his body in Nallam Clinic in Pondicherry, due to high blood sugar and pneumonia fever. He was 55 years old.