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May 6, 20221 min read
The Cat In The Bag - 40
In the same way, when I had joined kindergarten later on, I would be with children of the age of 5. And I would draw my house and say:...
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May 6, 20221 min read
The Cat In The Bag - 39
Auroville is a never ending research project. Discovering new horizons: would we be granted this opportunity? Would we succeed? It was...
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May 5, 20221 min read
The Cat In The Bag - 38
The monsoon didn't bother us much. Even though once we had almost non-stop rain for 14 days. On those days you could get lost on your own...
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May 5, 20221 min read
The Cat In The Bag - 37
And when the gas stove came, I didn't even need it anymore, it had become a pleasure to cook this way. And I had noticed that cooking on...
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May 4, 20221 min read
The Cat In The Bag - 36
But one day a group of Tamils came to work for us. And I needed to make tea for them. They saw me struggling with the stove, and their...
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May 4, 20221 min read
The Cat In The Bag - 35
Are people still using these little Tamil stoves nowadays? It was made of clay, fired clay, in fact it was quite beautiful. But to cook...
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May 3, 20221 min read
The Cat In The Bag - 34
Language has always been my biggest stumbling block when dealing with my fellow men. At my work I would regularly get the comment that I...
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May 3, 20221 min read
The Cat In The Bag - 33
One of the pioneers told me: “I married a Tamil girl because they pamper you and don't ask questions. She does what I want.” I...
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May 2, 20221 min read
The Cat In The Bag - 32
That day, while we were doing our “rodeo”, we could see that, on the tar road, two bullock carts were preparing to turn onto the slope....
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May 2, 20221 min read
The Cat In The Bag - 31
If these people don't get what they want, they play the victim and start blaming you for being an aggressor. It's a very clear pattern,...
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May 1, 20225 min read
Aurovillage 34
In episode 25 B I briefly touched on the notion that so so so many people believe: “no light without darkness”. To understand the seismic...
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Apr 30, 20221 min read
The Cat In The Bag - 30
We put a lot of our own money into Auroville and the local population. I am personally not against money, as long as it is not abused to...
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Apr 30, 20221 min read
The Cat In The Bag - 29
I myself never got a contract with the development aid NGO. I was a certified nurse, so if I wanted a contract, I had to go work in the...
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Apr 29, 20221 min read
The Cat In The Bag - 28
And I have the feeling that the world will not quickly hand out money to Auroville. While I think that Auroville is a form of...
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Apr 29, 20221 min read
The Cat In The Bag - 27
But I regret using the word hypocrisy. I said it probably because we had to suddenly say things by the book. What we did wasn't totally...
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Apr 28, 20221 min read
The Cat In The Bag - 26
I want to briefly touch upon the hypocrisy in the Swiss camp. What I certainly couldn't stomach was the way we were treated because of...
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Apr 28, 20221 min read
The Cat In The Bag - 25
We were also disliked by other Aurovilians when we told that we were from Switzerland. While most nationalities grouped together, but we...
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Apr 27, 202212 min read
Aurovillage 33
The truth will come out, there is nothing that the cult can do to stop this collapse. For this episode, I share the full letter that the...
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Apr 27, 20221 min read
The Cat In The Bag - 24
Ine's father was an eccentric man, but he had great knowledge of plants and trees. About all the trees that had been planted were put...
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Apr 27, 20221 min read
The Cat In The Bag - 23
One day our Micha would ask: “Mum, why are we here?” After all, she had had to leave all her friends and family behind while it hadn't...
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