PROGRESS – A Note from Narad

 

Introduction

 

In 1979 Mary Helen began the first journal of Auroville.  She called it 'Progress'. Each day she would visit a different community where Aurovilians were beginning to settle in, creating gardens, building homes, infrastructure, planting forests, bunds to allow the rains to seep into the ground and prevent the them from washing away the topsoil into the canyons and then out to sea.

These pioneers of AurovilleÕs early days spoke of their hopes and dreams for this city to be built on the ideal of human unity.  Although Mary Helen completed only four issues when it was decided that a larger newsletter should be started with a proper building and equipment ('Progress' was printed on a mimeograph machine!), these issues offer us the first glimpses and records of this township at its very beginning.

                                                                                                                             

                                                                                                                              Narad