DISCUSSION* The Workshop started with the Mangalacharanam presented by Dr. S.C. Goswami, Mrs. Indu Goswami, Mrs. Dheera Verma, Dr. Radhika Singh and Dr. Jayanti Singh. Next, Dr. M.M. Sankhdher, the coordinator of the Workshop, welcomed the participants and requested Dr. Subhash C. Kashyap to kindly preside over the Workshop. He expressed the regret that Shri T.N. Seshan, Chief Election Commissioner of India, who was to inaugurate the Workshop, was held up in a meeting with the Prime Minister. He, therefore, requested Prof. K.D. Gangrade, formerly Pro-Vice-Chancellor of the Delhi University, to inaugurate the Workshop. He thanked Kireet Joshi to hold the Workshop in Vaishali a

LIST OF PARTICIPANTS SHRI ASHU BHARDWAJ: Scholar 218, Vaishali, Pitampura, Delhi-110 034. Tel. 713-3564. DR. A.C. JAIN: Senior Scientist, INSA, CBT, Delhi University. 13, Vaishali, Pitampura, Delhi-110 034. DR. BALWANT RAI SATIJA: Educationist,54, SAtya Niketan, New Delhi-110 021. Tel. 603582 CAPTAIN BODH PRIYA: Educationist, Humanity House, 968/15 Faridabad. Tel. 289 781. BRIJ MOHAN SINGH: Educationist, G-6-A, Green Park Main, New Delhi- 110 016. Tel. 651 1523. DR. B.R. BHANDULA: Scholar, 41, Vigyan Vihar,Delhi- 110 092. DR. CD. BIJALWAN: Formerly, Principal, Sanskrit Vidhyapeeth (Lucknow), 155, Kapil Vihar, Pitampura, Delhi-110 034.

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OUR IDEALS (A few of the most important extracts of conversations and statements about Auroville in Mother's Agenda) August 1954 A DREAM There should be somewhere on earth a place which no nation could claim as its own, where all human beings of goodwill who have a sincere aspiration could live freely as citizens of the world and obey one single authority, that of the supreme truth; a place of peace, concord and harmony where all the fighting instincts of man would be used exclusively to conquer the causes of his sufferings and miseries, to surmount his weaknesses and ignorance, to triumph over his limitations and incapacities; a place where the need

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