Comparing photos of Auroville’s landscape from the past and present.
Then/Now Posts
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Then/Now – Health Center
A couple of weeks ago we had posted about pakka buildings constructed in the Aspiration area in the early 1970s. Among these were a couple of photos of the Health Center building: We went back to the Health Center to see what the building looks like today. The original building is still intact and in…
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Then/Now – Aspiration Bridge and Handmade Paper Factory
Another pakka building that came up in the Aspiration area in the early 1970s was the Handmade Paper Factory building. Here is a construction photo of the bridge over the Aspiration “canyon” (which should properly be labelled a gully) with the factory behind it from January 1972. The next photo is of the bridge as…
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Then/Now – Irumbai Road
Auroville Archives has a treasure trove of photographs from decades past, and one of the many things we can do with them is compare what the landscape of Auroville looked like when a photo was taken and what the same spot looks like now. So we are starting a series called Then/Now, which juxtaposes an…
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