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Faith healing

Better to Have Gone: Love, Death, and the Quest for Utopia in Auroville

Book review, By Alan

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A Forecomer revisits

A profile of Robert (Bob) Lawlor, By Alan and Vikas (Alan Vickers)

Bob Lawlor

Bob and Deborah Lawlor established Forecomers, the first community in Auroville, in 1968. They left in 1972, to work on the translation of a book on ancient Egypt, “The Temple of Man”.

Mental health care in India

Opinion, By Lesley

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Every day, thousands of health seekers of different faiths, the mentally ill and the spirit-possessed, travel from villages and cities to faith healing shrines dotted throughout Tamil Nadu that are reputed for their curative powers.