Photo Collection
The Mother — 13
1955
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Centre of Education
Playground. First visit of Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru
Meditation house. Saraswati Puja
Centre of Education. Children’s exhibition
The Mother’s birthday (21 February 1878)
Aroume. Exhibition of Chinese Paintings
On March 26 1955, the Mother visits the first exhibition of Chinese Paintings above the Dining Room (the upper hall of “Aroume”) by two Chinese artists. Another exhibition of 210 paintings and calligraphies was held on the auspicious day of 4-5-67 by one of them who has settled here. [See History of Auroville.- Book 1, Page 65 and Growth of World Culture. P. 370]
Library house. Exhibition on Germany
Sports Ground. Salute
Golconde. Japanese Exhibition
This exhibition consisted almost wholly of articles from Japan which Mother had herself used there and brought with her in 1920. The arrangement of the exhibition was in four separate rooms. The first showing the country; the second “Art and Culture”; the third the comparison between the old (1915) and the new (1955); and the fourth “Home Life”. In setting the exhibition with recent Japanese members who were in attendance each day in their national costume. They had, in addition, prepared a Japanese garden in the Golconde grounds and a number of Bonzai or dwarf trees which is so typical of Japanese horticultural art. It was a very successful exhibition and attracted many visitors not only from the Ashram but from the town as well. (From the Bulletin.)
Exhibition Hall. Photographic Exhibition
Sri Aurobindo’s birthday (15 August 1873)
Playground. Salute
Playground. Sports prizes
Playground. The second visit of Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru and Indira Gandhi
Meditation house. With Dr. Rajendra Prasad
Sports Ground. Salute
