Pondicherry "New Village," India, 1969
The IHP group flew into Madras airport in late December and took an interminable bus ride to the Aurobindo Ashram near Pondicherry. The ashram was fascinating but I didn't get many pictures, really just these two portraits. The young woman above was living in the "New Village"—an avowedly modern utopian community connected to the ashram. A fellow student who was with me on this visit remembers her as European, maybe French, but I don't recall. I photographed the gentleman below at the ashram itself, where he was combining Jungian psychology theory and traditional Indian meditation techniques. Another westerner, he was from Vancouver, Canada.
Aurobindo Ashram, Pondicherry, India, 1969
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