Author: Mousumi Mukherjee

When I was a kid I had my fingers in many pies. And I always had to hear things like “Oh, she is so fickle minded,” “She is not serious/sincere about anything”, and I believed them. I always believed that I didn’t amount to much and never would. A couple of years ago (Yes, that recently), someone I really look up to said something to me and it changed my world forever. She said that, she had been observing me for years now and she had noticed that when I…

Ever since we’ve come to Auroville magic has been in the air. I have had so many magical moments here that I now kind of take it for granted. There is a word for it – synchronicity; when things just fall in place. One such magical experience has to do with the Matrimandir. When I first came here I was really intimidated by the Matrimandir and I never had the guts to venture inside. One evening when I was going home an elderly lady asked me for a lift. When…