Which town?

Nonetheless, on the ground, in this area of Peace, an accord had taken place, an accepted distribution of the parts of the labor = the structured part and the “natural” one. The three central entities, the Matrimandir, the Amphitheater and the Banyan tree, were contained within a space of ovoid form, ten times exactly the size of the sphere. Around the sphere and its twelve petals, the twelve inner gardens would later be created, complemented by a thirteenth garden around the Banyan tree, the garden of Unity. This Oval would in turn be surrounded by a canal of varying widths and depths, giving onto, on its outer side, the outer gardens comprising of shrubs and trees placed on a waving expanse of low hills about one hundred meters wide with, on its perimeter, the first circle of buildings of the future town. On this plateau still swept by the winds and the rains or burnt by the sun and weighed by the heat, one could still discern far on the horizon, to the East the ocean, to the mount of MaÏlam in the West (one could still clearly distinguish on some evenings the great fires lit up to honor the God Murugan, one of Lord Shiva’s sons) while, from atop the wooden towers, one could glimpse the approach to Pondicherry in the South and, in the North, the expanses of Kaliveli, a kind of estuary frequented by migratory birds. The little human anthill busied itself around its first constructions, functional or symbolic – for there now were several workshops, a camp for the permanent workers, covered spaces for the administration and drawing offices, enclosed compounds for the cutting and bending of the steel rods, shelters for the wood piles, store-rooms, a tea hall.

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What would happen, now that She was no longer accessible?

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