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I had this morning my second lesson about the importance of "auspicious" in India!

 My first one was some months ago, when we had to quickly finalize documentation for our accountant. Happy to meet the deadline on sunday, I was expecting to rush monday and give it the file! But a good advisor suggest us to wait for one day, for a more auspicious accounting day!

My second one is more interesting. Our combustion chamber is in part made of bricks, which are a very interesting material, light, insulative, low cost... But sometimes, during wet season, bricks can crack. That has absolutely no incidence on the performance of the stove. But one of our partner, working closely with Self Help Groups around Auroville, explained us how it was badly perceived by ladies using the stoves. In a traditionnal terracota stove, when a brick crack, it is immediatly change, it is not auspicious.

That helps understand how well-intentioned development program, giving stoves for free, can completely fail. Give 1000 stoves, nice, efficient, reducing wood consumption... If one brick crack, you don t care as an ingeneer, but your stove will never be use and the 999 remaining users will be aware in 2 days!

That is the interest of a pilot phase, which bring concrete feedback you can t guess otherwise, and a good personnal lesson about auspicious things you have to take care of.