Issue No. 376, November 2020

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Organisation

Too much bureaucracy?

The Town Hall strangled by red tapeAuroville is seeing an increase in bureaucracy. The Funds and Assets Management Committee proposes to enlarge its 12-page Code of Conduct for trusts and units of the Auroville Foundation to a 40-page document: the Read more >>

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Environment

Let’s Talk Trash

One Saturday morning in November 2017, a bunch of Auroville youth hanging out in the Solar Kitchen parking lot had the ...

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Reflection

How is Auroville doing?

Who hasn’t been cornered by this impossible question and forced to stutter some superficial reply? For there are so many ...

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Youth

Red feet: Growing up in Auroville

A road, full of holes.Up in trees, like monkeys.Run after a horse, race it.Oh! The heat, it stings.Veils of vines, hidi ...

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Environment

Plastic Alchemy

Satya working with a fishing netOn World Ocean Day in June, a dolphin washed up on to Sri Ma beach. “It was a young dol ...

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New Books

New Books: 50 More Poems from Auroville; Radicle Network

50 More Poems from AurovilleSome years ago, Vikas (Alan Vickers), one of the pioneer Aurovilians, brought out a slim an ...

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Art & Culture

U.F.O. Unidentified Found Objects

It is 2030, and over the past months, ten strange objects that seem to have emerged straigh ...

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Health

Which mask do you wear?

Corona virus masksIn 2020, one subject attracted maybe as much attention as the pandemic itself: “masks”. This simple b ...

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Art

Resurrected in nature

It’s deceptive… It looks like it could only have been constructed using a JCB or other heavyweight lifting mecha ...

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Passings

Passings: Narayanaswamy Gopal; Akash Nandkumar

Narayanaswamy GopalAurovilian Gopal Narayanasamy from Douceur left his body in the afternoon of 21 October at JIPMER du ...

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Anitya: from vision to reality

Digging an infrastructure trenchJoy of Impermanence (JOI) is an umbrella project that aims to create new communities in ...

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