Issue No. 406, May 2023

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Towards a conscious collectivity

Celebration of Auroville’s birthday on February 28th, 2023The fourth volume of Bhavishyate, the Journal of Bharat Nivas, the Pavilion of India, contains two chapters that are of direct interest to Auroville: ‘A model town − a Conscious Collectivity’ a Read more >>

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Notes on sanatana dharma

Recently, our Chairman is reported to have asked whether Auroville was not meant to take sanatana dharma to a higher leve ...

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Town Planning

Vaastu Shastra, yantra and Auroville

On January 4th, 2022, during a Dreamweaving session, there was a presentation on the concept of Vaastu Shilpa Shastra. Au ...

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Town Planning

Biophobia – and the need to value nature

Some years ago, when I lived in Hong Kong, I hosted my friend Alan Watson Featherstone when he gave a series of talks on ...

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The Forest path

Forest was born and raised in the countryside outside of Toronto, Canada. He has recently chosen Auroville as his future ...

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Dance

10 Years of Auroville Tango Festivals

This year, tango was celebrated in Auroville over five days, with 130 dancers from India and abroad.Tango started growing ...

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Letters

On the Banyan tree at the centre of Auroville

Meditation under the Banyan on New Year’s Eve 2022In our previous issue we devoted two pages to the Banyan tree, includin ...

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Education

The safety and boundary awareness programme

Last October, YouthLink conducted a sexual harassment awareness campaign and recently followed up on that initiative by b ...

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New Books

47 books and counting

On the occasion of Sri Aurobindo’s 150th anniversary, the Sri Aurobindo Centre for Advanced Research (SACAR) in Pondicher ...

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Education

STEAM Fest 2023 @ Deepanam

In 2022, Vishwa Chudgar, her husband and daughter spent a month in Auroville, before moving back to the USA. A little ove ...

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Passings

Passings: Anna Oijevaar; Maurice Monnier; Rafael Vázquez Corona

Anna OijevaarOn April 2nd, Dutch Aurovilian Anna Oijevaar passed away. She was a lively, energetic and much appreciated A ...

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In Brief

News in Brief

20 summit in AurovilleFrom the 4th-6th April, Auroville hosted a three day Y20 (youth) summit as part of India’s G20 pres ...

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