Issue No. 416, March 2024

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Building Auroville

Statement on Auroville’s current situation

February is the time when we celebrate Mother’s birthday and the birthday of Auroville, as well as, this year, the ‘Golden Day’, and we enjoy a plethora of events and inaugurations. This year there were celebrations organised by the office of the Auro Read more >>

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Passings

In memoriam: Fali Nariman

The Residents of Auroville express their profound grief at the passing of eminent jurist Fali Nariman on 21st February 20 ...

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Auroville International

The challenges of being Chairman of the AVI Board

Christian FeuilletteChristian Feuillette has been Chairman of the Board of Auroville International (AVI) for the past fou ...

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Reflection

Spiral Dynamics and Auroville

David NightingaleAt present, many people are trying to make sense of what is happening in Auroville. The writings of Sri ...

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Farming

The Auroville farms are stagnating

The Aruvadai team. From left: Avinash, Nidhin and Madhuri“Enhance Auroville food production to meet the needs of Aurovill ...

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Town Planning

A new dreamweaving initiative

In this diagram from last July’s Dreamweaving presentation Omar, Mona and David were proposing a range of processes that ...

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Bioregion

The Silence Forest assessment

Flying Foxes roosting in Silence ForestSilence Forest, an 11.2-acre green enclave neighbouring the Vérité community, is l ...

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Exhibitions

Ongkie Tan’s exibition

Between 29th January and 10th February, in the Centre d’Art there was an exhibition of drawings by Ongkie Tan, titled ‘In ...

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New Books

New Book: “I am prayer only”

This 280 page book is a tribute to Kireet Joshi composed by two of his close Auroville friends, Frederick Schulze Buxloh ...

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New Books

New Book: "The Never-Dying Fire: The Life and Thought of Sri Aurobindo"

It takes a brave individual to write a biography of Sri Aurobindo. This is because Sri Aurobindo himself doubted the valu ...

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Profile

Auma on ‘belonging to Auroville’

Auma TardeilAuma is a second-generation Aurovilian, born to Indian and French pioneers, Marie Babu and André Tardeil. Whi ...

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In Brief

News in Brief

Madras High Court’s Interim stay on regulationsOn January 23rd, the Madras High Court ordered an interim stay of the two ...

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Passings

Passings: Sylvia Zimmerman; Shakuntala Patel; Subramaniam M.

Sylvia ZimmermanSylvia Zimmerman, who lived in Surrender, passed away in the evening of February 4th. Sylvia had come to ...

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