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Letter to the community — Words by The Forest Group, October 2024
Open letter — Story by Luc, July 2019
A public letter — Reported by Shri Ram Nath Kovind, February 2018
On the occasion of its 50th anniversary, the Hon’ble President of India Shri Ram Nath Kovind honoured Auroville with this message, which captures the essence of the vision of Auroville as reflecting “our quest for achieving oneness in diversity
Letter to the community, May 2023
In our previous issue we devoted two pages to the Banyan tree, including a brief historical overview. Since then, a former Matrimandir executive has sent us something that he wrote in 2004, which provides additional details about the tree. As many people have a special relationship with this tree, we publish this to further fill out the historical record.
Open letter — Written by Julietta, February 2023
Initially created as a sub-group of Third-Age (under Mattram’s umbrella), the “Let’s Talk About Death” group aims to reach any age of Auroville’s population by providing time, space and content to talk freely about death. We have met several times to ponder upon how we want to do this and what platform we want to offer to Auroville. In our research we stumbled upon something called a ‘Death Cafe’. What is needed to hold a ‘Death Cafe’ is a venue, a facilitator and most importantly, cake. We now have it all.
