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Reflections

Voices of Weltwärts volunteers

The 2022-2023 cohort



A soundtrack of growing up

Manya


Defining Mother, losing Mother

The Mother


Four radical questions

Daniel Greenberg

Ruminations: Two Dreams

Maurice Shukla

Embracing the Melody of French

Nivetha

Biophobia – and the need to value nature

1

Revisiting history: people, power and politics

1 Children swimming in a now destroyed water catchment pond in Darkali

Collaboration is the way forward

Manoj Pavithran

Life education is the most important thing

Studying at Kuilai Kalvi Koodam

Karma yoga

Divya Kapor

Highways and byways

1 The Mother made this drawing to explain to a child the meaning of Yoga. Man is at the bottom, the Divine at the top. The wavy line is the path of the ordinary life, the straight line the path of yoga

What it means to be stewards of the land

1 Nikki mud plastering a wall in Anitya community

Red feet: Growing up in Auroville

Divya

Which mask do you wear?

Corona virus masks

The return of Don Quixote de la Mancha, the impossible dreams that our times so yearn for

1

The Auroville Effect

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Auroville, cradle of the superman or city in conformity?

Alain Bernard

Spiritual idealism

Valentina

I am the problem, I am the solution

1 Aurovik

Perceptions and misconceptions about Auroville

1 A busy day at the Visitors’ Center

New attitudes to work

Valentina

Am I Not Aurovilian?

1 Binah

Walking Towards the Comfort Zone

Mitali

A youth reflection on the 50th Celebrations

Divya

The day the heavens kissed our earth

During the inauguration ceremony, February 28, 1968

A tale of two cities

Sens dessus dessous, by Michel Granger

La visage de la paix – The face of peace

2 Tency with the mosaics

Down Memory Road or the Tunnel

The dusty time tunnel

Crossing an Invisible Boundary

Dave Hutchinson

Anniversary thoughts

From left, Fabienne, Dave, Marco, Krishna (seated) and Mariana

Rain, rain and yet more rain

The Alankuppam kolam spilled over

What is spirituality? A reflection by young Aurovilians

Dasha (left) and Suhasini in the Esendi Swimwear workshop

Reading the runes

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Auroville’s youth explore a better future

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The Chariot of Jagannath: Auroville in the making

The three colorful chariots that carry the idol of Jagannatha, his sister Subhadra and his brother Balabhadra, at the Ratha Yatra festival, Puri



Auroville in its 51st winter

1 Roger Toll


Auroville 2050 by Gijs

Charudatta’s take on Auroville in 2050


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