Savitri around the World

The continuous reading of Sri Aurobindo’s epic poem Savitri will start in the Savitri Bhavan, Sangam Hall on Monday 19.02.2018 at 3a.m. (‘The hour before the Gods awake’). Four hundred and seventy one people from all over the world are participating, representing ninety-nine countries and states around the world. They have responded to the invitation to provide video or audio recordings of Savitri passages assigned to them.

These recordings have been assembled to create a continuous reading, starting from the Ashram in Pondicherry and circling the earth from east to west following the sun, to end in Auroville, the City of the Dawn on the Mother’s Birthday, February 21, 2018. The corresponding Savitri text is being added in the form of subtitles to each filmed reading, along with the reader’s name and country. The ‘parayan’ is expected to take about 48 hours. The final product will be simultaneously released on YouTube so that it can be viewed from around the world. The project has been initiated by Auroville International France and Auroville International The Netherlands and is hosted and supported by Savitri Bhavan.

Participants come from India ( Puducherry, West Bengal, Assam, Gujarat, Goa, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh, Maharashtra, Orissa, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, Haryana, New Delhi, and Uttarakhand); Central and West Asia – Nepal, Tibet, Afghanistan, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Iran, Turkey, Syria, Lebanon, Israel, and Jordan; Africa – Egypt, Ethiopia, Somalia, Kenya, Rwanda, Madagascar, Reunion, South Africa, Ghana, Senegal and Algeria; Europe – Greece, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, Bulgaria, Moldova, Ukraine, Russia, Belarus, Lithuania, Poland, Finland, Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Germany, Czech Republic, Austria, Hungary, Slovenia, Italy, Spain, Switzerland, France, Belgium, Netherlands, United Kingdom, and Ireland; North America – Canada (Québec, Ontario, Alberta), USA (Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New York City, Virginia, Ohio, Atlanta, Wisconsin, Missouri, Colorado, Washington, California, New Mexico, Texas); Central America and the Caribbean – Mexico, Haïti, Trinidad and Tobago; South America – Brazil, Uruguay, Argentina, Chile, Ecuador, and Colombia; Oceania – French Polynesia (Tahiti), New Zealand, Australia (Victoria, New South Wales, Western Australia); East Asia – Philippines, Japan, South Korea, China, Hong Kong, Singapore, Myanmar, and Sri Lanka.