Address of Shri R.N. Ravi, Chairmand of the Governing Board

In one of the zoom seminars organised during the ‘Auroville festival’, the Chairman of the Auroville Foundation and Honourable Governor of Tamil Nadu, R. N. Ravi, gave a speech in which he cited the role of the Government of India as that of a catalyst in the experiment which is yet to realise Auroville’s vision half a century down the line. The Auroville Foundation Act was mentioned as a Government intervention that was a consequence of the community being trapped in desires and egos which, according to the Chairman, is also reflected in the current dissonance in the community. The Chairman stated that even though the evolution of consciousness itself cannot be done by the Government, they “have to and will do the physical aspect of it, because Mother had given the design of what the township should be like.”