Kalabhumi meeting and community get together

On Friday 20th January, around 500 residents participated in a meeting which had the intention, as the organizers put it, to co-create a space to review the past year, reflect on the present and revive our collective strength and action, and find practical steps and actions that can be taken now to “walk a few steps in the direction we want to see, while addressing today’s priorities”. Participants were reminded of the scale of Auroville’s achievements over the past 50+ years, and of the huge disruption that the community has experienced over the past twelve months. People were asked what they had learned from this, and how they see the way forward. What was strongly expressed was a refusal to revert to the previous status quo, but to find a new way forward based upon our deepest principles, while resisting everything that attempted to destroy them.