Editorial

For a better understanding of this paragraph of the Charter, we publish in this issue excerpts of the 901 page framework study ‘Governance in Auroville’, made by Prof. Raag Yadava and Nidhi Harohar, which contains an 67-page section on education and research. (The study can be downloaded from https://rb.gy/gd4qyb)

We also publish an interview with Dr. Sanjeev Ranganathan, an executive of the SAIIER; a report on two integral education training programmes for all teachers held in October and November; and a progress report on the ‘Sea Change’ programme of Auroville’s unit WasteLess, which was launched in 200 selected Tamil Nadu Government Schools. We also profile Martha Cicionesi, who came to live in Auroville in 1968 and experienced the time and the pains when the Auroville schools stopped. Lastly, we profile Induja, a young Tamil woman who speaks about growing up in a small village in Tamil Nadu, studying architecture in Chennai, later ‘joining the Auroville family’ and now aspiring to study Environmental Conservation in the USA.