The Spirituality Industry

The News Minute, a digital subscription-based news platform which reports and writes on issues in India, with a specific focus on the five southern states, has published its third edition of a series on ‘The Spirituality Industry: A Deep Reporting Project’. This issue situates what’s currently happening in Auroville within the larger context of India’s politics and focuses on issues such as questionable land deals, large-scale felling of trees, and allegations that the township is being reshaped into a federal enclave—a foothold for the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in Tamil Nadu. The BJP has been the ruling political party in India since 2014. A video on its first edition on Auroville can be seen at , while the third edition can be seen at .