Auroville's monthly news magazine since 1988

Published: September 2025 (last month) in issue Nº 434

Keywords: Healing, Auroville crisis, Injustice, Fear and Community issues

Editorial

 
It would be inappropriate to use the phrase ‘healing Auroville’ in connection with the Auroville which, Mother said, had the sanction of the Supreme. But it can be applied to the present social situation. For, whatever one’s orientation, it is difficult to deny that the last three years have increasingly fractured our community.

Residents who have lived together for many years find themselves on different sides, and a great deal of pain and suffering has been inflicted on many Aurovilians by recent policies of the current administration. 

Of course, the residents who support those policies will argue that the present administration is engaged precisely in ‘healing’ Auroville from the abuses which they believe have been committed in the past. But a society where some people feel they cannot talk or want to associate with other residents, where there is pain, feelings of injustice and a profound and pervasive fear of open, free expression for fear of repercussions cannot, by any definition, be called a healthy one.

So can this be changed? Is any kind of healing possible or even desirable unless present conditions change? Here we present some different views on the issue.