Editorial

It is traditional to become idealistic and a bit sentimental on the New Year. But it does feel as if a fresh wind is blowing, cleaning out the cobwebs and dust. For while the American, Russian and Indian exchange students were singing songs and planting trees, Auroville has been quietly going back to basics – but with a new energy and spirit. Town planning is in motion again. And last month we finally had the courage and will to stare an old shadow in the face – our attitude to money. A two-day seminar on the Auroville economy initiated the process. It continued in work group discussions, in surveys and excitable tea-shop conversations. In this issue we try to give the substance and the flavour of that process, which may be pushing us one step further along the road to our “impossible” dream.

Mother, of course, didn’t waste words: “It is the lack of push towards the future that impedes the flow of money.”