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The thinking hand

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Isai Ragam: changing village lives

Village children practising the guitar

We need a real Residents Assembly

Lakshay

Learnings from the front line and beyond

Maël

The Weltwärts programme

Karin

The world of kolams

Grace

Together

Bull riders

The Heartweaving experiment

Deven

Enlarging Auroville to the world

Dan and Svenja

Maji gallery

A view of the Maji exhibition room

Capturing Life

Photograph by John Mandeen - Matrimandir completed

New works of The Mother

Bob Zwicker

Snakes, Drugs and Rock ‘n’ Roll: My Early Years

Snakes, Drugs and Rock ‘n’ Roll

Auroville and sustainable development

Solar panels on the roof of Luminosity

Auroville’s development: the potential and the blockages

David Nightingale

Defining Mother, losing Mother

The Mother

Auroville stories 1968–2068

Daniel Greenberg

The Mother: A Life of Sri Aurobindo’s Spiritual Collaborator

The Mother: A life of Sri Aurobindo’s Spiritual Collaborator

Book launch: Being

Being

Auroville’s global community continues to offer support

Friederike

Artists in Auroville – the current trends

Krishna Devanandan

Priya’s “Inner Landscapes”

Dragon Play, glazed ceramic tile painting, 140 x 60 cm

Commemorating the second caravan

Departure from Paris on 10-10-1974

Auroville’s impact upon Kuilapalayam village

School of Regional Planning, Queen’s University, Canada graduate students with their professor, Dr Ajay Agarwal (centre)

The bill for the hill

The cleared forest area intended for the hill. “The hill, in providing a wonderful viewpoint of both the Matrimandir and the sea, will encourage real estate speculation and the growth of tourist facilities in  the area

Annapurna Farm faces challenges

Preparing the grounds

The Auroville population conundrum

An early Aurovilian enjoying hospitality in Kuilapalayam during Pongol, 1972

What farming could become

Harvesting at AuroOrchard

Seeking our inner being

Painting by Priti Ghosh

A challenging and controversial task

Torkil

The Secret Soul

‘Amethyst soul’

New hope for the roads

The Crown Road nearby Kalpana community. A retaining wall is being built to prevent earth from the roadside flushing into Kalpana

The progress of the Matrimandir Lake

The ongoing excavation of the second lake stretch. Photo taken on April 23rd, 2024

An alternative lake design concept

Proposal by Mohan Rao, based on The Mother’s description of the Matrimandir lake, with maximum four meters depth and natural seasonal variations

UTSAV, a mixed use experimental building complex

Roadside view of UTSAV

Svaram’s new milestone

From left: Shankar, Karthik and Aurelio

The challenges of being Chairman of the AVI Board

Christian Feuillette

Spiral Dynamics and Auroville

David Nightingale

The Never-Dying Fire: The Life and Thought of Sri Aurobindo

Cover - The Never-dying Fire

A new world is born

The Mother giving Terrace Darshan on the Golden Day of 29.2

Making eye care available for all

Aurosugan being interviewed in Tanzania in 2019 after being selected as the Eye Health Hero by the International Agency for Prevention of Blindness(IAPB) for his work on sustainability in eye care

Exploring the inner being

From left: Iris, Dan and Carla

Ikebana and Auroville

Valeria preparing ikabana

“Auroville has given me opportunities to discover myself”

Induja

The Matrimandir lake controversy

Excavating the next section of the lake

Potters’ tales

From left: Angad, Adil, Roy and Gillian

Ikebana: search for the heart of flowers

Ikebana with sitaphal

“I am here because of The Mother and Sri Aurobindo”

Srinivasmurty

The Auroville situation: a view from outside

Debashish Banerji

Sri Aurobindo and the Earth’s Future

Illustration of Sri Aurobindo

A proposal for social transformations

Highlighting the interactions and overlaps of the 'Conventional Age' (blue), the 'Rational Age' (orange) and the 'Subjective Age' (green). The space at the centre expresses the opportunity for our collective to come together in our search for more..

Overcoming apartheid – lessons for Auroville?

Jay Naidoo

The Banyan: a brief history

1 The Banyan tree in 1968

Cedric Bregnard on the Roots from the Sky collaboration

1 Cedric Bregnard

The International Advisory Council meets the community

1 A community member addresses the members of the International Advisory Council

“I strive to pursue what is true, right and just”

Gabi Gillessen

“Change has to come from within”

H P Rama

The Spirit of Auroville

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“I’m very optimistic”

Dena Merriam

Creating a space for dialogue and healing

Raghu Ananthanarayanan

The pandemic’s effect upon the local villages

Anbu

Life education is the most important thing

Studying at Kuilai Kalvi Koodam

An inner journey

Jai SIngh

Exploring Roger’s city plan

Anupama Kundoo

The Galaxy model is revolutionary

David Nightingale

“We came for the City”

Anandi

The Dreamweaving concludes

2 Discussing mobility as part of the Dreamweaving exercise

Reflections upon the Dreamweaving exercise

From left: Fabian, Tanja, Shailaja, Neha, Dorle, Mona, Ganesh

Project Summerhill

1 From left: Maisie, Manu, Chandni, Mohini, Lea

The new selection policy

New Selection Process flow diagram

“Everyone here is a learner”: update on The Learning Community

4 Concentration

Finding inner acceptance: a profile of Anandi Zhang

Anandi Zhang

In the land of majestic giants

Ashwin Ezhumalai's photo exhibition

The Dreamweaving has begun!

2 Weaving Discussions

Feeling the silence: the new Japanese garden

2 A pathway in the Japanese Garden

The multiversity proposal

Hemant

Breaking educational patterns

Educational assistants from C3Stream Land

Highways and byways

1 The Mother made this drawing to explain to a child the meaning of Yoga. Man is at the bottom, the Divine at the top. The wavy line is the path of the ordinary life, the straight line the path of yoga

A new way of learning

Dr

Designing the city

Prashant

Four designs for the new Matrimandir gardens

Artist’s impression of the Garden of Life

Craking the Crown conundrum

A still from the video shot during the Crown walk

Better to Have Gone: Love, Death, and the Quest for Utopia in Auroville

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The flower show

Flower arrangement with Sri Aurobindo’s symbol

The Soul of Nations – Healing and Evolution

Cover - The Soul of Nations

Surveying the youth

Valentine and Avinash

Memories of Auroville

Janet

Planting a seed

Working on balance, use of the feet, trust, confidence

An alternative approach to planning

Approximate map of Auroville and the surrounding areas. In green are all the lands owned by Auroville. In the inner circle, the city area, most lands are owned by Auroville, but this is not the case in the outer circle, the Greenbelt

Maskeraid: a new form of communication

1 What language was that? "Maskeraid"

Making Auroville accessible for everyone

Srinivasan’s play to sensitise people to accessibility

Awareness Through the Body in the Kindergarten

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Transparency – a group exhibition interpreting the intangible

Venation, by Saravana

The Citizens’ Assembly experiment

Small group discussion during the Citizen's Assembly

Ex Special Forces provide healing at Quiet Healing centre

Freedom: assisting someone with disability to scuba dive

Auroville from Above

Sunset over the Matrimandir

“Now I am aware I have choices”: Savithri journey

Savithri

The sense of community

For many, the bonfires at the Matrimandir amphitheatre express a close sense of community

Anitya: from vision to reality

Digging an infrastructure trench

50 More Poems from Auroville

50 More Poems from Auroville

Change in Auroville

Early Pour Tous

Auroville 80

Cover - Auroville 80

A Glimpse of the future?

The Sand Sun

COVID-19 and the Auroville Economy

From left: Otto, Stephan, Isha, Inge and Carel

Stepping up to the task: the work of the COVID Task Force

From left: Induja, Tejaswini, Prashant and Angela

COVID-19: a wake-up call

Aurovilians sanitize one of the community kitchens

Deep adaptation and Auroville

Auroville, 1968: the desert landscape

February is art month

A primeval night by Auroville papers

Auroville: Sun-Word Rising

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Auroville as a modern utopia?

Suryamayi speaking at The Bridge, Auroville’s 50th anniversary research conference

Launching the Aura

The Aura Project Team

“It’s time for Auroville to take stock”

Sriram Panchu

Opening up new opportunities for participation

Sathish Arumugam

“Aurovilians continually make you think”

Manuel Thomas

The challenges of experimenting in Auroville

courtyard view

Keeping us connected

1 Suresh and Moorthy

A special team

Surya and Elumalai

The employees of Auroville

Employees, children and Aurovilians at Auroville Sangamam, 2018

Twice Upon a Time in Auroville

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Universal Basic Income and Auroville

From left: Stephanie, Suryamayi, Inge and Lakshay at the 19th World basic Income

Auroville offers alternatives to the mainstream world view

Debashish Banerji

Translating and presenting Sri Aurobindo

Aryamani in Brazil presenting her translation A Vida Divina

The Solar Kitchen journey

Angelika and Thushita

The threats to Auroville’s physical integrity

Privately owned hotel in the Greenbelt near Dana community, built without the required permissions

What has happened to our bonfires?

Bonfire at amphitheatre

A full and fulfilling life

Francis

Creating livelihood opportunities for village youth

Lavkamad

The young Auroville emerges

From left: Luca, Aurrima, Kim, Sandra, Bhakti, Manjula, Michael, Krishna, Aparajita, Juan Andres

The Dawn of Auroville 1964-1973

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Auroville 1968-2018 glimpses into 50 years of photographic archives

Cover - Auroville 1968-2018

Water is the key

From left: Friederike, Mita R., Peter A

A new way forward?

Concept for a 'shared space' between Auroville and Edayanchavadi village

The Garden of the Unexpected: evaluating an innovative approach

The integration process

Managing Tourism in Auroville

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Searching for Social Change

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Rethinking tourism

Professor Ajay Agarwal

Planning for the wider bioregion: Auroville- Pondicherry-Villupuram-Cuddalore

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The guardian of the Banyan

2 The Banyan Tree with Andhayee's hut behind

Glimpses into Tibetan medicine

Dr Tsewang Tamdin

Brahmanaspati Kshetram: a quiet seed

Rajan

Auroville in Mother’s Words

Cover - Auroville in Mother’s Words

Mother’s foot soldier

Prasad

The art of Kratu

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Resilience and Auroville

Dave

Designing the Garden of the Unexpected

Map showing location of the Garden of the Unexpexted

The tourism challenge

Day visitors at the Matrimandir viewing point

Wildlife Great and Small of India’s Coromandel

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Pebble

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Water from the world comes to the Matrimandir

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“My equipment had better work the first time”

From left: Hemant, Dev, Chandresh and Andrea

Covering the 50th anniversary events

From left: Valentina, Serena, Fabienne and Doris

Organizing the Prime Minister’s visit

The Prime Minister at Bharat Nivas

A Forecomer revisits

Bob Lawlor

On the Way to Supermanhood

At the exhibition at Citadines

Offerings on the 50th birthday

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Piero and Gloria Cicionesi

Cover - Piero and Gloria Cicionesi monograph

The Sustainable Livelihood Institute (SLI)

Ramasubramaniam

“We have to open ourselves”

From left: Janaka, François and Gérard

A doorway into Tamil

Meenakshi and Jonathan

Preserving the Green Belt

The Green Belt of the Auroville Master Plan has six villages which together have a population six times larger than that of Auroville

Auroville and Publicity

The international Zone exhibition at the Visitors Centre

Mutation Alchemy and Grace

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Into Great Depth of Your Being

Into Great Depth of Your Being

50 Poems from Auroville

Cover - 50 Poems from Auroville

Sunship

The architect’s design of Sunship

Humanscapes

Buildings of the Humanscapes project

The Galaxy Re-visited

An unusual view of the Galaxy

Ideal cities and Auroville

Sketch of layout of The City of the Sun

Coastal protection and restoration: can we learn from Pondicherry?

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Auroville Consulting

Installing solar panels on the roof of the Pavilion of Tibetan Culture, Auroville

Inauguration of Auroville – Concept and Purpose

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Auroville – A City for the Future

Cover - Auroville, A City for the Future

Profile of a community: Courage

Some of the residents of Courage community

Holding on to the scaffolding

Dr Prema Nandakumar

Globalization, Regional Cultures and International Living

Prof

Under the Banyan

Under the Banyan: Principles of sustainable habitats in the tropics

Is there free expression in Auroville?

The controversial Matrimandir elephant picture

New taxi-sharing scheme. A nudge in the right direction?

From left: Raju, Vijay, Krishna and Min

Ecovillage Design Education course in Auroville

Exploring new ways about economy

Auroville, Findhorn and Arcosanti

The Auroville bonfire on August 15, 2016

A personal ‘Hexiad’ experience

Selvam

Sri Aurobindo and the Revolution of India

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Reconnecting with Spirit through Nature

Aikya

Culture abounds – The Peacemakers

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You need a currency constellation based on you value system

Jean-Francois Noubel

New hope for our beaches?

Sand has accumulated south of the Pondicherry harbour entrance, the beaches north have disappeared

From inside-out: Monica Sharma on new models of change, leadership and stewardship

Monica Sharma

Auroville’s population: A 20-year analysis

1 Total number of residents from 1997 to 2016

Ganga Yatra: a journey of self-discovery

The confluence of the rivers Alaknanda and Bhagirathi, where the river becomes Ganga

Restoring Connection

From left: Janet, t'aura

Vikram’s journey

Vikram

Demonetization and Auroville

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Farming in Auroville: a round table discussion

From left: Lucas, Tomas, UIIi, sauro and Vivek (not in picture, Bindu)

Revisioning Auroville’s economy

Inside the Sante Multi-Purpose Health Clinic, which provides much more than material support

Finding oneself: the Swadharma programme

From left: Lalit, Mike, Anita, Min, Sophie, Manoj

Integral Yoga at Work

Cover - Integral Yoga at Work

Brexit and Human Unity

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Sacred Groves – the trials of a sustainable housing experiment

The three prototype buildings of Sacred Croves, with the Sacred Groves' team

Tackling the youth housing problem

Hemant

The housing crisis

Conceptual design of the cost-effective Humanscapes project

Apprenticeships for youth

From left: Suryamayi, Aurevan and Kavitha

“Yes we can!”

Another use for an alcohol bottle

“There is much greater awareness around alcoholism now”

1 Shankar

Discovering Johannes Hohlenberg

Anusuya

German volunteers in Auroville: the Weltwaerts programme

Birgit and Thomas

“You have to keep going forward”: a portrait of Pashi

Pashi Kapur

Golden Day thoughts

1 Soif de Cri Lumineux CXLI, 1990, Oil on Canvas, by Stanulis

The Joy of Learning experiment

1 From left: Alan, Mike, Min and Lalit

Food on the mind

The general meeting organised by Auroville’s Residents’ Assembly Service was held in Mahalakshmi Park

Anniversary thoughts

From left, Fabienne, Dave, Marco, Krishna (seated) and Mariana

An accessible bus-for an accessible community?

Raju demonstrates the platform lift

Searching for the spirit of seva

Tapas Bhatt

Light in Darkness: poems and photos 

Cover - Light in Darkness

Don’t hold your breath

Population male female ratio

Solar pumping in remote villages: the 100-100 project

Installing a solar pumping system in Gobada village, Orissa

Twinning Auroville and Pondicherry as fair trade towns

Pushpanath Krishnamurthy on his walk in Auroville where he was hosted at Auroville Village Action

Farewell matters

The new Farewell Centre

The fourth Auroville Film Festival

Tom (left) and Sasi

Auroville’s relationship to India

From left: Kumbha, Kathy, Abha and Alain

A gateway for the media

Elaine (left) and Fabienne

India and Auroville

Dr Karan Singh inaugurates the Educational and Research Network of Auroville connection to the National Knowledge Network of India

Millidacious

Show time for the country rats

Towards an integral approach to health

The new Santé Clinic

The Auroville Health Centre

Inside the Auroville Health Centre, Aspiration

The Wellness Programme

Food preparation in Anandi’s raw food restaurant - it tastes good!

“The alternative therapist do not feel adequately supported”

Sigrid and Malar

India Land of Light

Elephanta - Trimurthy

YouthLink takes off

YouthLink office

The Integral Entrepreneurship Lab (IEL)

From left: Aurelio, Daniel, Torkil, Gijs, Taranti, Mark, Dhanya

Reading the runes

One of the new road signs

The Water Challenge

Varuna, the Vedic god of oceans and rivers

Tamil farmers and the water issue

From left to right Arivasu, Satiyabalan, Gnanamani and Paneerselvam

The AV desalination plant project

Michael Bonke

“We are trying to catch a vibration”

Doris and Francis

Towards an integrated water management strategy for the bioregion

Map of the immediate bioregion of Auroville

Battling the water crisis

Toby

The Water Challenge: AV and the bioregion

Guilio (left) and Tom

The challenges of farming in Auroville

3 Dairy at AuroGreen

“The flute must be played through you”

Pandit Hariprasad Chaurasia in concert with Chandra

The Auroville Retreat

Small groups working together

Gaia’s Garden in Auroville

Gaia’s Garden in Auroville

Detailed Development Plans for the Residential Zone ready

Residential Zone Sectors 1 & 2

The second caravan: a modern odyssey

The caravan arrives in Aspiration. From left: Jean-Claude Refuveille, Christine Devin, Ella-Maria in Ashram still, Nicole Elf in coimbatore

The first caravan

Three Aurovlllans of the first caravan: Gerard Marechal, Janaka and Francois Gautier

The clasp of civilizations

Cover - The Clasp of Civilizations

La Maison des Jeunes

One of the 'Houses of the Young' at Citadines

Communicating for social change

Gerald Frape

The odd couple

A scene from 'The odd Couple': Felix (played by Krishna) and Oscar (played by Otto) in disagreement

Combatting alcoholism

Shankar

In memoriam - Prema (Adelina Intanno)

Prema

Caring for Auroville – the Auroville Health Services (AVHS)

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ONE ASIA, 2014

Jyoti and Isha

The Evolutionary Cafe

Ulli and David

Following the thread: a profile of Chali

1 Chali

The Auroville website: a new way of communicating

Manohar and Manoj

Education is the main way to change society

Kabir Shaikh

What is happening at Bharat Nivas?

The small amphitheatre in the former the Auroville Library building

The challenges of filming Auroville

1 A still from the film 'Auroville: The City the Earth Needs'

Facing out, facing in: Auroville’s Visitors’ Center

Visitors Center complex

Is there a future for some of Auroville’s beach communities?

4 Mirra Youth Camp

“Have faith and stop criticising!”

N Bala Baskar

Conflict Resolution and the New Warriors

Danaan Parry

Peace Trees – Teamwork ’88

Exchange students planting trees

The Auroville Foundation Bill

Meeting of Aurovilians


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