Auroville's monthly news magazine since 1988

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Powering Auroville’s electric mobility movement

E-bicycles for rent at Kinisi

Does Annapurna Farm face imminent destruction?

Rice field preparation and transplanting in Annapurna

Dr Karan Singh to the Aurovilians: trust and go forward

Dr Karan Singh

Listening to the Shakti: a path toward Auroville’s healing

Amrit

A path toward healing and reform

Chali

Consciousness-Based Psychology

Consciousness-Based Psychology

Malarchi boarding closes

The Malarchi children, helpers and caretakers celebrating Christmas in 2024.  Tixon is second from left in the back row; Vanitha is fourth from right in the middle row

The bookbinder of Vanaville

Michel working at his book sewing machine

From law to sound: Niva’s unexpected journey

Niva playing the Nidranantar

The Matrimandir, the Lake and the Garden works: an update

Scale visualisation of the Matrimandir and its Gardens, surrounded by the Lake and connected by a bridge originating from the Reception Pavilion

A basket full of grace

Frederick

Navigating the challenges of physical education

Dehashakti

Auroville’s governance crisis: a call for transparent residents’ control

Abha and Claude on a tour to the Himalayas

Navigating change at the Visitors Centre

Inside the Auroville Information Centre

Cyclone Fengal hits Auroville

The ‘Lego block’ wall between sections 1 and 2 of the Matrimandir Lake broke in the middle and at the banks

“I’m very concerned about Auroville’s planning future”

Former Governing Board member Dr B.V. Doshi discusses the Auroville Master Plan with Prashant in 2010, while Tejaswini and Meera look on

Severe beach erosion at Sri Ma community

One of Sri Ma’s palm trees is falling into the sea

Committed to Auroville

Palani in the Aureka workshop

Tibetan medicine and Auroville

Dr Samphel Tsering takes the pulse of a patient

Promoting Ayurveda: the knowledge of life

Dr Be teaching Ayurveda to Aurovilians

Practising Siddha Medicine

Dr

Practising Vedic astrology

Vikram Devatha

La Boutique d’Auroville closed down

La Boutique d’Auroville

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

The relevance of urban design for Auroville

Map of city development

The Auroville farms are stagnating

The Aruvadai team

The Silence Forest assessment

Flying Foxes roosting in Silence Forest

“I am prayer only”

8 Kireet Joshi bookcover

“We’ve set out to do Mother’s work”

Judith

Sri Aurobindo and The Earth’s Future

A still from the film Sri Aurobindo and The Earth’s Future showing Sri Aurobindo meditating in the dim, dust-laden storeroom on the first floor of Motilal Roy's house in Chandernagore

We need to rethink everything

Francois with PM Modi

I am always with you

Cover - “I am always with you”

New experiments at the Matrimandir Lake

The Lake on the hill

The Entry Board: an interview with the interviewers

The Entry Board members, From left: Lakshmanan, Matilde, Grace, Swadha, Alain, Jayanthi, Sonja and Sara

Accountancy today is highly complex

Palani in his office

Towards a conscious collectivity

Celebration of Auroville’s birthday on February 28th, 2023

47 books and counting

Books by Ananda Reddy

Reflections on the Governing Board

1 Claude Arpi

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

Gabi Gillessen

“I’m very optimistic”

Dena Merriam

Sri Aurobindo: The Grand Synthesis

Cover - Sri Aurobindo: The Grand Synthesis

Perking up the coffee scene

3 Coffee flowers spiritual significance: The Right Path

The trials of an Auroville entrepreneur

Daniel and Sheril

The first section of the Matrimandir test lake nears completion

The end of the dig

The Garden of the Unexpected

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Rejuvenating the farms

2 Ramanan explaining the principles of organic farming at Auro-Orchard

The Solar Kitchen is beefing up

The morning meditation

Reading Sri Aurobindo

Reading Sri Aurobindo - bookcover

A true child of the Mother

Shraddhavan

“We are vastly under-utilised”

The Road Service at work on the road near Certitude

In the eye of the storm: the Residents’ Assembly Service

The members of the Residents’ Assembly Service

Being responsive to the psychic and the impact of the collective

Deepti Tiwari

The first, necessity, the inner discovery

Didier

Last year’s extraordinary rainfall and its consequences

Rainwater and groundwater partially filled up the 10 metres deep test pond at the Matrimandir

Auroville Press celebrates 40 years

1 From left: Jayalakshmi, Claude, Luisa and Christine

Sri Aurobindo, Life and Times of the Mahayog, The Pre-Pondicherry Phase

Sri Aurobindo: Life and Times of the Mahayogimahayogi - bookcover

Reflections upon Psycho-Spiritual Obstacles on the Journey to the Divine – an insiders view

Reflections upon the Psycho-Spiritual obstaclles on the journey to the Divine - bookcover

A Unique Friendship – J.R.D. Tata and Auroville

Cover - A Unique Friendship: JRD Tata and Auroville

Making and implementing the Master Plan

2 Auroville road network as published in the second Master Plan (page 57)

The multiversity proposal

Hemant

Serving Auroville

Tatiana

Craking the Crown conundrum

A still from the video shot during the Crown walk

Recovering lost beaches

The new beach at Halcyon (with the white wall) and Simplicity

The English of Savitri volume 8

Cover - The English of Savitri, Volume 8

The place you are right now God circled on a map for you

Sheida and Eli

“Auroville must start a COVID-19 awareness drive for its employees”

Yoga and health education: Muthukumari taking a class in Nesal school

The English of Savitri Volume 7

Cover - The English of Savitri, Volume 7

Nachiketas

Death instructs Nachiketas

Succession and ageing: some challenges and solutions

Liliana and Ambra at the Miniature workshop

How did Auroville’s communities get their names?

Saraswati puja at Fraternity on 14 October 1972

Explaining the stratum

The excavation of the test pond for the Matrimandir Lake

Too much bureaucracy?

Cover: The Town Hall strangled by red tape

Snapshots of 40 years in Auroville

Jocelyne

Promoting zero waste

Laure Huys

The mission of Savitri Bhavan

Savitri Bhavan

Searching for the self

1 Dawn at Zeek’s Creek salt marsh, Conanicut Island, RI, USA

Loneliness in the time of COVID

Praveen Chopra

In Memorium - Roma Hira

Roma Hira

Housing development lacks momentum (includes map of residential zone – proposed development from a feasibily study)

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The Annapurna community farm

Dairy: a very important component of the farm

We are living in difficult times

The Pour Tous meeting on December 2nd. The Unity Pavilion was overcrowded. It was the largest meeting ever of this kind in Auroville

Caring for the sick and elderly

Paula with Prathiba, a resident of Mahalakshmi Home, in the electric three wheeler

MGEcoduties (MGE) goes TATA

Margarita and Guidelma

Paintings of an Inner Journey

Gateaway

Sustainable mobility for all

E-cycles at Kinisi

A roller-coaster ride

Mohan Verghese Chunkath

A severe water crisis is expected

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Creating content that can be relied upon

from left: Aurovenkatesh, Serena, Fabienne, Alessandra, Divya, Marco, Matthew, Mariana

Mediation takes a front seat

The Commercial Medation Monograph

Things are moving in the International Zone

Provisional map of the International Zone

The Process of the Integral Yoga

The Process of the Integral Yoga

The English of Savitri Volume 5

Cover - The English of Savitri, Volume 5

People appreciate spirituality from a practical angle

Dr. K

“Inwardly, Auroville is blossoming”

Aster Patel

In memoriam - Krishna Kumar

Krishna Kumar

Saving Quiet

The reception building of the Quiet Healing centre is now 12 metres away from the 'cliff' since the erosion onslaught last year

The Komali MeDi Clown Academy wins the “YES! I am the CHANGE” 2018 Grant & Accelerator

At the Institute of Child Health, Chennai

Dear Aurovilians

Cover - Dear Aurovilians

What is the Matrimandir?

"Let the Matrimandir be the living symbol of Auroville's aspiration for the Divine"

The English of Savitri vol. 4

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‘Breaking Ground’

From left: Saraswati, Rakhee, Adil and Priya

Proposed National Highway threatens Auroville

Map showing the new highway through the Auroville Greenbelt (in blue dots) as originally routed and the four bypasses proposed by Auroville: along National Highway 66, and then reaching the East Coast Road along an existing road (in pink)

“I haven’t anything spectacular to say”

1 Janet

Prestigious government award for Deepika Kundaji

The President of India gives the award to Deepika Kundaji

The Visit of the Prime Minister

Prime Minister Modi greets members of the Governing Board and Working Committee of the Auroville Foundation at Savitri Bhavan. From left: Dr. Karan Singh, Chairman of the Auroville Foundation, Mr. Modi, Carel, Sauro and and Dr

The Auroville Archives gets its own building

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Upasana: starting the fourth seven-year cycle

Uma (middle) with models at the Fair Trade Forum India fashion show in New Delhi

The Kalpana housing project

1 Architectural image of the Kalpana project

Auroville in Delhi

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A new Town Development Council

From left (top) Anita, Sindhuja, Anu,Aurovici, Tejaswini, Divya, Inge and Pino

Coming Home

Dr Anirban Ganguly

The new Sanjana community

Some of the apartments in Sanjana community

The joy of working at the Matrimandir

From left: John, Srimoyi, Elumalai,  Pierre

New town planning methodology approved

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The outreach work of the Auroville Botanical Gardens

A group of school children in the herbal garden with Kaamachi, one of the educators at the Botanical Gardens

The slow rise of the Pavilion of a united Korea

The Auroville talk at the Town Hall of Seoul City on October 15, 2016

Transformational session – transpersonal regression therapy

Regression therapists from India updating their technique with their teacher, Yuvraj Kapadia, as well as sharing their understanding with Aurovilians, January 2017, in the Unity Pavilion

Nari Shakti Puraskar – 2016 for Dr. Nandita Shah

The president of India Shri Pranab Mukherjee honours Dr. Nandlta Shah with the Nari snaktt Puraskar on March 8, 2017, International Women's Day

Matrimandir Lake mini test ponds research completed

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Deepam shine @ 25

Angelika and Selvi

Appeal process approved

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Stained glass windows exhibition

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Horizontal directional drilling at Varuna Beach

Google Earth map showing the route of the pipelines

Sri Aurobindo and European Philosophy

Cover - Sri Aurobindo and European Philosophy

Inner Space Outer Space – Rendezvous with Vijayanager

Kratu: Cosmic Mother - A Trilogy

Evaluating the Selection Process

The new members of the Funds and Assets Management Committee. From left: Yuval, Chandresh, Lyle, Stephanie, Bindu, Chali, UIIi, Amy and Prabhu

The unique status of Auroville is its protection. An interview with Dr. Karan Singh

The members of the Governing Board  and International Advisory Council (lAC) at the community gathering at the Unity Pavilion on September 8th

Acquiring and protecting the lands. The views of the Land Board

1 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

Auroville welcomes new Secretary

Mr

How to protect a name?

1 A housing block development in Dehradun, north India, bearing the name ‘Auroville’

The healing paintings of Marie-Claire Barsotti

Marie Claire Barsotti

The abstract expressionism of Nele Martens

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Residents’ Assembly approves a new Entry Policy and FAMC mandate

The voting at the Solar Kitchen

Shalom Shanti Salam

Anandamayi soloing in Meditation

The Auroville economy: in dire straits

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The English of Savitri Volume 2

Cover - The English of Savitri, Volume 2

Leaking roofs, lack of privacy, plenty of sound pollution

Maitreye II – no privacy and plenty of sound pollution

Selecting new members for the Working Committee & Auroville Council

New members of the Working Committee and Auroville Council join the present members in the inner circle

Craftsmen of chocolate

From left: Chief chocolate maker Saraswathy, Jane and Fabien

Probiotics in Ceramics and Natural Soaps

The demonstration table at the PTDC

E-tailing Auroville

The Auroville.com team

Welcome to Linea

Nicola and Tatiana

Auromode – from Atelier to Apartments

One of the Auromode apartments

Auroville’s spirituality

King Aswapati (standing) discusses the fate of Savitri with Narad, the heavenly messenger, while the Queen and Savitri look on

A testimony to stubborn persistence

Chandresh supervising the laying of the optical fibre cable

The water trouble of Annai Nagar

Moris next to Annai Nagar's 150,000 Iitres overhead water tank

Taps are forbidden in Sadhana Forest

The shower system of Sadhana Forest

The artistry of Auroville Papers

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The English of Savitri

Cover - The English of Savitri

The Auroville Festival in Chennai

The Auroville choirs performance at the MKV Hall, Chennai

Promoting safety – the work of the Security Team

From left: Shahar

Non-violent Communication and Restorative Circles

L'aura Joy

Detailed Development Plans for the Residential Zone ready

Residential Zone Sectors 1 & 2

Discovering the oneness of the Matrimandir Garden

Side view of the model

Kenji Woodwork

Low Dining Table with chairs

New Dawn Carpentry

The four-metre high doors of the new Centre of Indian Culture

Aurorachana

Set of chairs

Prakrit

Burned 'Tree of Life'

Woodscapes

Low tables with metal legs

We have a Working Committee

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Matrimandir – a hymn to the builders of the future

Dominique Darr

Owner-driven social housing in Gujarat and Auroville

Dustudio in Swayam community with its Japanese stone garden

Transforming lives

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Mini test ponds for the Matrimandir Lake

cross section of a mini test pond

Education is the main way to change society

Kabir Shaikh

“Have faith and stop criticising!”

N Bala Baskar

The Auroville Economy: Unity without uniformity

The Auroville economy: a collaborative creation

Peace Trees – Teamwork ’88

Exchange students planting trees

Pushing the future forward: An interview with Roger Anger

Roger Anger

The Auroville Foundation Bill

Meeting of Aurovilians


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