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Feature story — Authored by Kavitha
With over 210 participating Aurovilians, the Auroville Singing Festival 2014 was doubtless the year’s largest cultural event. Spread over two evenings in October, with Bharat Nivas auditorium bursting at its seams, more than 36 groups and soloists showed their talents.
A wide-ranging dialogue with Dharmesh — Interview conducted by Carel
Auroville’s Dustudio / BuildAur, in collaboration with three other organizations, has won a bid to facilitate the process of designing and building 250,000 ‘social’ houses in Gujarat.
Feature story — Authored by Alain Bernard
On 23rd January, 2010, for the French Pavilion, Alain Bernard gave a talk on the background and passing of the Auroville Foundation Act. Here is an edited version of the translation of that talk. It is also a testimony to the central role played by Kireet Joshi who recently left us and a token of our gratitude.
An introduction to Chali — Reported by Alan
Chali was born in San Francisco in 1967. She attended the inauguration of Auroville and was taken to Mother while still very young. She moved to Auroville in 1969-70 with Mary Helen and Narad (who she mainly grew up with), but left with her mother at the end of 1980. Narad followed a few months later. She moved back to Auroville in the summer of 1995. Today, she is one of the key members of the management team of Future School, which she cofounded.
A wide-ranging dialogue with — Interview conducted by Priya Sundaravalli
A wide-ranging dialogue with Gérard and Christian — Interview conducted by Kavitha
Auro-Orchard, one of Auroville’s biggest farms, took the decision to go organic in October 2012. How have they done? And how optimistic are they about the future of food production in Auroville?
A tribute to
On October 12th, Auroville architect Ajit Koujalgi, aged 66, passed away in Apollo hospital in Chennai. He succumbed to the severe injuries he had sustained ten days earlier in a fall from the roof of his house in Samasti community. Initially admitted to PIMS hospital in Pondicherry, he was later moved to Chennai in the hope of better treatment.
