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Issue Nº304

Nov 2014 (132 months ago)
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One Community – One Family

1.3 the opening ceremony

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.


Owner-driven social housing in Gujarat and Auroville

Dustudio in Swayam community with its Japanese stone garden

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.


The Joy of Learning

Over the past two months, Aurovilians have been invited to participate in a new experiment called The Joy of Learning. What is the idea behind it?


The Genesis of the Auroville Foundation Act

Smt Indira Gandhi on her visit to the Sri Aurobindo Ashram in 1974 is given a book by Kireet Joshi

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.


Following the thread: a profile of Chali

1 Chali

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.


The love of life through clay

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Auro-Orchard goes organic

Christian, volunteers and employees sorting vegetables at Auro-Orchard

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?