Issue Nº364

Across more than one issue, Auroville Today aims to highlight our employees and their valuable contributions to Auroville’s daily functioning.

Jagadeshwari hails from Annai Nagar, a small village on the northern side of Auroville, where she works as an administrator and facilitator in Thamarai after-school (an Auroville outreach project).

It’s generally Auroville’s attractive products or tangible outputs that have gained the most attention for the community’s units and services over the years.

It is not often that you see a man and a woman employee working together as a team in an Auroville forest or garden. But Elumalai and his wife, Surya, are different.

When your telephone line has been struck by lightning and your modem has gone up in smoke, you begin to appreciate the meaning of ‘service’.

Dance practices are even older than the invention of written languages. Archaeological evidence indicates that, for centuries, dance has played a major role not only as a performance art, but also as a form of storytelling and communication.

Alokananda Roy is a Calcutta-based dancer and educationist who gave a dance performance in Auroville called ‘Envisioning Our Mother: Sri Aurobindo’ in October.

‘Message in a Bottle’ was an inspiring, well produced community play and a testament to the creative juices flowing in Auroville. Above all, it was great fun with a street smart kick at times.

We are fond of quoting Mother when she writes that Auroville will be a place for making experiments. But how easy is it to innovate in the Auroville of today?

Tsunamika, the colourful cloth doll representing post-tsunami renewal, returns in a new avatar. She has now grown into the voice of the oceans, urging us to protect our seas and, ultimately, ourselves.

Dear friends of Auroville Today, With regard to your ‘Caring for the Sick and Elderly’ article in AVToday # 363, I would like to make two observations:

From September 30th to October 7th, a course on Film Appreciation – History and Aesthetics was conducted by the Film and Television Institute of India at Auroville’s Cinema Paradiso.