Auroville's monthly news magazine since 1988

Issue Nº383-384

Jul 2021 (51 months ago)
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Features

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

A conversation with Muthukumari  —  Interview conducted by Carel

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Auroville Village Action’s response to the second wave

In-depth feature — Written by Auroville Village Action Group (AVAG)

Masks making

New Secretary appointed

In-depth feature

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No more ‘business as usual’

In-depth feature — Written by Peter

Employees at Ecofemme making sanitary napkins

Life in Kottakarai: reflections on an early Auroville community

In-depth feature — Written by Daniel Brewer, Andrea van de Loo, Lisbeth, Binah and Gordon Korstange

Lisbeth milking a cow

Memories of Auroville

Book review — Authored by Alan

Janet

Renu – an Auroville pioneer

Reported by Renu

3 Renu and her sister Aurosylle in 1983

Eco Service Fairies

In-depth feature — Written by Peter

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Tube Thambi

In-depth feature — Written by Peter

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Every dog has its day in this shelter

In-depth feature — Written by Archana

1 Kannan surrounded by some of the 150 dogs at the Integrated Animal Care Centre

Nurturing mental health in Auroville

A conversation with Jerry Beusen  —  Interview conducted by Lesley

The office of Mattram in the Auromitra building

I don’t know

An inward look — Authored by Alan

Letter to the Editor

Open letter — Written by Adil Writer

Eyes of Evolution

Book review — Authored by Jerry Beusen

Message from the Editors

Open letter — Written by Editors

COVID-19 “Nal Valvu” Booklet

Book review — Authored by Editors

Governing Board and International Advisory Council not yet appointed

In-depth feature

Education during the pandemic

A conversation with Divya Lieser  —  Interview conducted by Shakti Sharma

L’Entente Cordiale

From experience — Words by Peter

Temporary Emergency Maintenance A year ago, in May 2020, the Budget Coordination Committee (BCC) and the Funds and Assets Management Committee (FAMC) jointly created “Temporary Emergency Maintenances” for those Aurovilians working in activities, units or services who were no longer able to receive a maintenance from their unit or service due to the Covid-19 emergency, and were in need...

Dismissing an Aurovilian In the last three years, the Auroville Council has had to deal with many situations where a unit, a service, an Auroville activity or a school had to ask an Aurovilian to discontinue his or her work...

Improving relationships with neighbouring villages Though Auroville has done a lot of welfare work for the villages, more attention is needed in building healthy and collaborative relationships with the village leaders and elders...

The Matrimandir Gardens Work on the Garden of the Unexpected, on the western edge of the Matrimandir gardens oval, has picked up speed again with a tree platform having been built...

Celebrating Sri Aurobindo’s 150th anniversary The Working Committee has appointed a core team of five Aurovilians to prepare the celebrations of Sri Aurobindo’s 150th birth anniversary 15-08-2022...

Residents’ Assembly decision making policy In February this year, the Residents’ Assembly Service (RAS) announced its wish to pause all Residents’ Assembly Decision-making (RAD) processes until a review is made of the existing decision-making policy and the RAS mandate...

Entry issues The Entry Service reported that during the entire lockdown period it was fully engaged in discharging its duties...