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Issue Nº393

Apr 2022 (43 months ago)
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Last year’s extraordinary rainfall and its consequences

An interview with Giulio, By Carel

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

The year 2021 was the wettest in a hundred years and the first aquifer below Auroville filled up, with unexpected consequences. To understand what is happening and what is likely to happen in the future, we talked to Aurovilian Giulio, a geo-archaeologist, who works for the Geomatics department of Auroville’s Centre of Scientific Research

The Visa crisis

Feature, By Carel

Building an Experimental City

Opinion, By Divya Lieser

Why?

Feature, By Alan

“Everyone here is a learner”: update on The Learning Community

An interview with Tamar, Maya, Mrinalini and Sara Sponza, By Alan

4 Concentration

Learning from the Intangible

Feature, By Chandra

The Photo exhibition ‘Learning from the Intangible’ by Alessandra Silver

Auroville Press celebrates 40 years

An interview with Luisa, Claude Arpi, Jayalakshmi and Christine, By Carel

1 From left: Jayalakshmi, Claude, Luisa and Christine

On March 26th, the Auroville Press in Aspiration community celebrated its 40th anniversary. Claude Arpi, Christine Devin, Luisa Meneghetti and Jayalakshmi look back at a challenging past and forward to an uncertain future.

Infinite possibilities

Feature, By Peter

Auroville, by Pavan Kavitkar Water colours on archival paper

Finding inner acceptance: a profile of Anandi Zhang

A profile of Anandi Zhang, By Alan

Anandi Zhang

Since joining Auroville in 2016, Anandi Zhang has taken up various work in the community. But she feels the most important work is that which she is dong upon herself.

Padma Sri for Tara Jauhar The President of India awarded the Padma Shri, India’s fourth-highest civilian award, to Ms. Tara Jauhar at the Rashtrapati Bhavan on March, 21st, 2022, for her work in literature and education, in particular in propagating the teachings of Sri Aurobindo.

Governning Board meeting The minutes of the 58th meeting of the Governing Board held on January 18th were shared with the community. Amongst other things, the Board decided to establish an Organisation and Governance Committee to look into the organisation, governance and related matters of Auroville.

Address of Shri R.N. Ravi, Chairmand of the Governing Board In one of the zoom seminars organised during the ‘Auroville festival’, the Chairman of the Auroville Foundation and Honourable Governor of Tamil Nadu, R.

Prioritization of topics for RAD’s Confronted with many requests for various decisions of the Residents’ Assembly, the Auroville Council organized a poll to help it and the Residents’ Assembly Service determine which topics for Residents’ Assembly Decisions (RADs) the community felt to be the most important at this moment in time.

Delay in selecting new working group members The Auroville Council has informed the community that although an RAD on a new process to select members of the Working Committee, the Auroville Council, the Auroville Town Development Council, the Funds and Assets Management Committee and the Entry Board will be concluded before the above mentioned RADs on the Working Committee and the ATDC membership, the selection process itself will be held afterwards.

New research publications on Auroville “Flexible Institutionalisation in Auroville: A Prefigurative Alternative to Development” by Suryamayi Clarence-Smith and Lara Monticelli was published in a special issue of the magazine Sustainability Science.