Issue Nº398

Features

August 15, 2022

After the event

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Landmark Judgment of Madras High Court

Feature

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Reading Sri Aurobindo

Book review — Story by Carel

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News in Brief

Cultural activities There have been numerous cultural events, the majority of which have been occasioned by the 150th anniversary of Sri Aurobindo’s birth...

Talks There were many talks, on topics like Sri Aurobindo and the cosmic yagna and the Foundations of Indian Culture...

Exhibitions Meanwhile, in addition to the ongoing Art for Land exhibition, there was a Savitri art exhibition at Savitri Bhavan, ‘Echo’, an installation by Bhavyo at Citadines, and ‘Unexpected’, a stone sculpture exhibition by Charles Zanon at Botanical Gardens...

Performances Musically, we were privileged to host flautist Hariprasad Chaurasia and his students on 14th August, and there have been many other music performances, as well as Odissi and Bharatnatyam dance performances...

Films Film wise, in addition to the premiere of the ‘Spiritual History of India’, the fourth in the series ‘Evolution: Fast forward” (see front page), Manohar presented videos he had made in previous years dedicated to events connected with Sri Aurobindo in Auroville, as well as his video of the ‘Dawn’ performance in the small amphitheatre, and there was the premiere on a TV channel of “Sri Aurobindo: the beginning of spiritual journey” based on Sri Aurobindo’s inner and external life in the prison between 1908-1909, related in his own words...

Community matters There have been a number of community meetings, in addition to the big event on the evening of 15th August...

Youth Day Fest International Youth Day is celebrated annually on the 12th August globally, and marks YouthLink’s largest annual event in Auroville...

Auroville International The General Assembly of Auroville International (AVI) also took place on 12th August...

Mela Auroville Bharat Nivas held a mela, celebrating food, crafts workshops and performances by bioregion centres and schools of Auroville, including a chanting of the full Bhagavad Gita...

City the earth needs exhibition On 14th August, there was an open invitation to the exhibition ‘The city the earth needs: Auroville – the vision takes shape’ in India Space at Bharat Nivas...

Community fun dance On August 25th, the community was invited to the Unity Pavilion to enjoy a ‘community fun dance’ – a way of learning Orissa folk dance...

Forest Moot On 26th/27th August, the Botanical Gardens team invited the community to a ‘Forest Moot’ celebrating, as they put it, “our journey with nature”...

Community meeting at Kalabhumi and Emergency RAD After the High Court judgment, The Working Committee selected by the Residents’ Assembly called a community meeting to discuss the outcome of the High Court case...

More Residents’ Assembly (RA) appointed groups abolished or replaced Meanwhile, more RA-appointed groups have either been abolished or replaced by nominees by the Foundation Office...

Both RA and GB selected working groups continue Meanwhile other groups selected by the RA – the Working Committee, the FAMC and TDC – are continuing their work and have laid out the issues they intend to focus upon...

Governing Board and International Advisory Council meet From an article in The Hindu newspaper of August 15, 2022, the community learned that on August 13th, a day after the Madras High Court stipulated consultative decision-making among the mandated bodies of the Auroville Foundation, the Auroville Governing Board and International Advisory Council met to deliberate on the steps to be taken to realize The Mother’s vision in a collaborative and harmonious manner...

Appeals against judgements On August 23rd, the Auroville Foundation filed an appeal at the Supreme Court of India against the April 28th judgement of the National Green Tribunal Southern Zone Bench [see AV Today # 394 of May 2022 ] On August 25th, the Auroville Foundation filed an appeal at the Madras High Court against the judgement of the Justice Quddhose [see page 2 of this issue]...

Other Legal Matters On August 18th, the Joint Committee appointed by the Green Tribunal in its judgement of April this year published its report...

Register of Residents The Auroville Foundation Office urged everybody who has not done so yet to fill out the Register of Residents (ROR) form as soon as possible...

Infrastructure work From the end of July, sections of the paver blocks on the Crown road have been taken up and work has begun on replacing them with new blocks by a contractor appointed by the Public Works Department of the Government of India...

In Memoriam

Bruce Elliot

Remembering