Compilations

Last year Prisma released a second edition of their 2015 compilation on the theme of death. As its title indicates this includes the ‘death of death’, exploring Sri Aurobindo’s passing and his journey into the unconscious and Mother’s grappling with the transformation of death.

Paulette has published an interesting new compilation in celebration of Sri Aurobindo’s 150th birth anniversary. ‘Crossroad: A New Humanity’ contains extracts from “The Human Cycle”, “The Ideal of Human Unity” and “War and Self Determination”.

Kailas Jhavery passed away on May 10th, 2021 at the age of 94. Kailash had become a member of the Sri Aurobindo Ashram in 1964, after studying and working for more than ten years in New York, USA.

On 15th August, 2018, we released Chronicling Auroville, a 290 pages anthology of articles from Auroville Today published between 2006 and 2018.

It took Paulette Hadnagy twelve years to compile the material for this book from The Mother’s writings, she writes in her book announcement.

Let the Matrimandir be the living symbol of Auroville’s aspiration for the Divine. - The Mother In the 300-page book What is the Matrimandir: the most mysterious monument of modern times, author Iris Gaartz presents the personal experiences of 31 residents and guests of Auroville in visiting this building.

The compilation “Chronicling Auroville: A selection of articles from Auroville Today 2006 – 2018” has just been published. 189 articles cover 19 different aspects, including history, environment, town planning, economy, the arts, humour, people, outreach and Auroville and the world.

Roger Harris was a founding member of Auroville Today and for many years attended its weekly meetings. It was an interesting experience for all of us.

From the Editors’s Desk II contains a compilation of selected editorials from the monthly journal Sri Aurobindo’s Action, written in the periods 1976-1985 and 1998-2004 by Shyam Sunder Jhunjhunwala, who passed away in July 2011.