Fear

It would be inappropriate to use the phrase ‘healing Auroville’ in connection with the Auroville which, Mother said, had the sanction of the Supreme.

Dr. Debashish Banerji is the Haridas Chaudhuri Professor of Indian Philosophies and Cultures and the Doshi Professor of Asian Art at the California Institute of Integral Studies (CIIS), San Francisco, where he also chairs the Department of East-West Psychology.

One of humanity’s oldest fears – perhaps, the oldest fear of all – is fear of the unknown: of how the world was created, why the sun disappeared every night, why winter followed summer etc.

Frederick, who came to India in 1966 and has been living in Auroville ever since its inception in 1968, gives his view of the recent happenings.

La Musica Deuxième, a play for two actors by Marguerite Duras, was performed this summer by Theatre d’Expression d’Auroville, on three consecutive evenings in Auroville.