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Better birthing conference award

Morning Star is a unit of the Health and Healing Trust, made up of midwives and doulas who support pregnancy, childbirth breastfeeding and provide women’s wellness gynecological care in Auroville.

Sri Aurobindo and the modern academic world

Dr Mohanty

Dr Mohanty is former Professor and Head of the Department of English, University of Hyderabad. Winner of many national and international awards, he has published extensively in the field of British, American, gender, translation, and post-colonial studies.

New Governing Board and International Advisory appointed

Member of the Governing Board Dr Nirima Oza

On October this year, the Ministry of Education of the Government of India appointed Auroville’s new Governing Board and new International Advisory Council.

Auro Vidya Retreat inaugurated

The Auro Vidhya retreat

The Auro Vidya Retreat, a branch of the Pondicherry-based Sri Aurobindo Centre for Advanced Research (SACAR) directed by Dr. Ananda Reddy, was inaugurated at its location near Auroville on September 9, 2018.

Ideal cities and Auroville

Sketch of layout of The City of the Sun

Auroville can be seen as the latest in a chain of ideal city experiments stretching back thousands of years.

New Dawn Carpentry

The four-metre high doors of the new Centre of Indian Culture

The doors are four meters high, each smoothly rotating on two ball bearings. The scene is the new Centre for Indian Culture at Bharat Nivas, the construction of which is in the finishing phases.