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Politics

Learnings from the front line and beyond

Maël

Maël Vidal was born and grew up in Auroville before going to France to pursue higher studies, where he received a bachelor’s degree in psychology and a master’s degree in social anthropology.

The Spirituality Industry

The News Minute, a digital subscription-based news platform which reports and writes on issues in India, with a specific focus on the five southern states, has published its third edition of a series on ‘The Spirituality Industry: A Deep Reporting Project’.

Revisiting history: people, power and politics

1 Children swimming in a now destroyed water catchment pond in Darkali

In a few decades, perhaps, it will be clearer to take an account of what did we lose, what did we gain, and overall, what we did learn that will help us to take another small step together, collectively.

The challenges of experimenting in Auroville

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We are fond of quoting Mother when she writes that Auroville will be a place for making experiments. But how easy is it to innovate in the Auroville of today?

Coming Home

Dr Anirban Ganguly

Dr. Anirban Ganguly is director of the Dr. Syama Prasad Mookerjee Research Foundation in New Delhi. He is a member of the Central Advisory Board of Education and also a member of the Policy Research Department and co-convener of the Library & Documentation Department of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).

Sri Aurobindo and the Revolution of India

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Luc Venet has written a new biography of Sri Aurobindo’s life between 1893-1910.

The Genesis of the Auroville Foundation Act

Smt Indira Gandhi on her visit to the Sri Aurobindo Ashram in 1974 is given a book by Kireet Joshi

On 23rd January, 2010, for the French Pavilion, Alain Bernard gave a talk on the background and passing of the Auroville Foundation Act. Here is an edited version of the translation of that talk.

Organisation: Satprem’s letter to Kireet, 1983