Samasti community

How did Auroville’s communities get their names?

Feature, By Vijay, Bobby Keeping, Franz, Christoph Pohl, Daniel Emden, Judith, Paul Vincent, Tim, Cecilia, Achilles, Govinda, Carel and Rolf Lieser

Saraswati puja at Fraternity on 14 October 1972

In the October issue of Auroville Today, we published a humorous little piece that pondered how the names of Auroville’s communities came about.

Homes for those in need of assisted living

News in brief

The FAMC and the community of Samasti have agreed that the house and garden of a recently deceased community member is transformed into a house for Aurovilians who require assisted living.

The housing crisis

Feature, By Alan

Conceptual design of the cost-effective Humanscapes project

Two of the major challenges facing the community at present are a fragile economy and a severe lack of low-priced accommodation. Clearly, the two are interlinked.

In memoriam - Ajit Koujalgi

In memoriam:

On October 12th, Auroville architect Ajit Koujalgi, aged 66, passed away in Apollo hospital in Chennai. He succumbed to the severe injuries he had sustained ten days earlier in a fall from the roof of his house in Samasti community.