Auroville's monthly news magazine since 1988

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Ideal cities and Auroville

Feature, By Alan and Gilles Guigan

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.

Land purchase in the early years

Feature, By Anjani and Dayanand

Shifting Auroville: the three sites

Little is known about those early days before Auroville’s inauguration, when land purchase and the first Auroville developments were started by the Sri Aurobindo Society.

Exploring the history of Auroville

Feature, By Gilles Guigan

Mother's sketch of the town

Records of Auroville’s history during Mother’s lifetime are found in periodicals (Mother India, the Bulletin of Sri Aurobindo International Centre of Education, the Information Letter of the Sri Aurobindo Society and the Gazette Aurovilienne), in books published by disciples (Satprem, Shyam Sunder, Huta, Savitra), in archives (Sri Aurobindo Society, Sri Aurobindo Ashram, Auroville), in personal archives as well as in published and unpublished interviews of disciples (Roger Anger and others).