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Auroville Connect, a WhatsApp platform “dedicated to connecting people in and around Auroville who care deeply about the Dream, the Charter, and the future of this unique city and its experiment in human unity,” has now published an e-newsletter.

After nearly three decades of engaging with Auroville (along with over 100 other ‘sustainable communities’ around the world), a twice-aborted Newcomer process (first due to Covid and then to pursue my ‘dream job’ as Director of Education at the Findhorn Foundation in Scotland), and having just spent of 2.5 months there, I would like to share a few radical questions about the future of Auroville for your consideration.

As a therapist I know that one of the first steps to healing is to acknowledge trauma, whether individual or collective. This is an unusual article in that I invite the reader to hold and witness with compassion our inner and outer diversity as a community.

Babies are hopefully ‘made with love’, arriving not just with ‘clouds of glory’ but also at times to exhausted parents. Made with Love is an initiative supporting Auroville’s newborn families with food delivered right to their home.

The Coast India initiative is a national work of civil society organizations concerned with the welfare of vulnerable migrant populations. Aurovilian Bindu along with other volunteers formed the Tamil Nadu team of Coast India, and here she shares her work.

It’s that time of year again. Aurovilian eyes are burning, heads are aching, throats and noses are sore, and so many of us feel exhausted and nauseous.