A report on an exhibition June 6 in Chennai that raises questions about the future direction of Auroville, how a growing number of residents are coming together. Throughout the day an audience of several hundred people engaged in discussions and reviewed presentations on ecological restoration, sustainable development, renewable energy, village outreach, education, architecture, social innovation, participatory governance, and collective living.
Why is agriculture important in and for Auroville?
An in-depth examination of the physical, social, and scientific aspects of Auroville’s agriculture, looking ahead to the conscious participation with Nature that the Mother envisioned.
Questions to the working groups appointed by the Governing Board
Twenty topics addressed to the Working Groups of the Governing Board addressing questionable actions taken over the last four years.
A tribal music scene (Part 2)
The continuing chronicle of a diverse passage from Australia to the Mother, meeting Aurovilians, building houses, and settling in.
Portrait of Jacques, Aurovilian
(English/French) How the dream of coming to Auroville and India translated into dentistry as a means of expression.
A conversation with Milla den Hollander (Part 2)
Ecology brings in a sense of nature as relationships, and recent developments in this field have changed the sense of identity. Milla speaks of the potential uses of fungi and how recent development projects arise from a worldview that doesn’t prioritize nature.
The one who plants trees
What the green cover in Auroville means in terms of pioneer afforestation, development, and the right conditions to work harmoniously together.
A tribal music scene (Part 1)
The chronicle of a diverse passage from Australia to the Mother, meeting Aurovilians, building houses, and settling in.
Olivier: to read and to see (Part 2)
(English/French) Olivier recounts the plan, process, images, and other elements of the movie he is making on the lives of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother.
A conversation with Milla den Hollander (Part 1)
Milla walks the reader through her experience of Auroville’s forests, the Forest Group, and fungi as a keystone species.