Auroville Witness

Can the Governing Board engage with residents, and harmony be re-established?

A talk with a resident who recently left, and how she is finding or creating a similar community in France.

An exploration of seven groups that have been established in recent years working on interpersonal harmony in Auroville.

Actions taken by the administration since 2021 are described with unflagging honesty and directness.

Daniel Greenberg is running a 6-week storytelling project in Auroville from January 27 to March 3. The project is to engage residents to imagine what Auroville might be in 2068, and what it takes to get there. Stories are at the heart of how we see both the past and help us find the vision and energy to create a positive future.

A testimonial to a former chairman of the International Advisory Council, journalist, a winner of two awards from India, and a person who understood the balance between spiritual, social, and material dimensions of Auroville.

Two poems and two narratives that evoke the inner and outer experience of Auroville, as we sail “towards what splendid shore?”

How support naturally arises when people are connected through a deep bond.

Auroville is being strangled by the institution designed to protect it. Auroville’s crisis is not just a local administrative failure; it’s a warning about institutional vulnerability everywhere. When appointed administrators can dismantle democratic structures, weaponize bureaucracy against residents and silence dissent with impunity, it raises urgent questions about institutional integrity worldwide. India’s handling of Auroville’s situation will have significant implications far beyond Tamil Nadu.

A fable about what happened when serious-looking people arrived in an idyllic spot where people from different lands lived together in harmony.