India’s Auroville was envisioned as an international community free of government, money, religion, and strife. It hasn’t exactly worked out quite as planned.

Akash Kapur’s intermittently gripping true account recounts factional conflict and tragedy in a 1960s commune ...

A Utopia in India Fights Over Future. Backed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, the new leadership of Auroville, an experimental commune, wants to create a model city. In the way stand trees, tree ...

Imagine a city free of crime, poverty, money, government, and hardship. That's the utopian vision for Auroville, a township in India that's dubbed "the City of Dawn." Founded in 1960, it was ...

Akash Kapur is author of “Better To Have Gone: Love, Death And The Quest For Utopia In Auroville.” Kapur was raised in an intentional community in India, then moved to the U.S. at age 16, where he ...

Akash Kapur writes about “The City of Dawn,” established near Pondicherry in southeast India in 1968. ... Death, and the Quest for Utopia in Auroville. By Akash Kapur. Scribner, 344 pp., $27.

People have been dreaming about finding, or creating, Utopia for ages. Ashley Walters travels to India, to the community of Auroville, to see how its utopian ideals have been realized, and ...

We explore the allure and complexities of utopian visions through the lens of reporters who journey to communities striving to create ideal societies, such as Auroville in India. Blending fact with a ...

Auroville, India's utopian town threatened by disenchantment and Hindu nationalism By Sophie Landrin (New Delhi, India, correspondent) Published on May 5, 2024, at 1:00 am (Paris) 7 min read Lire ...

Better To Have Gone Auroville: Love, Death and the Quest for Utopia by Akash Kapur, Scribner, $27/£16.99, 368 pages Neel Mukherjee’s latest book is ‘Avian’, in the Cahiers series ...