BETTER TO HAVE GONE Love, Death, and the Quest for Utopia in Auroville By Akash Kapur. ... Auralice, were raised, and where, in 1986, her mother and adoptive father died.

At 50, Auroville might not be the ‘city of the future’ as once envisaged but it is still a vibrant community ...

Auroville was founded in 1968 by followers of the French mystic Mirra Alfassa, referred to as “the Mother,” herself an acolyte of the Indian guru Sri Aurobindo.

The Mother’s vision was for Auroville to be the city that the earth needs. “In an era of climate change, geopolitical conflicts over resources and regional water-sharing disputes, ...

Auroville was officially founded in 1968 by Mirra Alfassa, a French woman known locally as “the Mother.” Her photo is plastered on nearly every wall inside nearly every home, building, and ...

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 houses and a take-it-slow tradition.

After my mother separated from her partner and fell ill we returned to the UK. ... Auroville just doesn't know how to care for the people who come there. Explore More. In Brief.

“Auroville follows the vision of Sri Aurobindo and The Mother, emphasising creativity, self-directed learning, ...

It is never clear how or when any of these notions attach themselves to Auroville—they do not figure in common Aurovillian parlance, and appear neither in the Mother’s own descriptions, nor in ...

The Mother had laid out Auroville's vision in its charter, comprising four key tenets: "Auroville belongs to nobody in particular; it belongs to humanity as a whole.

VILLUPURAM: A strategic planning meeting was held at the Auroville Foundation Office on Monday evening to deliberate on the township’s future development in alignment with the original vision of ...