How did people in India keep their homes cool during scorching summers — long before electricity? There’s a centuries-old ...

In this second part of our story on Auroville, we focus on the core issues: questionable land deals, large-scale felling of trees, and allegations that the township is being reshaped into a ...

The Supreme Court on Monday set aside a National Green Tribunal order that had banned the Auroville Foundation from undertaking 'development' activities within its township in Puducherry.

The National Green Tribunal’s order came on an application filed by a person named Navroz Kersasp Mody, who challenged the cutting of a large number of trees by the Auroville Foundation.

Supreme Court fined an Auroville resident Rs 1 lakh for obstructing development and overturned High Court and National Green Tribunal orders stalling road projects. The ruling will allow Auroville ...

VILLUPURAM: Several trees were uprooted and portion of Mathri Mandir Lake, a man-made lake, was damaged in Auroville due to cyclone Fengal. Auroville, spanning approximately 4,000 acres, is ...

The first tree-cutting happened three years ago, on the night of December 4, 2021, on the orders of the secretary of the Auroville Foundation, Jayanti Ravi, despite protests from residents.

Auroville will be the place of an unending education, of constant progress, and a youth that never ages. Auroville wants to be the bridge between the past and the future.

For me, it has given meaning and direction for the past 30 years. When I first arrived in Auroville in 1991, fresh from studying ecology and forestry in the UK, I thought I would stay for a few years, ...

The Auroville Foundation had resumed, in full swing, the clearing of trees based on the Supreme Court stay on an order of the National Green Tribunal that imposed caveats on the implementation of ...