The festival will allow people to interact with Aurovillians on how these can be replicated in other parts of India,” said P.R. Srinivasamurthy, under-secretary, Auroville Foundation.

The Indian government donates more than $200,000 to Auroville every year, and UNESCO has protected the township since its birth in 1968. But for a professed utopia, Auroville has a laundry list of ...

Utopian societies are not a modern invention. The word ‘utopia’ was first coined in ... Death And The Quest For Utopia In Auroville.” Kapur was raised in an intentional community in India, then moved ...

Akash Kapur’s new book, “Better to Have Gone,” takes a look at the unconventional community in India where he and ... Death and the Quest for Utopia in Auroville” is out on July 20.

This secret location houses the HQ of Auroville's resistance in southern India. For the past three ... that's still alive," said Aurel. But this utopia has its undersides. Lacking the financial ...

How did reporters tell them, and did they find their own utopia? For a word that emerged from ... Actually, not one but many utopias. For example, Auroville arose in the south of India, in Tamil Nadu, ...

which would create a modern society not based on traditional money. Four years later, Cho’s seemingly esoteric idea inspired a virtual currency experiment 6,000 kilometers – in Auroville, the ...

By Amy Waldman BETTER TO HAVE GONE Love, Death, and the Quest for Utopia in ... A Portrait of Life in Modern India” (2012), is excellent about the ideas that animated Auroville and nearly ...

Utopian societies are not a modern invention. The word ‘utopia’ was first coined in ... Death And The Quest For Utopia In Auroville.” Kapur was raised in an intentional community in India, then moved ...

Speaking in the Bharat Nivas auditorium, Narendra D Modi declared: "Sri Aurobindo's vision of India's spiritual leadership continues to inspire us even today." "Indeed, Auroville is a ...

They were living in an “aspiring utopia,” as Kapur describes ... The community was called Auroville, located on the eastern edge of India’s southern tip, and it had been founded in the ...