At 50, Auroville might not be the ‘city of the future’ as once envisaged but it is still a vibrant community. June 25, 2025 e-Paper. ... Auroville, the city beneath a banyan tree ...

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.

Tree by tree, Auroville’s forest composition started to change, particularly after cyclones destroyed the older foreign species, opening up space for indigenous trees.

The clearing of trees for the city plan, since the first moves were initiated by the Auroville Foundation in December 2021, has been chequered by residents’ protests, an interim stay by the ...

It was not the usual chirping birds that woke residents of Auroville on the morning of December 5, but the deafening noise of giant machinery clearing trees and buildings in the international ...

Auroville Foundation, an autonomous organisation which owns the township near Puducherry, has been directed not to cut any further trees till the next hearing of the case on December 17.

Auroville Working Committee member Hemant Lamba said the planned right of way requires the felling of over 1,50,000 trees and shrubs of tropical dry evergreen forest species, some of which are ...

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 ...

A town of great temple-like structures set among palm trees in the Tamil Nadu region of south-east India, Auroville promotes a humanist philosophy, elements of Indian mysticism and a US 'frontier ...

The bench said, “We feel the status-quo order can be passed directing Auroville Foundation not to fell any further trees till December 17, 2021, as not much damage will be caused to the other ...