In southern India, a few kilometers from Pondicherry, lies one of the most fascinating and mysterious autonomous communities in the world: Auroville. Founded in 1968, Auroville began as an ecovillage, ...

THE project of Auroville is now thirty-three years old. This city, a few kilometres north of Pondicherry, was born of a dream that the Mother (1878-1973) had in 1967: THE project of Auroville is now ...

Some 50 years ago, on a vast, barren plateau north of Pondicherry, a lone, young banyan tree stood guard. It seemed to be waiting for something. Then one day, someone hammered a nail into its trunk to ...

Tempers are running high at the tranquil enclave of Auroville in Puducherry where a group of residents are protesting against the administration's plans to build a road envisaged by Auroville founder ...

The year is 1999 in the fictional landscape of Ernest Callenbach’s self-published 1975 novel, Ecotopia. A new nation carved out of the Pacific Northwest United States by a green “survivalist” party is ...

On November 23-24, the Capital experienced a unique exposition to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Auroville. I was part of a multinational panel of eminent speakers chaired by Karan Singh. Each of ...

Chennai: Auroville will come to the city with almost a month-long art festival. Answering “what is Auroville” is the motive driving the 37-day festival, say organisers. The festival is to have an ...

A sense of existential crisis pervades what should have been a celebratory time in Auroville. It is passing through a special phase of commemorating its founding by Mirra Alfassa, or The Mother, on ...