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Editorial Note of the 5th Voice of Auroville issue, underlining the challenges currently met by the Auroville community.
28 February 2024
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Editorial Note of the 5th Voice of Auroville issue, underlining the challenges currently met by the Auroville community.
New developments of the Auroville crisis between November 2023 and January 2024.
New developments of the Auroville crisis in September & October 2023.
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A call to all Auroville well-wishers: We need your knowledge, your skills, your time, to shine more light upon Auroville achievements.
Since the appointement of a new Secretary to the Auroville Foundation in 2021, Auroville has progressively been plunged into what is probably its biggest crisis since its inauguration.
From governance to sustainable living, from fraternal economy to integral education, from Auroville’s experimental dimension to its core values and ideals – all that has been achieved and embodied in 50+ years of Auroville’s existence, all that Auroville stands for, is currently at risk.
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(This video was prepared in December 2022, over a year after the forcible takeover and bulldozing of Auroville had started.)
Since its inauguration in 1968, Auroville has been built through the hard work and dedication of its residents and of many well-wishers in India and worldwide. Discover some of Auroville’s achievements and realizations over the past 55 years of its existence.
With dedication, creativity and a spirit of experimentation, Auroville strives to help humanity solve critical challenges in education, research & innovation, socio-cultural issues, food security, ecology, economy and many other cross-disciplinary fields.
This website has a great deal of content for visiting journalists, and other media-related content. One of Auroville Media Liaison’s main purposes is to welcome and guide visiting journalists, and liaise with external media outlets.
If you are working for the press and are currently visiting Auroville, or if you plan to do so, here are some useful links:
Over the years, Auroville has been praised globally for its achievements.
The reach of Auroville projects has always been international. Here are two examples we personally hand-picked for you:
National Geographic
In the light of current events in Auroville the award-winning documentary film Ever Slow Green about Auroville’s unique reforestation work is being made available for free.