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AuroFilm Screening: “DEVI” – THE GODDESS – 12 March

Multi Media Centre Auditorium (MMC, Town Hall) Presents “DEVI” – THE GODDESS Directed by Satyajit RAY, India,1960 With: Soumitra Chatterjee, Sharmila Tagore, Chhabi Biswas Music by:  Ustad Ali Akbar Khan Synopsis: Devi “The Goddess” is based on a short story by Provatkumar Mukhopadhyay. In 19th-century rural Bengal, a young woman, Doyamoyee, is deemed a goddess when her father-in-law, Kalikinkar, a rich […]

Classes: Ecstatic Dance – Every Saturday

Ecstatic dance is a form of free form movement in which the music becomes the teacher. You simply allow yourself the pleasure of it. Your body opens up the bolts and lets in such warm and positive energy from the cosmos that fills you up with transformation from within. https://www.iandiconnection.com/bookings-checkout/ecstatic-dance?referral=service_list_widget

Aurofilm Screening: The Quiet American – 5 March

Multi Media Centre Auditorium (MMC, Town Hall) Presents “The Quiet American” Directed by: Phillip Noyce, USA, 2002 With: Michael Caine, Brendan Fraser, Thi Hai Yen Do Synopsis: From the classic novel by Graham Greene comes a murder mystery centered on a love triangle set against the French Indochina War in Vietnam, circa 1952. It’s the […]

Auroville Radio Presents

This is the most intense and strong time for our town…enjoy it and stay tuned! Here you can listen to the stream channel (playing 24/7). Here you can see on-air schedules. Last published podcasts: Lunaria – ep.6 “Feminine Archetypes: Inner Alchemical-Animal Woman and Luteal Phase” (Women’s health) The interview: Deepa and Calvin (Sustainable habits) Aarohan – […]

A (Not Quite) New Indian Art I by Dhani Muniz

I’ve heard the phrase “I have no country” quite a bit… In a place like Auroville, it’s an inescapable sentiment. Built right into “Imagine”… I got a shirt with part of the line about dreamers written on it from one of the Visitor Center shops when I was 6, and refused to stop wearing it […]

Auro-Sandhai: Regular Weekend Market at Mohanam Heritage Centre

During these hard times of the pandemic, we have all faced extreme hardship and suffering. The most hit among these have been the villages and the artisans working on wages. Due to the lock down and the collapse of the local economy we have seen a large number of small businesses shut doors and lose their livelihoods. […]