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AUROVILLE Experience

282 pp. 8.5 x 11 inchesContains color photos, maps, illustrations

Price: $24.95

Culled from the monthly paper “Auroville Today”,these fifteen chapters provide the most comprehensive retrospective of Auroville’s history available. From the foundation in 1968 to the visit of President Abdul Kalam, the articles and outstanding photos bring Auroville’s many facets alive. Highly recommended.

AUROVILLE:
A DREAM TAKES SHAPE

rice: $3.00

A comprehensive booklet on Auroville with maps, photographs and information on Sri Aurobindo, The Mother and the Ashram.

THE CITY AND THE OASYS (IMMORTAL UNDERGROUND)

by Vijay

233 pp. Fiction

Price: $9.00

A funny, sly tale of the adventures and misadventures of Phaldor, a man in search of immortality. He travels to a city called Poplar and is guided by the “Eternal Anima”. There is also romance, political intrigue galore, inhabitants who speak “Unillingo”. The journey is all, convoluted and confounding as it often is. You will laugh a lot, and if you have your wits about you, you may receive something to think about as well. The prose style is dizzying compounded by endless spelling, grammar and punctuation “errors”, many of which annoy, some of which entrance, adding another spin to this whirling traveler.

THE DALAI LAMA IN AUROVILLE

46 pp. with photos

Price: $2.50

Includes coverage of H.H. visit December 24th, 1993: interview with Auroville Today, questions and answer session with school teachers and an address to the community, along with background information on the Pavilion of Tibetan Culture.

THE DAWNING OF AUROVILLE

by William Sullivan (Auroville, 1994)
333 pp. paperback
Price: $6

The charm and substance of the book lie in that there is more editorship than original writing. Spanning the vision of Sri Aurobindo and Mother and the early pioneers of Auroville to the return visit of H.H. the Dalai Lama in 1993, this collection captures the diversity of the voices and experiences which comprise Auroville. Supporting the text are more than 60 photographs. Anyone who wants the “big picture” of Auroville or vignettes of daily life will be pleased with this compilation.

 

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AUROVILLE TODAY

Auroville Today ceased publication in November 2025,  They issued the following statement:

This is the last issue of Auroville Today.
 
While this issue was in the press, the editorial team learned that a new media policy for Auroville is about to be implemented. We do not feel we can continue to function under this policy, so regrettably, because we are very aware of our responsibility to you, our readers, we have decided to stop publication.
 
The Governing Board of the Auroville Foundation, in its 68th meeting held on 5 December 2024, had approved the new media policy. However the policy was only made public on 7 November 2025, one month after this Governing Board’s term of office had ended. 
 
On 10 November 2025, the Funds and Assets Management Committee (FAMC) appointed by the Governing Board called a meeting of all Aurovilians involved in media. We were informed that the FAMC plans to bring all Auroville media activities together under a single, large media department. The main aim is to unify how Auroville represents itself to the world and to foster a ‘positive image’. To ensure compliance with this objective, all media material will require approval by an overview group before it can be published.
 
On the face of it, this is not unreasonable. Clearly it is important that there is unity in how Auroville’s purpose and ideals are presented to the world. The issue, however, concerns how to document the way in which a community of seekers is trying to realise these ideals. Auroville, as Mother emphasised more than once, is about experimentation, and experiments – particularly a unique spiritual experiment like this one which lacks any precedent – can be messy, chaotic, unpredictable.
 
If one adopts the communication strategy of the corporate world, the ‘messiness’ involved in designing a product must never be mentioned: the only image to be propagated is a positive one. But Auroville is not a product to be sold on the open market. It is a working experiment, an attempt to realise a new way of being.
 
At Auroville Today magazine, we have always felt it is important to document this process as honestly as possible, celebrating the successes but also reflecting on the failures. We have done this not only because we feel that such a unique experiment needs honest documentation but, above all, because we have an abiding faith that Mother is continuing to guide this project; and that every detail, every struggle, may have its importance in the larger scheme of Auroville’s evolution, even if we do not immediately grasp its significance or, indeed, how apparent oppositions can be reconciled at a higher level of consciousness.
 
The new media policy will not allow us to do this, as the focus will have to be upon ‘positive’ news only, and we will have to conform to a particular narrative regarding what we publish about Auroville. In addition, we were informed that new executives may be appointed to hold office along with or to replace the existing executives, presumably to ensure compliance with the new media policy.
 
At the same time, while we have complied with all requested procedures, a substantial donation made to Auroville for Auroville Today has not been released to the magazine.
 
Given these developments, we have come to the difficult decision that this issue, which coincidentally is published on Auroville Today’s 37th birthday, will be our last.
 
We are immensely grateful for the support we have received from you, our readers, over the past 37 years.
 
Editors

 

 

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