Auroville is an experimental community established in 1968, focusing on spiritual, cultural, and environmental harmony. It is located 40 minutes from the French Quarter in Puducherry, India. The ...

“Growing up in utopia is a good way to make you an incrementalist,” Akash Kapur writes wryly in his new book Better to Have Gone: Love, Death, and the Quest for Utopia in Auroville, which is ...

Auroville celebrated its 58th birthday with a vibrant gathering and the 2026 Global Spirituality Mahotsav, focusing on Sri Aurobindo's five dreams for a new humanity ...

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, ...

In December 2025, a Parliamentary Standing Committee on education led by Congress MP Digvijaya Singh recommended that the Union government consider amending the Auroville Foundation Act of 1988 to ...

An informal visit to Auroville by its governing board chairman and Tamil Nadu Governor R. N. Ravi, has acquired added import when his cross-sectional interactions, included a meeting with a section of ...

CHENNAI: The annual Auroville Marathon organised by Auroville Runners in collaboration with the Auroville community will be held in Auroville, Puducherry, on February 18, 2024. This edition will see ...

How far can you go in the search for faith before you have gone too far? Akash Kapur probes this question with painful, almost endearing emotional honesty in his second book of nonfiction, Better to ...