Auroville’s importance as an experiment in alternative living.
Continue readingNDTV: At Auroville, “Model City For Unity”, Road Project Triggers Clash
A section of Auroville residents are protesting against a road project, named Crown Project, saying it cuts through a forested area
Continue readingFirstPost: Auroville, 50 years on – Story behind India’s ‘utopia’ ignores the contribution, oppression of Tamil locals
Historian Jessica Namakkal presents a side of the Auroville story that has been systematically erased – that of the contribution of the Tamil locals to building the township.
Continue readingTheNewsMinute: Auroville residents allege midnight police violence to clear trees for road project
The Auroville Foundation headed by Union government appointee Dr Jayanti Ravi decided to carry out tree-clearing work at 1.00 am on December 5, with police bandobast
Continue readingTheHindu: Aurovillians continue with protest against road laying, work halted
The impasse between the protesting residents and the TDC has been continuing
Continue readingTheQuint: NGT Stays Tree Felling at Auroville as Residents Protest Road Project
The Villupuram police said they had no role to play in the demolition drive by locals at Auroville, near Puducherry.
Continue readingTheQuint: ‘Development in Auroville Should Not Happen at the Cost of Ecological Balance’
‘We are not against the Crown Project, but it should not disturb the eco-sensitive zone’
Continue readingHindustanTimes: NGT stays ring road plan in Auroville amid protests
On December 9, Auroville residents stood around a JCB in Darkali forest and began chanting “Om” which they described as a way of bringing calm amid the chaos
Continue readingFeminism in India: Auroville Residents Protest Against The Felling Of Trees For The ‘Crown Project’
Auroville Residents Protest Against The Felling Of Trees For The ‘Crown Project’
Continue readingOutlook India: Why Auroville Inhabitants Feel Their Human Unity Experiment Is Under Threat
In the middle of the eco-friendly habitat, residents have woken up to a shock of the construction of a Crownway road which threatens to damage the ambience of Auroville – a quaint experiment of Human Unity.
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