Auroville is a unique community that emphasizes collective decision-making, shared resources, and mutual respect for each other’s rights. However, the community has faced challenges in recent years as some individuals have encroached upon Auroville’s assets, including positions and rights that were intended to be shared. This has led to a sense of inequality and resentment among some members of the community.
Continue readingSustainability in Auroville: Why We Need to Uncroach The Commons and Resources
Auroville, the experimental township in Tamil Nadu, India, was established with a vision of human unity and sustainability. However, in recent years, the concept of sustainability in Auroville has been challenged due to the encroachment of common resources and assets by a few individuals.
Continue readingThe Importance of Uncroaching Auroville’s Assets: A Call to Action
Auroville, the experimental township in southern India, was envisioned as a place where people from all over the world could live together in harmony, devoid of social, political and economic distinctions. The township was also meant to be an example of sustainable living, where people live a simple life, share resources and work for the betterment of the community. However, over the years, the concept of Auroville has been compromised by some unscrupulous residents who have encroached upon Auroville’s assets, such as common spaces, parks, workspaces, and even houses.
Continue readingInvoking Sri Aurobindo’s Vision: The Significance of G20 Celebrating His 150th Birth Anniversary at Auroville
The upcoming G20 conference in Auroville is not just an opportunity for world leaders to come together and discuss important issues, but it is also a chance to celebrate the life and teachings of one of India’s most revered thinkers, Sri Aurobindo, on the occasion of his 150th birth anniversary. Sri Aurobindo was not only a political leader, but also a spiritual visionary who believed in the unity of humanity and the potential for human beings to evolve beyond their current limitations.
Continue readingIncredible India: Auroville as a Model for Sustainable Development and Human Unity
India has the potential to be a leader in the global community, and the G20 visit to Auroville is an opportunity to showcase the country’s incredible achievements and unique spirit. By highlighting the town’s commitment to sustainable development and human unity, we can inspire others to follow in Auroville’s footsteps and work towards a more sustainable and harmonious future.
Continue readingIntegral Unity and Sustainable Development: The Role of CIRHU in Auroville’s Vision for the Future
The Centre for Integral Research in Human Unity (CIRHU) plays a vital role in promoting these ideals and exploring ways to apply them to real-world challenges. By conducting research and promoting innovation and collaboration, CIRHU is helping Auroville and the world move towards a more sustainable and harmonious future.
Continue readingG20 Visit to Auroville: Promoting Sustainable Development and Global Harmony
The G20 visit to Auroville is a significant event for the region and the country as a whole. As India assumes the Presidency of the G20, the country is hosting over 200 meetings across the country, including one in Puducherry, where Auroville is located. The conference aims to discuss science and technology and sustainable development, with a theme of ‘One globe, one family and one future.’
Continue readingROGER ANGER : 100 YEARS
Auroville will undertake a perpetual search for the future with beings of high quality who will have, for a great deal, overcome their limitations, achieved a true communication, a true fraternity, based on openness, and an understanding of the other in a beautiful and harmonious environment within the context of an exceptional city…
Continue readingAnger’s Auroville
His close associate, ANUPAMA KUNDOO recalls his vision for the commune There are few people who manage by their very existence to raise standards. Roger Anger (24.03.1923 – 15.01.2008) will be remembered as a person who set a high benchmark. An exceptional architect, he belonged to the avant-garde trend that was emerging in Paris around the mid-Fifties.
Continue readingCopyright should be left out of Auroville
The Auroville Charter
- Auroville belongs to nobody in particular. Auroville belongs to humanity as a whole. But, to live in Auroville, one must be a willing servitor of the Divine Consciousness.
- Auroville will be the place of an unending education, of constant progress, and a youth that never ages.
- Auroville wants to be the bridge between the past and the future. Taking advantage of all discoveries from without and from within, Auroville will boldly spring towards future realisations.
- Auroville will be a site of material and spiritual researches for a living embodiment of an actual human unity.
If the above is what we abide by as committed Aurovilians, I think we need to seriously revisit Auroville’s ‘copyright’ doctrine. If Auroville belongs to nobody in particular, how can the ideas, insights, and innovations that come out of Auroville be with strings attached?
We need to declare outright openly that the outcomes, outputs, and outflows borne out of Auroville are selfless offerings towards humanity, and that we do not require royalties, commission, and dividends for our love.
Ethically, it also makes sense, as one cannot claim total ownership rights to anything in Auroville. Every effort in Auroville is built on previous efforts of Aurovilians, countless hours of volunteers, goodwill of the locals, funding of the donors, support of the governments, etc.
Auroville should adhere to the copyleft principle. Copyleft is the legal technique of granting certain freedoms over copies of copyrighted works with the requirement that the same rights be preserved in derivative works.
The ones who do not want to adhere to this collective commitment should voluntarily move out of Auroville, to perpetually profit from ‘their’ idea, insight, or innovation.