Je vais vous raconter ma découverte d’Auroville, en six courtes histoires musicales, illustrées par de petits contes philosophiques. Les musiques ont ete improvisees et enregistrees par Olger, Caroline, Cloe, Richard, Danaprem, Aurellio, Thierry, Julie. Bon voyage I'll tell you my discovery of Auroville, in six short musical stories, illustrated by small philosophical tales.These musics were improvised and recorded by Olger, Caroline, Cloe, Richard, Danaprem, Aurellio,Thierry, Julie. Have a nice trip Read more

With Jill - member of Auroville Theatre Group, Chankaya - a writer and director of Prelud and Vivek - an actor we were trying to find out what has triggered for Prelude to come on the stage. On solo performance, where we can see how society does define one's life, the team was working more than a year, and it was a true collaboration in creative process. The main conflict of the character lies in the relationship between the mother and son, where she represents home, religious and moral backgrounds and he tries to brake those in secrecy. Read more

This is the third lecture about the Goddess Sarasvati. Nishtha translated and explained more of the poetry. He has translated all main and sub-hymns to the Goddess Sarasvati in the Rig-Veda. Participants had a chance to hear how the Rishis of the Rig-Veda chanted what they heard and saw in the spiritual worlds as they where invoking the Goddess Sarasvati. There will be a succeeding lecture on Wednesday in Verite Hall from 3-5 pm.

Bharat Nivas, the Pavilion of India, holded the homage to Thyagaraja. It started two years back with the beginning of Telugu Samskriti Kendramu. This year the homage started in the morning with a procession with chantings from the gate of Unity Pavilion. At SAWCHU started the traditional musical homage of Thyagaraja kritis by the Auroville students, teachers and professional musicians. Songs of other composers where also offered in the spirit of devotion of the event. Shri N. Bala Baskar, Secretary, Auroville Foundation was the chief guest. Read more

Diksha a vecu pres de 20 ans dans la cite experimentale... Auroville. Aujourd`hui, il sillonne les routes de France avec son camping car pour transporter les ecrits de Satprem et les transmettre. Qu`est ce qui annime le coeur de Diska ? Ecoutez le, pour decouvrir l` enthousiasme qu`il degage et qui nous fait grandir. Read more

Given the recent news attention to the rape case in New Delhi and other cases of violence against woman across India. Anandi and Noel organized a special meditation session for Aurovillian's to radiate love and kindness to protect and support all woman in India and across the world. Anandi also displayed two very old wooden Goddess statues. One includes a Rain Goddess from Africa. The meditation was opened by Noel and lasted for fortyfive minutes. Thanks to the twenty plus people that came to meditate. Read more

February is almost here, and that month carries important dates for Auroville. As it is custom for this month Loretta prepares exhibition with the chosen topic on The Mother and Sri Aurobindo at Savitri Bhavan. This year we will dwell in the Mother's Yoga. Beside the exhibition of paragraphs from Agenda on the topic there will be five talks supporting it, along with two volumes of 900 pages and audio CD on 3 Mother's talks in English on the topic of Yoga. The talks will start on 26th of January , continually every Saturday at %.30pm.

Even if it is to celebrate a New Moon, the fact is, that is always good, and needed to conect with the community at the social event, and last night has well proved it. Excellent voices of Priscila, Jeremy, and Suryan, who are all beside singers also the songwriters, have brought feeling of joy, high spirits of thoughts going beyond just visible, and yet the sense of togetherness with all present. Either their own songs, either resung the known numbers, all were well accepted, and didn't take too long to join them with singing and dancing. Read more

The Working Committee and the Gas Service inform us that due to LPG regularization process, subsidized gas cylinders will NOT be available any more at Gas Service. From January 1st, 2013 onwards, only non-subsidized cylinders will be provided until further notice. On Sunday, 6th of January, 10:30 – 11:30 am at Sri Aurobindo International Centre of Education Hall of Harmony we can listen to a Classical Flute Concert with (Bach, Gluck, Mozart, Schubert ...) by Christa Eschmann on flute and Richard Hartz on piano. Intention Experiment continue. Read more

Last Wednesday the 12-12-12 at Bharat Nivas Auditorium Auroville, Bharata Natyam School (Rasika) presented the Bharata Natyam Preformance (South Indian classical dance with musicians). Seraphina presented "The Rainbow Dancer", accompanied by Srimati Shanty Rayapoulle on Nattuvangam, Sri Isai Ma Mani A.Susairaj on Vocal, Sri Kalai Gnana Mani Thirumundi S. Arun on Mrdangam, and Sri Shri Ratna T. Sreenivasan on Violin. They explored the divine colours and their existence to part on the rainbow path towards the Lord's heart ! Read more

In today's news we featured Dariya, who is inviting us to and Intention experiment on twelve values given by the Mother. Intention experiment is one of the 12.12.12. events starting in Unity Pavilion in International Zone this month. Each of twelve days from Monday 19th will be focused on one of the values, starting with Sincerity, finishing on Friday 30th with Peace. Satprem Maini from the Auroville Earth Institute talks on the Green Casbah, a new housing project which will be presented today at 4.30pm at Conference Room in Town Hall. Read more

On the night of fund raising event for the studio repairs at Kalabhumi on Wednesday 3rd of October Swaha Blues Band brought on the stage mellow sounds of classical blues and rock'n'roll songs. Despite the nostalgic blues definition and melos, Swaha Blues Band sounded optimistic, and audience excitedly cheered them up. The Band are Swaha on vocal, Rolf on bass, Edo on guitar, Ingo on harp harmonica, Pierre on guitar, and Jonathan on drums and guitar.

Yesterday the community caught a glimpse of all that was the Auroville Festival: City for Transformation, held at the India International Centre in New Dehli, from 14-21 September. Yesterday, most of the participants again expressed the great joy they had to be part of the festival, and as Aster Patel mentioned at the beginning, all throughout the event, from the day one of organizing until the closing tea ceremony, there was a tremendous feeling of grace. Video clips and images brought the festival back to life in front of our eyes. Read more

Today's news offers thoughts from Luigi about the intense Bridging the Polarities Meeting yesterday, where we invited Rishi from the Youth Center to join to voice his concerns. After other community announcements the news features a reading of a Sri Aurobindo-inspired short story submitted by a past Auroville Radio volunteer, VinuKarthick. For the full meeting with B, Luigi and Rishi, already broadcasted, click here: www.aurovilleradio.org/city-life/urban-design/2989-bridging-the-polarities--ecology .

For the conclusion of the fund raising event at Kalabhumi Anna Taj with Edo and Pierre shake the stage, and audience of course, by some solid classical rock. Sting, Rollins Stones, Patti Smith, Tina Turner....sung by Anna kept the remaining public despite late hour, excited. But before going home we were cooled down by excellent blues duo of Swaha and Anna. The event was successful not only by sweet social gathering with great music and some nice food but also on the financial side, where they managed to raised close to the needed sum.

How can we overcome inherited anthropocentrism in our relationship with nature as we develop "the city the earth needs"? This week's meeting with B and Luigi brought Rishi into the studio. Rishi, from the Youth Center, shared with us his concerns about the direction in which Auroville is heading and its relationship with the natural area which has grown over the past 40 years. We resolved the discussion acknowledging the climate of understanding which we had birthed and setting intention for dialogue to continue on this and other topics. Read more

Four groups of musicians from Auroville, different styles from jazz to blues to rock, gathered on the open air stage of Kalabhumi. Emergence is an Indo-acoustic pop band from started in 2006. Emergence are from Solitude Farm, a community started by Krishna. Harmonic textures of guitar and powerful lyrics blend with sublime Carnatic melodies played on violin and fused with Tamil. This, backed by the expressive grooves of rock, funk and ethnic rhythms and an explosive style of fretless and six-string bass is the unique fusion that is Emergence. Read more

Four groups of musicians from Auroville, different styles from jazz to blues to rock, gathered on the open air stage of Kalabhumi, the artists' community, for a fundraising concert to cover the expenses necessary for repairs to the recording studio structure and equipment after the recent cyclone. Sooner or Later is a light atmosphere of playful jazz, excellent solos of musicians who's skills allow to transcend form the written form to the places beyond, and further, brought broad smiles on the faces of the numerous audience. Read more

Have you ever noticed the one, undeniable action, that involuntarily, all humans share? Yes, our breath. Rabia Hayek of Do As One, breathed with Auroville on his world tour. This recording is a two-part presentation, the first half an informative talk about the concept of breath and how it was serve as a bridge between humans, and the second half an experiential workshop guided breathing session in which we reached toward our oneness through breath. More information can be found on the project's website at www.DoAsOne.org Read more

After visiting Turkey and Central Europe with workshops on Integral Yoga - workshops Vera and Ashesh talked with us about their recent experiences. For past three years at Savitri Bhavan in International Zone Ashesh is giving lectures - workshops on Integral Yoga of Sri Aurobindo, and The Mother with Vera assistance. As Ashesh says this is a very enjoyable experience to him because people who attend workshops always come with the attention to learn, and they respond from their depths when they hear The Mother, Sri Aurobindo words Read more

At yesterday's 3rd Collective Priorities and Values Meeting organized by the RAS, Pashi and Luigi from Land Resource Development team presented a proposal on outlying lands, which was a request from the previous meeting. After a few years of intensive research, mapping, and collecting data on the spot (along with many consultations from outside experts) Luigi and Pashi presented quite a concrete plan, business-oriented with applied Auroville values. A debate went on afterwards that expressed feelings and views of various residents. Read more

The walls of reality: shedding our evolutionary impediments : Seeing the world from inside out, normally we humans are not aware that our perceptions of Reality are not direct, and therefore not really real, because we are enclosed within the deforming walls of the evolutionary species to which we belong. This existential way of being became critically important in the experiments of quantum physics, where Reality remains indefinable and only the interaction of the scientific instruments with Reality can be interpreted.

‘Philosophy had become too much a thing of abstractions, a seeking for abstract truths in a world of ideas and words rather than what it should be, a discovery of the real reality of things.’ (Sri Aurobindo) True philosophy in the East, but originally also in the West, was indeed a search for mental truth but at the same time for ways to apply such truth to life. Essentially the true philosopher is a yogi and the yogi a philosopher.

Tomorrow at 8pm at Kalabhumi Madhumita, Devasmita Patnaik and group will share with us KAHATA KABIR a dance performance In the path of Kabir Festival - Folk songs woven into rhythms and dance. At Matrimandir the unavoidable and necessary carpet cleaning and maintenance work in the Inner Chamber starting tomorrow, for a week. Some or all of the Petals Mediation Rooms will be open. At Auroville Health Centre on 21st July from 10am onwards. Bone Mineral density test will be repeated Read more

Last night at SAWCHU in Bharat Nivas, the Pavilion of Indian Culture in the International Zone gave Kabir lovers a chance of a satsang by Prahladji Tipanya, one of the most compelling folk singers of the poetry of Kabir. Since it is the tradition that the holder of satsang addresses the audience on the topic they would like to talk/sing about, Prahladji's question to the audience met with an almost unanimous voice from the audience - LOVE, which was accompanied by simultaneous translations from Anita, of Prahladji explanations of Kabir verses. Read more

Loretta was already excited before departing on her trip to Columbia to give workshops at AuroMira, Ashram above Villa de Lleyva . After her return she stopped at the radio with eyes even fuller of all the impressions; sharing with us amazing coincidences, and what truthful aspiration can bring. We can feel what it is like to be in the mountains of Columbia. We can experience the real aspirations of the women in AuroMira, dedicated to the teachings of The Mother and Sri Aurobindo, and the aspirations of the people who came to the workshops.. Read more

On the 5th of May N&N announced an open talk by Sraddhalu at SAWCHU, but the Working Committee canceled the talk about the controversy surrounding  Peter Heehs book on Sri Aurobindo. Columbia University Press released it in 2008. Controversy followed. We talked with Loretta about the ban, about the book, about Peter Heehs, about Sri Aurobindo and The Mother. The Mother said that "in peace and harmony the eternal manifests. The first thing that you have to base everything upon is harmony. When there is disharmony things don't work." Read more

The Sufi singers Abdul Ghani, Ajah Maideen and Saburmaideen Babha Sabeer (Vocals and Rabahna percussion in the Qawwali style) from the Nagore Dargah usually perform at religious and social ceremonies at their sufi shrine in coastal Tamil Nadu. They recorded the song Ya Allah for Laya project movies and the album Nagore sessions for EarthSync. - www.youtube.com/watch?v=wXfPFxfy7ZM - www.layaproject.com - - www.earthsync.com/store-in.asp?catalogid=23 - - www.myspace.com/nagoresessions - Read more

At early morning hours as last Mooralala Marwada with his group came on the stage of Kalabhumi at Kabir Music Sacred Festival last Saturday. Although number of audience substantially decreased, those who stayed cheered them with laughter and laud halo, which supposed to be Mooralala wake up call, so that no one is left asleep at the time when they sing. He is a folk singer from Kutch district of Gujarat in Western India, and sings the poetry of Kabir along with other poets such as Mira, Ravidas or Sufi Sindhi poet Shah Abdul Lateef Bhitai Read more

Each group of singers brought something special something unique on the stage at the Kabir Sacred Music Festival in Kalabhumi last Saturday. Mahesha Ram group came as the most colorful with their bright orange, pink ...turbans on their heads as they belong to the Meghval community of Rajasthan in Western India. They represent a hypnotic folk style typical of the Meghvals, who are musicians not by profession but more traditional carriers of Kabir's poetry trough the oral traditions of all night jagrans and satsangs. Read more