Thiago came to Auroville seven years ago to fulfill his call to 'come out' from the western society. He and his partner Ana settled down in Sadhana Forest helping Yorit and Aviram in the reforestation project. Later they moved to Windarra - Terra Soul community. In the website of www.terrasoul.org the place is defined as " ... a learning community, our holistic approach embraces farming, arts, education and healing." Today Thiago is leaving Auroville. He's going back to his roots in Portugal. Listen to his experience, dreams and projects.

Saturday at 8 pm at Cripa SHAKTI DANCE TROUPE Presents a Night of Exotic Indian Dance.On Sunday May 5 at 5.05 pm at SAWCHU, Bharat Nivas we can Celebrate World Laughter Day -One Laugh * One Peace * One World joining thousands of people sending waves of laughter around the world for World Peace, Harmony and Unity. L'Avenir d'Auroville/TDC informs us that the old road between Celebration and Gunalakshmi's house will be closed to access as it has become redundant. This will also open up space options for Aurovilians looking for relocation. Read more

Featuring recordings are of yesterday's one day workshop on the research on the 12 qualities and their practical implication in the relationship with those who come to Auroville - tourist, guests, volunteers, newcomers at Unity Pavilion in International Zone. Participants, of which all are on daily basis in contact with all those who come to Auroville by different reasons and purposes, sincerely dedicated their time to explore and go through 12 qualities without looking for problems or solutions but merely searching for a useful tool. Read more

Yesterday's General Meeting called by a group of Aurovillians concerned about the work of Working Committee, facilitated by RAS in Unity Pavilion has attracted many. Politics in its worst to some, struggle for power ,and who got control, or what it is perceived by some to opposite of what we might expect from working groups...what are spiritual core vision and values of Auroville. All those questions and some particular answers were given to the table, and a call of many for a transparency and sincere service to the community with interactions Read more

Janaka est un Aurovillien de longue date. Il est arriver a Auroville apres avoir experienter d autres realites en france. Comme il aime a le dire, Janaka a plusieurs vies, au moins 3. Aujourd`hui Janaka habite a Auroville dans les appartements a Citadines. C`est avec chaleur qu`il nous parle de son parcours, sa vie en prison, son envie d`ailleurs, et son arrivee a Auroville, ou il a passer la plus gande partie de sa vie. Janaka, a recemment publie un livre et en prepare un autre pour completer le recit de sa vie. Read more

Extract of an interactive session within Steps Ahead, Sri Aurobindo Centre for Studies-India and the World (Bharat Nivas) held yesterday at Unity Pavilion in International Zone. Interesting session where the discussion revolved around the present state of the International Zone and the possible courses of action. Most participants  were active members either of pavilion groups of core group of International Zone. They expressed dissatisfaction with the speed of the development. Read more

Second part of informative session on if and how Auroville would become a World Heritage Site under UNESCO. Gathered residents yesterday clearly expressed many doubts, and over all was the tone that we still don't know enough to take a clear decision if YES or NO. Decision making process supposed to start this Friday, and end in two week. The fact is that Auroville needs to consolidate and protect the land of the master plan, where green belt is of huge importance. The question would be which price are we prepare to pay? Read more

Listen to an inspiring piece of broadcasting history as Mother announces the inauguration of Auroville live across India on 28 February 1968. The recording was made with Mother sitting in Pondicherry while 5000 founding members of Auroville conducted the inauguration ceremony nearby at the Matrimandir Amphitheater. Thanks to All India Radio, her reading of the original Charter of Auroville in French was broadcast live to the amphitheater, as well as across India, while soil representing 124 nations and 23 Indian states was placed in the ground. Read more

Collective meditation tomorrow at Amphitheater in Matrimandir with fire lit at 5.15am. Tonight at 7pm at Unity Pavilion in International Zone Tugay will play Ney, traditional Sufi wind instrument. At Bharat Nivas, Pavilion of Indian Culture within sacred music festival Abishek Lahiri will play on sarod, and on 2nd tabla TBC. Tomorrow at 7pm at Adishakti Clowns Without Borders will present their new show which was specially created for the children of Tamil Nadu. At Pitanga on Friday at 7.30pm we can listen to a Living Violin by Tyler Carston Read more

In today's news we're featuring short interview with D.Saravanan from Aranya community, 64 acres of forest with indigenous species next to Sadhana Forest, who silently protests by fasting in front of the entrance to Town Hall. Today starts Raaga Tapasaya, festival of sacred indian music at 8pm at Bharat Nivas. Marc Vella is offering tomorrow at 6pm with his traveling piano at Matrimandir Amphitheater Le Portes des Mondes. General meeting on Friday 1st at 4pm at Unity Pavilion to take a decision if AV should apply to be world heritage site. Read more

We're featuring the Mother's voice reading the Charter in in French, broadcasted on 28th of February 1968, announcing to a whole India that new community was born. At that occasion the Mother was sitting in her room in Ashram, and the All India Radio broadcasted her words to the Matrimandir Amphitheater where the inauguration ceremony was in the process. The Mother's voice was at the same time broadcasted all over the India, and that was the birth of All India Radio. Marc Vella offers concert on 26.2. around 6pm at Matrimandir Amphitheater. Read more

Last night at Pitanga Jean-Christophe on flute and Teresa on tampura has offered to a numerous audience a meditation, where music supposed to be used as a medium to get into meditative state. Since this was not a concert, and its purpose was not to entertain, Jean-Christophe has chosen an Indian raga - Malcance, and invited the audience to travel on the sound of the flute with him. Read more

In today's new's we're featuring an interview with Jean-Christophe about his tonight flute meditation at 7.30pm at Pitanga, and Nistha talks on on translation of old vedics text into more poetic form. The Auroville Theater Group presents THREE (dances) in ONE (evening) tomorrow at 7.30pm at CRIPA in Kalabhumi. At The Matrimandir Amphitheater On Thursday 21.2.2013,at The Mother's Birthday will be a collective meditation. Reading passages from Savitri, accompanied with flute at 5.30pm. AV Basketball League is going on until 28th of February Read more

This afternoon between 4pm to 5pm at Eucalyptus Groove under the Solar Kitchen toward Courage and Certitude at ONE BILLION RISING AND DANCING event... www.youtube.com/watch?v=fL5N8rSy4CU&feature=share . In today's news we feature interview with Jasmine from FoodLink on their initiative for the Mother's Birthday 21st of February, and with Jill on the Three (dances) in One (evening) Tuesday 19th at 7.30pm at CRIPA in Kalabhumi. Sri Aurobindo Centre for Studies... India and the World(Bharat Nivas) invites us to Steps Ahead... Read more

This week continues with the February frenzy of events starting tomorrow with Russian Singing Bells at CRIPA at 5pm, following Wednesday by Bahh Band of Ireland at 7.30pm at Sri Aurobindo Auditorium, Bharat Nivas , Pavilion of Indian Culture in International Zone. On Thursday at Savitri Bhavan Shraddavan with Gordon on flute will read her poetry from Stars in the Soup. Friday will starts at 5pm at Unity Pavilion with Jazz in Transformation - Priscila and Jurriaan Prakke, continue with Temple Rock at 8pm at Kalabhumi, 3Sevens on Saturday at BN 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

Life Education Center (LEC) is an Auroville outreach school, providing vocational training and counseling to empower semi-educated girls from the nearby villages since 1991. In this interview, the students and some LEC teachers share personal reflections and experiences by each focusing on one of the qualities in the Mother's symbol. Paralleled in a collective visual art piece, there is also a sample of the daily chanting at LEC at the end of the session. The following are the individual names and the qualities/aspects which they explored: Read more

In today's news we feature interview with Aryamani and Aloka on 12.12.12 events at Unity Pavilion from the last two days. With this exploration of 12 qualities they will conclude tonight at 7.30pm with Divine music for Pachamama songs from around the world with Anna and Tiago. The Soul Flower - Eastern Slavic songs tomorrow at 7.30pm at Pitanga. On Saturday opening of "Geometry of the Heart" by Jurgen P. Palymraart at Savitri Bhavan. On Sunday at 7pm at Adishakti Laboratory for Theater Research presents actors ensemble "Hidden in Plain Sight" Read more

Today's news featuring interview with Sathya on the Chennai Green Tribunal Court hearing from last Thursday where the Pondy Municipal Commissioner got severely reprimanded by the court for not doing his job properly. On December 7, 8 and 9th at 7.30pm Sri Aurobindo Auditorium, Bharat Nivas THE AUROVILLE THEATRE GROUP Presents TWELFTH NIGHT or What You Will by William Shakespeare ,Directed by Haimanot Alemu At Pitanga, on December 8th at 4pm the opening of "UP Cycling collection" by OK Jeong Le with an Eco musical Performance by Butterfly Read more

Auroville Theatre Group presents 12th Night; art exhibition UPcycling Collection by OK at Pitanga; a piano concert by Hartmut Von Lieres. Regular events: belly dance, biodynamic compost making, Leela, (game of self-knowledge), Capoeira, chess, clay, free dance, drawing, colour and landscape, food lab (foods in relation to allergies), Ikebana, integral meditation, sustainable food growing, non-violent communication, OM choir, various types of yoga, Argentinian tango practica, ultimate disc A and the language lab offering various languages. Read more

As the year's end draws closer, closer and closer, Luigi in a short interview offers information on an event coming on 12-12-12... this 12-12-12 event will explore a 3-fold manifestation at the individual, collective and universal level. This auspicious number 12 is the symbol of manifestation. From the 12 qualities of the Mother'ssymbol, today's quality upon which to concentrate is ASPIRATION; for those unacquainted with the 'Intention' concept, since last week, each day one of the 12 qualities are kept in mind in an attempt to embody. Read more

Aurovilian Juan gives Thai massage; in an inteview Juan speaks of his knowledge, how he came by it and has grown to love it. The National Life Saving Competition just held in Kolkota offers an informal presentation on the preparation and participation of 16 children from the Auroville Swim Team. Grow your own permaculture style vegetable garden: get the vision of a social revolution based around food. An exhibition of the 1st anniversary of cyclone Thane at Citadine. Artists/photographers/poets/forest people/designers invited to contribute. Read more

For almost a decade, but surely with acceleration in last year or two, Auroville beach community Repos has been "eaten" away by the severe beach erosion. Bhaga shares with us some thoughts on it... Until recently no speciific action was taken from the official Auroville regarding the problem. Cyclone Relief Team instructed by Working Committee has started to help the community with clean up. This morning along with Satprem and volunteers they have continued with reinforcing the foundations of the house. Read more

Today's feaure is an excerpt from Chinese healer Master Xiao who recently visited Auroville and demonstrated a technique that is said to heal just about anything and everything; a do-it-yourself method involving an elongated stretch plus slapping yourself, with your hands, and I do mean some hard slapping! One could say beating in fact! Basically on inner elbows, around knees, ankles, feet plus anyplace else that gives pain.At a demonstration in Pitanga Hall, some in the audience volunteered themselves and did experience pain relief. Read more

Auroville Theater Group will put on the stage of Sri Aurobindo Auditorium in Bharat Nivas, Pavilion of Indian Culture in International Zone in December Shakespeare's comedy 12nights. Featuring is an interview with Jill and visiting director Heimanot Alemu from Ethiopia. Heimanot known as an actor but presently working as communication consultant in advertising in Ethiopia, also an active member of AVI Ethiopia, has decided for 12 nights because he finds it very universal and humorous, to which he wants to add some "flavours" of the country. Read more

Andrea Camerini e Laura di Nitto sono stati ospiti ad AurovilleRadio. Entrambi sono membri del gruppo musicale italiano "Nuove Tribu Zulu". Conversando con Andrea emergono le motivazioni che hanno portato Andrea e Laura a stabilirsi a Pondicherry dopo varie esperienze musicali nel Nord dell'India. L'amore per la musica, per gli 'altri' e l'interesse per la ricerca interiore sono tra i principali motivi che li hanno fatto decidere di trasferisi a 7000 Km sud/est di Roma. 42 minuti di intervista intervallati dai brani estratti dall'album Banjara! Read more

Philipp talks about not only the coming Christmas Fair to be held at the Youth Centre, but about the Youth Centre itself, having just recently returned from Brazil. The current condition of the place, the repairs that need to be done and getting people to participate in preparation for the Fair is what 's on his mind at this time. He points out that the Fair is but one day; it's the preparation and participation that counts, that makes for fun. Read more

At 4:30 today Cinema Paradiso shows Mala Landt's film 'Guerrilla Midwife' which is a documentary about Ibu Robin Lim’s life as a fierce advocate for gentle birth as a human right; she points out that the innate capacity of human beings to love is so very programmed by the birth experience., that gentle birth brings peace and traumatic birth brings war. Listen now to an interview with Mala as she speaks fervently this topic. Read more

In this phone recording from Dehli from the Auroville Festival - City for Transformation at India International Centre we are featuring Sebastian and Sumeet with some after thoughts on the whole event, or at least the part which is behind us with the many different talks, round tables and discussions. As Sebastian emphasizes Auroville can communicate and should communicate with larger public and this festival has proven the capacity of being proactive in dialog. Sumeet sees a real value in the festival if there is a follow up. Read more

In this late night phone recording we are featuring Suryagandhi's impressions on the Auroville Festival - City for Transformation at India International Centre in New Dehli. As she has pointed out we still got lot to learn, and share. Since she is actively involved in the project of Integral Health, she will be talking on it tomorrow along with Dr.Sumeet Kumar and Dr.Jacques Verre. Suryagandhi, while working at the reception desk for the festival, also noticed that audience is very much interested in interaction on many levels. Read more