The Living Routes Program is featured in today's news in an interview with Abbey. Abbey has been working with American college students for several seasons, facilitating not only their alternative educational process but also introducing them to the wonders of Auroville. Don't forget there's a talk today at 5 PM at Multimedia Auditorium called 'Research on Beauty: A Perspective on the Life and Work of Roger Anger' presented by Anupama Kundoo, based on her recent book just released in Pune by B.V.Doshi for the Indian Council of Architecture.

Not many visitors from Iran come to Auroville. We had a chance to met Dr. Bijan Vala, who told us that fate has brought him here, and he would like to get involved and be active mostly on the field of expressive arts such as music and theater. He sees Auroville as an example of good thoughts, which proved that dreams can turn into reality, and yet he's aware that in the process problems do arise. He likes the Love, The Dream, Matrimandir,... For him the beauty of Matrimandir is that there's nothing religious about it, everybody is left to his/her own thoughts. Read more

What is actually hip hop? In the conversation with Drupad at Youth Center we talked about that. Many times is wrongly mistaken by gangsta rapping but basically is hip hop defined by five key stylistic elements rapping , DJing andscratching, sampling , beatboxing and dancing. They're saying that Hip hop began in the South Bronx of New York City in the 1970s. And we found out what that got to do with the Youth Center. Read more

For football fans and others this year World Cup held in South Africa was special from many different aspects. In Auroville we decided to watch some of the matches together on the La Terrace - Solar Kitchen. On one of those nights we recorded part of the atmosphere and in interviews with some of the audience Chloé found out that the most important thing that night wasn't really the game itself, but the whole thing, being together, experienced it with millions from all around, to add some energy on, as somebody named it, this particular federating event. This year the World Cup was socially unifying thing, one of the kind.

On a rainy Saturday evening Shri Soham Munim and Shri Debashish Dass performed an Indian classical concert at the Sri Aurobindo auditorium in Bharat Nivas. Shri Soham Munim was on that stage two years before when he played in a more progressive fusion concert. In this concert he played Hindustani Ragas on his sitar maintaining the classical art in its essence, and, also at the same time using a contemporary feel in his musical expressions. Shri Soham Munim was accompanied by Shri Debashish Dass on tabla. Read more

How Auroville sounds... to me, to you ? This sound is just to express my fully and deep gratitude towards my Auroville's friends et ce quelque chose de si particulier ici à Auroville que j'aime tant. One may recognize the 15th august dawn fire, the famous Dalai Lama's question, the Matrimandir inner chamber silence, monsoon and more. Just listen and experience how beautiful sounds Auroville.

Dr. Peter Choate of Calgary, Alberta in Canada gave a week of his time and expertise facilitating a week-long seminar to those involved in Auroville's Child Protection Services. He points out the vital importance of creating a transparent secure platform in which both the abused and the abusers will finally confront and communicate with one another, having a conversation on how they feel about these secret practices surrounded with fear.

On a beautiful day in New Creation, Srini shares with us the work and projects of the “journey” that has been for him Yatra Multimedia. Through education, pedagogy and a great deal of hard work, Yatra offers to Auroville and to the surrounding villages awareness movies for children. Srini's life-long passion for visual arts is livened up by his great sense of humor, characteristic of his movies which have won awards at the 2009 Auroville Film Festival. The Auroville visual arts scene is flourishing according to Srini, and he stresses the importance of youth to reach greater cultural achievements. Read more

Today's news in English features an excerpt from an interview with Dr. Peter Choate explaining the importance of awareness of the problem of child abuse and the creation of a safe platform where conversations can be held between the children and the adults, where fear can be re placed by the sense of a safe environment in which to communicate. The interview in its entirety will be published in the next few days. Also in the news announcements for Awareness Through the Body sessions, for culinary treats available through the Youth Center and the team at Solitude Farm.

On Sunday 15 th of August at Bharat Nivas in the morning was the celebration for the birthday of Sri Aurobindo and for the Independence day of India. In the opening talk of Anu we could remember that Sri Aurobidno saw that for the evolution of mankind was important for all nations to be free, and India had to take the role to start that process. In the ideal human unity this evolution would regard mankind as one single nation, that a free world union must it in its very nature be a complex unity, based on diversity, and that diversity must be based on a free self determination. Final dream was not limited in time. It carry the seeds of evolution into the future of humanity, and there we see the birth of Auroville already placed as a seed to experiment of the future of Humanity. Read more

Today's news features an interview with Akash of Aquaponics. He talks about the art of growing plants without soil; it's done with a pond of water with fishes happily swimming about and thereby supplying the required nutrients for the plants to grow through their waste. Also in the news an announcement for Sunday's Dawnfire at the Amphitheatre in recognition of Sri Aurobindo's birthday and in the evening, a musical offering 'Sri Aravindaya Namaha' performed by Nadaka and Gopika at Arka.

Steffi, a volunteer from Germany who joined our team for good ten months just left. In the interview with Andrea we found out how she sees Auroville, its idea, life... As she said, she hasn't evolved so much on the professional level of radio speaker and journalist because that was the line of work she was already doing in Germany, but Auroville brought more clarity in her life. Trough yoga and some other activities she participated in she's not only more clear about her life, and life goals, but she's also more happy, contented with herself, but, as she said, she hasn't explore all of it yet. Here she met many talented and creative people, and was amazed over the quality of cultural life and events. Auroville she sees as a project in process, and positive for its continuation.

As it is a custom, when the days of festivals, celebrations are near, events are also piling up, and in those days its actually hard to choose where you would like to be. Tonight we can choose between ethnic chanting in a circle at Verite Hall with Ana, Tiago and friends, or harp meditation and mystic words of Rumi offered by Antarjyoti, or we might see a Spanish movie in Cinema Paradiso. In the conversation with Nicolai we heard some news about Youth Center. Sri Aurobindo's birthday on Sunday 15th of August, which is also India's Independence Day will be celebrated on Friday, Saturday, with different programs and offerings and of course on Sunday with early morning bonfire and with program at Bharat Nivas at 8am.

The beauty in Auroville lies also in different surprises, and most of them do turn up as beautiful, inspiring, uplifting. Sunday couldn't finish its afternoon better than with a concert of classical music. Our ear buds were treated exceptionally with great voices of two guests – Sarah Aristidou and Eleonore Marmoret, studying opera singing in Paris, and accompanied by Carel on piano. With short songs and arias from operas we traveled trough centuries of European classical music... Pergolesi, Faure, Caccini, Cesarini, Mendhelssohn, Hayden, Strauss, Vivaldi, Mozart, Wolf, Satie...

Today's news features an interview with Kathy, creator and sustainer of Thamarai. Kathy is also involved with Child Protection Services. Here she speaks about this week's inservice facilitated by Dr. Peter Choate of Canada, the aim of which is awareness vs. denial of the plight of children, sorely in need of protection. Also in the news there is a reminder for today's Residents' Assembly; it's an opportunity to get to kn ow these familiar faces in another mode; as members of the recently formed l'Avenir.

Vinu, who has been volunteering in the AurovilleRadio in the months of June and July is leaving back to studies in Anna University, Chennai. Before going back, he shares his experiences here with Andrea, who actually invited him for volunteering in AurovilleRadio. He talks about how the radio experience and the personal experiences here, like meeting people around the world changed him as a person and made him grow rapidly in a very short time. He also talks about his stay in Mitra and meeting young energies around the world, he opens his views about the financial difficulties for an Indian volunteer if he has to pay for his stay and food.

Maël, quand il était petit voulait devenir Ganesh. Maël est né à Auroville il y a bientôt 16 ans de cela. Aujourd'hui il affronte de plein fouet le fabuleux âge de l'adolescence, parlez-en à sa mère. Maël c'est le premier portrait de la série « paroles d'ado ». A quoi ressemble la jeunesse aurovilienne d'aujourd'hui ? Ca m'soule, c'est chiant, on devrait nous apprendre à être heureux avant d'apprendre les maths.

Lalit talks about his role in the public meeting with Mr. Doshi,where he initiated the idea of Mr. Doshi meeting the old and new planning group and the communities to make the residents of Auroville part of discussions and sharing the ideas. He is positive about more such meetings happening. He talks about the challenge of putting together of all those diverse perceptions and working on it. He tells about the necessity of the new l'Avenir Team to listen to different viewpoints and finding a way to work together. He also talks about the prospect of inviting students from around the world to work on the development projects and about the priorities for improvement in the different diverse fields requiring improvements.

J'ignore si les séniors d'aujourd'hui sont toujours les juniors de demain. Mais faisons semblant de rien. A travers le banal curriculum vitæ – qui pourrait tout aussi bien être un curriculum mortæ – nous découvrons la petite histoire d'un pionnier de notre cité. Notre chronique se conjuguera donc, non pas au passé simple imparfait du subjonctif, mais au participe futur du passé conditionnel, même si pour tous profs de français ceci est un délit qui mérite la correctionnel.

Last year art installation of four students from Last school was used as an example of Free Progress in the book Passage, which was released on Monday 12th of June at Bharat Nivas by Shri Kapil Sibal, Union Minister for Human Resource Development. About the book, school and their aims we talked with those students. Amongst others they told us that in the idea of Free Progress, the main thing is progress, and free is just and adjective. They are also very much aware that freedom requires lot of constraint, responsibility, and self motivation because finally the result that you gonna get is the result you will get for yourself, and not for proving something to someone else. Read more

Avoir un ennemi, c'est sympa. Tout le monde en a. Ça fait parti des joies de la vie. C'est un bonheur. Hélas, parfois, il faut aller voir un docteur. C'est ce que nous raconte Froggy the frenchy dans un sketch que nous diffusons pour la première et la dernière fois. Dans une seconde partie vous aurez droit à un programme spécial de Toto le Pipo dans le cadre de la campagne municipale pour l'éducation para-scolaire de l'espèce nouvelle. Et s'il n'y a rien de nouveau sous le soleil, sous la pleine lune, ça bouge. C'est vrai, quoi !

Y'a pas d'soucis. Avec des si, on peut faire beaucoup de choses. C'est comme avec les « y-a-ka : y-a-ka-faire, y-a-ka-dire, y-a-ka-pas... ». Si, nous vous parlons du « si », c'est qu'aujourd'hui nous démarrons notre chronique avec un si. Nous supposons donc quelque chose qui peut vous arriver, si vous n'y prenez pas garde. Et si par malheur, vous allez trainer dans la zone résidentielle, alors là, tout est possible. Car ils sont là tous les bébés du future. Ils sont chez eux. Tous ces mômes sont at home. Et ils n'attendent plus que vous pour faire les fous. Ne venez donc pas vous plaindre en grommelant « si j'avais su » que l'on ne vous avez pas prévenu.

The Purpose, is a radio play about Simmy and her Grandfather tree....a Grandfather tree? Something is not clear here, is it? To get it clear click on to hear this extraordinary conversation about love, seeking and The Purpose of everything between this confused girl and her Grandfather tree and for why that, it is the coolest thing to be a tree of all living creatures. what is the purpose of you? find out.

Udavi Payanam – that is Tamil and means 'helpful travel'. It is a new network in the internet for volunteers created my Malia. She volunteered in Auroville for some months and got inspired. With the network she wants to help travellers to find organisations they can volunteer for and she is plannng to give workshops with recycled materials. Here's an interview with her about her work in Auroville, how the idea came up and what this project is about. Read more

Eager to laugh at our home-made problems, inconsistencies and foibles, Aurovilians attended the 2nd performance of the newly revived, and technically advanced Genius Inc. performance on 17 April 2010. In which Leon finds that his Teashop happens to be on the ring road, His search for neo urban clowns in various departments and how to eliminate flies and mosquitoes the modern way, as well as his continued attempts at finding a crowd catching jingle for his café. MC King is busy in his new flat writing rap songs and entertains his friends to a game of Auromonopoly. Meanwhile Rick continues to receive orders to produce videos, this time a documentary on Aurovilians eating habits, one in praise of the Potters Guild and another on Conflict Resolution. Along with guest appearances by Oceana and Anadi.

Ca y est ! Nous voici au cœur des vacances avec un mois de mai toujours aussi torride à Auroville. Cette année, surprise: pluies et même orages sont venus reverdir nos forets et rafraichir l'atmosphère. Une grande partie de la population est déjà partie en vacances et tout fonctionne au ralenti. Pour les enfants d'Auroville, le mois de mai c'est aussi le mois des colos avec les traditionnels « camps de Nature » dans les montagnes de Kodaikanal. Cécilia, de retour du 1er camp, partage ses impressions au micro de ces nouvelles en français. Pus de photos dans READ MORE. Read more

It was last Friday, around 9 pm. at la Terrace. Many people, mainly guest from Auroville and few Aurovilians were there. Also those two guys. Two guys from Netherlands who came only for two weeks, they are part of the famous “Kyteman Hip Hop Orchestra”. They invite us to an unexpected jam where everybody could participate through singing and drumming. But suddenly everything stop! Why?? This is a good question, hear this sound and perhaps you will understand.

Jacques est un dentiste français. Jusque là rien d'extraordinaire. Jacques avant de s'installer à Auroville il y a 29 ans, avait pratiqué la dentisterie pendant 10 ans en France. Alors naturellement en arrivant c'est ce qu'il a voulu faire. Pendant plus de 20 ans Jacques a parcouru les campagnes indiennes avec sa fraise et son générateur pour soigner et éduquer les enfants à une meilleure hygiène de vie. Mais un beau jour tout s'arrêta. Jacques après 19 ans de pratique fut pris d'un mal de dos terrible. En se renseignant autour de lui, il compris qu'il n'était pas le seul dentiste à souffrir du dos. Et c'est à ce moment là que l'aventure commença pour Jacques... Read more

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On 22th of April – on Earth Day a celebration, a real birthday celebration, was held at Visitor Center. Initiator and organizer was Upasana with Small Steps project. It started by auction of bags children painted on Saturday, and the last bag was sold for recording 2300 rupees. All the money that was spend at the birthday celebration will go for the cause of spreading awareness for anti plastic campaign to pay for the films and videos which they will be played in villages in Tamil. Birthday party was swinging on to late night with grooves and rhythms of many musicians – Suryan, Mohanam Sound Crew and Pachamama.

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Yesterday the Blue Wale group has performed the play 'Ayesha And The Story Stealer'. In spite of the sunny and hot day the audience enjoyed the event. This was the first of the 3 scheduled performances. Today at 9.30 the second one and tomorrow at 11.50 the last show. The kid's age is between 9 to 10 years. The play is performed next to the third grade class in Transition School. Parents and children are invited to participate. Read more

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