Category Archives: Culture
Interview with Madhu
Auroville and Puducherry Village Heritage Festival which was held on the 13th and 14th February was organized by coordinators who were Indians as well as foreigners, working for the development of the villages and the culture. This is an interview of one of the coordinators, Madhu.
Miscellea-News- Miss Ennerved
New- Miscellea-News; in which "Les Zaurovilians parlent aux Zaurovilians". Today; Madam Ennerved.
In and around Auroville
Auroville belongs to Auroville and no one else.
People who make this place worth it, not only for themselves but also for people who visit Auroville everyday.
Here 3 shorts interviews with Kripa, Margaret and Uma.
Rj Mantra (a 5 times best RJ of India winner by RAPA and PROMAX Awards), speaks to people in Auroville and finds out what makes this place tick.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mantra_%28actor%29
Garba Celebrations in Auroville
Garba is a dance form originated in Gujarat, performed during Navratri a 9-day festival of Goddess Durga. It is also known as Garbi, Garbha or Garbha Deep. In Garbha Deep, the word Garbha is a Sanskrit term, which means womb and Deep means little earthen lamps. Garba is usually performed in a circle around a big lamp or the statue of Goddess Shakti.
The Garba Dance Festival was celebrated amidst much colour and music at SAWCHU, Bharat Nivas between the 14th and 18th of October. Here we talk to the organizers Shilpa, Falguni and Rakhee about the festival in an Auroville context.
Vox pops
The Auroville Village Heritage Festival is showing lot of efforts in preserving the Indian culture. It's not just a festival. It's a fascinating experience of the tradition. Hundreds of tourists visit this place every year. The visitors from various countries shared what they felt about the festival.
Happy Summer Christmas
Youth Center Christmas Fair is one of the winter highlights in Auroville. All Auroville celebrated together with pizza and Indian food. It offered a big variety of activities for children. A big market with stalls from Auroville units and handicraft sellers offered Christmas presents. In the evening, the stage opened for theater, music and dance performances. The Christmas fair ended with a big fire performance.
A sound collage from the different YC playgrounds with music, interviews and atmosphere soundings.
Vinu Karthick - Actor
Vinu Karthick is a talented actor who studied in Chennai. In this program Vinu discusses the impact Andrea Tazzari (Auroville Radio) and Jill Navarre (Theatre Centre) have had on his life and his career. An interview with Director Jill Navarre follows in which she discusses the essential characteristics of an actor and how Vinu shines in a variety of demanding theatre roles. He can be seen on stage in the upcoming role of Tom in Tennessee William's The Glass Menagerie (Dec. 2015)
Thanks giving us Pongal
For the first time, Auroville celebrated the Pongal Thanksgiving Festival traditionally. Pongal was celebrated at Friday in front of the solar kitchen. As it was organized by Tamil people and some Auroville units, the city got an authentic glimpse of Indias most important festival. A Soundcollage with Soundscape, music and interviews.
Beloved India
Vibrant, lively Aparajita Barai has stopped at our radio this morning bringing news on inauguration of her first solo exhibition tomorrow, Thursday 17that 5pm at Kala Kendra, Bharat Nivas, Pavilion of India, and her interesting workshop next week. One - title of the exhibition derives from the note that everything is ONE...we are one, god and goddesses are one... Aparajita is searching through symbolism of spiritually and mythology because she has realized that all the symbols became in India very ritualistic, and people stopped questioning themselves what do they mean. This way Aparajita will try to demystify Indian deities. Beloved India (www.belovedindia.com www.facebook.com/belovedindia) is a brand coming from Aparjita's studying business plan some years back while she realized that being a designer and creating a design is a process of solving a problem. As she sees it India has many problems, and out of commercial business she would like to continue with social projects.
Saraswathi Puja Celebration- Abri
Abri services (Water. Electrical, Solar and more) celebrate Saraswati Puja- you can hear the joyous atmosphere and Ponnuswami and Ramakrishna share auspicious timings and other significances on this event.