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Issue No: 364, November 2019

The employees of Auroville

Employees, children and Aurovilians at Auroville Sangamam, 2018Across more than one issue, Auroville Today aims to highlight our employees and their valuable contributions to Auroville’s daily functioning. From accountants to gardeners, village social workers to office workers, we foreground their work, their lives, and their thoughts on Auroville and their engagement with the place. They work in our gardens, our homes, our services and units, in our schools and health centres, at the Town Hall, at Matrimandir. Yet while, in many ways, they are the engine house of Auroville, the people who keep it running, they are also often “invisible”. They do not feature in the community’s brochures, most visiting journalists and researchers do not write about them, they are not consulted when important decisions are taken about the community’s future, and most Aurovilians know so little about them: about their lives, their hopes, their challenges. We don’t even know how many there are. The ...
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Issue No. 364, November 2019

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  • The employees of Auroville
  • Exploring the freedom to learn
  • A life with numbers and beyond
  • A special team
  • Keeping us connected
  • Embodying spirituality – the dancing world of Auroville
  • Transforming prisons through dance
  • Message in a bottle
  • Synthesis or separation?
  • The challenges of experimenting in Auroville
  • Passings: Sundharamurthy Murugesan family; Nilesh Premji Nisar
  • Letter
  • Tsunamika, the voice of the oceans
  • The beginning of collaboration with FTII

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  • To be a True Aurovilian
  • The Galaxy Concept of the City
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  • Founder: The Mother
  • Visionary: Sri Aurobindo
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  • Integral Yoga
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