Chennai: An exhibition — featuring photographs, videos, testimonials and documentary material — titled ‘Auroville: An Experiment Under Threat’ was held in Puducherry on Saturday and Sunday. Major Arun ...

It was founded as a Sixties utopia "where men and women of all countries are able to live in peace and progressive harmony" without money or religious strife in southern India. India is a spiritual ...

Some 50 years ago, on a vast, barren plateau north of Pondicherry, a lone, young banyan tree stood guard. It seemed to be waiting for something. Then one day, someone hammered a nail into its trunk to ...

Auroville Tourism: If the constant ping of city life has left you frayed at the edges, Auroville might just be the pause your mind has been craving. Founded in 1968 near Pondicherry, this experimental ...

In southern India, a few kilometers from Pondicherry, lies one of the most fascinating and mysterious autonomous communities in the world: Auroville. Founded in 1968, Auroville began as an ecovillage, ...

Aficionados of space travel will recall the drama of re-entry; those few minutes when the spacecraft, plunging back into the earth’s atmosphere, is severed from its umbilical link with mission control ...

As we drove down a dirt track, Balu Ramalingam pointed to a tree stump that was nearly fully hidden by the surrounding thick foliage and said ruefully that, but for a recent cyclone that ripped off ...

Under phase 1, common services will go off grid onto solar-battery mode while individual houses will remain on the power grid. Puducherry: As most cities struggle to shift gears to electric vehicles, ...

Photo by Maddy Crowell I thought a bottle of red wine would be an appropriate gift to bring to utopia. It was June in Pondicherry, a sleepy beach town off the Bay of Bengal characterized by its ...