Auroville

Anuradha Majumdar

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HarperCollins Publishers India
11 August 2017

Architectural structure & design; Autobiography: general; Alternative lifestyles

In March 1914 two people met in Pondicherry: Sri Aurobindo, who had fled arrest by the British and sought refuge there and, Mirra Alfassa, later known as the Mother, the wife of a French politician. Their meeting led to an evolutionary step in spiritual consciousness and the birth of Auroville, heralded as the City of the Future. What kind of future? Auroville started from scratch across a barren plateau in South India in February 1968 with just two things: a Charter and a City plan, welcoming people from around the world to create a new life beyond national rivalries, social conventions, self-contradictory moralities and contending religions. Fifty years on, how far has it travelled? Does Auroville resonate with its founding vision? What are its material and spiritual challenges and what signposts mark it unambiguously as a city for the future? Told by someone who has lived the adventure for thirty-six years, this book explores not utopia but a living laboratory: a city being forged by many challenges and a dream.

By: Anuradha Majumdar
Imprint: HarperCollins Publishers India
Dimensions: Height: 220mm, Width: 140mm, Spine: 20mm
ISBN: 9789352770281
ISBN 10: 9352770285
Pages: 360
Publication Date: 11 August 2017
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Anu Majumdar was born in Allahabad. Discovering Sri Aurobindo while at college in Kolkata was a life-changing experience which led her to Auroville in 1979. She has worked in several areas including the Matrimandir construction site, at the Pour Tous food distribution unit, as a dancer-choreographer with the Auroville Dance Lab, edited Transcript, an online journal for arts and ideas. More recently she has explored the Auroville city plan as a map for integral change through talks and presentations. Her books include Refugees from Paradise and God Enchanter, Island of Infinity and Infinity Papers, Mobile Hour and Light Matter. Her poems and stories have been anthologized, written for choreography, for art installations and published in Prairie Schooner, The Punch Mag, Scroll and Arts Illustrated. For the last thirty-six years Auroville has been her home and unfolding universe.

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Anuradha Majumdar

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