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auroville news

Review: The Mother by Peter Heehs

A portrait of The Mother (Gamma-Rapho via Getty Images)
Published on Jan 16, 2026 10:27 pm IST

Report: Remembering Veenapani Festival (RVF), 2025

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Team Adhishakti’s Bali, written and directed by Nimmy Raphel, explored questions on deceit, gender and power. (Mohan Raj)
Updated on May 29, 2025 11:31 am IST

SC junks NGT order, allows further construction activities at Auroville

Auroville is an experimental township in the Viluppuram district of Tamil Nadu with some parts in Puducherry
Published on Mar 18, 2025 09:56 am IST

Trees of South India: Read an excerpt about reviving an ancient native forest

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A rare of Albizzia lathamii, an endangered species, that the restorers found in a sacred grove near Pandalgudi, a village in Tamil Nadu. (Courtesy: Auroville Botanical Gardens)
Updated on Feb 21, 2025 09:15 pm IST

Anger and conspiracies loom large over the experimental community of Auroville

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Visitors stand near the Matri Mandir, an edifice of spiritual significance for practitioners of integral yoga, in Auroville near Pondicherry on April 9, 2022. (Photo by Arun SANKAR / AFP) (AFP)
Published on Sept 26, 2024 09:18 am IST

Review: Trees of South India by Paul Blanchflower and Marie Demont

The Lalbagh Botanical Garden in Bengaluru (Hemant Mishra/ Mint/ Hindustan Times Media)
Published on Jun 28, 2024 09:50 pm IST

On the road with Manou

The Kanchenjunga (Manou)
Published on Jun 06, 2024 10:33 pm IST

Report: Remembering Veenapani Festival (RVF), 2024

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Yuki Elias in The Far Post, a Lepcha play that explores the afterlife. (Courtesy Adishakti Theatre)
Updated on Apr 25, 2024 05:37 pm IST

Auroville, Promenade and more: Top 10 things to do in Pondicherry

Pondicherry’s history dates far back, legend has it that the ancient sage Agastya established his Ashram here and the place was known as Agastiswaram at that time.
Updated on Aug 02, 2019 03:47 pm IST

Coming home to daddy: Meet three single fathers who are challenging stereotypes and choosing the daddy life

Three single fathers open up about their parenting journey and fatherhood
Published on Jun 15, 2019 09:29 pm IST

Review: Beyond the Boulevards – A Short Biography of Pondicherry by Aditi Sriram

Children at the corner of Rue Lally Tollendal in the French quarter of Pondicherry in a photograph clicked in 1997.
Updated on May 03, 2019 05:32 pm IST

Colours, silent corners and food: A convergence called Puducherry

Matrimandir, Auroville.
Updated on Mar 26, 2019 03:33 pm IST

World Photography Day: Celebrate the photographer in you at these spots in India

Ladakh is every photographer’s delight.
Updated on Aug 19, 2018 09:28 am IST