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An Offering

For a new beginning

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Une offrande

Pour un nouveau commencement

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2024-2025

Greetings.

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Here is a first document conceived for a

collaborative work of scrutiny and research so as to

reach, now itself, in 2024, a new threshold of

common commitment at the service of Auroville.

The document which will result of this shared

research can then serve as a basis for a unified

collective action.

Notes for a new beginning.

Introduction:

There has been a break, a fracture, a disruption in

our collective experience and in the temporal history

of Auroville: in 2021, the central Government of

India took over the control of all assets, lands and

services of Auroville and massively invested public

funds, through its Ministry of Education, so as to

hasten what it deems to be a priority in the outer

development of the “project”.

This orientation has been made possible by the

conviction a number of Aurovilians held of the

imperative necessity to win back all the time lost in

the meanders of a collective experiment too

nebulous and vitiated by egoism.

According to them, the general plan of the

city-to-be as prepared by the team of Roger Anger

in the 70s, constituted an indefectible program of

action decreed by the Mother and neglected,

ignored or contested for far too long. This particular

approach has provided a laudable argument for the

Government to actually engage in its own principal

objective of reclaiming this whole enterprise of

international repute as its own on the world-scene,

determining its actions on the ground through its

chosen representatives.

This intervention has had many consequences,

materially as well as psychologically.