The Auroville Experiment
Auroville literally means 'city of dawn', though the allusion to Aurobindo must surely have been intentional, and it is perhaps the power of that promise-of a fresh start-that keeps Aurovilians together, a community forged by people seeking refuge from the world as we know it.
Journalist and writer Akash Kapur grew up in Auroville before moving to the United States for boarding school and university. He returned to India, and Auroville, with his own family in 2003. Self-effacing almost to a fault, Kapur says hardly anything
