Tag: autonomy
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Auroville as a Colonial Enclave: Western Entitlement, White Privilege and Indian Coconuts
In the ongoing series of posts under the title Uncovering Aurovillage I have been describing the cabal that is Aurovillage – a network of people in Auroville who have worked very hard and have been very successful in making sure that the project of Auroville remains a small, insular, parochial,…
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Sociological Intelligence, Administrative Autonomy for Auroville, and Anarchy
In a recent post about sociological intelligence I had written about how, as we move from self-centered tamasic and rajasic attributes to more altruistic sattwic attributes, our general thinking, understanding and outlook moves from being more insular to becoming wider and encompassing broader groupings of people. We begin to empathize…
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The Allure of Power, Authority and Control
In previous posts we have gone through the reasons why the idea of administrative autonomy is such a key topic of debate in Auroville. Administrative autonomy is indeed the central issue in the pitched battle that is ongoing in Auroville today. The small group of Aurovilians who have been running…
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Why Should Auroville Have (Some Level of) Autonomy? Part III
In the first post of this current sequence of posts on Auroville’s autonomy, I had pointed out two often mentioned quotes of The Mother regarding her aspiration for a place which no individual person or group could lay claim to, and which instead belonged to the entirety of humanity. In…
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Why Should Auroville Have (Some Level of) Autonomy? Part II
In the previous post (Why Should Auroville Have (Some Level of) Autonomy? Part I), we went through the spiritual and philosophical context behind the need for Auroville to have a level of administrative autonomy. In this post, we will unpack the correlations of terms such as spiritual anarchy and autonomy,…
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Why Should Auroville Have (Some Level of) Autonomy? Part I
In the previous post (Why is Auroville in India?), I had mentioned that the Indian government had granted Auroville a level of autonomy in its governance and functioning, via the Auroville Foundation Act of 1988. But why does Auroville need this autonomy at all? (This is a long post with…
Finding Auroville 