Always Close to Auroville: Surya
"Being born and brought up in and around Auroville makes it like a larger home for me."
March 18, 2021
"Being born and brought up in and around Auroville makes it like a larger home for me."
March 18, 2021
"I came to Auroville for the first 5 days, and after those 5 days I hated it, I was done with it. I thought it looked like a sect."
March 8, 2021
"I had plans to travel for 5 years. Then after Auroville I went to Indonesia, then Thailand, and I couldn’t stop thinking about this place."
October 7, 2020
"When you come here, you are seeking for something. If you are looking for a place to curse things, that is also possible."
October 4, 2020
"The challenges that I face now are two, one external and one internal."
October 2, 2020
"When I arrived Auroville was an unstructured place... Decisions were made, more or less in a decentralised way."
October 1, 2020
"Auroville is me. I am the problem, I am the solution."
September 26, 2020
"I had to be here. With this realization came the biggest challenge of my life, which was my decision to stay – to follow this calling."
June 26, 2020
"I also find it such a beauty and a challenge, to sit at a table with twelve people, with ten different nations represented... What that does, what the potentials are."
June 26, 2020
"The beauty of Auroville is that it is still a society that gives us a vast amount of freedom. This is not only the beauty, but also the responsibility."
June 10, 2020