To be honest India is a great country I hope its people will have a great government that make the nation better coming from the Philippines.

Beautiful country, beautiful concept and beautiful people ❤

Very sadly, this is only a very biased view of Auroville's history and present reality. The journalist forgot to take into consideration the views of the largest portion of the residents for whom the city can not be built by force. The very purpose of Auroville is not to built a city but to build a new man!

France 24 needs to talk about Ecosia they are a search engine that plants

Oh thats absolutely cool

One time visit this city.... Then feel vibe

that sounds good

Bravo👏🤞🏻✌

bien filmé mais très imprécis compte tenu de ce qui se passe

I noticed a lot of plastic articles, like the plastic baskets, containers, now can it be a ecological dream when at its inceptions only so much plastics are been used.one can use bamboo baskets.

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11:33 of course they use ubuntu and firefox

Nice! I want too want keep a manbun and join this farming community without money!

#standforaurovilleunity

There is not enough work for all of the residents with a minimum maintenance. if somebody has no outside resource and can't pay a contributions is a big issue for the visa holders.

Asked 120 million euros from Indian government to propagate utopia ,when India needs funds for so many things,and also when auroville is nothing similar to what Sri Aurobindo would have liked it or be,it all cool,vogue,selling handmade stuff,long haired men,in kurta doing drum circles,far way fr Bharath and true snanatana.

When Osho did in usa They banished him from usa.

Thankful for the effort to present Auroville's reality, I do have to say, as always, that the statements like "everyone receives the same salary" are simply not true. It is NOT the reality of today. People have enormously different financial means, and a very vast portion of the 3,300 inhabitants have their own financial sources, that have nothing to do with the "equal salary" that Auroville provides. Auroville only provides a small portion of the residents with those "salaries", and the required "output" in return for that "salary" is hugely different. Secondly, there never ever was "unity" in Auroville. From its very start, the dominant doctrine, naturally, as in every society, was set by the most bullying and least spiritual faction of the society: the most brutal people will always be the most loud and the most influential. This was the same in Auroville, from day one, and Auroville's beautiful aims and ideals were hijacked immediately by people who had very low levels of consciousness, but were very skilled in manipulation. This leads to the third point: this dominant faction managed to suppress the real history of what happened here in the beginning, and has now made their mythological account of the early years the official story, more of a hagiography than a historical account. As with all colonies, all pre-existing realities need to be removed, and the arrival of the colonists presented as brave adventurers arriving on an empty land, which was, thanks to their hard work and great skills, transformed into a paradise. How many times will Europeans get away with this childish, idiotic lie? The colonists have to constantly make sure the lie is repeated and instilled in every person that comes, lest someone discover the reality of the colonial history, with all its dirty but strongly suppressed facts. The present turmoil is the inevitable result of a world no longer accepting that lies and falsehood are the age-old basis of society. Truth needs to be allowed to be told, and become the basis of our daily interactions, and the way we structure our communal life. The Auroville of the past 50+ years is dead. You may find this an absurd statement, an exaggeration without reality, but you will see it in the coming years. Auroville is being re-invented, the narratives that are being put out since the very early days, but which have never been real, quite on the contrary, are being put into reality. It will be needed to come back in 5 years to compare the Auroville picture here with the Auroville that is being born right now. Because the "no ownership" has never been anything but a nice propaganda line, and a legal reality. But the reality these colonists created, is of course one of possession and violent defending of powers and property rights. Auroville is at this very moment in the midst of a very nasty legal fight, waged by these colonists to prevent the past from being changed into the future. They cannot accept that the lives they built over all these decades are being put into question, that they now have to be accountable for their crass abuse of the freedoms India bestowed so uniquely and benevolently on the Aurovilians. They are turning it into a very ugly battle for property and ownership, showing you and everybody else that their nice talks of "equality" and "no money, no politics, no ownership" are only empty words, and cover up a very different reality. Luckily their reign is over, their grip over Auroville through bullying, emotional and physical intimidation and blackmailing is finally coming to an end. Please come back in five years, and document the immense difference you will see then with the reality of today.

It's mostly the Westerners living in AV protesting against the Galaxy Plan...the GOI is being very patient and understanding and trying hard to have a dialogue.

OMG I don't want to see there 47000 people more....

feel like a cult. why some people live in fancy places and others don't.

c'est une sorte d'évasion bourgeoise

So that’s Epcot and it’s all symbolic to meditation. Then why is America the capital of terror?

When pondecherry government was asked about iconic historic monument of pondecherry the answer was not Matri Mandir

I think the place is beautiful as it is now with full of greenery. trying to make it like a mega city is wrong idea , it will ruin the ambience

Many ppl might know this but they speak tamil better than many of us Tamils

Why do people in Auroville always look sad?

wrong point of view, i've lived there for 7 years

one thing i hate about auroville is that if i work more i better earn more. if i have money i want whatever i want to own.

Don't romanticise colonization, also That's a cult place though. My friend volunteered there. They do use currency.

The host of this video says "The Mother though never knew and died in the year....". That's when I stopped watching this video. No point watching and listening to someone who knows nothing about the Mother.

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