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The protests escalated when the Auroville administration tried to resume the work on the night of December 4 and 10, first with the police and then with the support of locals. However, on December 4, when the Auroville Town Development Council moved in an earthmover and began clearing trees in the wooded Bliss area and razing the make-shift Youth Centre to clear the Crown right-of-way, a section of outraged residents blockaded the work. The Master Plan evolved from French architect Roger Anger’s concept for a galaxy-shaped township that was approved by The Mother for the experimental city that would position the Matrimandir as the soul force. Governor Tamilisai Soundararajan among its members, while senior bureaucrat Jayanti Ravi was earlier appointed Secretary - has signalled a clear intent to expedite the Master Plan, which had been in cold storage for over two decades, with a fresh impetus to completing the Crown Project. Since it took over in October, Auroville Foundation’s new governing board - which has Tamil Nadu Governor R.N. Ravi as chairman, Puducherry Lt.

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Those exalted ideals of harmony and human unity were to be upended by a series of rapidly turning events in December when the administration began work on the Crown project under a Master Plan (Perspective 2025) in December last year.

And, perhaps the roots of the new crisis may also lie in that denouement which took away from Auroville a critical part of its self-governing autonomy and vested the Union with a larger oversight of the township and its guided growth.Īs the Mother envisioned it, Auroville (City of Dawn) would be a place “on earth a place which no nation could claim as its own, where all human beings of goodwill who have a sincere aspiration could live freely as citizens of the world and obey one single authority, that of the supreme Truth a place of peace, concord and harmony where all the fighting instincts of man would be used exclusively to conquer the causes of his sufferings and miseries.” Nearly five decades since an acrimonious power-ideological feud plunged the township in turmoil in the days following the Mother’s passing in 1973, the community once again stands bitterly divided over the path to the future.īack then, the crisis would culminate in a government takeover of Auroville in 1980 through the promulgation of the Auroville (Emergency Provisions) Ordinance - it later became the Auroville Foundation Act (1988) - and the subsequent failed challenge in the Supreme Court by Sri Aurobindo Society. It is passing through a special phase of commemorating its founding by Mirra Alfassa, or The Mother, on February 28, 1968, in a year that also coincides with the 150th birth anniversary celebrations of her spiritual mentor Sri Aurobindo.

A sense of existential crisis pervades what should have been a celebratory time in Auroville.