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Jul 20
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We arrived in Auroville, the utopian community 6km north of the southern Indian city of Pondicherry (a former French colony).  Auroville was founded in 1968 by an international collective, heavy on the French (‘68 - a year of aspirations for revolutionary utopias), and following the philosophies of Sri Aurobindo and “the Mother.”  This picture is of the Matrimandhir (or “sun sphere” as we call it - Simpsons reference).  Jecca is sitting on a bench in front of the community’s town hall, contemplating the utopianish aspects of the futuristic architecture.
We arrived in Auroville, the utopian community 6km north of the southern Indian city of Pondicherry (a former French colony).  Auroville was founded in 1968 by an international collective, heavy on the French (‘68 - a year of aspirations for revolutionary utopias), and following the philosophies of Sri Aurobindo and “the Mother.”  This picture is of the Matrimandhir (or “sun sphere” as we call it - Simpsons reference).  Jecca is sitting on a bench in front of the community’s town hall, contemplating the utopianish aspects of the futuristic architecture.