A section of Auroville residents had protested the MoU signing 100 acres of Auroville to IIT-Madras saying it would displace Annapurna Farm, the community’s central granary.
Auroville Governing Board signed MoU with IIT Madras 8 July to establish a campus focussed on sustainability & aimed at achieving global excellence in sustainable technologies.
Established as a lab of universal collaboration, Auroville finds itself caught in a clash between residents & authorities — and even among different residents — over its evolution.
There have been internal and external tensions at Auroville. But resolving these can't be done through violent actions and top-down imposition by the State.
India has been generously hosting an international experiment, but it cannot be a bystander to foreign residents’ rebellion against Indian authorities.
The Nirouyeh Vijeh Pasdaran Velayat, or NOPO, was the only force Ali Khamenei trusted.It was founded in 1991 and is more feared than the Revolutionary Guards.
Rating democracies is a tricky business. I am only using the simple metric of who in the Indian subcontinent has had the most peaceful, stable, normal political transitions and continuity.
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