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Girish Karnad's Plays : Performance and Critical Perspectives, Edited by Tutun Mukherjee

Contributors : Vijaykumar M. Boratti & Nikhila Haritsa, B. Yadava Raju, Basavaraj S. Naikar, Veena Noble Dass, Aparna Dharwadkar, C.R. Simha, M.K. Naik, Erin B. Mee,P. Dhanavel, N.P. Ashley, Moutushi Chakravartee, B.T. Seetha,V. Rangan, Jose George, Sharmila Sreekumar and K.C. Bindu, Kavalam Narayana Panikkar, Arundhati Banerjee, H.S. Krishnamurthy, Ananda Lal, Rama Nair, P. Jayalakshmi, Mala Renganathan, Mamta G. sagar, Arjun Sajnani, Sumita Roy, S.Subhash Chandran, Krishnamurthy Hanur, Grace Sudhir, Maya Pandit, Prasanna,Tutun Mukherjee, Jasbir Jain ISBN 81-85753-71-7 2006 380pp plus 20
photoprints Rs. 695(hb)

Forster's A Passage To India: An Anthology of Recent Criticism, Edited by G.K. Das and Christel R. Devadawson

Contributors : Nigel Rapport,Alison Sainsbury,Parminder Bakshi,Sara Mills, Brenda R. Silver, Eiko Ohira, Tariq Rahman, Christel R. Devadawson, G.K.Das ISBN 81-85753-66-0 2005 232pp Rs. 450(hb)

Writing Difference : The Novels of Shashi Deshpande, Edited by Chanchala K. Naik

Contributors: Shashi Deshpande, Jasbir Jain, Shalmalee Palekar, Kalidas Misra, Kailash C. Baral, Arindam Chatterji, Avadhesh kumar Singh, Parag Moni Sarma, Guru Charan Behera, Rama Gautam, A.G. Khan, Vijaya Guttal ISBN 81-85753-69-5 2005 248pp Rs. 480(hb)

U.R. Anantha Murthy's SAMSKARA A Critical Reader, Edited by Kailash C. Baral, D. Venkat Rao and Sura P. Rath

Contributors : Kailash C. Baral,D. Venkat Rao,Sura P.Rath, U.R. Anantha Murthy,S. Jayasrinivasa Rao,K.V. Tirumalesh,Meenakshi Mukherjee, Suresh Raval,TRS Sharma,R. Radhakrishnan,nalini Natarajan, Dunkin Jalki,Vanamala Viswanatha,Julian Crandall Hollick and Sebana Coelho ISBN 81-85753-70-9 2005 256pp Rs. 480(hb)

Vikram Seth's A Suitable Boy: An Anthology of Recent Criticism, Edited by Murari prasad

Contributors: Himansu S. Mohapatra and Jatindra K. Nayak, Neelam Shrivastava, Christopher Rollason,Ian Almond,Murari Prasad,Mala Pandurang,David Myers, Felicity Hand,Cielo G. Festino ISBN 81-85753-72-5 2005 180pp Rs. 400(hb)

Chinua Achebe: An Anthology of Recent Criticism, Edited by Mala Pandurang ISBN 81-85753-73-3 2005 256pp Rs. 495(hb)

Amitav Ghosh: Critical Perspectives, Edited by Brinda Bose

Contributors : Kavita Daiya, GJV Prasad, Vinita Chandra, Neelam Srivastava, Roma Chatterji, Shirley Chew, Bishnupriya Ghosh, Rakhee Moral, Tapan Basu, Meenakshi Malhotra, Mita Bose, Arunima Paul, Swaati Chattopadhyay, Neha Dixit, Arunima Sengupta, Srimati Basu ISBN 81-85753-52-0 2005 224pp. Rs. 440(hb)

R.K. Narayan: An Anthology of Recent Criticism, Edited by C.N. Srinath

Contributors : V.Y. Kantak, C.D. Narasimhaiah, Lakshmi Holmström, Vineypalkaur Kirpal, William Walsh, Meena Sodhi, K. Chellappan, Syd Harrex, R.K. Jayantha, Britta Olinder, Michel Pousse, Patrick Swinden ISBN 81-85753-38-5 2005 192pp. Rs. 450(hb)

Jane Austen : An Anthology of Recent Criticism, Edited by Harish Trivedi

Contributors: Sharmila Bhatt, Julia Prewitt Brown, Peter Conrad, David Lodge, Oliver MacDonagh, Meenakshi Mukherjee, Edward Neill, Nicholas E. Preus, Edward Said, Amy Elizabeth Smith, Robyn R.Warhol, et al ISBN 81-85753-08-3 2005  256pp. Rs. 400(hb)

D.H. Lawrence : An Anthology of Recent Criticism, Edited by Aruna Sitesh

Contributors : Peter Balbert, Elizabeth Anne Campbell, Carol Dix, Dennis Jackson, Graham Martin, Peter New, Joan D. Peters, Faith Pullin, Keith Sagar, Gamini Salgado, H.S. Saxena, Aruna Sitesh, Carol Sklenicka, George Watson ISBN 81-85753-65-2 2005 232pp. Rs. 450(hb)

W.B. Yeats : An Anthology of Recent Criticism, Edited by G.R. Taneja

Contributors : Harold F. Brooks, Ronald Bush, Suheil B. Bushrui, Joseph Chadwick, Gayatri Chakravorty-Spivak, R.W. Desai, Sonjoy Dutta-Roy, Linda L. Fox, Nancy D. Hargrove, Rob Jackaman, Debra Journet, R.B. Kershner, Russell E. Murphy, Evan Radcliffe, G.R. Taneja ISBN 81-85753-07-5 2005 240pp. Rs. 400(hb)

Vikram Seth : An Anthology of Recent Criticism, Edited by GJV Prasad

Contributors : K.C. Baral, Meenakshi Bharat, Nandini Chandra, Angela Eyre, Tabish Khair, Priya Kumar, Jon Mee, Angelie Multani, Mala Pandurang, GJV Prasad, Anjana Sharma, Neelam Srivastava ISBN 81-85433-61-X 2004 192pp Rs. 400(hb)

V.S. Naipaul : An Anthology of Recent Criticism, Edited by Purabi Panwar

Contributors : Anjali Gera, Pratap Bhanu Mehta, Meenakshi Bharat, Chandra B. Joshi, Chandra Chatterjee, Sudha Rai, Kavita Nandan, Richard Allen, Gillian Dooley, S. S. Sharma, Kanika Batra, Amit Chaudhuri, Fukrul Alam ISBN 81-85753-54-7 2003 200pp. Rs. 400(hb)

Rushdie's Midnight's Children : A Book of Readings, Edited by Meenakshi Mukherjee

Contributors : Rober Alter, Richard Cronin, Patricia Marivale, Nancy Batty, Keith Booker, Rukmini Bhaya Nair, Nalini Natarajan, Harish Trivedi, T. Vijay Kumar, Meenakshi Mukherjee, Clement Hawes, Josna E. Rege, Neil Ten Kortenaar ISBN 81-85753-28-8 2003 232pp. Rs. 400(hb)

Robert Frost : An Anthology of Recent Criticism, Edited by Manorama Trikha

Contributors : Helen H. Bacon, Nina Baym, Reginald L. Cook, Phillip Gerber, Dorothy J. Hall, Vivian C. Hopkins, V.Y. Kantak, Frank Lentricchia, J.F. Lynen, William Mulder, George W. Nitchie, John Oliver Perry, Richard Poirier ISBN 81-85433-01-1 2003 216pp. Rs. 400(hb)

T.S. Eliot : An Anthology of Recent Criticism, Edited by Tapan Kumar Basu

Contributors : Tapan Kumar Basu, Jonathan Bishop, Jewel Spears Brooker, Ronald Bush, Denis Donoghue, Sonjoy Dutta-Roy, Melissa A. Eiles, Armin Paul Frank, Linda Leavell, Marc Manganaro, RamaNair, Rajnath, Audrey T. Rodgers, Virendra K. Roy, Vinod Sena, Stanley Sultan ISBN 81-85753-01-6 2001 240pp. Rs. 400(hb)

Raja Rao : An Anthology of Recent Criticism, Edited by Ragini Ramachandra

Contributors : R. Parthasarathy, M.K. Naik, Edwin Thumboo, V.Y. Kantak, C.D. Narasimhaiah, S. Nagarajan, Claudio Gorlier, A.N. Gupta, S.C. Harrex, Shyamala A. Narayan, Ragini Ramachandra, Paul Sharrad, J. Srihari Rao ISBN 81-85753-39-3 2000 192pp. Rs. 350(hb)

Ernest Hemingway : Centennial Essays, Edited by E. Nageswara Rao

Contributors : P.G. Rama Rao, N. Ramachandran Nair, Tutun Mukherjee, Somdatta Mandal, M. Sridhar, Uma Tuli, Rahul, Pratima Agnihotri, Soma Banerjee, T. Bharathi, Linda Dittmar, S. Josh, Kalidas Misra, E. Nageswara Rao, Aviram Singh, Alladi Uma ISBN 81-85753-36-9 2000 152pp. Rs. 320(hb)

P.B. Shelley : An Anthology of Recent Criticism, Edited by N.P. Singh

Contributors : Lloyd Abbey, Nathaniel Brown, Frederick Burwick, Andrew M. Cooper, Leela Gandhi, Patricia Hodgart, William Keach, Sikandar Lal, Tilottama Rajan, Kavita A. Sharma, Ram Bilas Sharma, N.P.Singh, Earl R. Wasserman

ISBN-81-85753-03-2 1999 248pp. Rs. 400(hb)

John Keats : An Anthology of Recent Criticism, Edited by E. Nageswara Rao

Contributors : A.A. Ansari, Cynthia Chase, Donald C. Goellnicht, Michael E. Holstein, Brooke Hopkins, Greg Kucich, Deborah Pope, Tilottama Rajan, E. Nageswara Rao, R.K. Raval, Marlon B. Ross, A.B. Sharma, Helen Vendler, Leon Waldoff, Daniel P. Watkins ISBN 81-85753-02-4 1998 232pp. Rs. 350(hb)

Mark Twain : An Anthology of Recent Criticism, Edited by Prafulla C. Kar

Contributors : John E. Bassett, Pascal Covici, Jr., Dilip Kumar Das, Jane Gardiner, Prafulla C. Kar, James L. Kastely, Louis A. Renza, Forrest G. Robinson, Joseph Sawicki, George E. Toles, Biyot K. Tripathy ISBN 81-85753-00-8 1998 224pp. Rs. 350(hb)

William Shakespeare : An Anthology of Recent Criticism, Edited by Leela Gandhi

Contributors : Sukanta Chaudhuri, R.W. Desai, Udayan Mitra, Ruth Vanita, Supriya Chaudhuri, Janet Adelman, Ann Blake, Suroopa Mukherjee, A.D. Nuttall, Josheph Pequigney, Valerie Traub, Leela Gandhi ISBN 81-85753-24-5 1998 232pp. Rs. 350(hb)

Joseph Conrad : An Anthology of Recent Criticism, Edited by Lalitha Ramamurthi & C.T. Indra

Contributors : Jennifer Margulis, Dieter Reimenschneider, Sophie Jose Tharakan, Bridget Dohnallan, Heliena M. Krenn, P. Radhika, Addison Bross, Jorge Sacido-Romero, Prahlad Kulkarni, Lalitha Ramamurthi, C.T. Indra ISBN 81-85753-26-1 1998 184pp. Rs. 350(hb)

Feminist Theory and Modern Drama: An Anthology of Recent Criticism, Edited by Taisha Abraham.

Contributors : Kamal Bhasin, Elizabeth Brown-Guillory, Shari Benstock, Gloria Cahill, Elin Diamond, Jill Dolan, J. Ellen Gainor, Katherine Hanson, Naresh K. Jain, Zakia Pathak, Janelle Reinelt, Taisha Abraham ISBN 81-85753-19-7 1998 232pp. Rs. 350(hb)

Critical Theory/Translation Studies

In Translation  Reflections,Refractions, Transformations Edited by: Paul Si-Pierre and Prafulla C. Kar

Critical Theory Western and Indian Edited by: Prafulla C. Kar

Postmodernism and Feminism Canadian Context Edited by: Shirin Kudchedkar

Rethinking Modernity Edited by: Santosh Gupta, Prafulla C. Kar
and Parul Dave Mukherji

Critical Spectrum Essays in Literary Culture
In honour of Professor C.D. Narasimhaiah Edited by: Satish C. Aikant

Feminism Theory, Criticism, Analysis Sushila Singh

Identities Local and Global Edited by: Kailash C. Baral & Prafulla C. Kar

Interpretation of Texts Text, Meaning and Interpretation Edited by: Kailash C. Baral

Creating Theory  Writers on Writing Edited by: Jasbir Jain

Translations and Multilingualism Post-Colonial Contexts Edited by: Shantha Ramakrishna

Literary Theory (Re)Reading Culture and Aesthetics Edited by: Jameela Begum and B. Hariharan

Literary Theory and Criticism Edited by: A.P. Dani and V.M. Madge

Classical Literary Theory and Criticism Edited by: A.P. Dani and V.M. Madge

Translation as Recovery Edited by: Meenakshi Mukherjee With an Introduction by Harish Trivedi

Glimpses of World Literature  Essays Presented to Professor M.S. Nagarajan Edited by: N. Eakambaram & V. Saraswathi

Remapping Culture  Nobel Laureates In Literature (1986-97) Edited by: C. Vijayasree, et al

Humanities and Pedagogy Teaching of Humanities Today Edited by: Kailash C. Baral

Feminist Theory and Modern Drama An Anthology of Recent Criticism Edited by: Taisha Abraham

Sex becomes industrialised, cleansed of seduction

imaginations of postfascist italy from & where do all these highways go now that we are free by anirban

In a famous essay published in 1975, Susan Sontag asked why fascism was becoming increasingly attractive to people

Barthes analyses Sade’s libertines as having little interest in boys since they offer only one “site of intromission.” The woman is more interesting to the libertine because she offers two.[23] Salò of course, reworks this logic totally. Pasolini’s fascists pick young boys for their subjects. There are women in the château but they either have no role whatsoever or they emerge in the form of older femme fatales who narrate pornographic tales which stimulate the masters. Baudrillard’s reading of the near total elimination of the woman from Salò seems to me convincing. He argues that in Salò everything is “masculine and dead.” Here sex becomes industrialised, cleansed of seduction. This project of masculinisation is achieved by cleansing the screen of any significant women characters. The ranconteuses are an exception. Old and distinctly un-beautiful, these women narrate- accompanied by piano- pornographic stories to sexually stimulate the masters. As Ravetto argues however, they are not symbolic of womanhood in any feminist sense. Rather, they are depicted by Pasolini as accomplices to the system of masculine domination.[24] Pasolini is working against certain readings of fascism where the identity of woman and man are stabilised through enactment of oedipal fantasies. A case in point is Martin Von Essenbeck in Visconti’s The Damned, where Sophie (his mother) indicates she is aware of her son’s sexual desire, and in the process allows him to “break the oedipal taboo” and satisfy this oedipal desire; following which Martin is ‘reborn’ as a feminised yet misogynist Nazi.[25]

On the other hand Cavani’s film is a complicated feminist response that seems to be in dialogue with representations like Visconti’s. It is also interesting at the same time, to think of Night Porter alongside Salò the ways in which is foregrounds questions of sexuality. Ravetto argues that Cavani’s destabilisation of identity is a challenge not only to male filmmakers but also to feminist critiques of cinematic apparatus like Laura Mulvey who seek always to stabilise both identity and the gaze.[26] Cavani uses the language of cinema to expose the problematic in cinematic representations of Nazism. In Night Porter, all the scenes involving Max, Lucia and/or Bert are depicted in flashback, generally with a greatly heightened sense of drama. Ravetto argues that the figure of Bert dancing brings to mind neoclassical aesthetics of the male body. The Nazi officers listen to classical music, thus underscoring their learned nature. Through editing techniques like flashbacks and the musical score Cavani tries to expose the way in which representations of the holocaust are themselves constructed in cinema. Cavani, Ravetto argues, uses aesthetics to manipulate and in the process reveals film language as just that: a language that is used to construct and produce representations. 

Chaturvedi Badrinath, Badri-La, Auroville

Chaturvedi Badrinath (1933-2010)

from The Middle Stage by Chandrahas

I was saddened to hear of the demise, on the 17th of February, of Chaturvedi Badrinath, a writer and philosopher I admired greatly. Badrinath was the author of several notable books, including The Mahabharata: An Inquiry Into The Human Condition (2006), Swami Vivekananda: The Living Vedanta (2006), Introduction to the Kamasutra(1999), and The Women of the Mahabharata (2008).

Badrinath's literary career began, by today's standards, fairly late in life, when he was in his forties. (He was a member of the Indian Administrative Service from 1957 to 1989, and this consumed his energies in his youth). Unusually, the last decade of his life, with the world of action exchanged for one of reflection, was the most prolific of his literary career. Indeed, it was through his last published book, The Women of the Mahabharata, that I first became acquainted with his work. Merely to read the introduction of this book was to realise that one was in the company of a first-rate reader.

Great literary works by their very nature condense thought, pressure language, revel in ambiguities, and make meaning through symbols, patterns, motifs and repetition rather than than through explicit statement. They replicate life's mystery and complexity through their own patterns of speech, suggestion, and silence.

It follows then that one of the primary tasks of literary criticism is exegesis: the explication, often at a length several times that of the text being scrutinised, of a text's net of meanings and complexity of structure. Sometimes criticism itself becomes epigrammatic, vivid in imagery, rich in the play of ideas. This is the signal quality of Badrinath's work in his two great books on the Mahabharata, books which qualify both as literary criticism and as philosophy. A short excerpt from one of them is here.

Last summer I happened to be in Pondicherry, and took the opportunity extended by Badrinath's daughter, the novelist Tulsi Badrinath, to see him at his residence in Auroville, where he had been living in relative solitude for several years. The bungalow was called Badri-La, and inside I found the writer, physically infirm but mentally spry, chortling over a joke with a friend. His spacious living-room was full of fine books on religion and philosophy, many of them of interest to me. We chatted for two or three hours about the writing life, about problems with publishing, about the value of concision and density in writing, and (since he was at work on his autobiography) about the place of the "I" and of self-observation in literature.

Badrinath asked as many questions as he answered, and sucked gleefully on his pipe as he spoke – a pursuit gave him even more pleasure now that the doctor had forbidden it. I noticed too how involved he was with the lives of his staff, and their children. Despite his age and his remote location, he still ran a house very competently. I remember how, when at lunch I asked for some ghee to go with my rice and dal, he was enormously annoyed that the kitchen had run out of ghee the day before, and spoke with some astringency on the necessity of anticipating problems instead of finding oneself embarrassed by them later.

The last honour of Badrinath's distinguished career was the Sahitya Akademi Award in 2009 for his literary criticism, which pleased him greatly. Confined to his hospital bed, he sent his daughter on to receive it, but did not live to see her return. The last interview he gave is here. On hearing of his death, I regretted enormously my failure to take up his invitation to return to Badri-La to stay for a few days. But every writer of distinction lives on in his or her books, and Badrinath's magisterial mind and voice suffuse his written work. I look forward to returning to his books – those which I have read, and those that I haven't – and to getting to know Chaturvedi Badrinath better. One of Badrinath's essays, "The Karma Conundrum", is here. Insights Dharma, India & the World Order, Finding Jesus in Dharma: Christianity in India, Swami Vivekananda, the Living Vedanta, Women of the Mahabharata: TLE Question of Truth

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FRENCH DREAMING                     

Written by Andrea     Thursday, 11 February 2010

A Western Classical Music Recital with guest artists from Switzerland: Anna Adamik, piano and Martin Merker, cello. Compositions by Gabriel Fauré, Claude Debussy, Nadia Boulanger and César Franck About the artists: Anna Adamik is a native of Budapest, Hungary. She studied at the famed Franz Liszt Conservatory under Annámaria Krause and Tamás Fulep. She continued her studies at the Musikuniversität in Vienna/Austria under Paul Badura Skoda and at the Musikhochschule Freiburg/Germany with Ramón Walter. Martin Merker was born in 1965 in Stuttgart/Germany. He studied Cello with Russian cellist Karine Georgian at the Musikhochschule Detmold in Germany, Reinhard Latzko and Ivan Monighetti at the Musikakademie Basel, Switzerland and with Lluís Claret in Barcelona. He is a prizewinner of several international chamber music competitions.

           

HAPPENINGS FROM EVERYWHERE                

Written by Nadine      Wednesday, 10 February 2010

Today´s news features an excerpt from the Butoh dance by Atsushi Takenouchi and his workshop participants in Bharat Nivas yesterday, accompanied by Japanese live music. Also announced in the news: Ramli Ibrahim, the Malaysian pioneer dancer in the major fields of dance he has mastered – Bharatanatyam and Odissi as well as Contemporary Dance - will perform tonight on February the 10th at Bharat Nivas. Furthermore there will be an Arabic night with dinner, dance and music on Friday the 12th in Sve-Dame and the workshop “Familienaufstellung – Family constellation” also held this Friday in Pitanga.

AUROVILLE S'INSTALLE EN AFRIQUE                       

Written by Chloe         Wednesday, 10 February 2010

Dans le sillage d'Auroville, d'autres initiatives bourgeonnent...En pleine savane africaine, au milieu d'une végétation sahélienne clairsemée, sur des sols pauvres, voici le premier Aurovillage... Hassan est venu pour la première fois à Auroville il y a 25 ans. Après avoir passé quelques mois à Auroville, il  rentre en France pour faire une formation en pépinière et arboriculture avec l'idée en tête de revenir s'installer à Auroville. Mais le destin en a décidé autrement. En effet son chemin à croisé celui de Pierre Rabih qui à l'époque montait un projet en agro-écologie au Burkina Faso.  Il passa un vingtaine d'année en Afrique de l'Ouest et créa L'Orange Bleue, ONG qui s'inspire de l'enseignement de Sri Aurobindo utilisant une approche intégrale.

ANITA AND MIRRA ON LFA                   

Written by Varun        Wednesday, 10 February 2010

On 29 January was the Litter Free Auroville Campaign a very bold and passionate venture to make a less polluted and and more environment aware Auroville. On this day more than one thousand school children and adults collected litter from the roads of Auroville brought them all to Certitude for further processing. Along with this were so many activities for making people aware of the better world on the other side of all the pollution and many more fun activities. In a conversation with Anita and Mirra two of the many active facilitators they shared their views about the campaign, and many ideas to make a cleaner Earth.

STONE                       

Written by Mari          Tuesday, 09 February 2010

In a solo contemporary dance performance at Bharat Nivas on 6th of February Atsushi Takenouchi showed us a different world of dance. He follows the Butoh way of dance which is almost fifty years old, and it was born as a part of spiritual revolution in 60ies all over the world. Butoh was body revolution without political connotation, and Atsushi told us that on the stage you can make any kind of movement, not only beautiful movement, dancers can express themselves as they like, they open their bodies to the movements without thinking. Dance is mixed performance of elements of improvisation on a given structure, and on music of mainly natural sounds, which Hiroko Komiya create with Atsushi.

TSUNAMIKA BIRTHDAY             

Written by Nadine      Tuesday, 09 February 2010

“She is a symbol, a living symbol with her own life / As her name suggests, she is a child of tsunami / The tsunami that changed the lives of millions / She is the memory of Tsunami...”

Last Sunday the celebration of Tsunamika´s 5th birthday was hold in Periyamudaliyarchavadi. At this event many entertaining and informative performances, speeches, games, plays, dances, competitions and interesting activities like stitching/drawing your personal Tsunamika took place and made that day joyful and worth to remember. Here are some thoughts and impressions about Tsunamika and her birthday party.

MUSICA, COMIDA Y... TANGO               

Written by Mari          Tuesday, 09 February 2010

“El día que me quieras, la rosa que engalana se vestirá de fiesta con su mejor color...”Las noticias de esta semana traen un evento muy especial: la Fiesta del Tango, con la tradicional cena española, en el Visitor Center. Con la presencia de más de 150 personas se ha celebrado ayer esta fantástica velada que además de traer platos tradicionales de España y América Latina, también nos proporciono un increíble show de Tango, con mucho baile e improvisación. También tenemos el estreno de una película muy interesante y más eventos del One Asia 2010.

BRAZILIAN NIGHT AT SADHANA FOREST                

Written by Nadine      Monday, 08 February 2010

Last Friday, the 5th of February 2010, the residents of Sadhana Forest invited numerous guests to their Brazilian Night. A very interesting film about the art of Capoeira and its development was shown, delicious vegan organic Feijoada was served and finally the audience could listen to and watch an amazing play by the Sadhana Forest Band. With a lot of wonderful Brazilian rhythms like Samba and Axé, the band offered a humorous understanding of  Brazil´s past, including the story of the slaves, colonization, and the indigenous people from the Amazon.

BIRTHDAY PARTY             

Written by Marlenka           Monday, 08 February 2010

Today's news recognizes an all day event that took place yesterday in honour of Tsunamika's fifth birthday, organized

entirety by the many villages who work to produce the small but famous Tsunamika image, which personifies the survival and hope and livelihood of so many who were devastated by the tsunami five years ago. Also in the news an announcement for a classical music concert: two guest  artists  from  Switzerland, a cellist and a pianist both well known in their fields, performing tomorrow at Pitanga.

L'AVENIR IN PROCESS PART 3              

Written by Radio Team          Monday, 08 February 2010

The last meeting regarding the renewal of L’Avenir d’Auroville was focused on the organisation and detailing of this process. Due to unavailability of space in the Pavillion of Tibetan Culture, this 3rd working session was exceptionally held in the Town Hall on Tuesday, 29th December 2009, at 10 am, in the Conference Room. All those who have been already participating in the first two sessions were present as well others who helped in constructing further on the ideas.

The proposed process was then presented to the community and the Governing Board, on the occasion of the meeting on L’Avenir d’Auroville with the GB (B.V. Doshi, Ameeta Mehra and Ajoy Bagchi) and residents on the 2nd January 2010.

WEEKLY SCHEDULE                     

Written by Radio Team          Sunday, 07 February 2010

This week you can listen to:

+ Nadaka & Gopika

+ The Fashion Parade presented by Jesse

+ The Mohanam Boys

+ The Brand New Band

+ Krishna, Laurent & Patcha Mama

+ Tiago & Ana and the percussionist of Sadhana Forest

+ Emergence - Live in Bharat Nivas

+ Ziskakam & Mayapouni

+ Visit of leading Design and Planning professionals

+ Irina Bokova and Aurovilians

TRASHION SHOW!           

Written by Andrea      Saturday, 06 February 2010

The Trashion Show event at the Visitor Center was packed. More than 400 people came to see the fashion parade spectacular featuring garments and accessories made entirely from trash and recycled junk. The event challenged Auroville's best designers to work with Auroville's worst materials.

The entertainment featured: Nadaka & Gopika - performing with the relevant theme in mind. The Mohanam Boys - making percussion music out of litter, The Brand New Band - representing the youth our future. Krishna (Emergence) - playing home-grown eco-friendly fusion. Patcha Mama - getting you grooving to sustainable ska/reggae. Tiago & Ana and the percussionist from Sadhana Forest.

Jesse, the ever splendid trash talking host presented the event. AurovilleRadio