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Our world is in need of the Mahatma’s teachings: Dalai Lama
to promote peace of mind among seven billion beings, to offer compassion or karuna, strictly secularly, not based on religion.
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Statement and Appeal on Ladakh’s Union Territory Status
Include Ladakh in the Sixth Schedule of the Indian Constitution (Ladakh Autonomous Hill Development Council also to have control)
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Auroville’s innovators
The mystery of Auroville - celebrating a few initiatives and individuals
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United by spirituality, divided by religion
What constitutes right conduct – to understand the pain of another, to help those in distress and to serve with humility
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Legacies crucial for the commons
They encompass Marx’s vision of a society that bridges humanity’s ‘metabolic rift’ with nature, and Gandhi’s emphasis on living lightly on earth.
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Re-reading Tagore to Become Human
"... we are all willing to pay a premium to experience natural surroundings which offer nutriment to the soul"
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The Ficus in the Tea: The fight for the lonely atti maram (fig tree)
Other than a tiger, almost all the other large mammals in the region were seen under the lone fig tree!
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The think tank and the ashram
... to reinvent an ethics (so that) spirituality does not lose its sense of the sacred, or ethics its quest for a new sense of science.
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Navadarshanam – An Example Of True Development Right Outside Bengaluru
Navadarshanam which has thrived for over 25 years now is a living proof that an alternate vision of development can be achieved.