Auroville Foundation plans next edition of literature festival

6 months ago 2
ARTICLE AD BOX
Auroville Foundation convened a gathering  connected  Monday (November 10, 2025) to sermon   the scope   of the upcoming variation  of Auroville Literature Festival.

Auroville Foundation convened a gathering connected Monday (November 10, 2025) to sermon the scope of the upcoming variation of Auroville Literature Festival. | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement

Auroville Foundation convened a gathering to springiness signifier to the adjacent variation of the Auroville Literature Festival scheduled successful December.

According to a property note, the gathering held successful Auroville was attended by officials from Puducherry and Gujarat who discussed preparations for the literate festival being hosted arsenic portion of the ongoing celebrations commemorating the 150th commencement day of Sri Aurobindo.

Sharat Chauhan, Chief Secretary of Puducherry, Jayanthi S. Ravi, Additional Chief Secretary of the Government of Gujarat and Secretary of the Auroville Foundation and elder officials and secretaries from the Puducherry medication attended the meeting. The discussions focused connected the coordination, planning, and execution of the forthcoming festival, envisioned arsenic a important taste and acquisition level that celebrates Sri Aurobindo’s imaginativeness of quality unity, consciousness, and originative expression, the property enactment added.

The inaugural variation of the Auroville Literature Festival was held successful August, 2023.

In summation to the festival preparations, the officials besides reviewed infrastructure improvement plans, with peculiar absorption connected the newly-proposed Outer Radial Road, designed to heighten connectivity successful and astir Auroville. As portion of this initiative, attraction would beryllium taken for the relocation and preservation of implicit 60 mature trees, the property enactment said.

Among those who participated were A. Muthamma, Commissioner-cum-Secretary to Government of Puducherry and Mohammed Ahsan Abid, Secretary, Art and Culture.

Following the meeting, the officials visited cardinal taste and creator landmarks successful Auroville, including Bharat Nivas (India Space), Kala Kendra, and the Tamil Heritage Centre — each of which are acceptable to play a pivotal relation successful hosting activities for the Auroville Literature Festival, the 150th commencement day celebrations of Sri Aurobindo, and the upcoming ‘Margazhi Utsavam’, the property enactment added.

Published - November 11, 2025 07:36 p.m. IST

Read Entire Article