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The interlocking of science, spirituality, esoteric cognition and modern absorption concepts with the perfect of planetary quality unity is simply a cardinal taxable of the Auroville Literature Festival (ALF) that is nether mode astatine the cosmopolitan township.
The 2nd variation of ALF, which assembles an array of eminent scholars, writers, and thinkers from crossed the globe, is simply a reaffirmation of Auroville’s committedness to literature, taste dialogue, and the perfect of quality unity, Jayanti S. Ravi, Auroville Foundation Secretary and Gujarat Additional Chief Secretary, told a property league alongside Puducherry Chief Secretary Sharat Chauhan, connected Tuesday (December 16, 2025).
The lawsuit is being hosted by Auroville from December 15 to December 21 with the enactment of Ministry of Culture and Government of Puducherry.
The festival features a unsocial linguistic convergence of Sanskrit, Tamil, French, and English, which are the 4 authoritative languages designated by Auroville laminitis and spiritual collaborator of Sri Aurobindo, The Mother.
While Sanskrit was envisioned arsenic the cosmopolitan connection of the township, Tamil represents the connection of the onshore connected which Auroville stands with French reflecting The Mother’s origins and humanities connections with erstwhile Pondicherry and English serving arsenic the planetary connection of this planetary experiment, the Secretary said.
With astir 60 nationalities represented successful Auroville, the festival serves arsenic a vibrant level for cross-cultural knowing done translations and satellite literature. The week-long lawsuit has a divers docket of keynotes, sheet discussions, publication launches, and taste performances crossed aggregate venues successful Auroville.
Celebrating the literate bequest of Sri Aurobindo arsenic a profound interpreter of the Vedas and writer of the epic Savitri, is simply a cardinal absorption of the festival, Ms. Ravi said.
The Sanskrit conception (December 15 and 16), which commenced the fete with Vedic chanting and a keynote by Sampadananda Mishra connected ‘Sri Aurobindo connected Sanskrit’, included a league connected ‘The Unbreakable Logic’ by V. Ramanathan and a store connected discovering Sanskrit done The Mother’s verses.
The two-day Tamil conception of the festival begins connected December 17 with a keynote by S. Ramachandran connected ‘The Secret of the Vedas’. The highlights, see a treatment connected the Kamba Ramayana by S. Jagannathan and Jatayu, and a league connected ‘Cultural portrayal successful Tamil Literature’.
The French conception that runs concurrently features a treatment connected Romain Rolland and Rabindranath Tagore with theatre personalities Pravin Kannanur and Jean Paul Sermadiras.
Other notable sessions, see a dialog connected the ‘Gift Economy’ (La Revolution du don) and melodramatic readings ranging from Baudelaire to modern poets.
The three-day English constituent of the festival astatine the Unity Pavilion volition person a league connected ‘Conscious Capitalism’, featuring Sridhar Vembu, Zoho laminitis and Harsh Gupta, concern banker, erstwhile Indian envoys Navtej Sarna and T.S. Tirumurti starring a treatment connected ‘Navigating the breakdown of the satellite order’ and a league ‘From Shiva to Schrödinger’ by Mrittunjay Guha Majumdar focusing connected Trika Shaivism and quantum insights.
Poets Arundhati Subramaniam (’The assemblage of upside down women’) and Gayatri Majumdar (From Auroville and the world) instrumentality the signifier for a league portion writer Chandrachud Ghose speaks astatine a peculiar league connected ‘Sri Aurobindo and Netaji’.
A tribute league to Kireet Joshi, erstwhile president of the Auroville Foundation volition beryllium marked by the merchandise of the Zonal Development Plans for Auroville.
The lawsuit is unfastened to the public, said organisers who are besides keen connected attracting younker and children from crossed the region. In fact, the festival has 1 conception devoted to children that includes readings of the ‘Cactus Wants a Gug’ by Neil Flory and ‘A Tree successful My Stomach’ by Nandita Rao.
A ‘sound bath’ by Svaram, Silambam and Kalaripayattu demonstrations, a philharmonic presumption of Savitri by Shree Vaidehi and taste performances are among the sidelights.
