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Issue No: 313-314, August-September 2015

A 4000 Ladies' Special

Performers at the Women’s Solidarity Festival Six years ago, Auroville Village Action (AVAG) organized its first Women’s Solidarity Festival. Thousands of women from AVAG’s Women’s Self-Help Groups came together in an event that was described as unique, path-breaking and intensely motivating for all participants. Calls were made to do it again. Yet, funds were not available and AVAG kept postponing. Till this year, when the Women’s Self Help Groups decided that the event should happen and that they too would contribute financially. And so, on July 19th, the second Women’s Solidarity Festival was held at the grounds of Auroville’s Village Action in Irumbai village. More than 4,000 women from the region participated, some from villages as far away as 25 kilometres. Hours before the event began the women started flooding the compound, huge smiles on their faces, carrying placards with the name of their Women’s Self-Help Group, each group dressed in identical sarees. Slow...
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Issue No. 313-314, August-September 2015

  • Scenes from Sri Aurobindo's Savitri
  • A Testimony to Stubborn Persistence
  • Initiators and Sustainers
  • Economics for People and Earth - part 2
  • Newcomer Housing
  • The Integral Entrepeneurship Lab
  • India, Land of Light
  • "There are many more Aurovilians in the world"
  • International Youth Day
  • Reading the Runes
  • New Books and DVDs
  • A 4000 Ladies' Special
  • Two New Land Campaigns
  •  Petra Janko (Passing)
  • Juanita Cole (Passing)
  • Brief News
  • Youth Link Takes Off
  • Auroville's Spirituality

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