Daily Schedule 04 February, 2012
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0:00 The latest non English news from Auroville
0:05 Homage mantras to Saint Tyagaraja
In this part of India, the months December and January reverberate with musical compositions of Saint Tyagaraja, one of the Trinity of Carnatic Music. There is a belief that during this time, the main audience is the Saint himself. The musicians sing and play their compositions as their offerings and receive blessings that nourish them in their Sadhana.
1:00 The latest English news from Auroville
1:05 Interviews at Rinpoche's talk
Prior to Prof Samdhong Rinpoche's arrival, interviews were sought with two Tibetan exchange students Namgyal and Tsened, and Jungchup from Auroville. They were waiting at the entrance of the Tibetan Pavillion to see the rare photos of His Holiness, the Dalai Lama, and his documented asylum into India and a talk delivered by Rinpoche. Each one spoke very sweetly of their experiences living in Auroville. Firstly, Namgyal covered the topic of the Mahayana discipline of meditation and, how to be a 'better man' for Tibet.
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2:00 The latest English news from Auroville
2:05 Homage flute to Saint Tyagaraja
During the homage celebrated past Sunday 22th at the SAWCHU in Bharas Nivas, Gordon performed some of the compositions of Saint Tyagaraja. Every year the commemorative music festival Tyagaraja Aradhana is held at Thiruvaiyaru in Tyagaraja's honour. This is a week-long festival of music where various Carnatic musicians from all over the world get together with their veenas, violins, flutes, nagasvarams, mridangams and ghatams.
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3:00 The latest non English news from Auroville
3:05 Cyclone Blue
To celebrate life and overcoming cyclone was the keynote of Lively Up Your Earth eco music Festival in Solitude Farm on Saturday 28th of January. With Cyclone Blue we went down the memory lane into early 70ies, by evergreen rock songs well played and sung by amazing olny 13 years old Danny, who joined his father Amando and Matt. And it is something in known that made us at ease, so Cyclone Blue hit the dancing strings in audience and enthusiastic share of encouragement. To Joel and his team we are grateful for excellent sound.
4:00 The latest English news from Auroville
4:05 Fundraising after Cyclone
Hemant is part of the Auroville Cyclone Relief & Rehabilitation Team. In this interview he's sharing the last few days of work of the many groups involved in the relief and rehabilitation. In the coming days the electricity will be restored in the center of Auroville but in other places it will take 4 weeks since the TNB personal is busy in other places. The main electrical work is done by Aurovilians.The positive aspect of the cyclone's event is the fact that many persons came together to help each other. Many guest also joined in this effort.
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5:00 The latest English news from Auroville
5:05 A visit to Joy Guesthouse
At Joy Guest house, previously known as College Guesthouse, the main damage was caused by uprooted trees. Also, they have no water or electricity. Except from the working men and the people living there, the place is pretty deserted, since it is impossible of receiving guests in this condition. After the interview, on my way back to the radio, i was forced to stop since a tree was taken down to secure future safety to electricity lines.
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6:00 The latest non English news from Auroville
6:05 Classic Flute Concert in ARKA
Last Friday 13th of January, the musician Jean Christophe Bonnafous from France offered an Indian Classic Flute concert in ARKA. Many guests, new comers and Aurovillians came to enjoy this music exhibition. On this opportunity Tugay Basar from Turkish join Jean Christophe with a flute solo and a shared improvisation between both musician at the end of the concert.
7:00 The latest English news from Auroville
7:05 New Birth and Lively Up
When the cyclone is on its way there's nothing a farmer can do. He can't evacuate crops. Krishna from Solitude says amongst others that now is the time to understand destruction, it is time for new birth, where we can make a step forward and what have been destroyed can be rebuild better, with more vision, more intelligence...a new birth...Krishna knows that it will take them three months before they will get some crops rotating again, and a year to get back to the level that things normally going on. But "you smile and go the best you can.."
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8:00 The latest English news from Auroville
8:05 Fields are getting ready again
After a week of cyclone Jorge from Windarra Farm is also of those who cherish what the natural calamity brought out of us as human beings. As he mentions in between that the spirit of Auroville became alive. There is love and care amongst people giving to whoever might need it, and he feels proud to be here at this time. For Windarra, which is and organic farm, will also take few months to bring short term crops, and a year, years to bring back fruit trees. They estimate that 90% of cashew trees in the area are either uprooted or affected.
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9:00 The latest non English news from Auroville
9:05 Residential Zone Plans
In 2010 l'Avenir d'Auroville had commissioned to Luis Feduchi a study about the Residential Zone, sectors 1 & 2. In the mean time l'Avenir d'Auroville has also started a process of "participatory planning" with architects residing in Auroville. In November 2011 some members of the planning office went to Amedhabad to meet with Mr. Doshi, chairman of TDC / l'Avenir d'Auroville, to present the studies. The next step is to integrate the two researches. In February 2012 Mr. Doshi will visit Auroville to help in finalizing this integration work.
10:00 The latest English news from Auroville
10:05 The meaning behind a tree
The old and symbolic mother-tree of Upasana felt over their roof during the last cyclone in Auroville. But Uma, the funder of the organization, has decided to keep material frustration aside and focus on the meanings behind this event. Next to the construction site she talks about Upasana, its foundations and the effects of the cyclone over the building and community.
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11:00 The latest English news from Auroville
11:05 from Mumbai to Auroville pt.1
November 8th 2011, in the early morning, i found myself transported from Belgium to Mumbai. The heat, the smell of chai and betelnut, fresh coconut... I was in India! It was the beginning of my travel, that would take me to Goa, Hampi, Mysore, Nagercoil, Kanyakumari, Madurai and Kodaikanal, to arrive in Auroville december 28th, two days earlier than cyclone Thane. You can listen to audio recordings documenting the trip. To be continued...
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12:00 The latest non English news from Auroville
12:05 Pondicherry
Aurodhan Gallery at Pondicherry will present on Friday 3th of February an interesting "Pondicherry" exhibition of selection of fine art photographic images exclusively selected from the book launched at the same time. Sebastian shared with us some insights on the process of making the book, which is collaboration of photographic artistic view of life heritage of Pondicherry with written word of Pascal Bruckner, Akash Kapur and Amin Jaffer, all experts on their fields of exploration. "Pondicherry" is published in French and English.
13:00 The latest English news from Auroville
13:05 from Mumbai to Auroville pt.2
November 8th 2011, in the early morning, i found myself transported from Belgium to Mumbai. The heat, the smell of chai and betelnut, fresh coconut... I was in India! It was the beginning of my travel, that would take me to Goa, Hampi, Mysore, Nagercoil, Kanyakumari, Madurai and Kodaikanal, to arrive in Auroville december 28th, two days earlier than cyclone Thane. You can listen to audio recordings documenting the trip. To be continued...
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14:00 The latest English news from Auroville
14:05 Painting with Mother's clothes
Saturday 21th of January at Bharas Nivas, Jyoti Khare inaugurated the exhibition PRESENCE; a collection of paintings and collages developed during the past 10 years using The Mother's clothes and sarees. In this interview Jyoti shares about the creative process, her sources of inspiration, and how a person without training can produce a piece of professional art. The exhibition will be open until the middle of February 2012.
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15:00 The latest non English news from Auroville
15:05 Incredible Playground for Kids
"The third and final discussion on Live AurovilleRadio from the Auroville Film Festival action station was concluded yesterday. The participants were Uriel, Rakhal, Sagarika, Priyadharshni, Graham and Danbe. And I got to moderated it. While Graham, Uriel, and Rakhal were film making instructors, Danbe, Sagu and Priya were participants in film making workshops. I tried to get a common definition for the topic that all participants including the younger members could understand and be comfortable with.
16:00 The latest English news from Auroville
16:05 Into the Bee Hive!
Gino in Discipline farm shows us a bee hive and explains how he became part of the project of rising awareness about the actual situation of our bees here in Auroville. Honey is not only a nourishing wonder, it is also anti-microbial, anti-inflammatory, antiseptic and anti-oxydant. We learn from the behavior of the bees, seeing how, all their life, they share the same small amount of space, in a community where they evolve from the job of cleaning the hive to the higher one of looking for pollen in flowers, until they attain the final goal of taking care of the Mother, the Queen Bee.
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17:00 The latest English news from Auroville
17:05 Tango can be a meditative experience
Jorge, by nationality Ecuadorian was drawn to Auroville by strong concept The Mother outlined, and as he laughing about, by the bread from Auroville Bakery. Amongst the broad array of activities he found lots of knowledge, and discovered interests that he didn't expect to, but for himself also realized that here is not only about contributing with work, but also internal, spiritual work is of the big importance, and of course in sharing the life, work, ideas with others, in the community. Beside working on the project for energy obtained from wind he also loves to teach tango, which is to him beautiful, and yet very simple dance in its core concept.
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18:00 The latest non English news from Auroville
18:05 Nouvelle Conscience Fractale
Asie - Occident, vers l'émergence d'une nouvelle conscience fractale ? Le monde est-il devenu fractal ? Comment la vision et la compréhension de ce monde fractal peut permettre l'émergence d'une nouvelle conscience mondiale ? Les pensées Européennes et Asiatiques vont-elles se rejoindre, ou créer une nouvelle forme de pensée, une nouvelle conscience ? Conférence par Bruno Marion le mardi 18 janvier à Townhall, Auroville, à 17 heures. En anglais, traduit en français.
19:00 The latest English news from Auroville
19:05 Le ramdam de l'âme
Tout allait bien. Nous étions tristes comme d'habitude. Puis la crise est arrivée avec la joie intérieure comme désastreuse conséquence. Comment cela a-t-il été possible? Qui a pu s'attaquer à notre spleen, à notre blues en si bémol mineur ? Quand? Où? Et pourquoi? C'est quoi cette mystérieuse crise à suspense? Nous nous interpellons sapristi de sapristi. Alors, cliquons! Cliquons bêtement s'il le faut. Mais cliquons! Osons écouter la réponse à ces surprenantes questions, car une chose est sûre: qui ose écouter, s'expose à être content. Et ça, c'est déprimant.
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20:00 The latest English news from Auroville
20:05 Anandi and Lakshmi Puja
Anandi works with the Entry Service and runs her food processing unit called KOFPU (Kottakarai OrganicFood Processing Unit)She has lived in Auroville for the last 16 years and met the Mother on during a Darshan many years before, when the seed towards Auroville had been planted. Today she speaks about Lakshmi Puja and memories of it in her childhood,  growing up in her family where her father was a singer-poet.
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21:00 The latest non English news from Auroville
21:05 Being Human
Saturday 27 November Georges Van Vrekhem gave a lecture titled: “Being Human and the Copernican Principle”. The human being has always been considered as the crown of the evolution on Earth, and is even imaged as God. Materialistic science has, in the last three or four centuries, gradually eroded such conceptions and reduced the human from the centre of creation to an animal among animals. The view, idea, or the image of humanity as itself determines the choice of its ideals and actions.
22:00 The latest English news from Auroville
22:05 Le Bouffon et le Beton
Souvenez-vous, de Wazo. Ce clown crepto-naze et bio-anartiste qui faisait parti du fameux café-théâtre: the Academic Genius Brothers Show. Après 5 ans d'absence humoristique, il c'est relancé avec ces compères dans une nouvelle série de spectacles intitulés les Genius Incorporated. Nous avons profité de cette occasion pour lui demander d'animer une nouvelle chronique humoristique en français que nous inaugurons aujourd'hui. Ce n'est pas qu'il soit spécialement marrant, il est d'ailleurs parfois désespérant, grincheux et pas très sympathique, mais bon c'était le seul « frenchy » de la bande. Alors cliquez sur le logo Play pour écouter cette toute nouvelle chronique qui paraîtra, si tout va bien, tous les vendredis. Épisode premier : Le Bouffon et le Béton.Pour télécharger ce programme cliquez ici.
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23:00 The latest English news from Auroville
23:05 Manigance à la maintenance ?
Nous avons lu, dans le News&Notes du 20 janvier 2010 le rapport d'Auroville Board of Service faisant mention d'un « plan pour introduire la Maintenance Universelle ». Ce plan serait « un des chemins pour amener tout ceux qui rejoignent AV et travaillent ensemble pour ces idéaux in one economy ». Il y a donc un plan quelque part. Des Aurovilliens qui se grattent la tête, des stratèges de l'économie unitaire. Ce fut une bonne nouvelle, une laïque surprise. Il nous fallait au plus vite réaliser un reportage sur ce topic et trainer notre micro sur les trottoirs imaginaires en quête de commentaires.
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