A spiritual Indian utopia that’s over 50 years old, but still very much a work in progress.
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- Better to Have Gone: Love, Death, and the Quest for Utopia in Auroville by Akash Kapur
- Bulldozing a dream? Auroville’s importance as an experiment in alternative living
- Bulldozers, violence and politics crack an Indian dream of utopia
Written and produced by Anna Roberts
Burning palm tree artwork by Perry Vasquez
Intro music by Elliot Middleton
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