Anger, fear and conspiracies loom large over the experimental community of Auroville By K A Shaji

The foundation comprises three authorities: the governing board, the resident's assembly, and the Auroville International Advisory Council.On February 28, 1968, Aurobindo's spiritual collaboratorFormer Chief Justice of India, N. Ramana,

in 2021 stated that the most dangerous places in the country for threats to human rights are police stations. Looking at the recent case of police brutality in Odisha, it seems nothing has changed in the last three years. Police brutality and custodial torture despite their shocking nature have been normalised in India. It is precisely because of this, that most people think twice before going to a police station.

Police brutality and custodial torture despite their shocking nature have been normalised in India (Representative Image/PTI Photo/Swapan Mahapatra) (PTI)PREMIUM

More than 5000 years ago the people who lived in the Indus Valley Civilisation (IVC) cities like Harappa and Mohenjo-daro had developed the necessary attributes for a civilisation: script, standardised binary and decimal systems to measure,

seals with writing or animal and other iconographic motifs, burnt bricks of a uniform size with the ideal ratio of 1:2:4, exquisite pottery, and a drainage system that rivals many contemporary ones.