What does community really mean? What do we need to learn in order to have a sustainable, fulfilling, contemporary lifestyle? These are the questions that drove me to Auroville, India and interview a few residents and pioneers of the City of Dawn. Auroville is an experimental township, founded as a spiritual community in 1968. It has been growing since then, and it is now counting 3500 residents from 51 different countries. What can we learn from their experience? 

What does community really mean? What do we need to learn in order to have a sustainable, fulfilling, contemporary lifestyle? These are the questions that drove me to Auroville, India and interview a few residents and pioneers of the City of Dawn. Auroville is an experimental township, founded as a spiritual community in 1968. It has been growing since then, and it is now counting 3500 residents from 51 different countries. What can we learn from their experience?