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In March 1914, two people met in Puducherry: Sri Aurobindo, the Indian visionary and a leader of India’s independence movement who had fled arrest by the British and sought refuge there, and Mirra Alfassa, who was the wife of a French politician, and who later came to be known as the Mother. This serendipitous meeting eventually led to the birth of Auroville, which was heralded as the City for the Future. For thousands of years, people have tried to develop ...
Refugees from Paradise addresses the ultimate mystery of our times: Does Paradise still exist? In Casa Mira, an unusual house of tenants in London, Jonathan Ferry, an actor and aspiring film-maker, is hunted by a story (like an aircraft, it `tilts inside his head every morning as he wakes up'). Meanwhile, Anjali Mehra, a television journalist in New Delhi, hunts after another on assignment. Their separate obsessions lead them to a village fair in Kenduli, ...
Marina, Gautam and Tenzing first come to know of Infinity when they see a rock that turns invisible in sunlight, and are told the legend of the messenger turtle from this mysterious island. Could the island be the one wrapped in light that Marina dreams of? And when their summer holidays are disrupted by a strange man and threatening phone calls from an international arms manufacturer called Dargate, they begin to suspect that there might be some truth to the ...