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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