“The media is the most powerful entity on earth. They have the power to make the innocent guilty and to make the guilty innocent, and that’s the power. Because they control the minds of the masses” – Malcolm X
Auroville's Outreach media has been pioneering in spreading wrong information in many forms for decades, suppressing facts and painting a rosy picture to the world. A recent video in India Today is a classic example of this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T-kcyZ4r4-8
This video is biased, unfounded, non-factual, and seems to be a roadmap by Auroville's machinery to paint a picture that all is hunky-dory since they not only want to be above law but also their founding principles. The agenda is to drive traffic to Auroville guest houses and the most important agenda that they wish to achieve with this is to ensure that the Government does not take over direct control of Auroville and their ‘autonomy’ is retained even during COVID. Recently, Smt Jayanti S Ravi (IAS) was deputed to Auroville as the Secretary, from the post of Principal Health Secretary of Gujrat tackling COVID which has irked Aurovilians. The timing of the video is immaculate for the above reasons to paint a false picture in front of the public.
The reality is as follows:
Auroville has 3800 residents for 4000 acres – While the Government of India is converting schools and public spaces into COVID relief camps, it has been biased for only 3800 residents ( mostly foreigners) vs the 136 cr population in our country.
The exorbitant amount of space given to such a small population is enough for the public to understand that there is nothing to be proud of by stating "Auroville has tackled COVID”
Auroville was always opposed to lockdown and never closed itself. So the report of Auroville closing down before the Government announced is pure hogwash. Auroville is still open to guests from across the country, massage therapies, conduct workshops, and many illegal forest parties and gatherings have ensued spreading COVID to Aurovilians and villagers.
In the First Wave, Auroville was having many such illegal parties and gatherings, during the Second wave the Acting Secretary Srinivas Murthy gave strict warnings against parties, but who can keep a check on such vast lands?
Auroville Council members themselves have & had COVID. In this video, we can also see a Working Committee member being interviewed who has been alleged to monopolize businesses for herself without any code of conduct or Civil Services Act. Many deaths have occurred and the management didn't take any steps to even know their status and that they have been cremated. They informed their relatives after 48-72 hours of discovering the same since they did not have the contact details of relatives. The Auroville management closed their community kitchen due to mismanagement and thievery. No free groceries and food have been distributed to their residents, let alone villagers. The Auroville management has not funded any Auroville units which are suffering, rather the rich are trying to take over businesses and eradicating the poor. Many honest Auroville units have shut shop and many good-willed Aurovilians have left Auroville. Many villagers have lost their livelihood due to this pandemic and Auroville units have removed them without conscience who were merely working on a petty salary of Rs.7000 a month.
Auroville has become a resort for the rich during COVID and completely against its founding principles, while high rentals and property value is the only agenda without any paperwork or laws by keeping the Masterplan at a moot point. Many high-level cover-ups have occurred behind closed doors which media houses ignore purposely – Maybe it's time for our media to do journalism and not act as a ‘pen for hire’
Notwithstanding herewith one thing Auroville Management does not shy away from are donations for COVID relief and/or any other form. In the first wave, Auroville raised donations at the behest of feeding villagers and instead funneled them into their assets. Auroville was and is not self-sustaining in any aspect and only depends on donations and government grants. Auroville management's agenda is to make such flowery reporting to amass donations in the name of the Mother to fill their pockets and fund their escapades.
Auroville management does not have a list of residents living in Auroville with their contact details. No census of Auroville has ever occurred and many criminals are alleged to be hiding inside. One wonders how does Auroville even know if their residents have COVID or not?
The only slightly right thing in this video is that Auroville is filled with forest and nature and is healthy, while the other therapies and treatments are substandard. Auroville management should open its doors for the true well-being of humanity and make it into a national COVID treatment center. It is appalling to see the Government of India supporting such a project against the population of our country.
Let us bring our readers attention to the previous shameful propaganda of Auroville Outreachmedia with Project nightfall –(432) Auroville India City Of The Future - YouTube
The video guided by Auroville Outreachmedia even shows our Prime Minister Modiji and Anirban Ganguliji (ex-Governing Board member) showing the world the endorsement that Auroville gets from our Government. This video shouts out loud “Auroville is a place of no money, no politics, and a place of free growth” with some Aurovilians stating twisted lies. Post this video much-educated class of our country cringed and it was a joke in our country. Many Aurovilians also were unhappy with this kind of falsehood. This is how Auroville fools donors, volunteers, and aspirants and paints a rosy picture of itself to protect its so-called ‘autonomy’ hiding overflowing skeletons under the closet.
It's high time Auroville stops falsehood and ‘Walks the Talk’
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