“Growing up in utopia is a good way to make you an incrementalist,” Akash Kapur writes wryly in his new book Better to Have Gone: Love, Death, and the Quest for Utopia in Auroville, which is ...
Utopias are not, by definition, found on this side of paradise. Yet that truth hasn’t stopped visionaries and seekers—not to mention knaves and fools—from trying to build communities on lofty ...
When you purchase an independently reviewed book through our site, we earn an affiliate commission. By Amy Waldman BETTER TO HAVE GONE Love, Death, and the Quest for Utopia in Auroville By Akash Kapur ...
The most surprising aspect of Akash Kapur's "Better to Have Gone: Love, Death, and the Quest for Utopia in Auroville" is the author's well-disposed view of the leaders, beliefs and practices of ...
Backed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, the new leadership of Auroville, an experimental commune, wants to create a model city. In the way stand trees, tree houses and a take-it-slow tradition. By ...
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