Priyadarshini Govind enchants the audience with her bharathnatyam performance at the Adishakti theater for the 2011 Soorya Festival event.  A graduate in commerce from the University of Madras, Chennai, Priyadarsini holds a diploma in Mass Communication, but Bharatanatyam has been her first love ever since she was six.Tall and slim, this Chennai based dancer is a delight to watch, the strong lines of her dance brought alive by a quality of abhinaya, nothing short of being in a class of its own.Intense and naturally talented, her special interest remains abhinaya: 'I think it's beautiful and I was trained in a particular style that gives a lot of emphasis on it'. artindia.net Read more

Friday the 16th of April 2010 the Auditorium in the Bharat Nivas Complex was packed. Parents and children took the sits at 6.30 PM in order to enjoy the cultural program organized by What Can We Do For Auroville's group. Most of the dance and singing schools of Auroville presented their performances. At the event were present the Governor of Puducherry Mr. Iqbal Singh along with the Secretary of the Auroville Foundation, Mr. Ramaswamy. Many people sits on the Auditorium's stairs since the participation was great. This was the last event celebrating the 100th anniversary of the arrival of Sri Aurobindo in Pondicherry.

On on 15th August local villages around Auroville joyfully celebrated Indian independence day, an anniversary which fell on Sri Arobindo's 137th birth anniversary. One of the neighboring villages located very close to Auroville's greenbelt, called Kottakarai, participated enthusiastically in this unique celebration. Accordingly, women's groups from the village in conjunction with school students organized sports and other activities to encourage people from the village to get involved. Sudhakar interviewed some Tamil participants who were involved in these events, and AurovilleRadio has happily uploaded this program for everyone to hear.