A search for the truth behind a family mystery, and the story of Auroville, a collective community based in southern India.
Auroville, a town near Pondicherry in the state of Tamil Nadu in India, was established in 1968 with a goal of ‘human unity’ that still thrives today. If this sounds like a utopian community, Akash Kapur, author of Better to Have Gone, wouldn’t necessarily agree. It’s...