Great Architecture ! But The French Connection.....Hmmm.....Why Was Is It So Necessary.....To Emphasize.....ON THE PERMISSION OF THE MOTHER ? OFFCOURSE SHE WOULD SUPPORT ! WHY WOULDN'T SHE ? BUT IN SO MANY PLACARDS AND MILESTONES, THAT WE SEE, WHILE WALKING AROUND AUROVILLE,AND TOWARDS THE MEDITATION CENTER, ITS AGAIN AND AGAIN EMPHASIZED AND MADE TO REMEMBER, THAT "IT WAS BUILT WITH "THE MOTHERS PERMISSION" ! Why So Many Reminders ? Was There A Problem At Time When It Was Built, That THE FRENCH Need To Explain And Remind Us About "THE MOTHERS PERMISSION" ? Or, Is It Simply FRENCH COLONIAL MINDSET, Just Like Other Colonisers, Like THE BRITISH, That They Fear Losing That Small Piece Of Land, In This Vast Indian Subcontinent ? Are They INSECURE About Something ? Or Is Is Just One Of "THOSE EUROPEAN WHITE WAYS", Of Doing Things ? I Mean, What Will Happen, If India Takes Over The Last French Territory ? Will The Research Stop ? And Even If The Meditation Continues, For Not More Than 20 Mins Though, After That 2 Day Advance Booking 🙄, Which Is NEVER ENOUGH, For Someone Who Meditates Regularly, And Knows That 20 Mins Is Not Enough Time,To Even Start Real Meditation ! Its Nothing ! So Auroville Stop 🛑 Your Nepolianic Insecurities! Ok ? Neither Modi, Nor Annamalai, Is Going To Ask You To Give That Little Ego Of A Place Of Yours !