1.0 video http://www.nfb.ca/film/india_trip Bill Davies National Film Board of Canada http://www.nfb.ca http://media1.nfb.ca/medias/nfb_tube/thumbs_small/2011/India-trip_small.jpg 204 115 <iframe src="http://www.nfb.ca/film/india_trip/embed/player" width="530" height="345" ></iframe><p style="width:(( width ))px"><a href="http://www.nfb.ca/film/india_trip/" target="_blank"><em>The India Trip</em></a> by <a href="http://www.nfb.ca/explore-all-directors/bill-davies/" title="more films by Bill Davies" target="_blank">Bill Davies</a>, <a href="http://www.nfb.ca" target="_blank">National Film Board of Canada</a></p> 530 345 This documentary is a portrait of modern-day Pondicherry, an ancient city near the southern tip of India. For several centuries an outpost of France, the city is now home to Auroville, a spiritual community growing on its periphery. There, European and North American devotees of Sri Aurobindo, a Bengali poet and mystic, come to live the contemplative life. Their guru is a 94-year-old woman from France. This mecca of sorts is seen through the eyes of Albert Jordan, a professor from Concordia University, in Montreal, who spent a year there with his family in 1971.