Talk:Matrimandir

message: What is the identity of the "world's largest crystal" enclosed within the shrine? Quartz, Topaz, etc?
:According to several seemingly legitimate sites, the "crystal" is actually a "crystal-glass globe"; this link includes a picture. If that's true, Wikipedia's article is probably the result of a poor translation. To be fair, however, it's common to call leaded glass items "crystal" in English, too. -- Hadal 02:50, 3 Jun 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Crystal

message: I added this which is shocking to conscience: Called the giant golden golf ball, The Matrimandir is surrounded by carefully manicured lawns, where visitors are allowed only by special appointment. A place where there were no rules, no leaders and no money, children are sexually exploited.  news.bbc.co.uk, Indian town's sex abuse claims It was finished only in 2008, for the 40th anniversary. In 1968 the original plan was for a city of 50,000, but today, only 2,000 people live there, two thirds of them Westerners. Aurovillians receive a small maintenance grant, partly from the Indian government, but they are obliged to work daily for few hours. A middle-aged Frenchman called Gilles stated that: "They are allowed to get away with whatever they like, including paying our children to have sex with them, and we are powerless to complain." However, Auroville employs 4000 people, runs schools for local children and had reforested large barren areas.news.bbc.co.uk, Local concerns over Indian utopia --Florentino floro (talk) 11:31, 24 May 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Are you referring to those gardens just outside?(I haven't been there, but I've read about the gardens set up as embodiments of spiritual themes. These abuse claims that you have made are merely unsubstantiated claims, they have been refuted by the working committee and members of Auroville http://www.auroville.org/wc_statement_on_bbc_broadcast.htm, you can find statements by other members such as Karan Singh, etc.Domsta333 (talk) 13:32, 4 July 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Abuse claims 

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message: "Matrimandir does not belong to any particular religion or section"
It clearly belongs to the Sri Aurobindo group.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2.99.193.146 (talk) 15:45, 26 February 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  No particular religion 

message: Recently the cost of construction was edited from "1 trillion rupees" (12 billion USD) to "10 rupees". Neither figures seem accurate.
The only figured that I could find online is that the cost of the dome alone was budgeted to be 1 crore rupees in 1971. With inflation, this is equivalent to 49 crore rupees in 2023, or around 6 million USD. There's also the likelihood that it went over budget by the time it was completed in 2008.
--Jay.Jarosz (talk) 19:20, 1 January 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Cost of construction