Better to Have Gone by Akash Kapur is a vivid and searching account of life in Auroville, the experimental township in Tamil Nadu built around the dream of utopia. Blending memoir, reportage, and history, Kapur explores the people, ideals, and tensions that shaped this remarkable place.
At once intimate and thought-provoking, this book moves through themes of love, death, community, belief, and disillusionment. Readers who enjoy reflective non-fiction will find a compelling portrait of a place where idealism meets reality, and where the quest for a better world becomes deeply human.
