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D’Studio profiles Anuradha and Krishna

Chennai-based design firm D’Studio published a profile of Anuradha and Krishna, focusing on both their architecture work as well as their social work: https://d-studio.in/anu&krishna.php

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News letter Jan-June 2024

visit the link The touching note above was penned by Bharathikrishnan, one of Thulir’s very first students. Bharathi is now working as a medical lab technician at Apollo Hospital, Chennai. 20 years of Thulir We can still remember the moment Thulir was born! A moment filled with anticipation and hope edged with diffidence and tentativeness. […]

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News letter June-Dec 2023

Dear Friends, New year wishes from Thulir Sittilingi, We are happy to share our latest newsletter with you. Hope you enjoy reading it. “The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched – they must be felt with the heart.” -Helen Keller Participation in Running Events Our students and […]

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News letter Jan – June 2023

Greetings from Thulir! Hope all is well with you. We are happy to share what’s been happening at Thulir with you. Pongal Celebration The harvest festival, Pongal, is the most important festival celebrated in Sittilingi and Thulir. The celebrations this year were doubly special because the corona virus had put a stop to these celebrations […]

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Newsletter June – Dec 2022

“The best thing that I saw at the Thulir cultural evening was this group of kindergarten children dancing away ( off stage, behind the audience!) to the songs that their seniors performed on stage. At that moment they did not worry about the world, they had no teachers to make them “behave”., and they weren’t […]

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Newsletter Jan-June 2022

It was a novelty to have children back in school full time from February! Looking back over the last two difficult and unusual years, one realises that good teamwork, community spirit and all your support have unleashed our creativity and resilience to the maximum. In fact, many new projects have sprouted in Thulir! Training of […]

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Notes from Riya Dominic

Written by Riya Dominic in 2022: https://docs.google.com/document/d/11bed_w8NNfz7wj9XCzleRlEKc0ysC1Lq/edit?usp=drivesdk&ouid=116376458781674808693&rtpof=true&sd=true

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Newsletter June-Dec’21

Warmest wishes for health, healing, love, creativity and revival this new year! Children’ s voices and laughter … a song from the distance … the thud- thud of running feet … the rhythms of a dance somewhere … an adult admonishing someone … the rustle of the leaves… a dog barking joyfully… a calf calling […]

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Summary of Activities

Here is a summary of activities carried out by the Thulir team during the corona pandemic between Mar’20- Sep’21. Educational response during the pandemic This pandemic has deepened the urban-rural, educated-uneducated and digital-nondigital fissures among us. The disease spread has been more in urban areas than in rural areas but in many ways the rural […]

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Newsletter Jan – May’21

Coronavirus enters Sittilingi The dreaded virus that is holding the whole world to ransom has now entered Sittilingi Valley! It announced its arrival almost immediately with a death in the village. As we write this in the first week of June, there have been 6 Covid deaths in the valley and the hospital has seen […]

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