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Newsletter Nov’16 – Apr’17

As we write this newsletter, our minds are filled with images of our children spontaneously dancing to music, singing with gusto and the audience cheering loudly! Our Annual Day function just got over and was a huge hit. We never imagined that our 4 to 7 year olds could tirelessly perform for almost two hours. […]

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Newsletter July-October 2016

Many new and exciting developments are taking place at Thulir! Creation of the new School After innumerable designs, discussions with the teachers and students and changes, we have finally started on the foundations of the classrooms last month! We would like to create an environment which is aesthetically pleasing, cost effective, environment and child friendly while […]

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Newsletter January-June 2016

There is fresh life all around us as we write this! Fresh grass, tender leaves, new flowers, new sprouts … Yes, a few good showers in the last 10 days have ended the blistering heat of the hottest summer here for ages, bringing great relief. All of us are now looking forward to the start […]

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Newsletter – January 2016

  Wishing all of you a year filled with innumerable moments of Creativity, Learning and Fulfillment. Pongal Celebrations We had a wonderful Pongal this January! Pongal is a Tamil rural cultural festival. It is also a harvest festival. The sun, cows and the natural elements are honoured and thanked this week. The accent is on community […]

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Photo essay — recent events at Thulir

The new Thulir School was formally inaugurated on June 17th. Senthil, one of the earliest students at Thulir and now a senior staff, lights the lamp.  

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update on “work and education”

As you may be aware from our previous posts, the theme of work in education has played an important role in Thulir’s activities. This post will attempt to update our activities in specific relationship to this theme and our current thinking. Anu and Krishna were recently asked to write on this theme for Learning Curve, […]

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Newsletter Jan-March 2015

Wishing you a happy Pongal and New Year from Sittilingi! (This newsletter was written and uploaded by Nikhil just before he left Thulir to pursue his interest in music and higher studies. He assures us that he will be back after a break. He will remain a part of the Thulir team wherever he is […]

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Newsletter Aug – Dec 2014

Happy New year to all of you! May we together make the world a slightly better, wiser, happier and a more healthy and peaceful place this year. Read in this Newsletter about rains in Sittilingi, Raspberry Pi (a mini computer designed for villages without much electricity), craft week at Marudam school, plans for a starting […]

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Notes from Nikhil: De Mystifying Thulir

Since i was getting asked by many people multiple times what exactly is it that i do in Thulir, and seeing as how i couldn’t answer them to even my own satisfaction (really is mysterious i thought, that i couldn’t convince even myself that i was actually doing something here), i have decided after long […]

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Newsletter June – July 2014

Newsletter – June – July 2014. Rain, rain Everywhere but not a drop here Waiting and waiting for rain, in vain, has become one of our major activities here, and water, our most valuable resource! We can completely empathize with the millions of farmers in our country. This summer has been the most severe one we […]

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