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Newsletter March – April 2014

( This Newsletter has been put together by Nikhil Iyer ) Tiruvannamalai Trip The green grass of sittilingi has dried up into the colour of mud due to the soaring temperatures and lack of rains. The stream which the villagers had depended on for their daily water and agriculture has also dried down to a […]

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Newsletter Sep 2013 – Feb 2014

( This Newsletter has been put together by Nikhil Iyer ) Rains …? The monsoon was a poor one this year too, and has been inadequate to recharge our wells with enough water to comfortably last us till the next rains. There is talk in the village about installing bore wells soon but we still […]

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Newsletter – January to August 2013

Pongal Celebrations- Kolam festival. 2012 had been a year of practically no rain. Most people of the valley including us still grow rainfed crops and most crops had failed last year. But yet, the year started off festively and colourfully with the Pongal and kolam festivals. This time this entire event was initiated, organised and […]

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Notes of Rolf and Susan, Volunteers from Switzerland.

Coming to Thulir We, Susan and Rolf, a couple from Switzerland, 43 and 53 years old, lived and volunteered for 6 weeks in Thulir from the 15th of November to the 29th of December 2012. I (Rolf) heard the first time of this place from a friend of Anu and Krishna three years ago. When […]

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Notes from Florence Esmieu, Volunteer

 Overview of my stay in Thulir – an Alternative Education Centre October and November 2012 Florence Esmieu Series of questions and answers with Anu (co-founder of Thulir) with my added impressions and thoughts: 1) Is all theory taught through practice? Are there theory classes as well? How do you make the link between the two? […]

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Thulir Newsletter Jan – Dec 2012

The year 2012 started well with the campus looking very green, lush and prosperous! The organic farming group were at their enthusiastic best and had worked hard transforming the campus. Our animal family grew in January. We had 3 mother cows and four calves! Coriander, cowpea, rice, Horse gram, black gram and ragi were planted […]

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List of full time Life skills students

Updated  Oct 2012 2004- 2005. 1. Vediyappan- s/o kanagaraj, sittilingi 2. Satya, Devaraj, Malaithangi Students of the Basic Technology Course in 2006-2007 3. Senthil.S s/o samikannu 4. Balamurugan – s/o kanagaraj 5. Mohan – s/o Chinnayyan, Sittilingi 6. Perumal s/o annamalai Nammangadu 7. Jairam , Nammangadu 8. Madhu , S Dhadampatti 9. Satish, s/o  Imayavalli, […]

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Anita Balasubramaniam’s Reflections on Thulir

Anita Balasubramaniam has been a regular visitor to Thulir since 2004.She has been closely following activities at Thulir all these years. Following her visit thie year, we requested her to reflect and share her thoughts on Thulir. Here is her response. We would be happy to hear your thoughts and responses too.. so please do […]

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Newsletter — August to November 2011

Mural on the wall This year the staff and students decided to make a large mural on the wall at the Entrance Lobby of Thulir. This became and interesting project where we made a collage of different individual pieces, so everybody got to paint a portion! New Batch joins Theerthagiri, Jasgannathan, Dhanabalan, Ajit, Gomati and […]

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Newsletter — April to July 2011

Class 10 exams, and an interesting Workshop April is the month for public exams and 3 girls and 5 boys wrote the class 10 exams. In April, Jeyaprakash, an Architect friend took a two day workshop along with Yedendra Srinivasan , on using the 3D modelling software “Sketch up” and on Data visualising techniques. Jeyaprakash […]

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