Category Archives: Newsletters

You may have been following the BT Course updates through the monthly diaries we have uploading. In this New letter we focus more on happenings that have been left out in the diaries though we have also mentioned some of the events again here. We have a group of 35 -40 primary school children coming […]

Monsoon is here and we are almost at the tail end of it now. Winter is slowly creeping in and there is eager anticipation of the English New Year and Pongal!! This years rains have been average, our wells are full and thanks to not having too many big storms, crops have survived the rains […]

Blessed by a few welcome showers of rain in the first week of june, the entire Sittilingi valley heaved a sigh of relief.Temperatures that were soaring at 40-41 degrees Celsius, came down to 34-36 degrees C.The grass, plants and trees responded in a flash to the rains by sprouting fresh, green leaves.The scorched, dry dusty […]

Welcome to the News update from Thulir. In this post we review happenings of the past 5 months Marathon Fever As we write this blog today our senior students – 3 girls and 4 boys, have just finished participating in the Auroville Marathon. We just received an excited phone call from them. The marathon fever […]

Welcome to the News update from Thulir. In this post we review happenings of the past 5 months Bee keeping update: The colonies in our Bee boxes are doing well. During end of August, in the 5 boxes we have in Thulir, we were able to get 2.5 litres of honey and the bee colonies […]

Children’s Committee in Thulir Selvaraj shifted from Thulir to help with the organic farmers’ co-operatives. Gowri left to pursue a B.Ed. course. So Thulir is now run by some of our students – Perumal (19), Senthil (19), Rajammal (17) and Devaki (17). Senthil and Perumal teach “vocational skills” to the young children in the weekends […]

Registration of Thulir Trust Thulir Trust has been formally registered in October 2007. The three Trustees of Thulir Trust are Mr.Manoharan (Managing Trustee), Dr.Shylaja Devi and Ms.Rama Sastry. Based on the rich experience of working with adivasis in Gudalur for more than two decades, these individuals decided to start this Trust to support educational activities […]

Timbaktu students singing in Thulir Its been a while since we wrote anything in this blog [the last posting was in March]. We have been meaning to write but have been caught up in the excitement of so many happenings at Thulir that we kept postponing writing “just for a few days” , till its […]

Our last news update in this Blog has elicited such an overwhelming response. We now know that so many of you read our Blog [even such a long and possibly rambling one as our previous blog !]. But we have been moved that so many of you have shown concern that we wrote about feeling […]

Its been a long gap since our last post. The reasons for this are many fold. Our internet connectivity has taken a nosedive in terms of quality and we are unable now to send anything more than simple text messages, if at all we are able to connect. The Basic Technology course has taken a […]