Author Archives: Thulir

Esther’s Stint in Sittilingi comes to an end A nurse by training, she came to volunteer in Sittilingi tribal hospital for a year. While she has been here, Esther came to interact with the Thulir children every week for a session. A Warm friendly person, she was much liked by the children. She helped them […]

Theatre workshop Dr. Velu Saravanan, a theatre professional who specialises on working with children had visited Thulir on a weekend and conducted a theatre workshop. An accomplished professional, he quickly got the children into the act and in 24hrs managed to teach them a play and rehearse sufficiently to put up a performance for the […]

More on Vigyan Ashram, Pabal Yogesh Kulkarni of Vigyan Ashram has mailed in to say that the following website has more uptodate information on Vigyan Ashram:www.vigyanashram.com Further, their course is being conducted now in 23 Govt Schools.[not just the initaial three schools that we had mentioned in the report!]

Pongal/ Shankranti Time!! Pongal is the most important festival in rural Tamilnadu and Sittilingi is no exception. The anticipation starts a week ago when houses get renovated and fresh coat of lime wash applied on all the houses. Thulir children too were eagerly looking forward and we were all a little depressed at the thought […]

Naikutti children in Thulir This is the first posting of this year. We Wish you all a very Happy New Year ahead. From 24th December, the Christmas holidays for the local Government. school began. So the children were free during the day and we thought it would be good to have them come during the […]

Vediappan goes to Bangalore! Vediappan, has passed his last exam of class 12. After his exams, got over in September, he felt he needed to look for a job and so has taken a job with a bag making factory in Bangalore. He has been working for the past one month there. While excited at […]

This blog is for the purpose of updating all friends of Thulir about activities at Thulir. As you know, the Thulir website does have a news section, but we are able to update it only once every 4 months or so. Of course, we do send out the news updates to our mailing lists once […]