Category Archives: Newsletters

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 […]

( 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 […]

( 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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

Transformation of Thulir Campus. As we write this, a pair of Golden Orioles are singing away merrily on the tree outside the window. There is a cool breeze which is surprising for March and welcome shade under the trees. What a change in the last seven years! When we shifted to this land in March […]

Reflections on the past 6 years!! On April 14th, the Tamil New year day, in 2004, we inaugurated the Thulir Learning Centre at Sittilingi. It is more than 6 years since then, and we thought it is a good time now to reflect back and share our journey so far. In the initial years, there […]