The Stillness Project in Munnar, High Range School – November 2016  Again and again in the spiral A visit to ‘Dare’ Magical moments Stillness works! Nature and equilibrium Joyous being ~Creating a wish-fulfilling tree!~ ~Dr. Sibi Mathew speaks~ ~Changing Perception~ ~Letter to a river~ ~Poetry reading~ ~Look, look !~ ~Meet The Viriparae River~

Following a river A journey begins. We’re on our way to see two rivers meet. The Muthirappuzhayaar and the Kannimalaiyaar. The third river Nallathanniyaar meets them a little further away from the Regional Office building. Moonnaar (Munnar) means 3 rivers. It is literally the place where the Muthirappuzhayaar, Nullatanniyaar and Knnimallaiaar meet. This ‘sangam’ occurs…

A culture that embraced nature and forged a sense of belonging. There was a gracious old lady called Vadivoo in old Munnar division of Sevenmallai estate. She was a second generation plantation worker and I knew her during the 1970s. During that period whenever asked she would say her age was a 100 years, shaking her head…

One who ponders the history of these plantations clearly sees a fourth river, much like the mystical Saraswathi flowing in a subtler dimension to join these three rivers. It is the river of plantation culture, itself being fed by several streams.  Each one, the muduvans, the white ‘sahebs’, the tamil labour, the brown ‘sahebs’ and…

Dr. Siby Matthew, head of the Research and Development department of K.D.H. P. travelled with the students to Gundumallai to show them the vegetation peculiar to forests in the higher altitudes. Wherever he looked and wherever he went the grandeur of a thriving ecosystem followed him! And by default reached our eyes too. He urged…

Here we are, stepping into the vast super intelligent networking of nature and connecting to our role and placement in it. It was an inner journey in search of that tiny speck of intelligence in each and every creation, constantly being called upon to decide how the universe should run. Anyone foraying into this vast…

Mythology forms a framework for a society to convey their closely held values to the coming generations. It embodies the culture and aspirations of our ancestors. At a time when there was no media with its vast outreach, teaching was by word of mouth. The learned Rishis taught their disciples in  ‘ashrams’ situated deep inside…

In his book, the ‘Brief History of Time’, Stephen Hawking says, “One who explores deeply the laws of Nature, will know the mind of God.”

Education is that which is imparted throughout a person’s life in the form of experiences. It is the sum and substance of the formal as well as informal intellectual and emotional inputs steadily imbibed through the senses and goes to make a man’s individuality. The first teachers of a child are his parents, the immediate…

A game that aimed to understand how we responded and preserved or destroyed what is passed on to us through generations.

What is a watershed?  Why is it important? Will you help preserve it?

An enlightening meeting with members of the Muduvan tribe, they who know how to converse with elephants…