Stillnessandme aims at instilling a sense of wonder and oneness with nature and uses the gift of our senses- seeing, hearing and feeling, as doorways into an experience of stillness and creativity. As a continuation of the project activities started in Munnar with the High Range school in December 2015 the Stillness team moved to…
ഫാo സന്ദർശനം
സ്റ്റിൽ നസ്സ് പ്രോജക്ട് – ഫാo സന്ദർശനം അനുരാധനാലപ്പാട്ടും സഹോദരങ്ങളായ അനുപമ നാലപ്പാട്ടും അരുൺ നാലപ്പാട്ടും ചേർന്ന് പിതാവായ ശ്രീ ഉണ്ണിക്കൃഷ്ണൻ നായരുടെ സ്മരണാർത്ഥം ,ടാടാഗ്ലോബൽ ബീവറേജസിന്റെ കീഴിലുള്ള ദി ഹൈറേഞ്ച് സ്കൂളുമായി സഹകരിച്ച് സ്റ്റിൽ നസ്സ് പ്രോജക്ട് എന്ന പേരിൽ ഒരു പദ്ധതി തുടങ്ങുകയുണ്ടായി. പ്രപഞ്ചത്തിന്റെ നിലനില്പുതന്നെ ഒരു നെറ്റ് വർക്കിങ്ങിലൂടെയാണ് എന്നും അതിലെഒരു കണ്ണിയാണ് മനുഷ്യൻ എന്നുമുള്ള അവഗാഹം കുട്ടികളിൽ ഉണ്ടാക്കുക എന്ന ലക്ഷ്യമാണ് ഈ പദ്ധതിക്കുള്ളത് 2015 ഡിസംബർ 17 ഹൈറേഞ്ച് സ്കൂളിൽ…
Farm connect
In the early hours in Kottayam, at the J Yes farms at the lotus pond, the blazing sun was already rearing to set the wheels of time in motion. Either to prove its might like in a children’s fairy tale or an answer to man’s blindness. To force the light into those glazed eyes. It…
Dr. Sulochana Nalapat reads Nalapat Balamani Amma’s Poems
Artville café, Bangalore 22nd April 2016 1-Two Children (1946) Two children, who have come to play at a riverbank, are bickering, oblivious to their beautiful surroundings. Then the poet…
Prayer
A reluctant moonshine gently lit the contours of his face. He stirred in his sleep. He was in the company of a pleasant dream, expansive like his mother’s love. It had ascended on him and rocked him in its benevolence. But then, a cloud aimlessly shifting in the night sky haphazardly spilled a handful of…
Words of Wisdom
If any one did his duty sincerely, whatever it is, and did not mind the result, if he practiced not to be elated at success or depressed at failures, he is following the way to God, and with his faith in God, he will be protected by Him. Do not try to be a man…
Possible histories, probable futures
1. river 2. bridge 3. man Bridge male river female / Bridge female river male Locals river people / Planters bridge people notes on Arulmani Bridge ( 1929 ? to 2011) and then some….. 1. riverrun Sleepy cars crawl up the mountain Light through shimmering trees A streak of silver in the wetgrey night. Oldbones…
Love it when no one fills it
Why can’t there be stillness if you can do it? Why party all day? Everyone’s gone, and finally, Stillness! It’s here! Then there’s a crash and a hiss As my sister tames her cat, Shut the TV and stop it Sis! I hiss! Then there’s a final stillness, And I love it when no one…
It’ll be beautiful when it grows
Months ago I dug up the ground, but underneath there was nothing to be found. With a little effort I inserted a tiny seed, but in my mind it was all a little weed. Watered with care, every single day. “It’ll be beautiful when it grows”, everyone seemed to say, weeks and weeks it seemed…
Have you ever felt that eerie silence
Have you ever felt that eerie silence when you have nothing to do, nothing to commence, at the break of dawn, when the earth slows down and relaxes itself; every city, every town; When you sit down and listen, the world is so dull, yet seems to glisten; the tiny chirp of a sparrow far…
The mind is stunned into stillness
At the temple, eyes are awash with the red of kumkum and flowers. Ears reverberate with the echoes of bells, conches and mantras. Fragrance of sandal and tulsi leaves infuse the air. Hearts pour out to the glistening stone, heads bowed in awe, and in the shadowy lights cast by fire, man and stone, the…
What do you see when you look at a piece of wood?
“Imagination is the only weapon in the war against reality.” ― Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland
The Stillness Project 