No other creature is gifted with imagination like human beings. It is an indicator of your nature and potential. We make and break our own imaginary worlds. Use this power to realize that we are not separate but a part of nature. Share your communion with nature, how the self is connected to nature. Vikram Bhaskar imagines a river ecosystem…
The child’s eye
How does a child see a tree? A river? Let’s look through the eyes of Arush Ghate, age 10.
Exploration is a living, moving energy in flux.
It’s not an end product. It’s a verb like creativity is. It could be process driven or it could be an immediate intuitive understanding. Either way it leads to discovery and joy. Share your journey and your experiences.
Perceiving, Connecting, Relating
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~
Exploring the creation of cultures
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…
There was a gracious old lady called Vadivoo…
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…
That sense of belonging
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…
Hobnobbing with Epiphytes and Pteridophytes
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…
Super intelligent networking of nature
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…
Who are the creators of myths?
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…
Moss Garden
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.”
The Stillness Project 