Make a kit list before your travel. It’s one of those life lessons you learnt that never ceases to be of use. Do not forget your umbrellas, but come ready to embrace the drizzle and with it, any reminiscence of childhood. Carry your[…]
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Go Tell it on the Mountains – by Dani (The Dohnavur Post Volume 1, Issue 2)
A great many years of our lives have been painted against the backdrop of this magnificent vista. Countless evenings have been spent, especially Sunday evenings, in looking up at the mountains, imagining the dark forbidding forests, or in watching the periodic forest fires or in[…]
Rumours of Rapture
Probably it all started after we had seen one of those movies from Mark IV pictures. There were several of them. Thief in the Night, Distant Thunder and the third part whats-its-name. That’s how we knew about the second coming, Judgement day and everything. Those[…]
Plate racks and the recorded histories of past nights
When I was a child, someone told me that if you stretched out your palm to a gypsy lady on the Marina beach, she’d immediately be able to see your past written on it. The jagged lines would tell her about your tryst on the[…]
Voices of a Million Angels
Back in those days, the banyan tree used to be our “auditorium”, and its shade was our “Chapel” on Sundays. After a breakfast of Upma on Sunday mornings, you’d walk in single file to church and drop the rupee coin into the offertory box.[…]
In the Beginning
It was the year 1982, and advertisements had been posted in magazines of missionary organisations – announcements related to a new school that was being opened in a small town called Dohnavur in Tirunelveli district of Tamil Nadu. Before the days of kit lists and[…]
Remembering Merlin – Class of 2005
A few weeks back, Rachel sent a message on the class whatsapp group asking if anyone was interested in doing something in memory of Merlin. That’s what got all of us started on this small project that ends today on November 9 – which was[…]
An Evening with Professor Ivan Balasingh
“What do you think the discussion will be like?” “Since he got the cancer, he doesn’t meet people at all. He doesn’t even leave his house.” “Throat cancer, was it?” “Yes, so he doesn’t talk much. And when he does, he is not very audible.[…]
On Teacher’s Day – The Many Notes of Gratitude
It’s been five years now since the alumni collated the efforts of its members towards each other, and towards its alma mater by forming the Santhosha Vidhyalaya Alumni Association. Over the past five years, several ex-students of the school have played various roles in giving[…]
Hospital for the Villagers of Dungarda, Gujarat
Dr. Azariah Ebenezer from the class of 2005 and his wife, Dr. Dawna work in Dangs District, Gujarat. After finishing their MBBS, they went on to do their Masters as well. They could have taken up lucrative offers in the city, instead they wanted to[…]