My Name is Salt – film screening

NNHS invites you to the screening of the film, ‘My Name is Salt’, this September, 2020 Date and Time: 11-13 September, 2020 (48 hours, 6 pm-6 pm)Film: My Name is Salt, Switzerland/ India, 2013Director: Farida PachaDuration: 92 minutesFilm type: Documentary (with English subtitles)Produced by: Leafbird FilmsHomepage: www.mynameissalt.com SYNOPSISThe desert extends endlessly – flat, grey, relentless. […]

Empowering the Community

Dr. Anandi Subramanian, who recently retired as principal advisor to the MOEFCC, gave a talk at the NNHS webinar series on the programme she initiated, called the Green Skill Development Programme (GSDP) on June 20th, 2020. The talk opened with the genesis of the programme, followed by an overview of the vocational skills it covered. […]

Seasonwatch is here, in the Nilgiris!

NNHS along with Keystone kicked off a Seasonwatch workshop, the first of its kind, to bring Seasonwatch to the Nilgiris. The day long workshop was held in the Keystone campus on 9th March, 2020. Our participants were a mixed group of 9 – 3 teachers from a school and a college in Kotagiri and 6 […]

‘Nature and People’ winter film festival

To quote Isak Dinesen from ‘Out of Africa’, “to be a person is to have a story to tell”. And that is what we strove to bring to the Nilgiris, in this first film festival on the theme of ‘Nature and People’ – stories of people and their lands, from across the Indian peninsula; from […]

Of name and fame – Heritage walk, Kotagiri

A name can evoke a lot of memories. What are the stories that you know, of the place you are a part of? Join us on this first walking tour as we unearth the stories behind the seemingly obvious spaces and sites, right here in the heart of Kotagiri.Led by our rich treasure trove of […]

Indigenous People of Nilgiris – a talk by Reverend Phillip K Mulley

The term Indigenous refers to someone or something (living things) originating, natural, native or inherent to a particular region or country. While the term was first officially used by the United Nations in 2002, it has remained a point of debate among many owing to its multiple perspectives of reference and usage – as a […]