they kick thampu's butt, adding insult to injury. this is great!

mar 21st, 2008

thampu thumped: can't think of a more deserving character. sanctimonious, hypocritical, devious rascal. (i have been observing him attack hinduism for years with all this sweet and reasonable stuff, like butter won't melt in his mouth. and as soon as you put him in a position of power, he starts lying, cheating and doing illegal stuff. figures. just like all the other godmen, he's an unscrupulous rogue.) i suppose he'll now be called by ratzy to the vatican. they need people like thampu to continue their fight against all that's decent in the world. i wonder if, like in the case of monsignor tommasso, we'll soon be hearing about monsignor valson making advances to unsuspecting choir-boys. or unsuspecting barn-yard animals, now that he's figured out they don't squeal on perpetrators. (that, i suspect, was the theme of his agricultural university PhD that "miraculously" showed up just in time for him to claim he had a PhD and so was eligible to be in the post of chief grand-pooh-bah of st stephens.)

i wonder why the usually voluble alumni or st stephens who claim they are the anointed rulers and 'intellectuals' of india are deafeningly silent now. what, cat got your tongue, funny bunker iyer?

pioneer, mar 21st

http://www.dailypioneer.com/searchit2.asp?main_variable=front_page&file_name=story6.txt

so why are all his decisions being nullified? they're illegal, against the constitution, etc. the guy is a first-class crook and religious bigot. see how he has tried to turn st stephens into a place only for christists. he says so in the last para: "this is a college intended for conversion purposes, not for academics." (i paraphrase, but that's what he's implying). even the bigots of the church of north india can't stand him, he's such an extremist. another inquisitor in the making.

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All Thampu decisions nullified


Staff Reporter | New Delhi

St Stephen's College management has declared all policy decisions taken during the tenure of Reverend Valson Thampu as null and void. This includes the decision to introduce quota for Dalit Christians in contravention of the constitutional provisions.

According to Sunil Mathew, media adviser to college chairman Bishop Sunil K Singh, the decision would not affect the students admitted last year under the quota; however, the Supreme Council will not pursue it any further. All appointments made by Thampu in his tenure have also been nullified.

"The Supreme Council has decided to rescind the decision taken in respect of the appointment of Thampu as Officer on Special Duty (OSD) as officiating Principal and all consequential administrative decisions and arrangements emanating there from except that which pertains to the honorarium paid to him," said Mathew. He said that the decision includes introduction of new quota policy under which Thampu introduced 25 per cent fixed seats for Dalit Christians in the 40 per cent minority quota. Other policy decisions taken by Thampu include closure of the Mathematical Sciences Foundation, appointing a committee on sexual harassment and starting of the controversial foster father scheme. He even appointed MS Frank as the Vice-Principal of the college in place of Jacob Cherian appointed by former Principal Anil Wilson.

"This is an unprecedented move by the Supreme Council aimed at starting afresh the functioning of the college. We are not saying that Thampu's position was illegal and that all decisions taken by him were wrong but we want to give full freedom to the upcoming Principal," added Mathew.

The college accepted the resignation of Vice-Principal MS Frank, Dean Residence Nandita Narain, Dean Academics Vijay Tankha, Bursar TV Raghunathan and all others appointed by Thampu. The advertisement published by the college two days ago will be superseded by yet another advertisement to be released next week. "But the preferential age bar may remain," informed Mathew.

The move is seen by many as aimed to distance the college from all decisions taken by the controversial OSD and apparently accepting his position as illegal.

Thampu, ever since he joined the college, had constantly been reiterating that academic excellence is not the sole purpose for which the Christian community establishes educational institutions. "Such colleges also have a duty to develop the members of the Christian community. And I wish that all Christian colleges should follow us and make sure that the Dalits and underprivileged in the Christian community get proper education," he told The Pioneer during admissions. The new reservation policy introduced by the college for the first time made it compulsory for the college to admit 40 per cent Christian students, excluding those Christian students who qualify on merit basis and those who come through sports quota.