Thursday, May 9, 2013

WHIMPERING OF AN OLD MAN .......




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Three days back, there was a two- full page advertisement in the local English dailies heralding a big business venture in our town, Madurai. GOLDEN LOTUS has advertised on the Boomi-buja on that day for a largest apartment complex in Madurai. Lavish advertisements. Lot of groovy pictures of the complex. Visitors were provided with grand lunch. Visitors were taken around the area in a battery-car. Lovely huge models of the buildings were there. North Indian owners of the complex were quite busy. A busy place with a huge project coming up in Madurai. Told that it would be the tallest building in Madurai.  Each flat would cost more than a crore rupees. Sounds great .... is it not?


All this happened in the grounds of RATCHANYA PURAM.  Does any bell ring …?


C.S.I. has been donated a big place in the northern part of Madurai. Later local government added some more land – with the assurance that this place HAS TO BE USED only for helping the destitute women and orphaned children – that is continuing the original philanthropic part played by the church in that place.

There was a big legal tussle when there was a rumour that this place donated by the Government has been sold out unlawfully by the earlier bishop, Asir. Efforts were taken to redeem that land. Even in dailies there was news that the earlier collector of Madurai, Sahayam was making enquiries on this selling of the land. It was the fervent hope of many that justice would be done, since it is Sahayam who was making the enquiries. Some even now say that the matter is still subjudice or under enquiry.

Now comes the tallest building on the very same ground, say the papers.  I am just wondering why did the voices which made so much noise earlier against the sale of this ground become meek now. Wondering why not even some PIL against this  



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Karaikudi university said that the Ph.D. awarded by it to Christober is not an interdisciplinary degree. Already  UGC has given a condition for a principal to have Ph.D in his own subject or atleast a Ph.D. in a relevant interdisciplinary subject.  I thought it was 2 + 2. What else other than 4 could be an answer. At least that was what I thought. 

But the court was so inefficient that it could not come to a conclusion that 2 + 2 = 4 ! Instead it asked the Madurai University to decide on this.  Not enough good mathematicians there in the Senate I suppose,  since the university also could not find the correct answer for 2 + 2. 

The degree considered non-interdisciplinary by one university was then considered my MKU as interdisciplinary and all that. 

I just wonder how even the basic math - 2 + 2 = 4 – is decided other way by the court, university and all !

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