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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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When Dr. & Mrs Riesz completed 25 years of their mission work in Madurai a grant was made available to them by their friends in USA and that resulted in a hostel for girls in Ratchanyapuram. I was present at the time the building was opened. I hope the building continues to be a hostel and not used for other purposes.
ReplyDeletewith regard to the rumour of sale of land by C S I......Only the members or the beneficiaries can move the forum ..b it revenue dpt r court .R T I or obtaining copy of earlier rgn or E C dating nearly a century back may arm u with papers worth challenging the present situation .U may even question the enquiry if it is still pending... for the delay .Because revenue dpt shd not allow that to happen if their earlier offer of land was conditional which the relevant official proceedings might reveal.Also the person or body responsible for the sale could be criminally prosecuted if the other facts coincide .Well, It is time to think that there should be a board governed by govt body even for christian Institutions like Temples .
ReplyDeleteThe solution for any allegatin is to fight before the forum by persons competent.If not xisting, create one .What the virtuous souls of christian Advocates R doing ?.It is more sinful if u keep quiet when u have the knowledge to oppose an evil but choose to remain reluctant or silent .
JESUS SAVES..........BUT WHOM?
Protestant Christian Churches are democratic organizations with all those who pay their dues to the church regularly as members. The churches have elections and bishops, Moderators are all elected. So any member of the church should be able to challenge the action.
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