The blog of Delhi Stephanians (St. Stephen's College) incorporating Kooler Talk (Web Version) and the Katy (Web Version) Archives which have been kept online by 63er Jacob Matthan since 1996. (Masthead Photo by 81er Dr Gp. Capt ATUL JAIN)
He was a close friend of my cousin, Mammen Mathew (Rajen), and late Suresh Mehra, Azar Siddiqui and Anil Capoor.
Ramu and Rajen hitch-hiked from India to London. That was when I was studying in London.
Hope you enjoy the blog entry.
https://jmatthan.blogspot.com/2023/10/an-important-question-about-indian.html
The author is Delhi-based senior journalist and writer. He is author of Gandhi's Delhi which has brought to the forth many hidden facts about Mahatma Gandhi)
https://www.bizzbuzz.news/national/a-gandhi-jayanti-exclusive-the-teacher-in-gandhi-always-drew-him-to-schools-and-colleges-1252681?infinitescroll=1
I studied in College between 1960 and 1963. Principal Sircar was the one who taught me Mathematics along with Professor Nagpal.
Later Rhodes Scholar Ranjit Bhatia returned after his taking part in the Olympics and joined the Mathematics Department.
When I started Kooler Talk (Web Version) in 1996, I started to hear about a Maths teacher in college who was changing the scenario.
Later I watched her activity on Facebook and other local media as NDTV.
Each report I heard only made me more appreciative of her work.
Now, after a tumultuous career in our college and also in the University of Delhi, Nandita Narain is retiring.
Although I never had the opportunity to meet her personally, I held her in great respect as she always stood by her principles and also what our college stood for.
Her history has appeared in the media so it is not my intention to repeat what has been written about her.
I wait to see what she will do next as she is a firebrand and will not leave the scene quietly.
Nandita will always stand up for the right against the wrong.
Well played Nandita.
You are always welcome to share your views on this platform as we respect you as alumni and as an associate of our college.
Au revoir Nandita, welcome back Nandita.
This entry is thanks to John Dayal from Facebook. Photograph from LinkedIn.
Congratulations Dr. Gabriel
College is likely to soon see the first woman Vice Principal in its long history.
Dr Karen Gabriel has reportedly been selected for the post at a time when a Delhi University administration is is trying to block the extension given to Dr John Verghese as Principal.
The governing body of St Stephen’s College is defying the university move.
Karen Gabriel heads the English Department at St. Stephen’s College, University of Delhi. She is also Founder-Director, Center for Gender, Culture and Social Processes at St Stephen’s College.
She has published extensively on issues of gender, sexuality, cinema, representation, melodrama and the nation-state, which are her core research interests.
Her publications include “Melodrama and the Nation: Sexual Economies of Bombay cinema 1970-2000”, and the edited volume “Gendered Nation”
She is currently working on a book on dystopia, and one on homosociality.
Her international fellowships and awards include the Digital Fellowship (2021), World Society Foundatio and the Council for European Studies (CES-WSF) at Columbia University, the European Union's International Incoming Marie Curie Fellowship, Scholar in Residence at the College of William and Mary (USA), the Leverhulme Fellowship at the UK, three post-doctoral Fellowships for Gender Excellence at the Centre for Gender Excellence, Linköping University, Sweden, and the Government of Netherlands fellowship for her doctoral research.
