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Getting Senate House ready
ANOTHER INSTITUTION looking at a 150th birthday is the University of Madras. A committee headed by Dr. C. Rangarajan, chairman of the XII Finance Commission, Government of India, and president of the University's Alumni Association, is drawing up plans for a celebratory year commencing in 2006 and ending with the Convocation in 2007, perhaps on the 150 birthday of the university.
Vice Chancellor S.P. Thyagarajan is determined to have both functions held in the renovated great hall of Senate House. All the experimental work on one quarter of the interior walls of the hall is nearing completion and once the final results are approved by the end of the year, work can proceed post haste on the remaining three quarters, the learning experience having been surmounted. A striking interior, rich in colour, is promised by the end of 2005. But still more funds are needed to complete the exterior. And the university hopes the alumni will come forward in greater numbers than they have till now.
Another celebration to commence in 2006 and reach a climax in 2007 will be one commemorating the arrival of Bartholomaeus Ziegenbalg and Heinrich Plutschau in Tranquebar (Tarangambadi). The two German pastors from Halle, coming out at the instance of the Danish King, established the first Protestant mission in India. But more significant were Ziegenbalg's revival of printing in India, his publishing of books and his contribution to education. All these will figure in the seminars, exhibitions and publications in which Halle will team up with the Council of Churches in India, Gurukul in Kelly's - the Lutheran Theological College and Research Institute - being the catalyst.
S. MUTHIAH
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