Co-founder of St Stephen’s e-zine stripped of award

Written By Unknown on Rabu, 15 April 2015 | 22.10

NEW DELHI: The co-founder of St Stephen's Weekly, Devansh Mehta, will not get the Rai Saheb Banarsi Das Memorial Prize after all. A third-year philosophy student, Mehta was selected by the teachers of his department and his name was announced on April 8, 2015. But the list posted on the college's notice board on April 13 has the name of a different philosophy student on it. Teachers say they weren't consulted or informed about the switch which is customary in the case of a departmental award.

According to the notices posted, this award is given to students of "the undergraduate Economics and Philosophy classes who have shown a high standard of personal behaviour and a marked degree of curricular and co-curricular interaction". Mehta's name was announced just a day before the inquiry committee constituted by principal Valson Thampu to look into the St Stephen's e-magazine issue submitted its report. The one-person committee—senior tutor Sanjay Rao Ayde—had found that Mehta's conduct "undermined college discipline" by publishing the e-magazine without getting the content cleared by Thampu and talking to the media about the subsequent suspension of it.

Teachers, however, are crying foul. While students' names may be withdrawn if there is a serious disciplinary issue, mathematics teacher and Delhi University Teachers' Association chief Nandita Narain feels the charges leveled against Mehta "are completely bogus". "Which college rule says you can't talk to the media?" she asks. "This is departmental award. The teachers decide who gets it. If the prize committee felt that the selection wasn't appropriate, they should've discussed it with the department. The two teachers in charge of it weren't consulted about the new name." A protest now seems likely.

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