A young man filed a complaint alleging that the principal of St Thomas Central School, Thiruvananthapuram, mistreated his wife, who had visited the school to apply for their daughter’s entrance. The victim man used the Charath Keerthy Facebook page to report his wife’s negative experience.
Charath alleged that those who sat in the seat of power behaved in a way that tarnished the “self-respect” of his wife, Keerthy. He later updated that the Hon’ble Education Minister has ordered an inquiry into the complaint against Varghese Samuel, Principal of Thomas Central School, Mukkolakkal, Thiruvananthapuram.
(Charath’s Facebook posts noted he is a comrade and has praised the Communist Party of India Marxists for their women empowerment initiatives.)
Today, Keerthy went to St. Thomas Central School Thiruvananthapuram to get admission for Janaki (their daughter). Although the admission was confirmed three weeks ago, the school authorities said we gave the TC (previous school’s Transfer Certificate), which has the principal’s signature in digital form. The principal of Thomas Central School refused to accept it.
Keerthy went with her elder brother and met the principal again, but the reason he found was that there was a slight difference in the class teacher’s signature on the TC and the mark list. He (Samuel) said that he would give us the admit card after we rectified it.
I finally procured another copy from the school here in Mumbai and sent it back home. Keerthy went to school with my brother today and met the principal. The principal rudely told Keerthy, “You come with different men every time.” When my brother mentioned who he was to the principal, he apologised.
He had been talking very rudely to Keerty ever since she first went to that school alone as a mother for admission. Today, it has become the extreme of criticism. It should be called verbal assault.
The headmaster of a famous school in the capital talks in such terms to the mother of a student who has applied for admission. I don’t understand what kind of education that school gives its children.
However, we have declined the admission there and requested a refund of the fees paid and the documents submitted. We have decided to complain against the management and move on.
Unable to tag school and management.
Tagging the Hon’ble Minister of Education.
Charath later updated,
In the previous post, I shared the ordeal my wife Keerthy faced at the hands of the Principal of St. Thomas Central School. I immediately received a notice from our Hon’ble Minister of Education, Shri V. Shivankutty’s office. Accordingly, I forwarded a complaint to the minister through e-mail.
I also complained to the school management through this mail. Heartfelt thanks to all those who immediately brought our concern to the minister’s office and the honourable minister of education, who empathised and sympathised with us.
Although there were many problems related to the school’s admission procedures, the most troubling aspect of this issue was what my wife Keerthy faced when she went to the principal’s office, once with Keerthy’s brother and today with my brother. Pointing to my brother, the principal sarcastically responded to Keerty that you come with different men every day.
Even if it were not our elder brothers, student admission is the only procedure to be done there. I cannot understand how any man accompanying the child’s parent can be a grievance to the principal. I don’t know how such a person can become a teacher who speaks insulting women even in front of her brothers.
Later, Education Minister Sivankutty posted on Facebook that he received a complaint regarding their daughter’s school admission from Keerthy T and Charat Keerthy. The complaint is against St. Thomas Central School, Thiruvananthapuram. The Department of Public Education has directed the Joint Commissioner of Examinations to investigate the complaint and submit a report.
Even as many took the incident with a pinch of salt (since the communists, who are known for their vile tactics, are involved), others wondered how Samuel might have treated single mothers who approached his school for their ward’s admission. Others reminded Keerthy that chauvinism remains the same in all Christian-managed schools. The situation remains the same in the male-dominated Christian society of Kerala.
St. Thomas Central School is a privately owned coeducational boarding high school in Mukkolakkal, a village on the outskirts of Thiruvananthapuram city. The Mar Thoma Church Educational Society established the school in 1966, and controversy is not new to this establishment.
The Christian school’s policy is that students of the opposite sex are not allowed to hug or even shake hands to congratulate each other, and any such behaviour is an act of indiscipline. In 2017, two students of the opposite sex were expelled from St Thomas Central School on charges of hugging each other on school premises.
Rajan Varghese, the Mar Thoma Educational Society secretary, summoned the boy’s (assumed to be a Hindu) father to the school. Varghese abused the 16-year-old boy in front of his father. He called the teenager a ‘Vithu Kaala’ (bull in heat) and showered many other abuses on him. Varghese said that the teacher who had seen the students hug each other said they had hugged for ‘a long time.’
Varghese abused the boy’s father and accused him of not knowing how to bring up a boy. He told the boy’s father to kill his son rather than bringing him up this way, recalled the father. According to the father, the secretary also said that his son should be punished like a ‘godman’ (Hindu) who had then been in the news.
The minor boy said that his class teacher, who had harassed him on several occasions since the year he joined the school, was the one who was adamant about going tough on him. “She has always harassed me for no reason,” he added.
Such is the state of affairs in Christian management schools. Christian-managed schools prefer Christian children and admit some non-Christians to uphold ‘secularism.’
The school officials illegally assimilated evidence from his personal life to harass the boy. The school authorities served the parents with an expulsion order for the two. The parents approached the state Child Rights Commission, which ordered that the incident not hamper the student’s education and that the school should let the student attend class.
The Christian school refused to acknowledge the order and approached the Kerala High Court. Justice Shaji P Chali quashed the Child Rights Commission’s interim order and held the school’s position as legal. The above-average students’ future was endangered.
Varghese was alluding to a Hindu swami who was castrated in Thiruvananthapuram. The victim, Sreehari, 54, or Hari Swami, also known as Gangeshananda Theerthapada Swami, managed a spiritual retreat centre in the nearby Kollam district. The woman’s initial submission to police was that she had been devastated by years of abuse, but later, she flip-flopped on her statement multiple times.
The lady (an LLB student) sliced off swami’s genitals, claiming that he had sexually abused her for years, starting when she was a schoolgirl. But soon, things turned upside down. The girl appeared in person and told the police and in court that she had no complaint, that Swami had not attacked her and that she had not attacked Swami.
Srihari alias Swami Gangesananda Theerthpad first claimed that he had cut his genitalia himself—the innocent swami later admitted that he said so because there was no complaint against anyone.
The allegations later proved false, and the whole incident was a farce. The innocent swami lost his genitals for suspicious reasons. The fake victim withdrew her complaint in 2020, and the Kerala Crime Branch claimed she would be investigated, but nothing came out of that inquiry.
By then, the media (including foreign ones) had carried the news about an ‘abusive Hindu seer’ far and wide. This time, the press reported Sivankutty’s inquiry but shunned what happened at the St. Thomas school.
Hindus want equal rights for their children in all schools. The government is not interested in the majority’s rights.
A fundamental ideology of Abrahamic religions is the extermination of non-believers of their faith. The only way out is for Hindus to return to our Gurukul system that successfully existed for centuries in Bharat until the marauding Abrahamics arrived.
