{"id":50098,"date":"2017-01-10T05:20:27","date_gmt":"2017-01-10T05:20:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/malankaraorthodox.tv\/?p=50098"},"modified":"2017-01-10T05:22:55","modified_gmt":"2017-01-10T05:22:55","slug":"prof-k-m-kuriakose-vakathanam-selected-for-the-award-of-honarary-doctorate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/malankaraorthodox.tv\/?p=50098","title":{"rendered":"Prof. K.M. Kuriakose Vakathanam\u00a0Selected for the award of\u00a0Honarary Doctorate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/malankaraorthodox.tv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/k_m_kuriakose_new.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-50101\" src=\"http:\/\/malankaraorthodox.tv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/k_m_kuriakose_new-233x300.jpg\" alt=\"k_m_kuriakose_new\" width=\"233\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/malankaraorthodox.tv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/k_m_kuriakose_new-233x300.jpg 233w, http:\/\/malankaraorthodox.tv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/k_m_kuriakose_new.jpg 528w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 233px) 100vw, 233px\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">The Honorary Doctorate D.D of the Serambore University will be conferred on Prof. K.M. Kuriakose Vakathanam, former Principal, Mar Dionysius College, Pazhanji and St. Thomas College, Bhilai in recognition of his Yeoman Service to the society for the past six decades. A scholar in four subjects, historian \u00a0and \u00a0\u00a0writer, \u00a0Prof. Kuriakose\u00a0\u00a0 has\u00a0 authored 10 books. He has been honored with three national awards for his educational contributions including the one \u2018Dr. Sam Higgin Bottom National award\u2019 instituted for the best principals of the country and other three awards for other meritorious contributions. He has been also awarded with 7 \u2018Prasasthi Pathras\u2019 by V.V.I.Ps including Vice-Chancellors for his distinguished services.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Prof. Kuriakose is pioneer to establish an anti-narcotic cell in an Indian College and to visit schools and colleges conducting awareness programmes against the ill-effects of narcotics. He has also administered the anti-narcotic pledge to more than three lakhs of students to the effect that they would never consume drinks or drugs. He is also pioneer to start pre-marital counselling in a college. Credit goes to Prof. Kuriakose for planting a unique theme park with the title \u2018The Vande Matharam Park\u2019 in front of a college (Bhilai) depicting the message of unity in diversity. The park is an allegorical representation of \u2018Mother India\u2019. A multi-linguist, Prof. K.M. Kuriakose has also translated the holy liturgical texts of the Malankara Orthodox Church into Hindi.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">It is note-worthy that Prof. K.M. Kuriakose has brought name and fame to the St.Thomas College, Bhilai during his term as principal. He has also rendered meritorious service as the Secretary of the St.Thomas Mission, Bhilai and as the founder secretary of the M.P. Christian Engineering College, Bhilai., He has served the St.Thomas Orthodox Seminary, Nagpur as a professor while it was functioning in Bhilai. He has also rendered valuable services as the Secretary of the Orthotox Youth Movement of India and as the Vice-President of the M.G.O.C.S.M of India.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 The Honorary Doctorate D.D of the Serambore University will be conferred on Prof. K.M. Kuriakose Vakathanam, former Principal, Mar Dionysius College, Pazhanji and St. Thomas College, Bhilai in recognition &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":50101,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50098","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-awards-honours","category-mosc-key-personalities"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/malankaraorthodox.tv\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50098","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/malankaraorthodox.tv\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/malankaraorthodox.tv\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/malankaraorthodox.tv\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/malankaraorthodox.tv\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=50098"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/malankaraorthodox.tv\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50098\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50103,"href":"http:\/\/malankaraorthodox.tv\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50098\/revisions\/50103"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/malankaraorthodox.tv\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/50101"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/malankaraorthodox.tv\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50098"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/malankaraorthodox.tv\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50098"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/malankaraorthodox.tv\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50098"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}