Valson Thampu
Revd. Valson Thampu is an Indian educator, Christian theologian, who is the present Principal of St Stephen's College, University of Delhi, Delhi, since 2008. Prior to this he was a lecturer at the college and its officiating principal since May 2007. He is a felicitous translator from Malayalm to English and his very first translation (The Scent of the Other Side, OUP, 2009) won the Crossword award. His second translated work -Gift in Green- was published by HarperCollins in 2011.He is an Ordained minister of Church of North India and a member of the National Minorities Commission and Delhi Minorities Commission.Thampu pursued Ph.D. in Theology from Sam Higginbottom Institute of Agriculture, Technology and Sciences.