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The English Literary Society kickstarted this academic session with an informal meeting of the three year students of the Department, with the objective of familiarizing the freshers with the activities and agenda of the Society. This meeting culminated in an Orientation Programme for the first year students on 26th August 2009. The theme of the day was “Invent your own Superhero/ villain.” Meanwhile, the Society conducted its election, and office bearers were elected for the session 2009-10.
An interactive lecture was organized for the students on 15th September 2009 on the subject of “Blogging and creative writing.” Ms. Meenakshi Reddy Madhavan, a blogger-cum-author delivered the lecture. She also read out some extracts from her recently published novel, You Are Here. She was accompanied by Ms. Arti Jain, a co-founder of the online library and book store, Friendsofbooks.com. Together they engaged the students in a fruitful discussion on issues related to blogging.
The Literary Society held its annual festival, LitLuminous ’08 on 26th September 2008. The theme was: “En/de/re – gendering the self: gender and sexuality across texts.” The academic events like panel discussion and paper presentation competition, as well as informal ones like creative writing competition, mobile/ short film competition, book cover designing competition and a performance competition, were organized around the above mentioned theme. The festival was a huge success and saw overwhelming participation from students across Delhi. Not only did students from the Humanities participate, especially in the paper presentation competition, even those from disciplines as diverse as science and engineering made their presence felt, thus broadening the scope of the festival and its theme. Generous cash prizes and book hampers on the one hand, and stalls and kiosks on the other, added to the over all attraction of the day.
Another feather in the cap of the Lit-Soc is that the Atul Krishna Binodini Devi rolling trophy for creative writing has made a come back this year, as Nitya Datta of third year has won the same for the second successive year at JDMC.
The Departmental newsletter, White Noise continues to be in circulation. It makes for an interesting read, as it provides the students with a platform to showcase their creative talents as well as critical abilities.
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