A Notch Higher

The Department of English notched a new high this year when Dr. Mukul Joshi  Head, Department of English,  presented a paper the International Conference Kipling: An international writer held at Institute of English Studies, University of London, London on 21^st and 22^nd October 2011.Dr. Joshi presented a paper entitled “Kipling’s writing on India: The Simla Tales”. Her paper focused on Kipling’s portrayal of encounters between the British officials and Indians in Simla, the summer capital of the British raj in the pre-independence India.

Dr. Munira Lokhandwala presented a paper at the International Conference "Vanishing Borders in the Age of Globalism: Austral - Asian Perspectives." Held at Osmania University , Hyderabad on 12th to 15th December 2011. Dr. Lokhandwala presented her paper titled "A Pragmatic Analysis of Gregory David Roberts' Shantaram".

Dr Joshi presenting her paper.

Event Schedule !!

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DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH

     Announces

                          LITTFEST - 2011- 2012                                                                                        

Event Schedule

Day One:  Monday, December 26

Theme of the Day: Earthy Brown

Scrabble Marathon  8.30 a.m.

Inauguration  9.30 a.m.

Poetry Recitation Competition- 10.15 a.m.

Spelling Bee – 12 noon

Submission of Posters (theme – women writers) & Essays

Day Two:  Tuesday, December 27

Theme of the Day: Leafy Green

Pictionary – 9 a.m.

Litt Quiz  - 10.30 a.m.

Speak Your Mind- 11.30 a.m.

Movie Show – 12.15 onwards

Day Three:  Wednesday, December 28

Theme of the Day: Flaming Orange

Dramatrix – 9 a.m.

Valedictory & Prize Distribution ceremony 11 a.m.

LITT FEST 2011- 2012    

Topics for the Essay writing competition

1.  Is the Indian youth undergoing a “value crisis”?

2.  Is India poised for a revolution of change?

       3. Do we learn more outside a classroom than inside it?

       4. Celebrities and Indians obsession about them.

THEME FOR THE POSTER COMPETITION

Women  Writers

Registrations for other competitions now open at the Department of English

Lilliputs in a Giants World !!

Amidst the giants of the ELT world were three of our own department members. Ms. Shashwati Soumya and Ms. Misbah Ansari presented papers at the TESOL International Conference on "Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages" at Baramati held from 2nd to 4th December 2011 while Dr. Pragya Bajpai attended it with them. The title of Ms. Soumya 's paper was "Hearer's Interpretation v/s Speaker's Intent : Exploring Indirect Speech Acts". It aimed to explore the possibility of indirect speech acts that are not successful in communication. While Ms. Misbah Ansari 's paper explored the interference of the mother tongue in  her paper titled "Interference of Mother Tongue (L1) in Second Language Usage- A Study Through Contrastive Analysis". it was based on a study carried out with a group of intermediate students for whom English was a second language. The visit was a dream come true for the department members as they got an opportunity to interact with stalwarts like Prof. N Krishnaswamy.  

Ms. Misbah Ansari presenting her paper

Ms. Soumya presenting her paper.

  

Dr. Pragya Bajpai, Ms Shashwati Soumya & Ms. Misbah Ansari with Prof. N Krishnaswamy