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META 2020

  Greetings! The Department of English at St. Joseph’s College hosts META, an annual Festival of Literature, to promote reading and writing among young people. We are holding the 8th edition of this unique festival this year. META 2020 will be inaugurated on 4th February 2020 and will run till the 20th of February at

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The Barbra Naidu Prize for the Personal Essay 2017–Overall Winner

Amreeka-Jaipur-Home Drishti Rakhra After assemblies every Tuesday and Thursday morning, we walked back to class in two files. Boys and girls. We were instructed to hold hands, finger-to-finger, palm-to-palm, till I was never sure whether my hand was sweating, or it was his perspiration that was clinging to my skin. After reaching the class, I

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The Prof. Barbra Naidu Prize for the Personal Essay–Overall Winner 2014

Finding   Culture Arjun Shatrunjay   Hyderabad  The day    of    the    competition    drew    close,    and    preparations    were    in    full    swing.    My    father,    having    spent    two    hours    on    a    precious    Sunday    morning    had    painstakingly    translated    the    story    of    Cinderella,    so    that    a    four    year    old    me    could    recite    this    story    in    e    Hindi    recitation    competition    in    my   

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META

META February, in Rome, was the month of fevers. At St. Joseph’s College (Autonomous), the month is associated with another kind of fever altogether. META is an annual festival of literature, open to college students and the general public,  run by The Department of English, St. Joseph’s College (Autonomous), Bangalore. But Meta? The Greek term

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