Takedown Deep Deep Deep Takedown Takedown First place : Tele-Evangelists My brother renounced Christianity after some uncle on Shalom TV proclaimed that esus Christ’s blood type was AB +ve. Whether JC really could’ve been a candidate blood donor to me is a aquestion for another time. What amuses me now is how some uncle from […]
Of Distances Ila Ananya Jury Citation Ila Ananya’s personal vignettes are drawn with an almost painterly craft. Searing and full of detail, her images are impossible to forget. She offers us no easy answers or manicured biography, just the ambivalences of memory.
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Living Online Siddharth Vodnala Jury Citation Siddharth Vodnala’s raucous essay is a chatty guided tour of chatroom subcultures. Allusion follows anecdote in this joy-filled ode to the internet, from one of its most loyal inhabitants.
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Living Online Shalom Gauri 11C, Mallya Aditi International School, Bangalore. Jury Citation Shalom’s essay is a laugh-out-loud funny expose of alternative school pretension. Bangalore’s multiple online subcultures star in this wry yet strangely hopeful fly-on-the-wall dissection of teenage social life.
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College Winner: Varun Ramesh, SJC. BEING MULTILINGUAL Is something I would not know about. My lingual is solely singular, and for this, I have few regrets.
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Prithwiraj Mukherjee Being Multilingual
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Dipika Subramaniam Grade 9. NAFL. Being Multilingual ‘Being multilingual’. The phrase itself brings different thoughts to my head. Several, actually.
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III Place: Aliya Abreo, SJC. Yes, I know. It’s almost midnight, and I was supposed to have given this in by 9:00p.m. But, you know what, I’m just gonna go right ahead and write it, and give it in anyway, because I’m feeling lonely right now, I need to talk to somebody, about something.
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II Place: Vidya Gopal, SJC. One of the most interesting conversations in the film “Where do we go now?” is between the two priests, the Pastor and the Imam as they contemplate ways and means to prevent the outbreak of Communal strife in their village.
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Winner: Vidya Balasubramaniam Institution: St. Joseph’s College Where Do We Go Now” A typical scene of communal disharmony. Despairing families, violence and bloodshed. Women who are suppressed by the males in their society, and a partition between the discordant religions as thick as the Iron Curtain.
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