The Social Justice Film Festival is a collaboration between the student association Nous, the Department of English at St. Joseph’s University, Bengaluru, and the noted film-maker R. P. Amudhan. This year, the festival will be held on 30th and 31st January 2023. While the first edition at SJU was held in 2022, Amudhan has perfected […]
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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
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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Magister 2017 saw 209 participants writing from across 19 venues in India, and one in Kuwait. Given below are the consolidated rankings. We will shortly put up a ranking of everyone who took part, and a category-wise sorting as well. These individuals will hold the title of Magister in their respective categories. The overall college
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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 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
In which faculty talk about their reading lives, and make possibly damaging admissions under the benign gaze of a Grand Inquisitor. Much fun, though not for the speakers.
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