Author: Article 19
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Manifesto Review | Department Conference Secretary 2019
Read more: Manifesto Review | Department Conference Secretary 2019Article19’s correspondent Meenakshi Viswanathan interviews the incumbent Conference Secretary, Upasana Bhattacharjee, on her manifesto, her plans for the ninth edition of this Conference, and the progress of her team in their preparations for the Conference. Prior to last year, the position of Department Conference Secretary did not exist and the Annual Department Conference was headed…
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Inter Department League 2018 (Frisbee) Qualifiers
Read more: Inter Department League 2018 (Frisbee) QualifiersThe HS team’s run in the Inter Departmental League is nearing an end. Despite several impressive performances across different games, luck has given them the slip every time. Frisbee and Basketball remain the last two sports, and the former is of much interest. Frisbee is still a fledgling sport, and the IDL seems to…
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Lecture by Carl Malamud | Universal Access to Human Knowledge
Read more: Lecture by Carl Malamud | Universal Access to Human KnowledgeA lecture on “Universal Access to Human Knowledge” by public domain advocate Carl Malamud was organised on October 15th at the department. Malamud is the founder of Public.Resource.org, a non-profit that digitizes public domain documents in order to make them accessible. An author of eight books, Malamud is also founder of the Internet Multicasting Service,…
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Aloo-gobi, Mangoes and a Small Aubergine | R & D Lecture | November 8th, 2018
Read more: Aloo-gobi, Mangoes and a Small Aubergine | R & D Lecture | November 8th, 2018It’s a Thursday evening and many of us gathered in HSB 356 for an ‘appetising’ R & D lecture titled, ‘Aloo-gobi, Mangoes and a Small Aubergine: Food, Foodscapes and Nostalgia’. The speaker was Dr. Anindya Raychaudhuri, a lecturer and academic from St. Andrews university, UK. With ‘diasporic identities and cultures’ as one among…
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She | Rani Unnamalai
Read more: She | Rani UnnamalaiLife as she remembered. She boarded her flight with her daughter. She sat next to the window, which added to her excitement of flying. She believed that just for a few hours she would possess powers that resembled the vultures’ skills at flying. She vaguely remembered observing them from her kitchen windows earlier in the…
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Colloquium Lectures | In Honour of Professor Evangeline Manickam’s Retirement
Read more: Colloquium Lectures | In Honour of Professor Evangeline Manickam’s RetirementIn honour of Prof Evangeline Manickam’s retirement, colloquium lectures were organised at the department on the 1st of November. Prof Manickam has been a Professor of English at the department from 1982 till her retirement last year. She holds a PhD in American Literature (Southern Fiction) from the University of Madras and has been a…
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HSSpeak #3 | Soft Power
Read more: HSSpeak #3 | Soft PowerSoft Power. One might have encountered this term used with an air of nonchalance in lectures, newspaper articles or even while walking by in the department corridors. Seemingly oxymoronic, this concept is one that rose to mercurial popularity during the 1980s. It is an important concept in International Relations that shaped many an academic debate…
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Haiku Workshop | October 11th, 2018
Read more: Haiku Workshop | October 11th, 2018A haiku workshop led by Ms. Geethanjali Ranjan was organised at the department on October 11. Ms. Ranjan teaches Japanese and is a noted haijin (seasoned haiku practitioner). She began the session by walking the audience through terms and concepts in haiku and other Japanese poetry. Haiku is a form of short, unrhymed…
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Inter Departmental League 2018 (Football) Quarter Finals: HS vs. Mechanical Engineering.
Read more: Inter Departmental League 2018 (Football) Quarter Finals: HS vs. Mechanical Engineering.The Mechanical Engineering Department defeated the Humanities team 1-0, in the Inter Department League Football Quarter Finals held on 24th October. Heavy favourites for the title, they put in an underwhelming performance that was still good enough to beat the Humanities’ valiant display. Some players like Siddharth did impress, but they were individual performances…
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#MeToo | Welcome to the ‘World’.
Read more: #MeToo | Welcome to the ‘World’.Chapter 1: Welcome to ‘the World’ Class X. I said goodbye to school buses when the academic year started. I slowly started loving the KSRTC (State government’s bus transport) bus rides to and from school. It was very refreshing to enjoy the freedom of travelling without chains. The fact that I could have a ‘Soda…
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