Category: Department Events

  • Prem Ranjan Memorial Cricket Tournament 2018 | Match Four: Research Scholars vs. HS16

    The second years, fresh off a well-deserved victory against the third years, now had to square off against the Ph.D. scholars. The Ph.D. scholars, since last year, have made a spectacular resurgence to form, being the current defending champions. The two sides faced off against each other last year in the semi-finals, the Ph.D.s emerging Read More

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  • Prem Ranjan Memorial Cricket Tournament 2018 | Match Three: HS15 vs. HS16

    Facing the HS16 in the third match of Prem Ranjan Memorial Cricket tournament at Sangam ground, it was a do or die game for HS15. At the same time, HS16 was aiming to book a berth in the semis by knocking HS15 out of the tournament. Having lost to Ph.D. scholars already, HS15 had to Read More

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  • Prem Ranjan Memorial Cricket Tournament 2018 | Match Two : Research Scholars vs. HS15

    Having choosing to bat first, HS15 played an innings which is highly unlike HS15. Aswin, their captain, did not play his routine sparkling attacking knock up the order, his teammates didn’t bat as their world ends with Aswin’s batting and most interestingly they played a fearless brand of cricket. As Aswin struggled to score runs Read More

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  • Prem Ranjan Memorial Cricket Tournament 2018 | Match One : HS13 vs. HS14

    The inaugural match of the Prem Ranjan Memorial Tournament saw HS13 beat two-time champion HS14 comfortably, in what was a lop-sided contest. The star-studded batting line-up of HS14 failed to live up to high expectations. HS13, through their disciplined and tight bowling, never let the batsmen get away. HS14 faced a huge jolt in the Read More

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  • Cricket Team Preview | HS17

    Manjith Nair and Suraj Menon write on the prospects of the freshie (HS17) team for the forthcoming Prem Ranjan Memorial Cricket Tournament.  HS 17: THE NEW KID ON THE BLOCK Captain: Sree Sankar A. HS17 enters the Prem Ranjan Memorial Cricket Tournament as the underdogs. Up against teams that have a combined experience of seven Read More

    4–5 minutes
  • Cricket Team Preview | HS14

    Libin John writes on the prospects of the fourth year (HS14) team for the forthcoming Prem Ranjan Memorial Cricket Tournament.  HS14: THE FLAWLESS(?) FEARLESS WOLF PACK I wonder if we could imagine a Prem Ranjan memorial cricket tournament without HS14 after couple of years from now on. They became the champions in the very first Read More

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  • Conference 2018 | Displacing the History of Science OR Fashioning a Fauna for British India | John Mathew

    The last keynote lecture of the DoHSS Conference, on “Displacing the History of Science OR Fashioning a Fauna for British India” was delivered by Dr John Mathew of IISER, Pune. Perfectly combining his expertise in both zoology and history of science, he began with an excerpt from Kazuo Ishiguro’s When We Were Orphans. The British Read More

    3–5 minutes
  • Conference 2018 | Panel 7 | Indigenous Identities: History, Narrative and Knowledge Production

    The seventh and final panel of the DoHSS Academic Conference, on the topic of indigenous identities, was moderated by Prof Santhosh Raghavan. It featured three panelists presenting their papers on various forms of subjugated traditional knowledge systems, followed by discussions and questions. The first paper by Panchali Bhattacharya was titled “Revival of Indigenous Naga Knowledge Read More

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  • Conference 2018 | Panel 6 | Making and Knowing the Body

    The second day of the Department of Humanities and Social Science annual academic conference housed the panel ‘Making and knowing the body’. It was the 6th panel of the conference, and was chaired by the conference convener Dr. Mathangi Krishnamurthy. The session began with Dr. Krishnamurthy outlining the direction of the panel and the question Read More

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  • Cricket Team Preview | Research Scholars

    Biyas Muhammed writes on the prospects of the Research Scholars’ team for the forthcoming Prem Ranjan Memorial Cricket Tournament.  Ph.D SCHOLARS: STRONG FAVOURITES TO CLINCH THE TROPHY AGAIN  Captain: Nishant The Scholars need 2 more runs in the final over to win the Prem Ranjan Memorial Cricket Tournament for the first time. The HS14 Captain Santhosh Read More

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