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As per the requirement of the curriculum designed by the University of Delhi under CBCS for Generic Elective paper ( Te...
22/02/2021

As per the requirement of the curriculum designed by the University of Delhi under CBCS for Generic Elective paper ( Text and Performance) offered by the Department of English, we organized a Theatre Workshop on 6/April/2017. Ms Swaranpriya, member of Pandies Theatre Group, Delhi, came as a Resourse person to conduct this theatre workshop. A short story by Premchand 'Kafan' was transmogrified into a play and was performed by the students in group of five as the concluding session of the workshop.

26/01/2021

The Department of English, Motilal Nehru College (Eve.) organised an International Creative Writing Workshop by internationally acclaimed poet/author Usha Akella (University of Cambridge) on 11th of October from 2.30 PM to 4.30 PM in the College Seminar Hall.The Workshop was open to participation from other DU Colleges as well, which offer Creative Writing as a course.The maximum number of delegates was capped at 50.

The Creative Writing Workshop was followed by 'An Evening With Poetry', a Poetry Reading Session and Book Promotion of 'FIVE Indian Poets', a Chapbook Series featuring a group of well-known Indian Poets including Usha Akella, Nandini Dhar, Mihir Vatsa, Arjun Rajendran and Manjiri Indurkar. The event was sponsored by Vayavya, Advaitam Speaks Literary, Aainanagar, The Homegirl Network, DU Beat and DU Times.

The English Department organised a webinar on ‘The Marginals during Pandemic’ on 30th of May, 2020 on Zoom platform. The...
26/01/2021

The English Department organised a webinar on ‘The Marginals during Pandemic’ on 30th of May, 2020 on Zoom platform. The webinar was honoured by the presence of Prof. Raj Kumar, Head of Department of English, University of Delhi and respected Dr. Vichitra Gupta, Principal, Motilal Nehru College Evening.The webinar was hosted by Dr. Pradeep Sharan, Associate Prof., Department of English, Motilal Nehru College Evening. He introduced the achievements and research areas of Prof. Raj Kumar, particularly on Dalit literature and Indian narratives in English.

The webinar was focused on understanding of the situations and scenarios witnessed by the Marginals in particular and all the citizens in general during the lockdown period in the capital and the whole country. Prof. Raj Kumar outlined the helplessness of humans in front of a pandemic despite excelling so much in Science and Technology, and also recited an Odia poem in English translation in relation to this state of human mind.

The attendees and the students were introduced to the idea of Power relations during discussions on the crux of the webinar,i.e., “Who are the Marginals?” . Prof. Raj Kumar explained about who can be considered to be the marginals in a country like ours, where the national resources are unevenly distributed because of the existence of hierarchical power relationships, by providing statistical data related to the scenario. He also mentioned that the marginals have always been facing uncertainty and challenges in life and it is now that these difficulties are visible in the form of people leaving the cities or standing in long queues for food during the situation of crisis.

At last, all the attendees were introduced to the ideas of Participatory Socialism and Collective Responsibility of civilised humanity. An appeal was made for a sensitive and sensible approach regarding the above as well as for spreading awareness about these ideas to face/overcome the situations of inequality during these tough times. The overall state of the human mind as well as the ways of handling challenges like stress, depression and paranoia during these difficult times were also discussed upon.

English Department organized a workshop on Narrative Journalism that was conducted on 19th of October, 2020 on Zoom plat...
26/01/2021

English Department organized a workshop on Narrative Journalism that was conducted on 19th of October, 2020 on Zoom platform by the invited resource person Jyotirmay Talukdar who is a freelance journalist and senior writing fellow and tutor at Ashoka University.
The workshop introduced the distinctive aspects of literary/narrative journalism, and outlined its relation with literary texts.
Students were introduced to different forms of journalism. Immersion Journalism, Gonzo Journalism, New Journalism, Narra-Descriptive Journalism, Long-form Journalism, Creative Nonfiction. Distinctive practices associated with each form of journalism was outlined with examples from everyday life.
Interpretation of facts and allied ethical concerns were framed.Class activity: Dashboard of long-form journalism: Choice of story, Word limit, Structure, Flow.Building a story/ Putting pieces together: Personal narrative, historical data ,interviews, political and cultural understanding. Illustrations from real life.Exhaustive research, character introduction and development, strorytelling technique, dramatic/novelistic introduction, larger social and cultural stories – some features and ways to do narrative journalism.
Two samples are taken – one from India and one from the US – to see how the narrative journalist has developed the story.

14/10/2017

International Creative Writing Workshop conducted by award-winning poet Usha Akella (University of Cambridge) & Book Launch of FIVE cm Poetry Reading Session featuring Usha Akella, Mihir Vatsa, Arjun Rajendran, Nandini Dhar and Manjiri Indurkar.

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