A FESTIVAL OF LETTERS * (Updated with pictures)

We are pleased to inform you that the Dept. of English, Bharati College, Delhi University is organising 'A Festival of letters' from 15 March to 18 March 2011.


The festival shall be inaugurated with a lecture by the playwright Mahesh Dattani, followed by a three day workshop on playwriting / script writing conducted by him. The participants will be expected to have read two of Dattani’s plays Thirty Days in September and Seven Steps around the Fire. They will also be expected to write and share their writings in the workshop.


This shall be followed by a day of literary events for students on 18 March concluding with a production of Bertolt Brecht’s play The Good Person of Szechwan in Hindi, titled Kanpur ki Aurat Bhali Ramkali.


The poster carrying the details of the four day festival:

For further queries, contact:
Dr. Mukti Sanyal  (Teacher convenor)                                                                                             
Shivani Sharma (President, Red Stockings)




UPDATED: The festival went-off well. The workshop with Mr. Mahesh Dattani was very enterprising and the students enjoyed the literary events as well. The play received favourable reviews as well.


Below are pictures by Pooja Singha from English Honours, Ist Year.

                        



                            MR. MAHESH DATTANI  WITH THE WORKSHOP PARTICIPANTS

Strike a chord for health and more...

Street theatre is the earliest form of communication. The street plays or Nukkad Nataks are concise yet they possess this mesmerizing power to speak directly to the audience and strike a chord in their hearts.
A Nukkad natak by World Lung foundation was performed in college grounds on 10 August 2010. It was well-received by students.

The day also witnessed activities organized by Red Stockings Literary Society. First, there was JUST A MINUTE (JAM in popular usage) Competition which was followed by preparing Logo for the society.




The purpose of JAM is to develop quick thinking together with good speaking, good grammar and appropriate use of words. The speakers were given half a minute to think and another minute to speak on the topic. They were scored on the basis of their content, confidence, comprehension of the topic and manner of speech. Some of the topics were I wish I was a bird, my idea of perfect weekend, perfect life, how to keep Earth green, my school days and so on.


The judges were Shrishti, Archna and Anupam from Eng Hons. IIIrd Year.

The winner was Gayatri from Eng Hons. Ist Year.

For Logo competition, there was a palpable interest amongst the audience.

Red Stockings Literary Society Elections held

The department of English runs a literary society called the Red Stockings Literary Society which holds play readings, seminars, paper readings, quizzes and similar activities through out the year.

On 3 August 2010, elections were held under the supervision of Mrs. Bhavna Kale, Head of Department, English to decide its office bearers for the academic year 2010-2011.

The Results are as follows:

President: Shivani Sharma, Eng Hons. IIIrd Year

Vice President: Deepti Kochhar, Eng Hons. IIIrd Year

Chief Secretary: Ila, Eng Hons. IInd Year

In the subsequent meeting on 4 August 2010 , there was a general discussion on the list of activities put forward by Shivani.