Congrats!

A record eight of our students, past and present, have cleared the SET for Lecturers. Our hearty congratulations to all of you who have cleared it. It was a well-deserved success. The Department of English extends a red-carpet welcome to you. Keep up the spirit. God bless you.

Meeting of the Editorial Board

Members of the Editorial Board of Eclectic Representations [17 May 2012]

A meeting of the Editorial Board of Eclectic Representations was held at the Selaiyur Hall Guest Room, Madras Christian College, on Thursday, 17 May 2012 at 10:20 am. All the members who were present, gave valuable suggestions and ideas to further the cause of the Journal. It was decided that Members of the Board who were not present, be given the minutes of the Board meeting through email. The meeting started at 10:20 am and ended at 12:20 pm. We thank all the members of the Board for their enthusiastic involvement in the affairs of Eclectic Representations.

My alma mater - A Student's Reminiscences

Three months to go. Reflecting on my two years at MCC, I can’t help but marvel at the way my perspectives, opinions and principles have sharpened. 

As I entered the College gates to enroll for the masters programme in English Literature little did I know that I would go out of those very gates a more confident, sensitive and strong woman than when I entered. The beautiful and breath-taking campus seems to whisper to everyone who enters her gates. It is a whisper that beckons you, a whisper that gently draws out an individual’s

The legendary Professor Bennet Albert - A Tribute

A Memoir and A Tribute

[by the inimitable Prof. Robert Burns, 1977-78]

Of the many sandy walks that crisscross our lovely Campus, one leads straight from the portico of the College main building to the Selaiyur gate. If, quitting the above-mentioned edifice you should take this road, you can keep going till you reach the Indian Overseas Bank and ask the manager to raise your overdraft; or, you can turn sharply to your right, half-way along, and ultimately arrive at Selaiyur Hall where, of nights, the only television set on Campus dispenses sound cultural entertainment, and literature classes are conducted of a morning. (No one turns to the left because this isn't the shortest distance to St.Thomas' or the main gate, and we of MCC are averse to needless exercise of any description.) Down the road, and around this corner, at about 9 a.m. on a day in early August 1970 Professor Albert stalked into our lives. 

Down Memory Lane with Prof.Bennet Albert

College Day Report [1977 – 78]

(by Professor Bennet Albert, Professor of English & Principal, Madras Christian College)

Friends, I wish to welcome first of all the new graduates of the year. We are very glad that they are here with us this evening. All of us have a share in their concern as to what their future is going to be. Let us hope that out of this concern that all of us feel some good may evolve, and the skills they developed in College may be made use of for the benefit of all. 

Let me welcome next our Chief Guest Mr. E. C. P. Prabakar and Mrs. Lily Prabakar. Mr. Prabakar is a very senior I.A.S Officer and he serves now as Commissioner and Secretary to the Board of Revenue in Tamil Nadu. Once again we have an Old Boy as our Chief Guest. Mr. Prabakar did his B.Sc Chemistry in our College from 1942 – 44, and he was both a good student and a good sportsman, combining in himself brain and brawn. He played cricket and hockey for the College and University, and, in the case of cricket, for the State as well. We have a trophy  named after Mr. Prabakar, meant for the best all-rounder in athletics and academics – but for the past two years there has been no award: obviously, Prabakar are rare, and so the next time the award may go to some young lady who combines in herself brain, brawn and charm!