Inauguration of the English Literary Forum

The English Literary Forum was inaugurated by Dr.V.Rajagopalan, former Head, Dept of English, MCC, to a packed Anderson Hall which listened with rapt attention to his spellbinding lecture on 'Appreciating Literature.' 

Good literature, according to him, should deal with the tension between good and evil. Knowledge has to be demystified and subjects defamilarised, he said, and added that the burden of his address was to validate the classics. 

English Departments the world over have increasingly shown affiliations towards Cultural Studies, with a strong belief in antifoundationalism, and by upholding the dharma of political consciousness at the expense of aesthetic autonomy. Arguing that we should be sensitive to the classics, he said that, a classic is an open text which has never completely finished saying what it has to say. to be contd...