Monday 28 March 2016

Lecture on Legal Disabilities

THE INSTITUTE SEMINAR SERIES - February 2016
Invites you for a talk on
Legal Disabilities: 
Protection, "Protection" and The Penalising of Difference
by
Vaishnavi  Jayakumar
[Independent Disability Rights Activist]
Chairperson: Ashley Tellis
Date & Time: Tuesday, 29 March 2016, @ 3:30 p.m.
in the Adiseshiah Auditorium, MIDS

Saturday 26 March 2016

Thoughts on an alumna!

She is indisputably one of my best students ever!

She shines in her verses like an ignis regina, and this kiddo of mine, has laid claim to many a heart with her fine anthology of poems which speak (yes! Volumes…) for themselves. The moment she had it published, some of us here at MCC, her proud teachers (and yes! One of em is me) had just one fine phrase for her: “Don’t forget to work on your next antho at the earliest possible time"! And she did! In about three months’ time, yet another ignis regina of ‘finer and brighter gems serene’ were at my inbox and I was bowled over by the intensity of her verses.

She has huge aspirations ahead of her, and I pray that she achieves ‘em all!
Her maiden anthology

She is a go-getter!

The moment she told me she was into Holocaust literature, and was gulping down books by the dozen on the theme as part of her MPhil programme, I just suggested one Viktor Frankl as a fine theoretical prop for her dissertation and left it at that! In no time she did her homework and asked me for more on him. I just put her in touch with the legendary Dr. Joseph Dorairaj [who had introduced me to Viktor Frankl and his oeuvre!]. That Saturday, she calls me up and tells me, ‘Anna, I’m now in Dr.Joseph Dorairaj’s house in Madurai!

And wonder of wonders! Her MPhil dissertation was adjudged ‘one of

Wanted in Chennai

Data Interpreters with good command over technical English needed urgently for a Project based in Chennai. [Preferably MA in English/ Asst. Professors of English]. Apply in strict confidence to rufusonline@gmail.com

Friday 25 March 2016

University of Madras
Department of English
Welcomes you to the
Professor N. Subramanian Endowment Lecture 2016
On
Western Scholars in 19th Century Tamilnadu
By
Dr. P. Marudhanayagam
[Former Professor & Head, Department of English, Pondicherry University
& Member, Central Institute of Classical Tamil, Chennai]
On 
Monday, 28 March 2016 @ 11 am.
This invite is on behalf of
Dr. S. Armstrong
Professor & Head, Department of English
University of Madras

Wednesday 23 March 2016

Inviting friends, staff and students...

Inviting all our friends, staff members and students to be a part of a 'one-of-its-kind' National Seminar on Literature and Human Rights, organised by Sree Sevugan Annamalai College, Devakottai, Karaikudi, on Monday, 28 March 2016. 

Monday 21 March 2016

I MA English - Reading File

S.No
Name
Book
Author
1.
AGNES EUNICE JASPER
Jesus > Religion
Jefferson Bethke
2.
AISWARYA SUSAN SAMUEL
The Diary of a Young Girl
Anne Frank
3.
ANNMARIA SEBASTIAN
Randaamoozham
M. T. Vasudevan Nair
4.
ANU M. VARGHESE
The Kite Runner
Khaled Hosseini
5.
APARNA R.
A Thousand Splendid Suns
Khaled Hosseini
6.
CHITRA S.
The Unexpected Guest
Agatha Christie
7.
CHRISTINA MARY GEORGE
Memories
Lang Leav
8.
FRAGRANCE PRAISY GEORGE
Hostage of the Sea
Cherith Baldry
9.
HANNAH CHANDRAN
Wide Sargasso Sea
Jean Rhys
10.
HARIPRIYA SREEKUMAR
True Believer
Nicholas Sparks
11.
HELEN ANN JOSEPH
Lord of the Flies
William Golding
12.
HELEN GLORY ROBERT
Tit for tat to Treat for tat
Dr. Pal
13.
INDUMATHI
Countdown
Amitav Ghosh
14.
IRENE SHILPA S.
The Cross and the Switchblade
David Wilkerson
15.
JAYASHREE RAJAN
Asura
Anand Neelakanthan
16.
JOANNA SHALOM JOHN
Bad Ground
Joanna Shalom John
17.
JOLENE CANDICE
Roadside Crosses
Jeffery Deaver
18.
JOSE MARY JENIFER A.
The Case for Christ
Lee Strobel
19.
MAANINIJAYAL V.
Midnight’s Children
Salman Rushdie
20.
MAGDELENE ANEETEE BROWN H.
The Last Wave
Pankaj Sekhsaria
21.
MERRIL MARY MATHEW
The Namesake
Jumpha Lahiri
22.
MOHANA PRIYA
The Rainbow
D. H. Lawrence
23.
NISSY SARA GEORGE
The Book Thief
Markus Zusak
24.
PHEBA K PAUL
Night
Elie Wiesel
25.
PRIYANKA TOMY
Mahashweta
Sudha Murty
26.
REBECCA JACOB
Animal Farm
George Orwell
27.
SADEPALLI JHANSI RANI
How to Win Friends and Influence People
Dale Carnegie
28.
SALEENA S.
En Kadha

29.
VIJAYALAKSHMI INDIRAN
Don’t Delay Enlightenment
Sri Bhagavath
30.
Abhishek I Singh
The Whale Rider
Witi Ihimaera
31.
Akash Saji Kumar
Such a Long Journey
Rohinton Mistry
32.
Akil Raj G.
The Dead Heart
Douglas Kennedy
33.
Andrew Titus Jasper
Three Men in a Boat
Jerome K Jerome
34.
Bhuvanesh Kumar
The White Tiger
Aravind Adiga
35.
Kumara Sethupathi R.
Evidence for Truth: Science
Viktor Pearce
36.
Manu Kuriakose Zachariah
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?
37.
Oswin Barnabas
The Kite Runner
Khaled Hosseini
38.
Phinehash R.
The Sacred Wood
T S Eliot
39.
Ravi Shankar
Digital Fortress
Dan Brown
40.
Sampaul C.L.
The Home and the World
Rabindranath Tagore
41.
Sivakumar
Jane Eyre
Charlotte Bronte
42.
Veillakshmikanth
Karna’s Wife
Kavita Kane
43.
A. M. Arun Kumar
The Light of Asia
Sir Edwin Arnold