The lovely, super-cool team Department of English ❤️

The lovely, super-cool team Department of English posing for an impromptu photoshoot!

TheatrEyrie Welcomes You... ❤️

 

7th February 2026

Greetings!

TheatrEyrie, the theatre wing of the Department of English (Aided), Madras Christian College, is celebrating its completion of ten years with an intercollegiate Theatre Competition on 17.02.2026 and a one-day Theatre Workshop on 18.02.2026.

As part of the Intercollegiate Theatre Competition (17.02.2026), we invite teams from colleges to take part and celebrate theatre with us. Do participate and win exciting prizes.

The registration form for the Competition

https://forms.gle/bkXJkpNuKevgQmt39

The following day (18.02.2026), we also have a one-day Theatre Workshop.

Please register for the same. Looking forward to your presence.

The registration form for the Workshop

https://forms.gle/htFHYzgackfhmqSk6

"How do you become a diplomat? I think you can start with being a student of Madras Christian college" ❤️

The T. G. Narayanan Endowment Lecture

5th January 2026 | 10.30 am

A Report

The 14th Edition of the T. G. Narayanan Endowment Lecture was held today at 10.30 am in the Centre for Media Studies Auditorium.

The Chief Guest of the day was Shri T. P. Seetharam, IFS, former Ambassador of India to the UAE, and an illustrious alumnus of the Department of English, MCC.

Dr. Joshua, introduced the Chief Guest of the day.

Excerpts from his introduction –

It’s my wonderful privilege to introduce the chief guest - Ambassador TP Seetharam. He was the Chairman of Heber Hall in 1977-78. He did his BA in Loyola College in English Literature from 1974 to 76, then he came to MCC to do his Masters here in English language and literature from 1976 - 78.

I’m sure he would agree with me that he found true freedom after coming to MCC, where he could enjoy boundless freedom here - not only in the Hall, but in the department and in the college as well.  

That is one of the unique features of MCC. MCC has always encouraged the freedom of thought and they are also given the freedom to pursue those ideas, those desires which are close to their heart, and that really shapes our careers as well. We are also happy to have his classmate here with us – who is none other than Dr. Nirmal Selvamony.

Four of them in the class formed the Think Tank of the Class –

T.P. Seetharam

Nirmal Selvamony

Indu Menon

Sandhya

These four formed the quartet – the Think Tank.

Now while he was a student here, Seetharam had aspirations to get into civil services, and he is from a very distinguished family. His elder brother also got into IFS.  

While he was in MCC, he exhibited his talents of leadership – both as a thinker and a writer and he also contributed articles to the College Magazine. And this has always been a tradition.

In MCC, some of the best and the brightest minds in the college would be contributing articles, either in the Department Magazine or in the College Magazine.

The best example is Dr. Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan, the former President of India, on whom I did my research as well. When he was the student of this college from 1905 to 1909, he wrote two articles in the college magazine and they were well-appreciated, and this laid the future foundation for his intellectual thought.

So that’s how you students also must explore avenues and means of expressing your own thoughts through writing – it could be writing short poems or essays, or book reviews.

This will definitely contribute to your later career. So TPS had two of his articles published in the College Magazine. From this we know how innovative, creative and expressive he was, even when he was a student here. And then in 1980, he got into civil services. Let me also share that, MCC has contributed some of the best civil servants in the country, and that includes T. N. Seshan.

In fact, the very first Foreign Secretary of India, Shri KPS Menon was a student here. After his studies here, he got into Civil Services, and he became one of the well-respected diplomats. He was Foreign Secretary from 1948 to 52.

Coming back to TPS, he interacted with Rajiv Gandhi, Angela Merkel, Bill Clinton, K. R. Narayanan, Narendra Modi, etc. Finally, he was appointed Ambassador to UAE, from 2013 to 2016, when, he hosted our Prime Minister Narendra Modi (the first PM to visit the UAE after Indira Gandhi).

In the Global Alumni Meet of 2016, in MCC, Mr. Seetharam was our Chief Guest.

It’s my honour and pleasure to invite Ambassador Seetharam to our midst,

said Dr. Joshua in his introductory note.

The topic of today’s lecture by Mr. T.P. Seetharam was, ‘Service without Borders: The Role of Diplomats’.

Giving us all a few excerpts from his engaging speech -

Good morning, everybody here. Thank you, Dr. Franklin for this opportunity. Thank you, Dr. Joshua for introducing me generously, and also for having introduced me earlier to Dr. Franklin.

I don't have a prepared speech. Even if I had one, I would have to tear it up, because what Trump has done in the last couple of days.

It’s about diplomacy.

How do you become a diplomat? I think you can start with being a student of Madras Christian college. It's even better like I did.

I also had the privilege of teaching English Literature in MCC for a year, against a leave vacancy.

They say that there’s no way to learn a subject better than to teach it. That’s because when you have to teach something you have to understand what it’s all about.

So a lot of my learning happened when I was teaching here for a year. And at that time, of course there were some very good teachers and one of them I should mention here, is Prof. Rajani, from the English department who is, sadly, no more.

He was a friend, philosopher and advisor to all of us. And most importantly, he gave me a key to the English department library.

I had access to that English department library while I was teaching here for a year. And after having stayed in Heber as a student, I was staying in St Thomas’s Hall, while being the assistant professor of English. So after dinner I would walk with the key to the main building.

There was nobody in the main building at that time, and I would lock myself into that tiny library and stay there, read and take my notes and sleep there. The library was very helpful for me.

I did choose English as one of my subjects for the Civil Services, apart from Sociology – of which I knew nothing about.

But a friend offered to lend me his notes. I only studied his notes.

I passed the exam. He didn’t.

His father was at that time the Foreign Secretary of India.

His girlfriend also was taking the exam after studying from his notes.

She also passed and joined the IAS.

However, he went on to become a very distinguished person in the NGO sector. So MCC is a good place to begin your preparations for the Civil Services.

It is a highly competitive exam. I will not go into the details now, since this afternoon at the MCC-IAS Academy I will be talking about the mechanics of getting into the services.

So what is diplomacy all about?

It's supposed to be everything that Trump does not stand for.

It’s about making friends.

It is civilised behaviour.

It’s not being selfish. It’s not about Make my Country Great Again, but about, making OUR countries great again. It about engagement, it’s about networking.

And we have a very strict selection process. In 1980, when I joined the service, in my batch there were 20 young probationers. This 20 is from the 1,15,000 people who took the exam.

So that is the intense competition. And once you are in, there is a very extensive training programme in India for about two years. You are sent to Jawaharlal Nehru University, you are attached with the Indian Army in the border areas. You learn how to fire a pistol on a semi-automatic and you are attached in the office of a district collector in a district for a period of time.

What you should never forget is that, as a diplomat, living abroad, you are representing India. India, with all its glorious history and past, India, with all its achievements.

So you need to understand India very well if you wish to represent India outside. My first assignment was in Hong Kong.

My job was to go there to study Chinese language. I had opted for it. They asked me, which language I would you like to study?

Most others chose French Russian or Arabic. And the languages are spoken by many countries.

I chose Chinese because I thought that it was a difficult language.

As for French, you can pick up in three months, but Chinese are Japanese are languages which require dedicated study over a period of time.

And the government was sending me to Hong Kong to study Chinese at the university there for two years.

Before going to Hong Kong, I was a probationer, attending the first India-China border talks in Beijing.

I was a note-taker in the backbench in 1983. What has that happened to the border issues since then?

I serve the government for 36 years. Retired 10 years ago, India-China border issue still remains unresolved. I hope some of you will join the foreign service, and resolve our border issue. If you can help, you'll be a great service - to both India and China and the world. Some issues take a long time.

The Chinese say that they will solve this problem, when the time is right!

To be continued…

Dr. Franklin Daniel, our Head of the Department gave the welcome address. Our Principal Dr. Paul Wilson gave the Inaugural address, while Dr. Aruna gave the Vote of Thanks, followed by the closing prayer done by Dr. Ann Thomas. Prof. DC was amazing as MC. Indeed she made Dr. David’s day end on a very happy note, today! 😊

On the whole, a very rewarding day in every way!

PS: You may want to look up the first edition of the T.G. Narayanan Endowment Lecture on 21 December 2012, on our past blogpost HERE

You may also want to look up the 13th edition of the T.G. Narayanan Endowment Lecture, on 5th December 2024, on our past blogpost HERE

Writing Workshop @ MCC ❤️

 

CHRISTIANE RECHENMACHER (A) CHRISTL MTH. CHRISTL MTH. is an artist from Austria who cannot be framed.

Her music, paintings and lyrics are uncompromising, critical and confrontational.

She creates spaces where the presence of anger and love, fragility and strength are equally justified.

In 2021, she released her first EP A Room for her own as CHRISTL.

I think I hate myself is her debut.

Cordially Inviting You... ❤️

 

"A person sitting next to you has a story that you don’t know anything about" ❤️

Shreekumar Varma

Author, Blogger, Critic, Columnist, playwright, poet

On Song @ The 13th Edition of the TG Narayanan Endowment Lecture

Today | 5th December 2024 | CMS Auditorium

Mr. Shreekumar Varma releasing Cornucopia

An eminent MCC-ian of the 70s, Shreekumar Varma, [who had his schooling in MCC School, Chetpet, and later went on to do his BA, MA and MPhil in English at Madras Christian College, and also taught in the Dept of English for one year] – was the speaker for the 13th Edition of the TG Narayanan Endowment Lecture today.

He spoke on the topic, ‘Writing to Live: Stories within Stories’.

Here goes –

Dr. Manohar Samuel, my classmate in BA and MA, Dr. Franklin, the gracious young man then, who remains gracious even today, Dr. Ganesh, Mr. Keshav, an active Alumni member, the grandguru – Prof. Cherian Kurian, my MA English classmate - Mr. Kantharaj Jude Sekar, IFS, Director General of Forests, New Delhi, (Retd), my BA Classmate – Anand Ponniah, who was responsible for ‘driving’ me here today and to all my good friends... and I have a special word of appreciation for the excellent rendition of the State Anthem of Tamil Nadu - thamizh thaai vazhthu by the Dept Choir. 

I first stepped into this beautiful campus 50 years ago, and I did my PUC, BA, MA, and then  went to Bombay – I was a journalist – I came back did my MPhil for one year, and afterwards I was called back to teach English Literature in the Dept of English.

Two weeks ago, there was a book release – that had a lot of old faces from MCC around me – and there was this girl – who is now a famous film director, who was an assistant to Maniratnam, and who later went on to do her own films, and now she’s done a serial too. She came up to me and said, Sir, you were the one responsible for my interest in creative writing. It’s an amazing thrill that you feel – any teacher feels – when a student comes back and tells you that!

And this is what we do! You take stories from someone else and pass it on to others. This is what we do in class, and this is what a writer does as well.

Beyond the rhetoric and intellectual and critical discourse, there is the very core of our literary pursuit that we often tend to forget: The story. 

Not the story in the book, but the stories of the world and the stories of you and me – without which the story in the book would be orphaned.

Mr. Shreekumar Varma on Song...

There are two ways of writing –

Doing the done thing all over again. You follow the masters – whether it’s literature, or architecture, or mathematics or public administration. In the case of literature, if you are a writer, you study the great writers, the thinkers, the classical masters the modern writers, and then you write a beautiful poem, novel, play or essay that will fit the same mould, flow in the same waters, and be true to what you were taught.

Then there is the second way – the yet to be done thing that you create.

You read the masters, you research a field, you look around and see the people, the neighbourhood, and finally, you look within yourself to find the story that needs to be written by you.

In the second case, you know your art. But when you begin your creation you do according to your experience, your mind, your heart, or rules. It may have been done before, but the world sees a difference in it – a creativity, a freshness, a new quality that can be named after you!

I’ll give you an example. I will show you two pictures – both are self portraits by Picasso the Artist. The first one was painted by him – his self-portrait when he was 15 years old, in the year 1896. He must have studied the masters, and wanted to paint a lot when he was young.

Then he grew and he grew and he grew. Out came cubism. The masterstroke of Pablo Picasso. And then when he was 90 years old, he painted his last self-portrait.

The first and the last...

Now just imagine if he had painted this self-portrait the first time. Would he have got this recognition. They’d have called it nonsense.

He studied the masters, had his creativity, went into the route which no one else had taken, led these people through that path and showed them what he’s capable of. And cubism is a recognised, big part of the art scene today.

That’s because you have to learn to be simple. You have to learn everything else to be able to know yourself. Your art grows within you, watered by the stories around you, and the stories that came before you.

Many of you must have been familiar with Arunagirinathar - a Tamil saint and poet who lived in the 15th century and is known for his devotional hymns to Lord Murugan.

There are a couple of stories about his life – one miraculous and the other, more matter of fact.

In the film version, Lord Murugan appears before him, and Arunagirinathar (played by TMS) asks him, what should I do to attain you, my Lord?

Lord Murugan simply replies, Chumma iru. (do Nothing). It means, be still.

That doesn’t actually mean do nothing. It means, you have to look at the world, study everything, you have to go through that process. You cant simply paint your last portrait and say, this is me!

You have to go through all that. Only then your path will be recognised.

So that I think, being still, is the primary way to what’s lying inside you. There’s so much within you.

Each of us – sitting here – looking and admiring other people’s works, movies, reading books, new discoveries, you have so much to offer, if only you look within yourself and see the stories around you.

In an art school for example, the students are taken on little excursions and told to paint what they see! - the trees, the skies, the birds, the flowers, the animals, etc.

They are also taught the techniques of art and the process through which a thought or an idea can be turned into a piece of art.

In the study of literature, that little excursion of discoveries would be about stories.

Along with our own personal stories, our most important stories include those of our families, our friends, our neighbours and our colleagues.

Two, three, four decades from now – those college friends, with whom you are sitting today! Just look at them and see, how much of friendship there is now, and how much of friendship was there in the past! will they be sitting with you today like the way my friends are sitting here. Those are the stories. 

A person sitting next to you has a story that you don’t know anything about. Those are the stories you grow up with. And that energises you – while you are learning all these technical things – the intellectual discourses and critical studies, etc.

The more stories we have, the more we can understand other people and the world. The more we understand and welcome, the less we will condemn and reject. And this an important lesson for a writer.

More than any creative writing techniques or templates, this is the important thing – to understand and try to get into the mind of another. In my life, the process began with my years in this college. The train rides, the people I met, my fellow students, my teachers – everyone had a story. I only had to listen. And because I listened, my own story was enriched.

And then I became a journalist in Bombay. Imagine the number of stories I was exposed to.

So many interviews added more and more stories. And in Bombay I also worked in a magazine run by the film industry. So I can go anywhere – any film party, any shooting, go and interview any producer, director, and so during that time I was in close contact with the story tellers, the actors, the musicians.

And I was getting my dose of life in various forms. Most important thing is – life is a changeable thing. It doesn’t stay the same forever. We are constantly evolving and our stories are growing. 

We are a work-in-progress, until the day we die. We are not finished products. That’s one of the most important things for a writer to learn. That’s why you find this self-portrait of Picasso when he was 15 and that one when he was 90. When you can trace the first book of an author and find the progress when you read the last book of his.

Everybody has a story. For example, Charles Dickens earned money to get his father out of prison. At twelve, he worked in a shoe-polish factory, and you know what he wrote. Whatever you experience goes into your creativity.

Ken Kesey, who wrote his novel titled, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest in 1962, was janitor in a mental hospital. The novel is also set in an Oregon psychiatric hospital, and the narrative serves as a study of institutional processes and the human mind, including a critique of psychiatry, and a tribute to individualistic principles.

What he experienced went into his creativity.

Perumal Murugan, closer home, born into a family of farmers in Tiruchengodu – his father was a farmer and so he couldn’t earn enough to support his family. So he ran a soda shop in a cinema theatre in Namakkal district. And Murugan became a Professor in Tamil Literature. See the deadly combination of theory and the lived life which is obvious in his writings.

To be continued…

Our Lovely Band of Professors - Past & Present

The lecture was well-attended by all our students, and faculty and students from other city colleges as well.

The Q & A Session was highly engaging with thought-provoking questions donning the post-lecture session.

Student authors including Shreya, Lekhaa, Ganga Santhosh and Gracelin were honoured by Mr. Shreekumar Varma. He also took a photograph with them.

Cornucopia, the exclusive Literary Magazine of the Dept of English, designed by Prof. Christina Dhanasekaran a.k.a. DeeCee was released by Mr. Varma on the occasion.

A host of our past professors and former Heads of Department graced the occasion – including Dr. Mekala Rajan, Dr. Ganesh, Dr. Azhagarasan, Head, Dept of English, University of Madras, and other luminaries. 

Our Vibrant Student Authors with Author Shreekumar Varma

Dr. Franklin Daniel, Head, Department of English, was at his wittiest best, while welcoming the gathering - that had us all in splits – setting forth the tone and the tenor for what’s to follow.

Dr. Rufus while introducing Mr. Shreekumar Varma, was highly appreciative of his friends who’ve been with him right from his school days in the 1960s up until today – seated proudly in the first row to listen to their classmate’s lecture. He then quoted from Mr. Varma’s blog (thinkopotamus.blogspot.com) – On his tryst with writing.

Here goes – (from Mr. Shreekumar Varma’s Blogpost)

Sensitivity and a sense of self does strange things to you sometimes. You are aware that you - this being on two legs, seeing the world through two small pin- holes in your face - are living an entire life, making things happen and impinging on other people’s lives. One day, you’ll close those eyes forever, and life as you know it will end.

My wife says that I get so involved in my writing that I reflect every emotion I write about. She’s wary about my subjects and gets jittery when I write dark events.

Invariably, some of it seeps into real life. My third play, Platform, lay waiting for some months before a director picked it up.

The play was appreciated and drew some brilliant performances. During the cast party at the director’s house one rainy afternoon, the male lead (who’s now gone on to do feature films) took me aside.

He said, “I’ve been wanting to tell you this for some time. It’s amazing, there’s such a marked resemblance between my life and that of the character you wrote for me. No one knows that part of me, but you’ve been so accurate!”

I patiently explained to him that I hadn’t written the character for him. I hadn’t even known who was going to direct the play, much less who was going to act in it!

After the Lecture - Meeting with our I MA Students

I have now got used to the fact that my writing may precipitate or reflect events without any help from me. I’ve come across people who’ve lived the lives and moments that I’ve described while sitting in the privacy of my room. I think creativity is a link between ourselves and the universe. What awakens in us might have gone to sleep in some part of the universe, or vice-versa, quoted Dr. Rufus, from Mr. Shreekumar Varma’s blogpost.

Overall, the programme was highly rewarding in every way to all of us who had gathered together to listen to our own fellow MCC-ian!

Viva la MCC!

Photos Courtesy: Therese Maria | Painting Courtesy: rarehistoricalphotosdotcom

Cordially Inviting You...❤️

 

The Research Department of English cordially invites you for the

XIII TG Narayanan Endowment Lecture

On the topic

Writing to Live: Stories within Stories

On Thursday, 5th December 2024 at 10.30 am

At the Centre for Media Studies Auditorium, MCC

About Shreekumar Varma

Indian author, playwright, newspaper columnist and poet.

Formerly Professor of English & Journalism, Madras Christian College.

He is the grandson of Sethu Lakshmi Bai, Regent Maharani of the erstwhile Travancore State, and great grandson of the artist Raja Ravi Varma. He is the son of the present matriarch of the Travancore Royal Family. He lives in Chennai, India.

His books for children include PAZHASSI RAJA: THE ROYAL REBEL, (Macmillan,1997), DEVIL'S GARDEN (Puffin, 2006) and THE MAGIC STORE OF NU-CHAM-VU (Puffin, 2009, shortlisted for Crossword Prize). He is the author of the novels, LAMENT OF MOHINI (Penguin, 2001) and MARIA'S ROOM (Harper Collins 2010). His forthcoming novels include THE AXE OF PARASHURAMA, GAYATRI CLUB and INDIAN SCOTCH.

He has written seven full-length plays, one short play and two mini plays: THE DARK LORD (second prize, British Council Playscripts Prize), BOW OF RAMA (first prize, The Hindu- The Madras Players Playscripts Award), PLATFORM (inaugural play of The Madras Players Golden Jubilee year), MIDNIGHT HOTEL (raised more than 40,00,000 rupees for the Christian Medical College, Vellore), NATHU'S DREAM (children's musical), FIVE (political thriller) and CAST PARTY (murder mystery), GANGA AT RISHIKESH and INTERVENTION and DEMEANINGS.

His poems, articles, reviews, short stories and interviews have appeared in several periodicals including The Hindu, Indian Express, Deccan Herald, Seminar Magazine, Aesthetica Quarterly, A Hudson View and Pulse-Berlin Magazine, as well as academic journals. 

His stories, articles and poems have appeared in many Indian and international anthologies. He has translated poetry and fiction for the OUP Anthology of Malayalam Dalit Writings in Translation (Oxford University Press).

He wrote the script for a series of internationally produced films on the Buddha to be shown in visitors' centres at heritage locations like the Ajanta caves. He has also written poetry for two dance performances. He has been a columnist for publications like The New Indian Express, The Economic Times Madras Plus, The Hindu MetroPlus and the Deccan Herald. He is also a literary reviewer for The Hindu and the Sunday Herald.

He was an adjunct professor in Creative English at the Chennai Mathematical Institute for 13 years. He taught English Literature and Journalism at the Madras Christian College. He has lectured and presented papers at several colleges and institutes and at the Madras University.

He was a charter member and president of the Rotary Club of Madras Southwest and editor of the club magazine for eight years. He was awarded the Charles Wallace [India] Trust fellowship, and was Writer-in-Residence at Stirling University, UK, in 2004.

He was on the jury of the inaugural The Hindu Best Fiction Award as well as short story and poetry competitions organised by Deccan Herald, Karadi Tales, IIT Chennai's Saarang and The Prakriti Foundation. He is married to Geeta, and has two sons, Vinayak and Karthik.

You may also want to look up for a report on the First TG Narayanan Endowment Lecture on our past blogpost HERE. 

The ‘me’ you see right now, before you, is a clearly groomed ‘me’, and it is NOT the actual ‘me’...

Me – My Soil & My Stories | ELF Inaugural

To laugh often and much; to win the respect of the intelligent people and the affection of children;

to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate beauty;

to find the beauty in others; to leave the world a bit better whether by a healthy child, a garden patch, or a redeemed social condition; to know that one life has breathed easier because you lived here.

This is to have succeeded,

said the legendary Emerson, and this is exactly something that literature does to us, remarked Dr. Tamizhachi Thangapandian, Member of Parliament, South Chennai Constituency, at the Inaugural of the English Literary Forum, Research Department of English.

Excerpts from her igniting speech on the topic, ‘Me – My Soil & My Stories’ -

Dr. Tamizhachi noted that, she considered it a great privilege to be at this prestigious Institution to inaugurate the activities of the English Literary Forum of the Research Dept of English.

I wish to talk on why I am keen on tracing the roots of my writings, and why I’m keen on establishing my identity.

The ‘me’ you see right now, before you, is a clearly groomed ‘me’, and it is NOT the actual ‘me’.

Karisal Kaatu Village is my identity. It’s about half an hour’s drive from the Madurai Airport – A village called Mallankinaru.

I had double promotions from 1^st, 3^rd and 5^th standards – called onnaapu [Ist standard] in my dialect.

It’s from here that I derive the seeds of my writing.

Karisal region is an arid region, dry with black soil, and the climate of my region is – nine months of summer, and three months of rains. So we wait for the rains!

As is often said, The Battle of Waterloo was won on the playing fields of Eton, which means to say that, Britain’s stupendous victories on the military front, were solely based on the values and ethics imparted to the school boys in their public school. The Duke of Wellington, who was the commander in chief of the British and allied armies at Waterloo was a graduate of Eton College!

Similarly, I’m true to myself, to my roots, and stick to my roots!

Richard Mulcaster, liberal educational theorist and the poet Spenser's headmaster at the Merchant Taylors' School in London, once observed that, 

it is the learning in a language and not any inherent virtue that makes it esteemed, and English can be as learned and expressive as any: ‘I love Rome, but London better, I favour Italy, but England more, I honor Latin, but I worship English.

In like fashion, I love English, but I worship Tamil, she remarked.

Stating that, Translation is a negotiation between two cultures, continents, etc, she quoted Ngugi wa Thiongo who chose to abandon writing in English and opted for writing in his own mother tongue – Gikuyu instead.

My English is placed in juxtaposition to the coloniser’s English, she observed, and citing her professor who often used to tell her, ‘Stick to your roots!’, she said that, ‘It was indeed my Professor who opened my eyes to the concept of ‘sticking to one’s roots’.

J D Salinger once remarked that, ‘To be able to create a story, you got to know your characters in every way possible’.

‘Such characters I get them only in my soil’ observed Dr. Tamizhachi!

Note: For Past Inaugurals of ELF, & the Lectures given on the occasion by the respective Chief Guests, kindly click HERE

To be continued…