Join us for the Chennai Coastal Clean-Up...

Chennai Coastal Clean-Up Sixth Edition

Sunday, 07 June 2015 at 6 am.

Jointly organized by

The Hindu

&

The Chennai Trekking Club

Schools, NGOs and individuals can participate free of cost 

(bags, gloves, refreshments will be sponsored).

NET/JRF Preparatory Classes @ Trichy!

Dear NET/SET Aspirants, 

*******************

The Annual NET/JRF [English] Intensive Preparatory Classes are back! 

It will be held at National College, Trichy, from 03 June 2015 to 10 June 2015. 

Registration Fee: Rs.1000/- for the entire week's course.

Accommodation available on Campus for a modest sum of Rs.100/- per day. 

Kindly bring your bedding.

For more details, contact: Dr. D. E. Benet @ 9443248012

Spring Music Recital 2015

Join S.A.M

in their 

SPRING 2015 MUSIC RECITAL

On 

Friday, 15 May 2015 at 5 pm

featuring various student, faculty and alumni performances

organised by Swarnabhoomi Academy of Music

At

Rani Seethai Hall

603, First Floor, Anna Salai, (near Gemini Flyover), 

Thousand Lights, Chennai

For details, contact 7299950087

Do watch out for the who's who of the Entertainment Industry come together 

to share their insights on how musicians are rocking the industry!

Call for Papers for a Special Volume on Canadian Literature

Dr. S. Armstrong, Professor & Head, Department of English, University of Madras, is planning to bring out a book on themes, issues and recent trends in Canadian Literature. The book aims to publish high quality academic work produced by scholars in the field of Canadian Literature.

Unpublished/original papers not currently under consideration by any other publisher are invited from both India and overseas. A brief author biography should also be included.

There is no charge whatsoever, either for submission or for publication.

The book will be published by a reputed publishing house in July/August 2015.

Vengaboys in townnn!

Don't miss out on this lovely chance to party with the band that got the world to grove with them! Yep! we couldn't have missed out on them during our school/college years! 

Now, they're in town. 

Catch the action live at Phoenix Marketcity 

on 9 May 2015 at 7 pm. 

Join us there! :-)

MIDS Monthly Seminar Series

MIDS MONTHLY SEMINAR SERIES

On Thursday, 30 April 2015 at 3.30 pm

Venue: Adiseshiah Auditorium, MIDS.

Dr. Jacob Kurien

(Resident Professor of International Economics, Nanjing University, China)

speaks on

The Economic Transformation of China

All are cordially invited

Theatre Workshop by Salim Ghouse

Play Around

Theatre Workshop

Conducted by eminent film and theatre personality 

Salim Ghouse 

of 

The Phoenix Players, Mumbai

From Saturday, 02 May 2015 to Sunday, 03 May 2015.

Ghouse who has acted in several films and plays, is coming to Chennai for a two-day workshop on theatre and kinesics. 

The 10 hour comprehensive course involves acting basics 

like callisthenics, movement, improvisation, character and scene study etc.

Folk Music & Dance Festival

Russian Centre of Science and Culture
organises
"Folk Singing and Dance Performance"

on Friday, 01 May 2015

@ 74, Kasturi Ranga Road, Parthasarathypuram, Alwarpet, Chennai

Prepare to refresh your senses with this amazing Russian folk music and dance line-up dedicated to the 70^th Anniversary of the Great Patriotic War 1941 - 1945. 

The Volgograd city will administer the concert with Russian ballad troupes, harmonica player, musicians, orchestra and dancers performing to enlighten your day. 

All are welcome! For details, 044-24990050

Guitar Performance in the City..!

The Madras Guitar Concert

Chennai Western Music Association

Presents

The Madras Guitar Ensemble

On Saturday, 25 April 2015 @ 7 pm

@ The Music Academy, Royapettah.

Chennai Western Musical Association showcases The Madras Guitar Ensemble (founded by the guitar veteran Thangadurai Samuel) and his students. 

It will be a complete western classical guitar performance by 12 guitarists. Come and witness a variety of styles and moods with a full ensemble of guitarists, quartet, trio, duo and solos! 

Catch the lively music action for FREE!

Tribute to Major Mukund Varadarajan

On Saturday, 25 April 2015 at 4 pm

At Chinmaya Heritage Centre, 

2, 13^th Avenue, Harrington Road, Chetput, Chennai – 31.

The tribute to this great and illustrious alumnus of Madras Christian College, 

features a film screened in remembrance of his efforts and contributions to the country, 

followed by talks by eminent people from all walks of life.

All are Invited

Shaastra Lecture Series

Ravi Venkateshan (Ex-MD, Microsoft, India)

speaks on 

“What I wish I knew when I was graduating from IIT”

Wednesday, 22 April 2015 – 7 – 8.30 pm

At IIT Madras, South Chennai.

All are welcome..!

MIDS MONTHLY SEMINAR SERIES

K. Srinivasan, 

National Fellow, ICSSR,

speaks on

The Golden Cage: Stability of the Institution of Marriage in India

On Wednesday, 22 April, 3.30 pm

Adiseshiah Auditorium, MIDS

All are Invited..!

Book Fest @ Chennai

Chennai Book Festival @ YMCA Grounds (Royapettah)

Monday, 13 April 2015 to Thursday, 23 April 2015.

Periyar Self Respect Propaganda Institution along with National Book Trust, New Delhi will be organising a book fair featuring collections from various genres, ranging from literature to sports and economics.

Call for Papers

HuSS: International Journal of Research in Humanities and Social Sciences

(Online) ISSN: 2349-8900

(Print) ISSN   :2349-4778

Focus & Scope

The International Peer-Reviewed Research Journal HuSS released from the portals of Vellalar College for Women provides space for scholars, researchers, academicians and litterateurs to share, interact and disseminate diverse perspectives of domain knowledge and niche-area specializations by way of promoting multi-disciplinary research culture and to contemplate new forays into hitherto uncharted areas of research dimensions. The focus of the journal is to open the floodgates of research possibilities to raise new issues and to voice new ways of thinking with a strong edge towards ground-breaking explorations thereby changing and challenging the frontiers of knowledge. Broadly speaking, HuSS spans Humanities and Social Sciences and is bent on roping in a wealth of trans-global input of innovative, inventive, applied and problem-solving ideas and initiatives on upcoming research areas. The aim is to connect and reach out to the scholars across geographical boundaries and thus, nullify the spatial and temporal hiatus in accessing the Eastern and the Western pool of research experience and expertise.   

About HuSS

Publication Frequency             : Biannual - June and December

Online version access website : i-scholar.in

Online Photography Contest for April 2015

Ambitions4 Photography Academy is conducting a monthly online Photography contest to choose “Ambitions 4 Photography Academy’s Photographer of the Year 2015”

Theme for the month is: “Health is Wealth”

For detailed rules and regulations, click HERE

Rediscover the New American Library, Chennai

50% Discounts on Annual Memberships.

9 April, 10.30 am: Library Tour and Orientation

2 pm: Info Session: Chat with a US Diplomat

10 April, 3 pm: Evam Standup Tamasha

11 April, 11 am: Saturday Movie Matinee, “Turbo”

Note: Visitors to the American Library must bring valid original Photo Identification 

to the Consulate General’s Cathedral Road entrance. 

No vehicle/two-wheeler parking is available at the Consulate premises.

National Conference for Research Scholars..!

School of Humanities

Tamil Nadu Open University

Invites all MPhil and PhD Research Scholars to present papers on the themes listed in tnou.ac.in

at the

National Conference on

Status and Prospects of English in the Digital Era

On 10 April 2015

At Tamil Nadu Open University, Chennai.

All Participants will be provided with a Certificate of Participation free of cost along with Conference kit and refreshments.

Kindly register by sending in your names to sohnc2014@gmail.com, for making the necessary arrangements. Contact: Dr.R.Mahendran @ 9487700180

Film Fest @ Chennai

Get ready for the European Union Film Festival, Chennai

from 31 March to 10 April, 2015. 

From Day 1 to Day 5, screenings will be conducted at Alliance Francaise of Madras, 

and 

from Day 6 to Day 11, at Goethe-Institut, Chennai.

A total of 21 films will be screened. 

Some of the films that will be showcased at the festival include The Foreigner, Vis-à-vis, The Boy Upside Down, Committed, A Place called Home, Shanghai Gypsy, The Candidate, and A Woman’s Revenge.

For complete list of films, and screening details, click HERE

MIDS Monthly Seminar Series

MIDS Monthly Seminar Series

Monday, 06 April 2015 at 3:30 pm

Topic: Matrilocal Marriage in South India: A Fieldwork Report from Tamil Nadu and Kerala

Speaker: Professor Dennis McGilvray

Department of Anthropology, University of Colorado, Boulder, USA

Chairperson: A. R. Venkatachalapathy, Professor, MIDS

Venue: Adiseshiah Auditorium, MIDS

The fifth edition of World Theatre Day in Chennai 

featuring KICHADI THEATRE performances 

at

Elliot's Beach, Besant Nagar

Tuesday, March 31, @ 7.30 pm

Entry FREE

Meet for the Visually Impaired

Rotaract Club of Dhristi and KVTC

[Empowerment through Employment for the Visually Impaired]

Invite you for their

Annual Get-together on

Sunday, 29 March 2015 at 3 pm

Contact

Mr.Raghu, (alumnus of MCC)

Coordinator, Karna Vidya Technology Centre

RR Towers III, Thiru-Vi-Ka Industrial Estate, Guindy, Chennai – 32

Ph: 98400 18012

Dr.Nirmal Rocks in Delhi..!

Dr. Nirmal Selvamony, [formerly with MCC] currently Professor with Central University of Tiruvarur, gave a talk on "Performability of CAGKAM Compositions" at the famous Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, on 19 March 2015 at 5.30 pm.

The essence of his talk is as follows: 

Although regarded as 'literature' per se, cagkam compositions, according to Dr. Selvamony, are performable musical compositions. He dwelt on their compositions, their performing practice and some basic conventions governing them. Dividing the composition into two basic domains, the akam (Inner) and puRam (Outer), he classified the former based on a master 'home narrative', and the latter, based on the various stages of combat, praise of patrons and the transience of life. 

The presentation brought out the dramatic nature of the Inner texts, by dwelling on two things—emoting, and addressorial conventions. 

The next segment of his presentation discussed the types of performers, dance, drama and music, and the musical modes. 

For more details, and for the rules & regulations, click HERE

Congrats Manoj...!

The MCC family joins me in congratulating Mr. R. Manoj, of II BA Tamil, for having achieved a stupendous success in the World Silambam Championship 2015.

The third World Silambam Championship was held at Johor Bahru, Malaysia between 5 and 9 February 2015. The Indian contingent won more than 200 medals at the championship. 

Mr.R.Manoj, (II yr BA Tamil) of MCC, won a total of 7 medals [4 Gold, 2 Silver, 1 Bronze]. He is the disciple of Mr.Power Pandian, a renowned Silambam exponent and stunt master who has trained many celebrity actors in the film industry.

We take pride in congratulating Mr. R. Manoj, for having accomplished this feat, and we also wish him many more laurels in the years to come.

Viva la MCC...!!!