P.G. DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH

A two day workshop on “Art of filmmaking” was conducted on 20th March 2023 & 21st March 2023 as part of a students training programme. The two guest speakers for the workshop on 20th were Mr. Elavarasan Devarajan , Cinematographer and Dr. Rao Prashant Jothi , Assistant Professor BBA DDGDVC. The guest Speakers for the second day of the workshop were  Mr. R. D Senthil Ram , Cinematographer and Mr. Ashok Kumar , Movie Director.

The Most awaited Intercollegiate literary fest 'Literosody '23' was held on 6th March 2023. The following people honoured us with their presence: Mr. Mysskin , Movie Director; Mr. Harish Kumar , Actor; Mr. Sathish Selva Kumar , Movie Director; Mr. Jen Martin , Music Director; Mr. V.J. Lokesh , Actor and Stand up Comedian; Mr. Vijay Kandan , Actor, Criminal Lawyer and Boxer; Mr. K.M. Ilanchezhiyan , Former Assistant Commandant CRPF.  Events such as Creative Writing, Monoacting, Collage, Adzap, Litshow and Mr. and Ms. Literosody were conducted.  With many participants from various colleges;  miscellaneous  panel of Judges and the enthusiastic audience, the event was spectacular. The Organising Secretary of the Literosody was Ms. Nandhini Praveen . The programme Organisers were Dr. R. Keerthana and Ms. A. Krithika . The student Organisers were S. J. Prathyanka, S. Sunil, S. Lavanya and B. E. David Prince.   Invitation of Literosody

Date & Time :  2 March 2023, 11:00 am Venue : Vallabhacharya Auditorium Faculty Coordinator: Dr. R Keerthana Student Coordinators : S. Koushik, P. Sasidharan Report of Event : The PG Department of English organized “A Biopic of Dr. A.P.J Abdulkalam” to enrich the enacting skills of the students. The event took place in the Vallabhacharya Auditorium. The play was performed by I BA students and showcased the life history of Dr. A.P.J Abdul Kalam. It has enriched students on various life incidents of Kalam. Outcome of the Programme: Students enjoyed the play performance and understood the significance of enacting a drama on a larger scale. Photos from the event: Invitation of A Biopic of Dr. A.P.J. Abdul kalam

Date & Time :   2 March 2023, 11:00 am Venue : Vallabhacharya Auditorium Faculty Coordinator: Ms. N. Dhanalakshmi Student Coordinators: S.P. Vignesh and Ponneshwaran. R Report of Event : The PG Department of English organized “Outfit: Let’s Break the Stereotype - A Theatrical Performance” to enrich the enacting skills of the students. The event took place in the Vallabhacharya Auditorium. The play was performed by II MA students as a result of their value added course on Theatre Art. The performance was followed by value added course certificate distribution by the Principal Sir. Outcome of the Programme: Students enjoyed the play performance and understood the significance of enacting a drama on a larger scale. Photos from the event: Invitation Of the Outfit: Let’s Break the Sterotype 

  A national seminar entitled “ Emerging Perspectives on English Language, Literature and Culture” was organised by the PG Department of English on 24th February 2023 with 70 participants across the nation both online and offline presented their papers. The Keynote Speakers was Mr. A. S. Paneerselvan , Fellow, Roja Muthiah Research Library, Former Reader’s Editor, The Hindu and the Sessions were chaired by Dr. L. R. S. Kalanithi , Associate Professor, Gurunanak; Dr. J. Jayachan  dran , Associate Professor, Anna University; Dr. Karthiga S. V. , Assistant Professor, SRM; Dr. Raisun Mathew , Assistant Professor of English, Jain Deemed- to- be University; Dr. G Chandralekha Rao , Head Shift 1 DDGDVC & Dr. Lakshmy , Head Shift 2 DDGDVC

  A five day workshop on “Magnifying Proficiencies Towards Employability ” was held from  23rd January 2023 - 27th January 2023 . The following people were the guest lecturers on the respective days; Ms. Vani Pradeep (writer), Dr. P. Suresh , Assistant Professor, DDGDVC, Ms. Shanthoshi Sona , Senior Manager HR, White Rabbit Group, Dr. Abirami Vivek , Counseling Psychologist, Founder Director- Magnet Minds and Ms. Jayanthi Sankar (writer). The guest Lecturers provided  conversant lectures and it highly benefitted the students. The Workshop was very functional and helped the students on analysing various scopes in the field and on preparing themselves for their profession.

  A one day workshop on “Film Appreciation and Adaptation" was held on 5th January 2023 . The resource person who addressed the session was Dr. M. Kamalakkannan , Assistant Professor, Presidency college, who gave insights to the students on the interconnectedness of Film and Literature.

                           A five-day workshop was held from 17 th   to 21 st October in Shri Vallabhacharya Vidhya Saba for the PG department of English, for the enhancement of writing skills. For each of these day, different resource person were brought in, to make the workshop, resourceful for the students.   The resource person for the first day of the workshop, which was on 17th October , was Dr. Karthiga S.V , Assistant professor of English department in SRM institute of science and technology. Dr. Karthiga enlightened the students on the topic   "Writing research articles" .   This speaker spoke in length and in excellence about the different perspectives of research writing and its importance to the students.   The next day of the workshop, which was 18th October , was taken over by Mr. V. Ramakrishnan who was a content developer and a research scholar from University of Madras...

Date and venue:               The workshop took place on 15, October 2022 at University of Madras . The workshop had begun to start at 10:30am Resource person:               Dr. M. Kamalakkannan , M.A., M.Phil., Ph.D. (P.G. and Research department of English, Presidency college(autonomous) Chennai. Organizing Committee Member:               Mr. G. M. Prem Kumar , Assistant Professor Workshop on Film and literature:                In the session, the resource person covered extensively on the topics such as, Artworks, Editing, Camera Angles, Adaptation, etc. He enlightened the students about the basic editing techniques and common transitions, that they are expected to master, in order to seek this path, as a career option. He explained, at length, on how different camera angles, change the perspective...

PG department of English organized an ABL (Activity based learning) session on the topic, Enriching competency of English on “Idioms-Effective Usages” on September 29 2022 at 1:30 pm. The programme co-ordinator, Ms. Krithika. A carried out the ABL session, engagingly with help up interactive sessions, quizzes, puzzles, riddles made the process of learning of idiom, fun-filled. Students participated enthusiastically and were benefitted from this session.The student co-ordinators Sunil.S III B.A & Vishal Shenoy II M.A along with the Head i/c Mr. J. Praveen Prabhu, principal Dr. S. Santhosh Baboo, Secretary Shri. Ashok kumar Mundhra were also instrumental in organizing and making the programme, a success.