The English Literary Society, SGTB Khalsa College

The English Literary Society of SGTB Khalsa College, University of Delhi, cordially invites you all to an engaging seminar on “Amar Aiyaar and Dastangoi”, with Dr. Nadeem Shah as the speaker.

Dr. Nadeem Shah teaches medieval Indian history to undergraduate students at SGTB Khalsa College, University of Delhi. Owing to his immense interest in medieval history and Urdu literature, Dr. Shah has been a Dastangoi performing artist since 2010, and has actively shown academic engagement with the same. The seminar intends to offer the attendees with an insight on the art form in an engaging and interesting manner.

Looking forward to your presence!

The Literary Society, SGTB Khalsa College, organised 'Poesis: A Flash Fiction Event' in the month of April.

We are delighted to announce Arshiya Rao as the winner of event.

Congratulations ✨

The Literary Society, SGTB Khalsa College, organised 'Poesis: A Flash Fiction Event' in the month of April.

We are delighted to announce Arshiya Rao as the winner of event.

Congratulations ✨

There is the heat of Love, the pulsing rush of Longing, the lover’s whisper, irresistible—magic to make the sanest man go mad.
- Homer, The Iliad

The Literary Society of SGTB Khalsa college organized an Annual Student Seminar on "Love, Longing & Technology". The seminar commenced with an enriching panel discussion with Saloni Sharma and Zahra Rizvi as the panelists, followed by student paper presentations interpreting the various aspects of the theme.

Ms. Saloni sharma (who teaches at Kirorimal college, university of Delhi) commenced the session by laying emphasis on the intermeshed themes of technology, love and longing in the post pandemic romance novels. She further elaborated on the concept of a cyborg and the widening conflation of the human figure with the Android or the cyborg.

Ms. Zahra Rizvi ( PhD scholar at department of English, Jamia Milia Islamia) carried forward the session by her profound insights on how the contemporary video games encompass a widening interaction with human emotive forces, with a special emphasis on the strains of love, longing and desire. Her presentation involved an interactive role playing game which involved the wider audience.

The panel discussion was followed by an enthralling paper presentation session, where young scholars from all across the university offered great insights on the topic. The diverse perspectives offered by the students on the strains of love, longing and technology in literature, media, cinema and other forms of visual representations paved the way for interesting discussions and further ruminations. The seminar was instrumental in inciting thoughts and novel ideas in the students and the panel discussion opened the room for invigorating future discussions.

Glimpses from the Annual Student Seminar that took place on 18 April, 2022 at SGTB Khalsa College on the topic- Love, Longing and Technology.
Litsoc is thankful to the panelists, Saloni Sharma and Zahra Rizvi for such an enlightening session regarding the intertwining of the affectations of love and longing with the impact of technology. We thank all the paper presenters and everyone else as well who joined us for the seminar.

"It seems to me we can never give up longing and wishing while we are thoroughly alive. There are certain things we feel to be beautiful and good, and we must hunger after them"

-George Eliot

The universality of “love and longing” has plagued all ages of human rumination, artistic imagination and creative fervor. With the dawn of every new age, the intermediaries between the lovers longing for their beloved, undergoes a metamorphoses. Encapsulating the passions of love in varied dimensions, the eccentricity of longing along with the novelty of the new age, The English Literary Society of SGTB Khalsa college presents to you “ *Poesis : A flash fiction competition* ”

Through the cues of literature, weave a tale of love and longing enmeshed within the techno-charm. Carve a story which empowers the timelessness of ‘love and longing’ with the evanescence of technology through the aid of literary muses.

So Sharpen your quills, liberate your ideas and fasten the reins of your imagination to etch the ethos and decoctions of ‘love and longing’ in the age of technology.

PROMPT -
" _You can transmute love, ignore it, muddle it, but you can never pull it out of you_ "

Swipe for the rules and regulations along with the cues for the flash fiction .

Last Date for submission: 15 April 2022

Register now from the link in the bio!
Winners will get exciting prizes✨

Participation certificates will be given to all participants!

It seems to me we can never give up longing and wishing while we are thoroughly alive. There are certain things we feel to be beautiful and good, and we must hunger after them.

-George Eliot

The universality of “love and longing” has plagued all ages of human rumination, artistic imagination and creative fervor. With the dawn of every new age, the intermediaries between the lovers longing for their beloved, undergoes a metamorphoses. Encapsulating the passions of love in varied dimensions, the eccentricity of longing along with the novelty of the new age, The English Literary Society of SGTB Khalsa college presents to you “ *Poesis : A flash fiction competition* ”

Through the cues of literature, weave a tale of love and longing enmeshed within the techno-charm. Carve a story which empowers the timelessness of ‘love and longing’ with the evanescence of technology through the aid of literary muses.

So Sharpen your quills, liberate your ideas and fasten the reins of your imagination to etch the ethos and decoctions of ‘love and longing’ in the age of technology.

*Prompt* -
" _You can transmute love, ignore it, muddle it, but you can never pull it out of you_ "

*Swipe for the rules and regulations along with the cues for the flash fiction* .

Last Date for submission: *15 April 2022*

*Register now from the link in the bio!*
Winners will get exciting prizes✨

Participation certificates will be given to all participants!

"It took many years of vomiting up all the filth I’d been taught about myself, and half-believed, before I was able to walk on the earth as though I had a right to be here.” – James Baldwin

Q***r people have, for the large part of their history, found themselves grossly underrepresented and often mischaracterised and caricaturised in mainstream literature and cinema. LGBTQIA+ representation has a long, complicated and often coded history intertwined intricately with societal stigma and political discrimination and censorship. Q***r characters of substance have struggled to find a space amongst the caricatures ridiculing their existence, used frequently for laughs and oft fetishized and stereotyped. Even the later positive representations, offered q***r people mostly tragic narratives.

With the onset of the 21st century, LGBTQIA+ representation has been rich with the participation of q***r individuals pushing the literary and cinematic envelope. The last few decades have seen a significant and important shift in the inclusion of q***r narratives in mainstream popular culture especially in young-adult fiction, featuring a diverse range of identities and positive representation without making its characters unidimensional or vehicles of suffering. To find yourself in a story, beyond the prejudices of the world that have overlaid the beauty of the experience, is transformative; and it is essential for continuously interrogating and combatting the stigma and discrimination still rampant in multiple parts of the world. The writers and filmmakers of the 21st century continue to push boundaries, and claim for themselves a space to create and tell fluid, empathetic stories about q***r individuals; broadening the societal understanding of gender identity and sexuality. It isn’t the end of the fight, but it is a better beginning.
By Parinoor Kaur

“O Muse! Sing in me, and through me tell the story of that man skilled in the ways of contending, a wanderer, harried for years on end.....”

Coen Brother’s “Oh Brother, Where Art Thou?” with its eccentrically designed universe, brio, wit and style presents a wealth of unconscious fun and jagged humour tied with a string of Homeric myths and legends. The opening lines quite overtly inform the viewers that the movie is based on Homer’s Odyssey, as it involves a beguiling Homeric journey through Bluegrass, Mississippi during the Depression. Situated in the corn fields, concert halls and on the roads of rural Mississippi at a time when Depression ensnared the country, this film is speckled with adventure, political satire and refreshingly passé classic American phrases. The film recalls the tale of Odysseus’s arduous attempt to return to his home – island of Ithaca as a semi-musical, semi-satirical tale of three convicts, inherently tied together, set on a voyage to find a treasure that doesn’t exist. The film involves retelling of events which take place during the sprawling journey of Odysseus. The encounter with a blind prophet similar to Tiresias, the encounter of the heroes with the Ku Klux Klan at night recalls Odysseus’ visit to the realm of death followed by the meeting with a group of alluring singing women assuming the role of the Sirens and Big Dan Teague who fills in for Cyclops Polyphemus.

Preposterously entertaining and witty, this film spills over into magical realism as it enmeshes history of America with Greek mythology. The film’s keen embrace of nonsense in an absurdist time-capsule format is a mark of its intellectual prowess and unflinching authenticity, perchance how Everett puts it “it’s a fool who looks for logic in the chambers of the human heart”. The interweaving of the nonsensical with the mythic-history and political realities makes this film no less than a modern epic.
-Sanya Chandra

“O Muse! Sing in me, and through me tell the story of that man skilled in the ways of contending, a wanderer, harried for years on end.....”

Coen Brother’s “Oh Brother, Where Art Thou?” with its eccentrically designed universe, brio, wit and style presents a wealth of unconscious fun and jagged humour tied with a string of Homeric myths and legends. The opening lines quite overtly inform the viewers that the movie is based on Homer’s Odyssey, as it involves a beguiling Homeric journey through Bluegrass, Mississippi during the Depression. Situated in the corn fields, concert halls and on the roads of rural Mississippi at a time when Depression ensnared the country, this film is speckled with adventure, political satire and refreshingly passé classic American phrases. The film recalls the tale of Odysseus’s arduous attempt to return to his home – island of Ithaca as a semi-musical, semi-satirical tale of three convicts, inherently tied together, set on a voyage to find a treasure that doesn’t exist. The film involves retelling of events which take place during the sprawling journey of Odysseus. The encounter with a blind prophet similar to Tiresias, the encounter of the heroes with the Ku Klux Klan at night recalls Odysseus’ visit to the realm of death followed by the meeting with a group of alluring singing women assuming the role of the Sirens and Big Dan Teague who fills in for Cyclops Polyphemus.

Preposterously entertaining and witty, this film spills over into magical realism as it enmeshes history of America with Greek mythology. The film’s keen embrace of nonsense in an absurdist time-capsule format is a mark of its intellectual prowess and unflinching authenticity, perchance how Everett puts it “it’s a fool who looks for logic in the chambers of the human heart”. The interweaving of the nonsensical with the mythic-history and political realities makes this film no less than a modern epic.
- Sanya Chandra

T.S. Eliot once said “Last year’s words belong to last year’s language. And next year’s words await another voice.”

Words have the power to connect people and their selves long seperated by the divisions of time and space.

Letters To Strangers, in collaboration with The English Literary Society, SGTB Khalsa brings you all a chance to start your new year with love and creativity, and share the joy by exchanging letters. We hope it brightens your lives and prepares your wits for another adventurous year to come!

So, be prepared to write some insightful letters to kick start 2022 with a bang and spread the holiday cheer! We invite you all to write a letter to a stranger corresponding to the aforementioned rules and be ready to receive one back and continue the exchange if you'd like!

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Wish you all the very best✨