Department of English, Maharaja Manindra Chandra College

13/05/2025

Modern Times: a sketch

Charcoal on paper. By Ramit Sankhari (Semester 6, DoE) ✨️

13/05/2025

A pencil sketch of India's first Nobel Laureate to commemorate his 164th birth anniversary.

Sketch by Riyam Patra, a Semester 6 student of our Department ✨️

10/04/2025

For all of you who indulged me and read The Great Gatsby and/ or The Crack Up

:)

I never met my grandparents: Scott died young, in 1940 at the age of forty-four. I was born in 1948. Zelda wrote my mother from Highland Hospital in Asheville, North Carolina, “I long to see the ba…

29/06/2024

One month since this presentation on "Feminist Ideologies: A Close Reading of Three Indian English Texts" by Dipra Nath, Riyam Patra and Supragati Roy, students of the fourth semester of our Department, in an interdisciplinary seminar on the theme of "Feminisms" that we organised jointly with the Department of Political Science ~

The seminar was held in an online mode 6.00 p.m. onwards on 27.05.2024

17/05/2024

Semester VI students of the Department of English presented a paper on Metaphysics in African Literature with a special focus on Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart at an interdisciplinary students' seminar organised by the department jointly with the Department of Philosophy on the theme of "Metaphysics in Life and Literature." This seminar was held in an online mode on 9 May 2024, 5.00 p.m. onwards.

17/05/2024

Semester VI students of our department presented a paper titled "Memories, Margins, and Mourning: Reading Pablo Neruda's Tonight I Can Write the Saddest Lines" at an interdisciplinary students' seminar organised by the department, jointly with the Departments of Hindi and Statistics, on the theme of "Literature, Science and Society." This seminar was held in an online mode on 9 May 2024, 7.00 p.m. onwards.

17/05/2024

Semester II students of our department presented a paper on "Keats and the World of Art" at an interdisciplinary students' seminar that the department organised jointly with the Department of History on the theme of "Literary Histories." Students from the History Department presented two papers on "Baburnama" and "Arthashastra."

📸: Biva Bhattacharya, Associate Professor, Department of History

May 16, 2024

17/05/2024

Farewell, class of 2021 ~

May 16, 2024

30/03/2024

Sem VI students of our department auditioning for a popular Bengali singing competition🤞🏼

21/01/2024

Come with your friends. Come and make new friends.

Register here: https://forms.gle/czYBRzf6Y2xYT7jAA

19/01/2024

Our students Poulami Das and Saptadip Basak receiving their awards on our Annual Prize Day! 👏 👏

18/01/2024

On the final day of Eshana 2024, our annual intra-college cultural competition, in which the students of our Department participated wholeheartedly and fiercely.

Dr Somrita Urni Ganguly and Dr Naina Dey, faculty members of this Department, were judges for the debate and painting competition, respectively, on the last day of this three day cultural festival.