Department of English, Maharaja Manindra Chandra College

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

Come with your friends. Come and make new friends.

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

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

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.

Our students, Sayan Mukherjee, Jyotirmoy Ram, Dipra Nath, and Akoparna Dey, participated in a debate at Eshana 2024, our annual intra-college cultural competition. They spoke for and against the motion: Universal healthcare cannot be a reality in a country as poor as India.

Dr Somrita Urni Ganguly, Head of the Department of English, Maharaja Manindra Chandra College, was one of the judges. Sayan Mukherjee was awarded best speaker in the debate.

Our students, Madhuparna (Final Year) and Mriduta (First Year), participated in the painting competition at Eshana 2024, our annual intra-college cultural competition.

Students of our Department - Arya Bhattacharya, Dipra Nath, and Kaushik Sil - participated in a storytelling competition at Eshana 2024, our annual intra-college cultural competition. Our former faculty member, Dr Haimanti Sinha, was one of the judges for this event.

The faculty members of the English Department were present at the book exhibition organised by the Central Library of our college, in collaboration with the Central Library of Maharaja Sris Chandra College.

An almost full frame! The faculty members of the English Department attended the opening ceremony of Eshana 2024, our annual intra-college cultural competition. Students from our department are participating in several events including debating, elocution, singing, and storytelling.

Excited to welcome Dr Atreya Banerjee and Mr Avijit Ghosh to the Department of English, MMCC!

You're encouraged to join this webinar on Jan 3: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CkM12VNNnW4

We were invited to attend a performce titled "Silence, Please" by Daminee Benny Basu at the British Council Library, Kolkata, organised by the American Centre, Kolkata.

Photographed here: our fifth semester students with Elizabeth
Lee, director of the American Centre in Kolkata; and moments from the performance.

The first semester students of our Department attended an orientation programme conducted by our Central Library on Dec 21, 2023

Maharaja Manindra Chandra College Central Library - MMCCCL Group

Last week my students and I were invited by the American Library to attend a performance by Abhishek Srivastav titled "Shifting Syllables" which was followed by a conversation with writer Anjum Katyal. What a rich experience!

September 20, 2023

Teachers' Day 2023 ❤️

Ananya Roy, a first semester student of our Department was felicitated by the Pashchim Mednipur District Sports Association on National Sports Day 2023 for her contribution to sports as a national level rhythmic gymnast.

Congratulations, Ananya ❤️

Here's the link to the report -

মেদিনীপুরে অনন্যা রায়কে সংবর্ধনা অনামিকা বন্দ্যোপাধ্যায়, স্থানীয় সংবাদ, ঘাটাল: আজ জাতীয় ক্রীড়া দিবস এবং হকির জাদুকর মেজর ধ্যানচাঁদ সিংয়ের জন্ম...

The first batch under CCF, following the NEP 2020 guidelines ~

Orientation/ Aug 1, 2023

to Sports Day 2023. Rohan Das, a fourth semester student, ably represented himself and our Department at the 100mt track event. He won the second prize this year.

Congratulations, Rohan ❤️

to Sports Day 2022. Rohan Das, a student of our Department, participated in the 100mt track event and won the first prize.

Congratulations, Rohan ❤️

Photographed here receiving the prize from the principal of the college, Dr Manturam Samanta.

Souraj Haldar and Swagatam Paul, Semester VI students of our department, participated actively in the drive undertaken by the NSS Unit of our college today to observe World Environment Day. 🌎

A little Hogwarts-world reference here to take us back to our summer holidays in high school spent reading the Harry Potter books feverishly.

How many of you are fans of Harry Potter? Which one is your favourite book in the series? Who is your favourite character (besides Harry, of course!)?

Artwork by a student from our outgoing batch: Nisita Sarkar

(Also, our first post with 3D effect on this page)

"We live in a rainbow of chaos."
- Paul Cézanne

Artwork by a student from our outgoing batch: Nisita Sarkar ✨️

Reaching out to our past pupils:

Dear students,
Hope you're doing well. We will be getting in touch with you on and off to collect some data from you for our NAAC ranking process since students (past and present) are an integral part of the NAAC accreditation system. For now, please provide the following information to us:

1. You name
2. Year of Joining
3. Year of graduating
4. Are you currently employed? Where?
5. Are you currently studying? Where?
6. Did you receive any govt. or non govt. scholarship while in college (in the years 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023)? Provide the details.
7. Extra/ co-curricular events you participated in organised by the college or any other institute (in the years 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023)?

Please respond by June 6, 2023, and share this post with your classmates too. For any queries you may get in touch with the undersigned

Thank you,
Somrita

Dr Somrita Ganguly
Head, Department of English
Maharaja Manindra Chandra College

[email protected]

Mrs Madhusri Mukherjee retired from this Department on February 28, 2023, after twenty six years of service.

We wish you a healthy, comfortable, and peaceful life as you start a new chapter in your journey, Madhusri di.

❤️ from us

(and always your li'l Urni)

Semester 4 students of our Department presented a paper on the "Politics of Eighteenth Century London" at an interdisciplinary seminar yesterday.

Here's the team ~

📷: Trish*t

Semester 6 students of our Department presented a paper on the "Philosophy of Existentialism and Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot" yesterday at an interdisciplinary seminar.

Here's the team ~

📷: Trish*t

Class of 2023 ❤️

📷: Ashutosh

Look like the innocent flower but be the serpent under it ~

A sketch inspired by Lady Macbeth's words from Shakespeare's tragedy.

Artist: Riyam Patra, a Sem 2 student of our Department