English Literary Association

The Department of Business Communication and English Literary Association had organized its first unique competition for the students to boost their confidence and to test themselves, as ‘Crack the Interview’ on Tuesday, 20 July, 2021 from 5.00pm on Zoom.

Interested students were required to respond to a given advertisement by mailing a job application and a resume to a created official email ID. 15 Students from all streams mailed their applications and resumes for the post of Project Officer (as per the advertisement). A grooming session was conducted on 19 July 2021 to train them for the final competition.

The panelists for the interview were Dr Vijaya Jacqueline, Dr Monika John, CA Día Mukherjee and Mr. Jenold Misquitta. 12 Students out of 15 appeared for the interview and gained real experience of a Panel Interview through this competition. There were Cash prizes of Rs. 800, 600 and 500with certificates for the winners and participation certificate for all those who had mailed their application and resume.

The winners are:

1^stSagar Jani, TYBMS Cash prizes of Rs. 800

 2^ndOmkar Medge, SYBAF Cash prizes of Rs. 600  

3^rdIvana Mascarenhas, SYBMS   & Vivek Tiwari, SY BCom Cash prizes of Rs. 500 each

The IQAC, English Literary Association and Department of Business
Communication of our college in collaboration with Habitat For
Humanity India, an international NGO, organized a One Day National
Level Leadership Webinar on  the topic “Pathway to Permanence by
Empowering, Equipping and Engaging Influencers- Post Lockdown” on
Tuesday, 26 May, 2020, from 11.00am to 12.30pm. 542 participants
registered from all over India and joined the webinar on zoom as well
as on FB via live streaming.

The Webinar was addressed by I/C Principal Ms Swiddle D’Cunha, Mr.
Rajan Samuel, MD, Habitat India, Resource Persons – Ms Apoorva
Poojary, National Manager, Youth Partnership and Engagement,  HFH , Ms
Sophia Joseph, Associate Director, Behavioral Change Communication,
HFH. The program was hosted by Dr Monika John, also the convenor of
the Webinar. The preparations and planning of the program was well
guided and supervised by IQAC Coordinator Dr Poonam Kakkad.  The
organizing team also had Ms Vaishali Mishra, Ms Sumathi Rajkumar, Mr
Vikas Agarwal, Ms Bhakti Choudhary, Mr Pradeep Gotekar and Ms Venisri
Shetty. There are certificates for all the registered participants.
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Poetry Writing:

1. Manthan Rane-TYBMM
2. Steven Fernandes-TYBMM
3. Shreya Lad-F.Y.BSc.IT

The English Literary Association and Library Advisory Committee jointly organized ‘A Tour to the Library for English Extravaganza’ on Friday, 01st February, 2019. The venue justifiably, was the newly renovated college library. The programme was inaugurated by I/C Principal

Prof. Swiddle D'Cunha and was organised, attended and made successful by B. Com. Students almost singlehandedly. Students participated spiritedly and emerged with flying colours.

There were pronunciation challenge, word war, vocabulary challenge (naming spices, kitchen articles and objects) and Speak Box that tested students' knowledge, enthusiasm and willingness to learn new things in English.

The games rounded off with a tour to every part of the library which was ably conducted by the Students Library Advisory Committee (SLAC) members. 

All the visitors were requested to give their feedback at the exit, and the lovely members of the ELA and SLAC were appreciated by the entire staff for their superior efforts and creativity.

The ELA organised Your World, Your Words, a creative writing and poetry competition on Wednesday, 27th September, 2017. In the competition, a diverse mix of vibrant and sombre images and objects were displayed for participants to view, based on which they were to write prose or poetry on. The participants from across programmes exhibited their writing skills by writing prose (essay, story, article, write-up or any other form of narrative). A record 90 original entries were received for the competition, which was indeed heartening.

The ELA organised Your World, Your Words, a creative writing and poetry competition on Wednesday, 27th September, 2017. In the competition, a diverse mix of vibrant and sombre images and objects were displayed for participants to view, based on which they were to write prose or poetry on. The participants from across programmes exhibited their writing skills by writing prose (essay, story, article, write-up or any other form of narrative). A record 90 original entries were received for the competition, which was indeed heartening.