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2023-03-29 16:28
29th March
1995
Nostalgic Ruminations
on a Sad Semantic Shift
[A Case
Study in Diachronic Linguistics]
#memoriesfromdiaries
#HSCDays
#MCC School
Well,
first and foremost, I heartily co… Read More
2023-03-29 02:07
“மொட்டை மாடியில்
குளிர் காய்நĮ……Read More
![Cordially Inviting You [FDP @ Anna University, Chennai]](https://cdn.blogarama.com/images/posts_thumbs_site_id/2413/241293-2938169164.w320.jpg "Cordially Inviting You [FDP @ Anna University, Chennai]")
2023-03-23 02:29
Click on this Google Form link to Register Read More
2023-03-20 17:21
Panel
Discussion on Indian Economy and Climate Change: Issues
and the Way Forward Thursday,
23rd March 2023 9.30 am – 1.00 [email protected] Adiseshiah
Auditorium, MIDS[On… Read More
2023-03-20 16:01
Study Abroad
Seminar | A Report
The Study
Abroad Seminar organized by the Deanery of Student Affairs in association with
MCC Placement Cell today in the Martin Hall Auditorium, MCC, proved… Read More
2023-03-17 17:08
A
Thoughtful Journey | Maanini Jayal
It
was not just a normal routine day. I walked out of my old college
with nostalgia and inspiration as I had met my professor to discuss about my
resear… Read More
2023-03-14 18:06
2023-03-14 16:58
2023-03-11 16:33
Our ‘Whatsapp’
😉 | 1990s
#memoriesfromletters ❤️
#II UG Days
Well, you see, I’ve got this quaint little habit of preserving some lovely memori… Read More
2023-03-11 03:38
‘What if?’
| A Lovely Literary Take on Hamlet
S. K.
Vishnu Prasath, II BA EnglishA small
glimpse into the greatest Shakespearean tragedy HAMLET -
Hamlet maybe
a nobleman for th… Read More
!['I Personally Feel That, Teachers [or Professors] Who Exploit Students To Do Such Menial Works Are A Blot On The Entire Vocation...'](https://cdn.blogarama.com/images/posts_thumbs_site_id/2413/241293-1136810176.w320.jpg "'I Personally Feel That, Teachers [or Professors] Who Exploit Students To Do Such Menial Works Are A Blot On The Entire Vocation...'")
2023-03-04 17:06
On Exploitative
Teachers | On Vanaspati | On prosopis
juliflora
04 March 1995
| Some Ruminations
#MCCSchoolDays
#memoriesfromdiaries
Upma,
back then,
was my kinda ‘odious… Read More
2023-03-04 03:58
A Trip to
Mighty Mountain Saru Krishna R | I MA English
Admired and
visited by people who seek solitude and by pilgrims, also known as Himadri the
land of Lord Shiva, you might have gu… Read More
2023-03-03 17:36
The
Argument over Mt. Everest 😉 | Hostel Days
#MCCSchoolDays
#HSC Days
#memoriesfromdiaries
In Chemistry
Practical Exam on this particular day, I got Copper Carbonate. Now, pleas… Read More
2023-03-03 12:39
Trajectories
in Literary Disability Studies: An Overview
[Excerpted
from Specialist Books on the Subject]
Introduction
In our
present collective cultural consciousness, the disabled body… Read More
2023-03-02 18:57
From “Literary into Cultural
Studies”
[Excerpted
& Abridged] &nb&hell…Read More
2023-03-01 17:28
Let’s Say
‘No’ to ‘Distracted Walking’ | Condolence Post
Our deepest
condolences to the bereaved family members of Ms. Nikitha, from Kolkata, who
was doing her… Read More
2023-02-28 15:01
It’s time
to stop talking about "feminism"!
Sai Shri R | 28/2/23
“Feminism”
means “equality” and I believe that the latter proves to be better!
While it… Read More
2023-02-27 12:16
Scrabble
Tournament @ MCC | Today
The First
Ever Scrabble
Tournament in MCC, got underway today at the Examinations Hall.
Well, students
had already assembled in the Hall, much ahead of ti… Read More
2023-02-24 16:55
24 February 1995 | Down the Sweet Lane of Nostalgia
MCC School Days
78, Harrington Road, Chetpet, Madras (Chennai)*
#memoriesfromdiaries #hostelyears #HSCDays
This entry that d… Read More
2023-02-22 17:12
“The
Creation of Patriarchy” | Gerda Lerner
[Abridged Version]
From Women
and History. Vol. 1 The Creation of Patriarchy. OUP, 1986.
Introduction
Women’s
History is i… Read More
2023-02-21 14:32
“Islam and
the West” | Edward Said
Abridged Version [from Covering
Islam: How the Media and the Experts Determine How We See the Rest of the World,
3-32. 1981]
IntroductionDis… Read More
2023-02-14 18:07
“Cartographies of
Struggle: Third World Women and the Politics of Feminism”
By Chandra Talpade Mohanty
[Abridged Version]
The
US and the USSR are the most powerful countr… Read More
2023-02-14 16:05
My Favourite
Five for Today!
Well, I’ve always been a greattt fan
of romantic comedies.
Yes, rom-coms have always been my cuppa of coffee
anytime!
Of late, I
should also
admit… Read More
2023-02-13 11:17
The Day's Newspaper in Language Learning | A Report
Since today
happened to be a Saturday, and the air was filled with festive cheer, with
the Inter-Hall Sports Meet just hours aw… Read More
2023-02-11 18:01
Bioregional
Literary Studies:
An OverviewWorks of
Literature as Bioregional Models
Works of
literature and art provide proactive, engaging models on how to reinhabit a bioregion or
otherwis… Read More
2023-02-10 16:53
Culture, Popular Culture, Mass Culture,
Subculture, Counterculture
[Working Definitions]Raymond Williams calls culture, ‘one of the
two or three most complicated words in the English… Read More
2023-02-09 13:44
Green Transition | Naess & the Nordics
Coincidentally, just two days ago - this 7th February, in the
MPhil class we were having a discussion on the Nordic countries and their tryst
with… Read More
2023-02-09 13:13
“Industrial
Society, Postmodernity, and Ecological Sustainability”
By Arne
Naess
[From
Ecology of Wisdom: Writings by Arne Naess. Ed. Alan Drengson & Bill Devall]
Introduc… Read More
2023-02-08 16:46
From ‘Rules
& Notes’
College
Handbook,
MCC, 1966
ON EXAMINATIONS
In College examinations you should write your name
on your answer-paper, but in University examinations on… Read More
2023-02-08 16:15
From Work to Text by Roland Barthes | Critical Summary … Read More
2023-02-07 17:52
Simon During | ‘Introduction’ to The Cultural Studies Reader
[Abridged Version of the Text with Subheadings
Added] &n&hell…Read More
2023-02-07 17:46
“Culture is Ordinary” - Raymond Williams
Introduction
Raymond Williams was a decisive influence on the
formation of cultur… Read More
2023-01-18 13:43
Let’s Stop the
Blame game Please!
Today’s kids are almost always accused and blamed for being over-addicted to their smart
phones!
[A generation ago, they were accused of spen… Read More
2023-01-08 13:31
And the Winner… 🏆 | of the Diary Challenge 2022
Well, at the very
beginning of last year, I had posted two little challenges on my status on
Whatsapp, for bot… Read More
2023-01-03 17:36
Everyday Greatness | Steven R. Covey
Well, I chanced
upon this Reader’s Digest publication at OM Books, Anna
Nagar, on 19th December 2022. Steven R. Covey has always been a charmer wh… Read More
2023-01-03 03:10
2023-01-01 04:31
Digital Detox | The Countermovement ❤️
In her popular book titled, Digital Detox: Why
Taking a Break from Technology Can Improve Your Well-Being by Bernadette H.
Schell… Read More
2022-12-31 02:26
We do Hereby Resolve… | II MA English
Towards the fag end of the calendar year, on 21st December
2022, I had asked our II MA students to write down on the White Marker Board in
clas… Read More
2022-12-22 15:05
Enzo
of the Unknown
It was midnight of June 14, 2008.
In a run-down warehouse, where the place has been turned
into a laboratory, men were working in the factory fervently to purify… Read More
2022-11-20 18:03
EXPERIENCING THE GLORIOUS PAST
Vivilia. D | I MA ENGLISH
As the famous
quote says, "Architecture is the biggest unwritten document of
History". On these lines, I wanted to choose… Read More
2022-11-20 17:43
On Childhood
Cartoons
Gladson S | II MA English
Introduction
Most of us would've
had unforgettable memories with cartoons, at least in our childhood. Cartoons,
more importantly, build up… Read More
2022-11-20 17:31
My
Visit to Anna Centenary Library
M. Dhanavaishnavi | I MA English
It was the day, when my
friends and I, had a rewarding day, spending a holiday fruitfully. Friday was
declared… Read More
2022-11-20 17:11
Report on my visit
to Anna Centenary Library
Jaysudha. N | I MA English
This report is about my
journey to the Anna Centenary Library on 14th Oct 2022.
Since graduation ceremony
was taki… Read More
2022-11-13 18:01
My Green and Peaceful visit to Auroville
R. S. Yasindhra | I MA English
My sister and I had been
waiting to visit Pondicherry for a number of months, and so now when this trip happen… Read More
2022-11-13 17:38
Government Museum, Chennai
JELSHIYA. R | I MA English
Unplanned trips bring the best memories they say. True to those words this was
definitely one of those days to be remembere… Read More
2022-11-02 16:19
The Second Daughter of Eve
AN EPISODIC NOVEL
Samuel Rufus
Continued from the previous Episode
Chapter 1 | Episode VII
Peter Anna added, ‘Well, the first part of the album
contains… Read More
2022-11-01 02:58
Visva
Sahitya
by Rabindranath Tagore [Speech
delivered at the National Council for Education and first published in 1907] … Read More
2022-10-31 17:05
Continued from Episode No. 5
The Second Daughter of Eve
An Episodic NovelEpisode: 6
Amma - not wanting to take any risks – promptly called out
for Peter Anna and asked him to accomp… Read More
2022-10-31 05:47
Violent
Geographies of Childhood and Home: The Child in the Closet
By
Kathrin Horschelmann
Abridged
Version as part of the Paper Conflict, Trauma and Peace Studies
Introduction:
The… Read More
2022-10-28 10:50
The
Second Daughter of Eve
A Novel
By Samuel
Rufus
Chapter 1
- Episode V
[Continued
from Episode IV]
I was
doubly happiness personified to see my very own classmate Aruna as Richard&rsq&hell…Read More
2022-10-26 16:38
The Second Daughter of Eve
By Samuel Rufus Part IV [Continued from the previous EPISODE]Amma went on and on thinking
about the content of the diary entry -
For such a little child as… Read More
2022-10-24 04:56
The Second Daughter of Eve
- Samuel Rufus
[Continued from the previous EPISODE]
Chapter 1 – Part III
‘Do you think we are
better off than them? What made you nod your head to… Read More
2022-10-21 13:48
Continued from the past EPISODE…
Chapter 1 [Part II]Pretty interesting! said
Mother. But you see… I haven’t had the mind to sing lullabies for this little
girl.
Why o… Read More
2022-10-19 03:57
Chapter 1
The year was 1980.
It was a cold morning in early
June when I entered this world.
I was a cherubic,
healthy, rolly-polly toddler! The apple of all eyes, the pride of my father… Read More
2022-10-17 15:26
Art-Thoughts | Down the Art Lane
Archival stuff have their own magnificent aura, ain’t they?
Well, I’ve always had this quaint fascination for all things archival!
Be it a let… Read More
2022-10-10 11:59
Book
Review | Ikigai
Reviewed
in Class by: Jenisha Elizabeth Thomas, II MA
English
Jenisha
reviewed Ikigai [by Francesc Miralles and Hector Garcia] in class today.
Over to
Jenisha -
Wel… Read More
2022-10-07 15:29
Me – My
Soil & My Stories | ELF Inaugural
To
laugh often and much; to win
the respect of the intelligent people and the affection of children;
to
earn the appreciation of h… Read More
2022-09-30 17:32
Book Review | Joni Eareckson Tada
Reviewed in Class by: Jean Elizabeth Mathew
Transcribed by: Sruthi Jacob
Jean Elizabeth started her
book review by asking the class to reflect upon a que… Read More
2022-09-28 17:02
Book Review | The
Little Prince
Reviewed in Class by: Ganesh
Aadhitya S
Transcribed by: Gayathri
K
Ganesh started his
book review of Antoine de Saint Exupery's novella The Little Prince
(… Read More
2022-09-28 16:38
Book Review | The
Night Circus
Reviewed in Class by: Preethi.
B
Transcribed by: Angela
Rachel Mathew &nbs&hell…Read More
2022-09-25 09:48
On Passion | Personal Reflections
Well, the prod and the
propellant for this passionate post happens to be – a series of cute and concerned
messages and mails from a bevy of friends… Read More
2022-09-11 16:49
On SRO - Stephen Annan |
Musings
Stephen Annan
– as we all call him, is our ever-green dynamic, spirited staff at the Student
Records Office.
He turned 59 years
young just around a w… Read More
2022-09-09 16:59
Book Review | GAYATHRI K
The Poison of
Love by K.R. Meera
Gayathri K, gave
us all a very intense book review in class today, on the novella titled, The Poison of Love by eminent Malay… Read More
2022-09-07 14:27
Book Review | Fanny
II MA English Class
Today
Fanny Praiselin began
her review by showing us all her copy of Sidney Sheldon’s Tell Me Your
Dreams, and then she foregrounded her conce… Read More
2022-08-30 18:01
The Diary of a Young
Girl ✍️
Book Review | Cathlin
Esther
In the II MA Class
today, Cathlin did her book review on Anne Frank’s The Diary of a Young Girl.
Ove… Read More
2022-08-30 17:28
An Evening with
Booksters
Today I had the
pleasant privilege of visiting a cousin of ours, in Tambaram.
After she gave
me my customary ‘default’ magic potion – my cuppa c… Read More
2022-08-29 16:36
On True-blue Friendships
| Memories
29th August 1994
28 years ago!
HSC Days @ MCC School
Hostel life is a real double
delight of sorts, if you are lucky enough to get the
right people by… Read More
2022-08-26 18:25
Bhavya’s Book Review | In Class Today
Well, it was Bhavya’s turn to do her Book Review in class today.
Bhavya takes over - from here on -
Well, when asked to list out their fa… Read More
2022-08-24 15:24
My First Ever Seminar!|
PG Days
19th August 2000 | Memories 🥰
Those were the days,
when the rise of the machines was clarioned atop all of academia with the
tagline, &ls&hell…Read More
2022-08-24 13:46
Booksters on a Roll! | ‘Arcadian’
Delights
The Arcadia Book Club
was started as an extension of the Department Club, Arcadia, Lady Doak College,
Madurai.
Every month
the… Read More
2022-08-24 00:59
A
Diarist’s Take | On Disciplinary Power
23rd August 1994 | HSC Days
@ MCC School, Chetpet,
Chennai
This post seeks to
elucidate a kutty little bit on how the Foucauldian notio… Read More
2022-08-23 16:28
Rendezvous with A Legendary Art
Historian
@ MCC Today
Deborah
Thiagarajan, Founder & Director, DakshinaChitra - in Conversation with Preesha and Malar
One little spark was
enough for… Read More
2022-08-22 17:05
Little Isles of Memories
| Ruminations
On 22nd August
in the years - 1994,
1997 & 1998!
Sailing along with
Halbwachs’s Collective Memory & Individual Memory
Collective mem… Read More
2022-08-22 02:38
Design & Concept: This Blogger's [in association with his bosom buddy - Scupin Richard]😍 Read More
2022-08-17 02:14
Musings on V. S. Naipaul
On the legend’s birthday
today
V. S. Naipaul is a
British novelist and travel writer of Indian and
Trinidadian descent, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literat… Read More
2022-08-15 14:29
47th Independence Day | Musings ❤️
28 years ago | 15th August 1994
Perspectives – Back Then & Right Now!
The very term ‘Independence Day’ m… Read More
2022-08-14 19:05
75th Independence Day | - An Inspirational
Dear all,
We are so blessed
and privileged to be part of this momentous historic moment of our beloved
India’s 75th Independence Day… Read More
2022-08-09 05:14
Learning to Let Go...! ❤️
‘Pi’ & ‘Gilbert’ – A
Comparative Study in ‘Let Go…’[Summing up our Class Discussions on the… Read More
2022-08-05 23:10
On Campus & On
Tennis | Alumni Speak
The Old Boy was
on time as usual for his tryst with the newly developed tennis court at MCC!In spite of the fact
that, he is now the high-profile se… Read More
2022-08-04 01:26
Class Discussions | A Report 💛
Presented by Ganesh Aadhitya S
Well…
it's time for the “Love Gurus” of II MA class to unleash their
teachings on the ever-puz… Read More
2022-07-29 18:14
II MA English | The Mirror and the Lamp
Lively, lovely musings | Snippets from
today’s class
Well, quite exclusively for today’s II MA English class,
I had brought along with m… Read More
2022-07-27 03:49
Where is Heaven...? | A Delightful Literary Take
from Today’s Tamil Hindu
By Maruthan
Trans. to English: This blogger
I can’t quite remember the first person to have introduc… Read More
2022-07-23 19:02
Righteous
or Sacrificial? | Report by Preesha
E
The
question posed by Ms. Anupriya Beck on
Day 2 of our class discussions, is -
‘Which
of the following should one prefer – to… Read More
2022-07-23 11:48
College Handbook 1966 | Glimpses
Well, the Open House of the great grand MCC Archives that was held on 9th June 2022 in Campus, had an amazing
array of vintage treasure troves galore… Read More
2022-07-22 00:05
‘Art is like an emotional slap!’
II MA English | by Ganesh Aadhitya
S
It
was a musical afternoon for all of us - II MA English
kids!
Nobel
Laureate Pablo Neruda asks - “… Read More
2022-07-21 15:39
The Butterfly as Teacher
| Ruminations for Life ❤️
On Why Metamorphosis is
Important for You
Well, this evening I had
shared a 45-second video [that I’d taken… Read More
2022-07-21 02:12
Hemingway | On Writing ❤️
& the Iceberg Theory
of Writing
Although Hemingway,
Ernest Hemingway – American short story writer, novelist and journalist - i… Read More
2022-07-19 02:37
Bacon, Bronte & Cronin
| the ‘BBC’s & their Pens ❤️
Pen is mightier
than the sword, goes the dictum!
Yes! dear reader, most of us woulda
sure known B… Read More
2022-07-18 02:38
Eat, Pray, Love |
Elizabeth Gilbert ❤️
To know oneself
is the first step towards leading an authentic life, say the ancient philosophers.
Soren Kierkegaard,
the most inf… Read More
2022-07-15 03:14
Richard Russo | On the
Book that helped shape his life
Reflections from Russo
on his birthday today!
Pulitzer Prize Winner
and eminent American novelist Richard Russo, when he was
as… Read More
2022-07-14 02:56
Irving Stone | Bio-history
The Passionate Call of
an Artist – Vincent van Gogh
Stone, Irving Stone - has his
own sweet aura on him, that he puts forth so majestically, so gracefully… Read More
2022-07-12 03:13
Neruda | ‘A Frank,
Sensuous Spokesman for Love’ ❤️
[For some Neruda nuggets on his
birthday today] 😍
Pablo Neruda, also
called the Whitman of th… Read More
2022-07-10 23:52
Amitav Ghosh | On Crisis
of Imagination
This post is partly
a sequel to yesterday’s post on ‘disturbing the dust on a bowl of rose-leaves’!
Quoting
Eliot,
What might hav… Read More
2022-07-09 23:03
A Bowl of Rose-leaves | Reflections
‘Remembering’
Remembrance on Marcel Proust’s Birthday today!
Well, I’ve
always hazarded a wild guess – an uncommon co… Read More
2022-07-09 03:25
Dean or Don? | Birthday Ruminations
Truth or Fiction?
Or - Is truth stranger
than fiction or
fiction stranger than
truth?
Byron, through his Don
Juan would cheerfully say, ‘Truth… Read More
2022-07-08 03:16
Touring through the Bookshelves of Kathy Reichs ❤️
Well, today is the birthday of Kathy Reichs – celebrated American
forensic anthropologist and author of the popul… Read More
2022-07-01 02:37
Enga Appa! | Our Daddy!
Well, yesterday, quite early into the morn, I had received a picture of my lovable and adorable Grandpa on my WhatsApp – from Amma!
She had posted it to… Read More
2022-02-27 05:31
A Noble Deed!
Yesterday evening around eight, soon after the Graduation Day Ceremony
[for SFS] got over, the Security Guard stationed
at the main entrance to Anderson Hall, came… Read More
2022-02-02 04:20
Why do I Write History?
Marudhan | On H. G. Wells
A lovely article from today’s The Hindu Tamil, translated in parts,
for the benefit of a wider literary reading audience.
Well, Mar… Read More
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