WORLD PHOTOGRAPHY DAY

“Photography is an art of observation. It has little to do with the things you see and
everything with the way you see them.”
- Elliot Erwitt
Lights, camera, life. Certain glimmers in the eyes, a goofy smile, coarse palms from
wearing, and the humility of hands clasped in prayer. There are a million ways to describe
a sunset, but only the sight of the vermillion glows with inspiration. World Photography
Day is an annual celebration of photography as an art form, craft, science, and history.
The annual World Photography Day is celebrated on August 19. World Photography Day
dates all the way back to the invention of the Daguerrotype, a photographic process which
was developed by Frenchmen Lois Daguerre and Joseph Nicephore Niepce in 1837. In a
bid to hone the various skills of students, the Department of English conducted an
exhibition for first- and second-year students on the theme , "Scopes and Scapes" under
the banner of “Azadi Ka Amrut Mahotsav”. Ambitious photographers had a congenial
atmosphere to showcase their skills in the form of photos taken and submitted the same. It
was the perfect opportunity for the students to display their photographic skills and truly
dazed the students by their amazing photographs.
Rose Mary Shajimon
II CAME L

RANGITARANGA - A COLOURFUL WAVE

“The novel is more of a whisper, whereas the stage is a shout”
- Robert Holman
Life is but a play. World is a grand stage teeming with endless dramatists. Each passing
day is a different act and each emotion, a changing mask. With the aim of unfolding the
play of life, the Department of Languages conducted a workshop on theatre for the first
and second year students on 19 of August 2022. The workshop was led by Maltesh
Badiger, a writer, director, actor who has been awarded the Ustad Bismillah Khan Yuva
Puraskar by the Sangeeth Nataka Akademi. The speaker mainly focused on the three
wings of theatre namely: writing, directing and acting. Writers were provided with a clear
image on how to compose a story and basic ideas and division of a script. For the
directors, he introduced composition of the shots and the essence of creating suspense by
controlling what the audience sees. And, lastly for the actors, he showed videos to explain
the importance of eye movement, facial expressions and body language. The workshop
certainly invoked interest in theatre, film making, directing, and acting amongst the
budding student artists.

Rose Mary Shajimon II CAME L