33

DEPARTMENT REPORTS < SOCIOLOGY

Department of Bengali

Prof. Shruti Goswami has presented a paper on Debarati Mitra’s poetry in an

International Seminar organized by Rabindra Bharati University in 2018. She

has also edited a biography of poet-composer Rajanikanta Sen in August 2018.

Apart from that, she also scripted a dialogue between the female characters of

Tagore’s plays for a programme in AIR broadcast on May 2018.

This is our fifth academic year in the college since 2012. Students who have

graduated have joined PG courses and started research activities like M.Phil.,

PhD in different universities and colleges. Some of them have started

professional activities in media houses. Two of them have achieved 1st and 2nd

position in the PG examination in Jadavpur University. Two students have

qualified the NET examination in 2018.

The department has organized two one-day seminars in this academic session.

On 12th February2018, Prof. Sanjay Mukhopadhyay delivered a speech on

‘Literature and Cinema’ and on 29th September 2018, Mr. Subha Prasad Nandi

Majumdar presented a session on ‘Literature and Music’. Prof. Rajib Choudhury

from the main campus and Prof Subrata Sinha from Raghabpur Campus

arranged a press visit for the 3rd year students. They spent a whole day attending

a workshop and watching several activities related to printing and publishing at

the Jadavpur University Press on 21st September 2018.

Prof. Rajib Choudhury edited a collection of short stories, namely ‘Nabam

Taranga’ by Nabarun Bhattacharya. His article on the narrative-time of Bankim

Chandra’s novels was also published in a journal. He was selected as a BOS

member of the Bengali Department, Narendrapur Ramakrishna Mission. Prof.

Choudhury delivered the keynote address in a seminar organized by Bangla

Chotogalpo Prasar Academy.

This is our fifth academic year in the college since 2012. Students who have

graduated have joined PG courses and started research activities like M.Phil.,

PhD in different universities and colleges. Some of them have started

professional activities in media houses. Two of them have achieved 1st and 2nd

position in the PG examination in Jadavpur University. Two students have

qualified the NET examination in 2018.

The department has organized two one-day seminars in this academic session.

On 12th February2018, Prof. Sanjay Mukhopadhyay delivered a speech on

‘Literature and Cinema’ and on 29th September 2018, Mr. Subha Prasad Nandi

Majumdar presented a session on ‘Literature and Music’. Prof. Rajib Choudhury

from the main campus and Prof Subrata Sinha from Raghabpur Campus

arranged a press visit for the 3rd year students. They spent a whole day attending

a workshop and watching several activities related to printing and publishing at

the Jadavpur University Press on 21st September 2018.

Prof. Shruti Goswami has presented a paper on Debarati Mitra’s poetry in an

International Seminar organized by Rabindra Bharati University in 2018. She

has also edited a biography of poet-composer Rajanikanta Sen in August 2018.

Apart from that, she also scripted a dialogue between the female characters of

Tagore’s plays for a programme in AIR broadcast on May 2018.

Prof. Rajib Choudhury edited a collection of short stories, namely ‘Nabam

Taranga’ by Nabarun Bhattacharya. His article on the narrative-time of Bankim

Chandra’s novels was also published in a journal. He was selected as a BOS

member of the Bengali Department, Narendrapur Ramakrishna Mission. Prof.

Choudhury delivered the keynote address in a seminar organized by Bangla

Chotogalpo Prasar Academy.

DEPARTMENT REPORTS < BENGALI

34

Prof. Tapas Saha has attended an Orientation Programme at Burdwan University

from 15th February 2018 to 14th March 2018 and a Refresher Course at

University of Calcutta from 10th September 2018 to 2nd November 2018. He

has published an article on Bijan Bhattacharyya in a Seminar Proceeding from

Ramakrishna Mission Vidyamandira College. He served as a co-ordinator

member of a social outreach and school student-teacher awareness programme:

Swami Vivekananda Sammelan at Antpur, Hooghly during February-March

2018.