ST.

JOSEPH'S COLLEGE
(AUTONOMOUS)
RECOGNISED AS 'COLLEGE OF EXCELLENCE' BY UGC
RE-ACCREDITTED WITH A++ GRADE AND 3.79/4.00 CGPA BY NAAC
AWARDED DBT STAR STATUS & DST FIST GRANT
BY MINISTRY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY, GOI

BLUE & WHITE

Annual Magazine 2021
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Patron Saint of the College
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Department of History
Department of Economics Department of Computing Science &
Department of Political Science
Department of Sociology & Industrial Computer Applications
Relations
Department of Psychology
RECTOR’S MESSAGE

W
hat differentiates
an excellent
educational l
institution from
a mediocre one
is the process
of education it employs in training the
young minds. The process would include
not only the classroom teaching and the
extracurricular activities, but also the ethos
and climate that the institution cultivates
and makes it present to all its stakeholders
and specially the students. Education
does not happen in a vacuum but in an
environment which is conducive for the
students to imbibe the values of life and
to cope with it. This is exactly what we
try to cultivate at St Joseph’s College – an
environment for the total growth of an
individual. Creation of such a climate is a
continuous and challenging process and
we strive constantly for its creation.

The exercise of academic freedom by

teachers is a crucial requirement for teaching-learning has to be evaluated and excellence and compassion, and made
development of the intellectual climate the quality of education that takes place this great institution, still greater. Do come
of the institution and of our country. has to be reviewed. In this new normal, back to sip again that air of freedom with
Through this climate of freedom, we can it is imperative that the pedagogy has nostalgia and love. We will be there to
achieve excellence in higher education. to be drastically modified and learning receive you, no matter what station in life
With students, teachers and management outcomes have to be measured through you hold; rejoicing with you, comforting
being co-partners in raising the quality of upgraded methods of evaluation. These you. Good luck! Be great and be persons for
higher education, it is imperative that we are the challenging times not only with others.
share a major responsibility in making this respect to being protected from the
system credible and working. virus but also making life and education
meaningful and relevant. St Joseph’s Fr Swebert D Silva, SJ
Even though the past year has been College has responded adequately to all Rector
affected by the COVID- 19 pandemic, these challenges during this past academic St Joseph’s College (Autonomous)
great efforts have been made by the year.
Management and the faculty to impart All the outgoing students, you have been
quality education in online and offline part of this institution for a few years! And
mode. The effectiveness of this modality of you blossomed into men and women of

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PRINCIPAL’S MESSAGE

A
s I pen down these
lines reflecting on
the year we’ve had,
it’s the words of
Desmond Tutu that
come to mind. He
once said, “Hope is being able to see
that there is light despite all of the
darkness”. These words capture the
journey of St. Joseph’s College during
these trying times the pandemic has
brought upon us. This year has been a
challenging one for all of us but more
so for people dwelling on the margins
of society. Various members of BJES,
St. Joseph’s College, and the Alumni/
ae came together to be of service to
the marginalised. It’s heart-warming to
see that the objectives of St. Joseph’s to compromise on their learning. For and places on record the dedication
College are not mere words that this and much more, I’m grateful to the of its staff and student community in
feature in the documents but are also SJC family. this noble and humanitarian cause.
seen in the actions of our staff and The college will continue to encourage
students. The University Bill has already been and enable students to be “men and
passed in the Assembly and the women of change” who understand
The theme for this year chosen by the college is working in full swing the need for a just and equitable
Blue and White team- Onwards and to the final consummation of this society.
Upwards- is a fitting one to the various historic process. As a university in the As we begin a new academic year, I
journeys SJC has taken this last year. making, the college aspires to live up hope the strength we have built in
to its foundational motto of “fide et our fellowship will continue to inspire
The journey to becoming St. Joseph’s labore”, while recognising the need the students and teachers who have
University has been marked by for global relevance and viability. joined our family. I strongly believe
challenges but onwards and upwards With this aim, the college has been that the Josephite spirit will continue
we have trudged. The pandemic may revamping itself with the recognition to ignite the lives of students who are
have slowed us down but being in the and bifurcation of various Schools and now venturing into a new path. With
online space taught us something, Disciplines. Massive infrastructural the college becoming a university, we
perhaps. The spaces offered by upgradation is being developed to will continue to march onwards and
our infrastructure that include the support the demands of a growing upwards into a brighter and better
physical classroom are of tremendous student base and research potentials. tomorrow. I invoke God’s choicest
value today. Apart from a renewed The college is well equipped and is blessings on every member of the
appreciation for these spaces, teaching gearing up to address the demands Josephite family - staff, students, and
online and being a student online has of future educational paradigms and alumni/ae for the 139th year of SJC.
forced us to rethink pedagogy and possibilities.
learning. Teachers as collaborators
have come together to make sure our True to the Jesuit vision and mission, Fr Dr Victor Lobo SJ
students have an enriching learning the college took up massive covid relief Principal
experience despite the struggles of the work for the community and went St Joseph’s College (Autonomous)
online mode. Our staff have worked on to set up an Isolation Centre and
hard to ensure our students don’t have a Covid Care Centre on the premises.
The college recognises the services

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EDITORIAL

It’s been a tough year and we continue to live in more because of the pandemic. When everything
tough times. More than ever before it’s become around us was crumbling we still managed to put
imperative to find ways, however small, to keep this magazine together to archive for posterity the
moving forward. St. Joseph’s College did exactly this. different ways in which we got through this difficult
When the college closed in March 2020, everyone academic year giving our best to our students. Our
assumed that in two weeks we’d be back on theme for the magazine this year, 'Onward and
campus. But two weeks have now become almost Upward' sums up well the journey of SJC as an
two years. Despite these challenging times, the institution during the course of 2020-2021. SJC has
college spearheaded many initiatives to help those responded responsibly and sensitively to the unique
affected by the Pandemic. The campus was closed challenges and uncertainties the pandemic brought
for classes but remained open for all kinds of relief upon us. Our theme for this year, 'Onward and
work. From distributing ration kits to the needy to Upward' is inspired by the Jesuit principle, 'The Spirit
setting up a Care fund, the college has always been of Magis' - the spirit to achieve more, to do more and
at the forefront. The canteen in the Magis block was to be more.
converted into a Covid Care Centre with the help of
the management, alumni, and other organisations. This magazine was possible because of the efforts
The spirit of Magis- to go above and beyond- became of every teacher and student of the Blue and White
more important now than ever before. Team. Congratulations to the team!

The last academic year marked an important As we now move to the next academic year, finding
event for the college. The St. Joseph’s University Bill newer ways to overcome the many challenges the
was passed in the Legislative Council, helping St. pandemic will continue to throw at us, we hope
Joseph’s to move forward in taking the next step you find ways to rest and move forward with hope.
towards making Jesuit education accessible to more Onward and Upward.
students.
Editorial Team
Putting together the college magazine has always Blue and White 2020-2021
been a massive task. But this year it was even

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ANNUAL REPORT 2020-2021

F
or the last 450 years, Jesuit
pedagogy has focused
on the education of the
whole person, challenging
students to integrate the
intellectual, the spiritual,
and the social dimensions of their lives.
This academic year, we rededicated
ourselves to the foundational touchstone
of holistic, transformative, and enabling
education. We have been rewarded for
following our goals consistently. Although
the college had to close because of
lockdown due to the pandemic, the spirit
of learning continued in zest. A paradigm
shift in teaching-learning methodology
ushered in a renewed sense of the
world. Classes being conducted online Act officially, and the act was published College Day
inculcated an appreciation of the familiar in the government official gazette. This

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physical spaces that existed. The outside tremendous achievement is the beginning
world came under more scrutiny, with staff of a new chapter in Jesuit pedagogy, and he 137th College Day for 2019-2020
and students taking their learning outside all involved deserve appreciation. The was celebrated on March 6, 2021,
and helping relief activities. The lives lost college also saw significant infrastructure in the college auditorium. Dr Asha
in the Jesuit family during the pandemic improvements to meet the growing Sudhakar of the 1973 PCM batch, and Mr
are mourned. Their lives will remain an number of students and provide them with Karthick Krishnan of PG Chemistry 2008
inspiration and help engender concern better facilities. batch were the chief guests of the evening.
for the other by forming men and women
who will be agents of change. Our college paid respect and homage All student rank holders and achievers took
to Father Stan Swamy in a Candle Light part along with their families. Retiring staff
Condolence Prayer Meeting on July 7, 2021. and their families were felicitated during
Archbishop of Bangalore Most Rev Dr Peter the event. The outgoing student council
Major Highlights Machado paid homage to Father Stan, who was congratulated for their hard work and
fought for justice among marginalized and dedication for the past year.

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oppressed communities.
he academic year 2020-2021 began
The college has been at the forefront of
with a well-coordinated orientation
numerous covid relief activities for the past Change of Guard
programme for the incoming
year. The college canteen was converted

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students. A total of 2957 students were
to St. Joseph’s Covid Isolation Care Centre.
admitted for various courses in the college. ev Fr Denzil Lobo SJ took charge as
Bembala Outreach Centre, the NSS, other
To rise, surpass, excel, and be eminent in Director, Institute of Information
associations, the staff, and students of our
all we do has been our aim at St. Joseph’s Technology. Dr Fr Richard Rego
college were proactive in responding to
College. The number of students getting SJ took charge as Director, Institute of
SOS calls, finding and delivering medicines,
admission to our college indicates the faith Communication and Media Studies. Dr
locating hospital beds and oxygen
the society has in our philosophies. The Mohanadas was appointed as Controller
cylinders, transporting patients, delivering
institution today has been able to reach of Examinations. The following faculty
essentials, and helping with burial.
various parts of the world through our members were appointed as deans of
global engagement programmes. different schools. Mr Clement D’Souza,
Bembala, our college outreach programme
made it to the Asia Book of Records and Dean, School of Humanities, Dr Fr
This academic year, the Government of Augustine Lourdu, Dean, School of Social
Limca Book of Records for teaching in 150
Karnataka passed the St Joseph's University Work, Dr Rabbi Akkiba Angiras, Dean,
schools a day.

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School of Physical Sciences, Dr Shobha Faculty Development chief guest and keynote speaker. This year,
SV, Dean, School of Chemical Sciences, Dr Programme the Placement Office launched a new
Beatrice Maria Sequeira, Dean, School of campaign, ‘Josephites HIRE Josephites.’The
Life Sciences, Dr Arul Mani, Dean, School idea is to create a large pool of Josephite

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of Indian & Foreign Languages and Dr V employers who can actively participate in
he St. Joseph's College Faculty
Christo Selvan, Dean, School of Commerce our campus recruitment processes. The
Development Programme, under
& Management were appointed team played a vital role in the success of
the mentorship of Mr Clement
respectively. many events that transpired this academic
D’Souza, organised an 11-day faculty
year.
development programme on innovation
in teaching and learning and many other
Retiring Staff programmes from December 11 - 21, 2020.
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The following staff has reached
superannuation after completing years of Placements and PR he student council elections were
outstanding service. held in July and the following

. Dr. Stephen Titus - Associate Professor -

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students were elected to various
n this academic year 97 Companies posts:
Mathematics - 31-05-2020 hired our students. All students Shruti Merin Lal and Anusha BS were
completed a 30-hour Skill
. Mr. Kashiraja - Attender - Chemistry - 31-
elected as the President and Vice
Development program and 7 other President respectively. Angeline Katherina
05-2020 skill enhancement programs offered by was elected as General Secretary and
Cognizant and EY.
.
James Keith Hoover as Treasurer. Michelle
Dr. Berin Lucas - Associate Professor Stanley became the Joint Secretary. Ralph
- Sociology - 30-06-2020 The Placement Office signed an MOU with Rajamathi and Arun T got elected for the
Youth4Jobs to provide 100% Placements
. Dr. Sandra Misquith - Associate Professor
post of Sports Secretaries. Aditi Sinha,
for students with disabilities. Each year Malavika Nandan, Israrahmed Adur, and
- Chemistry - 30-06-2020 there has been a good increase in the Franklin Joseph were chosen as Cultural
number of students being placed. Thanks
.
Secretaries.
Mr. Krishnaiah K - Peon - Library - 31-08- to the efforts of the Placement team and
2020 (VRS) the host of companies and institutions During these challenging times of an
that hire from SJC. The Placement office
.
entire academic year running online, the
Dr. Etienne Rassendran - Associate collaborated with Wheebox, CII, AIU and student council came up with innovative
Professor - English - 31-10-2020 Team Alpha for various programs. ideas that catered to those challenges and

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did a tremendous job working alongside
Dr. Rajamani .S - Associate Professor - This year the placement office achieved the student fraternity. The council hosted
Botany - 31-03-2021 89% Placement Success with 509 students Swagath, the annual freshers’ day, with
placed and 440 students choosing Higher
. Mr. Vincent F - SDC - Office - 31-04-2021
the theme ‘What’s your superpower?’
Education. Pratibha, the intra-collegiate fest, was well

. Mr. Anthuvan PK - Attender - Zoology -

appreciated by the student community.
The Office of Public Relations hosted The council observed Body Image Week,
31-05-2021 several events this year. Open Heart is Women’s Day Special, Mental Health Week,
an event where people of repute are
.
Expression week, and Environment week
Mr. Thomas P Zachariah - Associate invited to share their stories of success during the fest. The council conducted
Professor - Zoology - 31-05-2021 and failure. This year, our guest speakers a successful Investiture Ceremony.
were Shri. Narayana Murthy, Founder/
.
Another commendable initiative called
Mr. Om Prakash D - SDC - UG Library - 31- Chairman of Infosys, Shri Krishna Byra CouncilForYou was organised as a
07-2021 Gowda, Indian Politician, and Ms Deepika fundraiser to help struggling students pay
Das, Indian Actress. Corporate Genesis
.
their college fees. Politics of the Personal
Dr. Jayashankar H - Associate Professor - - The Renaissance, 4th annual edition (POP), an interview series exploring ideas
Chemistry - 31-07-2021 of Corporate Genesis, was hosted to and current affairs relevant to the lives of
inspire an entrepreneurial culture among students, was introduced. The council
students and uplift them to manage the also came up with and organised a peer-
workforce. Mr Mohandas Pai, Chairman to-peer learning programme titled Edify.
of Manipal Global Education, was the

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Under the leadership of the council, Josephite Choir going beyond 100. The session on Self
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many intercollegiate festivals. In addition, on Rape and Abuse were much attended
the student council took part in various he Josephite Choir, this academic and appreciated. Two hundred saplings
programmes in and outside college and year, participated in many events were planted in Pic-a-Plant drive. They
across the city under the aegis of student across the city and won accolades also celebrated Independence day,
governor Ms Amita Priyadarshini. spearheaded Human Rights week, and
for the college.
conducted a Child's Rights Rally with Unit
1. They also played a pivotal role in the
Sports covid relief activities of the college.
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effectively under the guidance of year, starting with Wear-a-Mask
the Department of Physical Education. This he NCC had an accomplished year.
Campaign. The Human Rights Week held The 1 Karnataka Armed Squadron
academic year, 16 students represented in the first week of December saw eminent
the state in national-level tournaments. organised many events including
people coming in as guests and engaging Tree Plantation Pakwada, International
Our college staff actively participated in the with students on pertinent issues. The
BJES Inter Unit Staff Sports organized by Yoga Day, NCC Yogdan, webinars on
sessions conducted during the same
St. Joseph’s Boys’ High School on January Kargil Vijay Diwas, Fit India Movement, and
covered relevant topics like Constitutional
31, 2021. Our teams won Throw Ball and Youth Synergy: Mental Health are some
Democracy and Indigenous Cultures,
Badminton and became Runners-Up for of them. From January 29 to 31, 2021, the
Gender Equality, Mental Health - Suicide
Table Tennis. Ms Maria A was adjudged Combined Annual Training Camp (CATC
Prevention, Substance Abuse Awareness
player of the match. Ms Hazel Mary John 2021) was held at our college. On March 12,
and Thanksgiving to COVID Warriors, Child
was awarded player of the match twice for 2021, to create awareness and remember
Rights, and Abolition of Slavery. A rally on
Throw Ball. The college also participated the martyrs, DG NCC hosted a cleanliness
Child’s Rights was conducted on February
and became Runners-Up for Throw Ball in drive for war memorials, statues, and
28th 2021, following all covid protocols.
the B S Narayan Memorial Intercollegiate monuments that are being neglected.
The National Service Scheme Wing-1 of St.
Tournament for Staff held on 19th and Joseph’s College (Autonomous) organized
20th of February 2021, by BMS College of the Annual Rural Camp from 10th of April As part of the directive issued by the
Engineering. 2021 to 18th of April 2021. Fifty volunteers Hon'ble PM, Tika Utsav was observed by
were selected for the same. This rural NCC units all over the country from April 11
camp was instrumental in exploring the to 14, 2021. 1 Karnataka Armed Squadron
Neerathon latent potential among the campers, of St. Joseph's College (Autonomous) also
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of labour and self-help, and the need for employed for COVID Vaccination drive
he 14th edition of Neerathon was combining physical work with intellectual duty on April 13 at Goodwill International
held in March 2021 under the pursuits. NSS also celebrated significant Association at Neelasandra. The Squadron
guidance of the Wildlife Awareness international and national events like actively took part and collaborated in
and Conservation Club. The run for water International Day in Support of Torture various activities organised by the college.
conservation saw a participation of over Victims, Kargil Diwas, Independence Day,
1500. The day was inaugurated by Shri C and Republic Day.
P Yogeeshwara, Minister of Tourism and
Minister of Ecology and Environment, AICUF
Government of Karnataka. The significant
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student participation included mostly
he AICUF unit of our college
students from our college and other

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kickstarted their activities for the
colleges and clubs in the city. ing 2 of NSS conducted 40 new academic year with Ignatian
programmes this year, ranging week celebrations. Following which
from poster-making, cooking popular events such as Best-Out-Of-Waste
food for the needy, and webinars on and ActionSpeaks were conducted online.
relevant issues. Although most events Towards the end of 2020, the Christmas
were conducted online, they saw good week saw a slew of activities and contests
participation, with attendee numbers

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being conducted. A silent rally protesting - PARAMARSH. followed acknowledged the contributions
the unjustifiable incarceration of Fr Stan of national leaders and emphasized that
Swamy was also conducted. The unit also The IQAC contributed to the participation freedom also meant emancipation from
collaborated with the college outreach in India Today Ranking, and the college adversity.
team Bembala for various covid-related secured 17th, 14th, 5th, 44th, 22nd, and
relief activities, drives, and webinars. 17th for Arts, Science, BCA, Commerce,
MSW, and Mass Communication Republic Day
respectively.
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he Republic Day celebrations
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in the college saw much bigger
he office of the controller of participation with covid protocols

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examinations conducted End strictly in place. Conducted on January 26,
Semester Exams in offline and part from handling HRD/ 2021, Principal Dr (Fr) Victor Lobo S.J., in his
online mode throughout the academic Theology classes and Ignitors address, highlighted the difficulties faced
year successfully. All results were Integral Formation Programme by ordinary people due to the pandemic
announced on time. for students, the Campus Ministry and encouraged the student community
has successfully conducted many to help. The excellent contributions of NCC,
other programmes. The Campus NSS, and other student bodies during this
Internal Quality Assurance Ministry celebrated Ignatian Month period were appreciated. The principal
2021 to commemorate Ignatius 500 – also honoured NCC Armed Squadron
Cell (IQAC ) Quincentenary of transformation of St. Officer Lt. Akshay Mandalik, who recently
Ignatius Loyola. Various events were won a prestigious award from the Ministry

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conducted for staff and students of the of Defence. The day also witnessed a
he Internal Quality Assurance Cell
college. In memory of loved ones who solemn and grand piping ceremony in
(IQAC) conducted several activities
lost their lives due to the pandemic, the which distinguished NCC Cadets were
from March 2020 to June 2021. The
Campus Ministry organised a Prayer conferred ranks by the principal. The
cell took a significant role in the college’s
Service on June 7, 2021. During the service, rank of CSUO was conferred on Allen I
participation in NIRF 2021. The IQAC
staff and students gathered online to offer Fernandes, the rank of CJUO on Suraj Sen
played a pertinent role in the submission
prayers for those who lost their lives, for the and Raksha G Krishna, and the rank of CSM
of an article titled ‘Best Practices of
ones who were sick, and for the bereaved on Rishabh Rathore. These are cadets of
St. Joseph’s College (Autonomous),
family members. The Campus Ministry the 1 Karnataka Armed Squadron. From
Bengaluru’, to the International Association
organized the Eucharistic Celebration for the 1 Karnataka Air Squadron, the rank
of Jesuit Universities (IAJU) in January
the Feast of St. Ignatius Loyola on 31 July of CSUO was conferred on Chirag Sagar
2021. This year, the cell conducted training
2021, for St. Joseph’s Feast on 18 March and Lalrohlui Colney, the rank of CUO on
programmes for internal and external
2021, and for Christmas on 23 December Anush N Shetti and Nandini M, the rank of
participants. Representatives of different
2020. CWO on Chaitra R and Chandra Bhusan.
colleges across the country participated
and found them beneficial. A webinar
titled ‘NAAC - Quality Assurance in Higher
Education’ was organized on December Independence Day
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on December 30, a workshop on ‘National he 73rd Independence Day
celebrations of the college he St. Joseph’s Outreach
Institutional Ranking Framework (NIRF) -
conducted on August 15, 2020, Programme called Bembala is
Strategic Implementation and its Nuances’
was a low-key affair on account of designed to inculcate the Jesuit
was organized. The national-level 7-day
mandatory covid protocols. A small guard vision of social sensitivity among students.
online workshop on ‘Revised NAAC Norms
of honour consisting of NCC cadets and This year, Bembala played a pivotal role in
and Procedures’ held from 07 January
NSS volunteers was in attendance with coming up with creative and innovative
2021 to 15 January 2021 under the aegis
Principal Dr (Fr) Victor Lobo S.J. After the activities that consistently addressed
of UGC Scheme – PARAMARSH was well
unfurling of the national flag and the numerous public concerns and challenges
appreciated by participants. Lastly, a
administering of the pledge, Chief Protocol caused by the pandemic. The team has
webinar titled ‘Effective documentation’
Officer Lt. Dr B V Somashekaraiah, and conducted 188 programmes, including
and ‘Auditing (Academic, Administrative
Registrar Dr Melwin Colaco greeted the webinars, online tuition classes, citizen
and Green Audit)’ was organized on April
rector and principal. The addresses that journalism initiatives, awareness drives
11, 2021, under the aegis of UGC Scheme

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and campaigns, covid relief programmes, resource persons Dr Amrita Ghatak from an international research webinar on
and NGO visits. An online sapling Gujarat Institute of Development Research ‘Research Methodology in Biosciences’
plantation drive saw the planting of (GIDR) Ahmedabad and Dr Pradeep was organized by St. Joseph’s Research
1200+ saplings. The team also received 52 Ramavath J from National Law School of Centre, St. Joseph’s College (Autonomous),
letters of appreciation and awards from India University (NLSIU) Bengaluru, spoke Bengaluru. Prof. K Marimuthu, Department
BBMP, Bangalore City Police, government on ‘Research Methodology in Labour of Biotechnology, Faculty of Applied
hospitals, and NGOs. Bembala also made Studies’ and ‘Qualitative Research Designs Sciences, AIMST University, Malaysia,
it to the Asia Book of Records and Limca for Policy Analysis’ respectively. delivered an insightful talk on ‘Application
Book of Records for teaching in 150 of Statistics in Biological Sciences Research’.
schools a day. On October 17, 2020, the research
committee conducted a two-hour
webinar on the theme ‘Research Methods A year online went by and the spirit of
BCU Autonomy in Physical Sciences’ which was the Fide et Labore has prompted newer ways
third in a series of webinars on research of thinking. The highlights mentioned
Review Visit methods. The resource persons for the above indicate the numerous innovative
day were Dr Ramesh Gardas from the ideas employed, course corrections

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Department of Chemistry, IIT Madras, and made, creative interventions in academic
team from Bangalore Central
Dr Leena Shenoy from the Department of engagements, renewed social sensibilities,
University headed by Prof. T D
Mathematics, BNM Institute of Technology, and an undying strive towards excellence
Kemparaju, Vice-Chancellor, BNU,
Bangalore. The research committee at St. that has always been the identifying
visited our college on April 9, 2021, to
Joseph’s College (Autonomous) arranged thrust of a Josephite. The college is
review autonomy for 2018-19 and 2019-20.
an international seminar on ‘Storytelling as always looking to expand its frontiers in
The report was submitted to the team as
Research Method: Research Methodology all aspects. Drawing inspiration from the
per the format given, covering admissions,
in the Arts & Humanities’ on November 6, creative and intellectual output that arose
intake, research, student progression,
2020.The resource person for the event was within a year mired by restrictions from
placements, and faculty achievements. Dr Ruth Goldman, Associate Professor of the pandemic, the college is on its way to
Media Production in the Communication realizing its vision.
Department and Coordinator of Women
Research & Gender Studies Minor at Buffalo State
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his academic year, the St. Joseph’s
Research Centre conducted an
international research webinar
series to inculcate expertise in Research
Methodology in various subjects. The
webinar received an overwhelmingly
positive response and was successfully
concluded. A webinar on Intellectual
Property Rights was held on August 26,
2020. It was a joint venture of Visvesvaraya
Trade Promotion Center (a Government of
Karnataka organization) and St. Joseph’s
College (Autonomous) Research Center
and was headed by the director of the
research centre Rev Dr Joseph Lobo S J.
Ms Prabhavati Rao (Facilitator, Intellectual
Property Initiatives, Visvesvaraya Trade
Promotion Center, Dept. of Industries &
Commerce, Govt. of Karnataka) presided
over the webinar. The online workshop
in Social Sciences Research Methodology
was conducted on October 7, 2020, as a
part of a series of workshops organised
by SJC Research Committee. The two

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embala – St Joseph’s imperative, therefore, for everyone to experts were made available to all our
Outreach, in the new prepare a way to approach the new students through online platforms. Some
academic year 2020 normal. At this juncture, Bembala Team, of the other activities organised were
– 2021 took off with under the leadership of Fr. Brian Pereira Online Teaching for the Government
new challenges. The SJ –Director, came up with many creative School Children, Relief Programmes
unprecedented Covid and innovative activities to ensure our for Migrant Workers, Online Citizen
– 19 pandemic caused the world to students inculcate concern for the society. Journalism, Online Sapling Plantation
come to a standstill while driving a huge Initiative to offer an inclusive space for Drive, and Covid Relief Work.
population further into economic, social extensive discussions on various topics
and psychological distress. It became and presentations on selected topics by

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ORIENTATION FOR STUDENTS
OF UG, PG AND FACULTY
New Faculty Orientation UG Student Orientation Paul Newman. Activities under NSS was
Programme Programme introduced by Mr. Selwyn Paul and Mr.

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he UG Student Orientation Ms. Amita Priyadarshini, Governor of the
he orientation programme Programme was coordinated Student Council, introduced the office-
for the new faculty online by The Student Induction bearers and gave a glimpse into the
members who joined in Programme committee on the 17th of cultural activities lined up for the year. Ms.
July 2020 was organised August 2020. The program commenced Hazel Mary John from the Department
by the FDP committee on with a formal inaugural ceremony and of Physical Education elaborated on the
MS teams between the was followed by addresses by the Rector various sports activities lined up for the
24th of July 2020, and the 26th of July Dr. (Fr.) Swebert D’Silva, SJ, the Principal, year.
2020. The 3-day training programme was Dr. (Fr.) Victor Lobo, SJ, and the Registrar,
conducted by the SJC Digital Teachers Dr. Melwin Colaco. Dr. Cheriyan Alexander Ms. Latha Paul, the coordinator of the
group. The programme was coordinated gave a virtual tour of the college and College Associations, gave a glimpse of the
by Prof. Clement D’Souza, Dr. Vanitha N.M., campus to the students. activities of the various associations and,
Dr. Joyce D’Souza and Dr. Sunita Rajamani. Ms. Viola Noronha, Campus Minister, gave
An institutional-level orientation followed details on the activities and opportunities
Teachers were trained in using the MS the inauguration, acquainting the UG for students in AICUF and CSA.
Teams platform for online classes and students about the various functionalities This was followed by departmental-level
other online tools for enhancing the of the college. The COE, Dr. Jacob Paul, orientations organized by the mentors on
effectiveness of teaching. The resource and the mentors’ coordinator, Ms. Nisha MS teams. The students were introduced
persons were teachers from St. Joseph’s Menzies Rao, oriented the students about to their respective Vice-Principals, Deans,
College. the rules and regulations of the college, and Welfare Officers who addressed the
examinations and the role of class mentors. students about their roles in the various
aspects of their academic journey in
PG Student Orientation Mr. Kiran Jeevan briefed the students on college, discussed important points from
Programme placement and internships. They were the student handbook and addressed
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by Lt. Akshay Mandlik and Sqn. Ldr. Dr. K
he Student Induction Programme
Committee coordinated an online
Student Orientation Programme
for PG students on the 3rd of August 2020.
The program commenced with a formal
inaugural ceremony and was followed by
addresses from the Rector, Dr. (Fr.) Swebert
D’Silva, SJ, the Principal’s address by Dr.
(Fr.) Victor Lobo, SJ, the Registrar’s address
by Dr. Melwin Colaco, and Dr. Cheriyan
Alexander from the Department of English.
This was followed by an institutional
and departmental-level orientation. The
students were also given a brief overview of
the course by the respective PG coordinators
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Training on E-Content (Department of Physics), ‘Podcasts and Dr. Jayasree, and Dr. Sunita and their topics
Development: Strategies, Tools, their Incorporation into the Classroom’ were course design for online delivery and
by Mr Suraj Rajashekhar (Department content uploading. On June 26, 2020, the
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of Physics) and ‘Linways Part 2’ by Ms resource persons were Dr. Joyce, Ms. Veena,
Abhirami (Linways). Dr. Amudhan, and Dr. Suhas. Their topics
were attendance compilation and survey
he FDP committee of forms. On June 27, 2020, the resource
the college has always LIBA persons were Mr. Charles, Dr. Vanitha,
been well-balanced and Ms. Princy, Ms. Sana and the topics were
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scheduling combined meetings and live-
to changing teaching- streaming. On June 29, 2020, the resource
he following teachers attended
learning contexts. persons were Ms. Amita, Ms. Rajalekshmi,
the ‘ProAct Digital Teacher’ online
Recognising this in the season of Ms. Amanda, and Ms. Shefali and their
course conducted by Management
uncertainty, the committee conducted topic was asynchronous learning and
Development Centre (MDC), Loyola
a training programme on E-Content tools to supplement online teaching. On
Institute of Business Administration (LIBA),
Development – Strategies, Tools, and the last day, i.e. June 30, 2020, the resource
Loyola Campus, Chennai from June
Opportunities. Committed to supporting persons were Ms. Banu, Ms. Christine,
15–20, 2020: Dr. Joyce D’Souza, Dr. Sunita
the faculty, this programme provided Ms. Usha, and Ms. Ahana and their topic
Rajamani, Dr. Christine Nigil, Dr. Jayasree
training which was creative, ingenuous was designing online assessment and
B, Dr. Vanitha N, Dr. Amudhan, Ms. Banu,
and the need of the hour. The programme assignment methods.
Ms. Rajalekshmi, Mr. Charles Ambrose, Ms.
was held from May 13-21 and coordinated
Veena Nirmala, Ms. Usha Priyadarshini, Ms.
by Ms Parinitha Shinde and a team from
Amita Priyadarshini, Dr. Suhas D P, Ms. Sana
the Department of Communication.
Begum, Ms. Ahana Ruth Pinto, Ms. Shefali Panel Discussion
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D’Souza. We thank Prof. Clement D’Souza
for organizing this workshop participation n August 29, 2020, the FDP team
for us, and we thank our Principal for hosted a panel discussion titled‘New
sponsoring this course for the entire team. Education Policy 2020’ from 2:00
These courses led to many in-house digital pm. The session began with Ms. Parul Batra
class trainings which were very necessary from the Department of English welcoming
for the teaching fraternity to help them guests and the moderator Dr. Cheriyan
take the leap from offline to online. Alexander and introducing them to the
very enthusiastic audience that was glued
in via Zoom and a Youtube live broadcast.
SJC Digital Teacher The first speaker was Dr. Valerian Rodrigues
who emphasized the need to favour those
Programme students who come from disadvantaged
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Traditional to Online Education’ by Dr
spoke next and highlighted that the
Greta Dsouza (Christ Deemed-to-be he SJC digital teacher group who
audience should take an objective view
University), ‘An Introduction to Microsoft underwent training from LIBA in
of the policy and approach with an open
Teams by Mr Nevil Dsouza (Department June 2020 scheduled a training
mind to the various merits and demerits of
of Communication) and Ms Banu for all faculty members in order to get
the NEP. Finally, Dr. Anil Pinto took the panel
(Department of Computer Science), their hands on digital teaching mainly
discussion to a more balanced view where
‘Exploring Linways AMS’ by Ms Abhirami using MS teams. This workshop, a follow-
he spoke of how the policy would benefit
(Linways), ‘How to make an effective PPT up on the workshop on digital tools and
higher education institutes and aid their
and Screen Capture using OBS Studio’ platforms conducted by Department of
growth by opening up a vista of possibilities.
by Mr Arkadev Ghoshal (Department Mass Communication, was organized by
of Communication), ‘Creating One Prof. Clement and Dr. Joyce. On June 25,
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 Introduction to Basics of MS speaker elaborated on the constitution of wealth of his own experiences of teaching
Teams and Advanced Excel for a board of governors and the importance for nearly three decades to illustrate how
of allotting 6% of GDP for education. There teachers can build structures of support
Non-Teaching Faculty was also a concern about PU colleges for their students. He emphasized that
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also included what changes we could total formation of each student and help
he FDP committee conducted a expect when UGC is changed to HEGC, them probe the meaning of human life.
workshop for the non-teaching staff and whether deemed-to-be universities Apart from sound intellectual formation,
on September 12, 2020, from 11-12 will be funded by the HEGC. The college mentors must help students to think
pm. Ms. Banu (Department of Computer congratulated Dr. Chetan Singai for being critically. He added that teachers must
Science) conducted this session along with part of such a great mission and thanked make students more imaginative, creative,
Ms. Veena (Department of Mathematics), him for his valuable time and patience for and reflective, and assist in the preparation
and Dr. Paramesha M (Department of answering our queries. of a life in the service of others. During
Botany). The main objective of this initiative the second session of the day, Dr. (Fr.)
was to familiarize the non-teaching staff Augustine Lourdu, Department of Social
with MS Teams and advanced tools in Training for New Faculty Work, examined the question ‘What
excel, such as dash board through macro, makes a Great Teacher?’ He stated that a
data entry form creation, and certain Members great teacher loves to learn, in addition
useful formulae. This workshop intended to transmitting knowledge. He urged the

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to orient non-teaching staff towards staff to formulate an ideology behind the
developing their computer skills and r. Vanitha and Dr. Sunita carried
lessons they teach. He stressed on the
equip them with online communication out training for new teaching
importance of cultivating human ethos
skills. There were 45 participants. Mr. faculty on two days, September
in the classroom and added that teachers
Lawrence, an administrative staff, shared 1 and 4, 2020. The topics covered by Dr.
must recognize the lives that students
that this was a good initiative and hoped Vanitha were creating teams, adding
lead outside of college in an attempt
further such workshops would tailor to students and teachers, scheduling classes,
to be empathetic. He also encouraged
specific administrative, library and front taking classes, recording classes among
teachers to examine the relationship
office purposes. the various features of linways. They were
between power and violence in order
also trained about the basic etiquettes
to achieve a more equitable society. He
needed while taking an online class. Dr.
advised teachers to build a foundation of
NEP 2020 - A New Roadmap Sunita trained them on class notebooks,
value to help students turn challenges into
downloading attendance, and using MS
for Teachers forms for attendance and assignment
opportunities.
on MS teams. Ms. Nisha, Mr. Charles, Ms.
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Amanda, Ms. Amita, Ms. Rajalekshmi, Ms.
he FDP committee conducted were covered on the broad topic ‘Staff
Shefali, Ms. Veena, Dr Amudhan were also
a webinar on ‘NEP 2020 - A Development’. Sqn. Ldr. Dr. Paul Newman
resource persons for various departments.
New Roadmap for Teachers’ on (NCC, Air Wing) had an engaging session
September 5, 2020, as part of teachers' on ‘Educators and Social Responsibilities’.
day celebration on MS teams. The resource He emphasized on one of the seventeen
Staff Enrichment Programme Sustainable Development Goals, ‘quality
person was Dr. Chetan B Singai (an alumnus
of St. Joseph’s College (Autonomous) of education’, and talked of how Jesuit

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and member of Technical Secretariat, education inculcates the same ethos in
seven-day on-campus staff our system. Teachers impact the circle
Committee to Draft the National Education
enrichment programme was of concern and circle of influence and
Policy). The session was moderated by Ms.
organized by the college hence it is our duty to bring in awareness
Amita Priyadarshini. Dr. Singai gave a brief
Faculty Development Programme (FDP) among our students. Dr. Arun Varma
overview of how National Education Policy
committee from December 10-21, Thampan introduced various tools for
had come into being and also presented its
2020, to enrich and enhance the skills of online teaching such as ICT and the impact
highlights. The roles of various educational
the teaching faculty. The broader area of online teaching from brick and mortar
bodies were discussed. The benefits that
was ‘Staff Development’. The training classes to digitized learning, Moodle,
type I, II, and III institutes would receive from
programme was envisaged for the randomization, tagline presentation, and
NHEC and state/central government(s) were
transitional development of faculty. evaluation methods. Ms Nisha Menzies Rao
also discussed. There were also enthusiastic
On the first day of the programme, Fr. (Department of Psychology) dealt with the
deliberations about the weightage of
Swebert D'Silva, Rector, SJC, addressed topic ‘Mental Health and the Teachers’. The
research, service, and teaching to balance
the attendees on the topic ‘Mentoring session was very important and relevant
the workload of individual teachers. The
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to the present-day scenario and helped malpractices. Teaching and research are - constructive alignment (Prof. John
the audience to seriously think about closely connected. Dimensions of Jesuit Biggs); focus and clarity on programme
working on the work-life balance and ethos to motivate research are the sense educational objectives (PEOs), programme
mental health during the pandemic. Dr P E of being called for a mission, response to a objectives (POs), programme specific
Somaiah (Department of Political Science) specific context, goal orientedness, deeper objectives (PSOs), course outcomes (COs);
elaborated on the topic ‘Governance meaning in life, MAGIS, introspection, incorporation of Bloom’s taxonomy in the
of Minority Institutions in Karnataka’. sense of sacredness in creation. Fr Joseph course outcomes. Dr. Cheriyan Alexander
The session highlighted the various emphasized on the various dimensions of shared his experiences of teaching a filled
distinctions and opportunities available for scientific research such as a response, rigor, classroom from back in the 1990s which
minority institutions in Karnataka. Fr. John intellectual honesty and deep thirst for would help us in our ‘professional growth’.
Lang Bosco S.J. moderated a session with truth, creativity, criticality, originality, being Involving students in the teaching-
Mr. Madhav Menon and Dr. Madhurini to systematic without necessarily being learning process by asking them to talk
bring out the role of the Department of systemic, replicability and consequent about something related to the subject
Psychology and Counselling in moulding generalizability to similar circumstances, that interested them would enhance
our students towards good mental health. predictability, data-based objectivity, classroom productivity. The need of the
Fr. John spoke about the importance precision, high probability, purposiveness hour is to provide equal opportunities for
of mentors in a student’s life and how a combined with ethical concerns. He those who cannot afford education. Dr.
mentor can positively influence a student concluded by highlighting that research Arul Mani emphasized on the importance
in distress and bring about a change in can abolish rote learning in our institutions of retreat, recreation, and rejuvenation
his/her outlook. Dr. Madhurini discussed and bring revolutionary and effective ways and leisure time for teachers. The need
the difference between a mentor and of teaching. for academicians to engage in extension
a counselor. She spoke about extreme activities has to be considered. There is
situations where the mentor could refer Outcome based education (OBE) was a need to provide education to people
the student to a counselor and highlighted covered by Dr. Syed Wajeed (IQAC based on their capability (streaming
the importance of collaboration between coordinator). He emphasized on future system). The resource persons covered
mentor and counselor. Mr. Madhav education development in India; sustained a wide range of topics that helped us
Menon discussed case studies of students initiatives; enhancing employability of improve our classroom as well as online
undergoing anxiety/trauma and spoke graduates through curriculum reform; teaching skills.
about various possibilities to solving improving/upgrading academic resource;
such issues. Mentors shared their own raising the quality of teaching and research;
experiences in mentoring and counseling use of technology and integration to Jesuit Leadership
at their levels and talked about how every improve teaching-learning process;
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help students out of situations of despair. delivery, and assessment planning; four r. Richard Rego SJ, Fr. Francis Pinto
Rev. Dr. (Fr.) Joseph Lobo, SJ, Research basic principles (Spady 1994) - clarity of SJ, Fr. Maxim Dias SJ, Mr. Clement
Director, highlighted various issues focus, designing down, high expectations, D’souza , Dr. Beatrice Sequeira,
regarding research in higher education expanded opportunities; passive teaching Dr. Rabbi, and Dr. Shobha attended an
during his session on ‘Research and Jesuit methods/average retention rate; strategy- inter-jesuit institution workshop on ‘Jesuit
Ethos’. Promotion, recognition, monetary learning and teaching- upend existing Leadership’ from July 26 -28 by HRDC,
gains, personal interest are some factors framework, pedagogy, strengthen the Ashirvad, Bangalore.
that motivate research. However, lack resources, digital enhancement curricula;
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he 73rd Independence and hunger of the ordinary citizens to India, by The Father of the Nation
Day Celebrations at St. including the migrant workers who are Mahatma Gandhi, First Prime Minister
Joseph’s College, on 15th of suffering the most due to pandemic, as an Jawaharlal Nehru and The Architect of our
August 2020, was unique absolute necessity. Constitution Dr. B. R. Ambedkar.
for a number of reasons. ar.
Our college has had the Fr. Principal in his address reminded the Chief Protocol Officer Lt. Dr. B. V.
fortune of celebrating Independence Day great and unmatched service rendered Somashekariah gave the National Salute.
right from 1947 with a lot of pomp and
grandeur.
The Principal Rev. Dr. Victor Lobo SJ, was
accorded a Guard of Honour by a very
limited number of NCC Cadets and NSS
Volunteers. After the unfurling of the
National Flag, the Principal administered
the National Pledge.

In his address, Rector Rev. Fr. Swebert

D’Silva SJ, placed on record the selfless
services of all freedom fighters and
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he College witnessed On behalf of the Management and SJC The following distinguished NCC Cadets
a grand Republic Day Community, Rev. Fr. Principal honoured the of I Karnataka Air Squadron of the College
Celebrations on the 26th NCC Armed Squadron Officer Lt. Akshay were conferred Ranks by Fr. Principal -
of January 2021. The Mandlik, who recently won a prestigious Rank of CSUO on Chirag Sagar and
Principal Rev. Dr. Victor award from the Ministry of Defence. Lalrohlui Colney
Lobo SJ, arrived at the Rank of CUO on Anush N Shetti and
venue escorted by the Student Council In a solemn and grand Piping Ceremony, Nandini M
Leaders and important College Officials, Fr. Victor Lobo SJ, conferred the following Rank of CWO on Chaitra R and Chandra
was warmly received by the Chief Protocol Ranks on the below mentioned Bhusan
Officer Lt. Dr. B.V. Somashekaraiah. Fr. distinguished NCC Cadets of 1 Karnataka
Principal was accorded a spectacular Guard Armed Squadron of the College: At 6 p.m., Protocol In Charge Mr. G. Anuplal
of Honour by both Wings of College NCC Rank of CSUO on Allen I Fernandes officiated the National Flag lowering
Cadets and both Units of NSS Volunteers. Rank of CJUO on Suraj Sen and Raksha G ceremony.
After the unfurling of the National Flag, Krishna
the Principal administered the National Rank of CSM on Rishabh Rathore
Pledge.

In his Republic Day address Rev. Fr.

Principal highlighted the excellent role
played by our college NCC, NSS and other
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he Student Council hosted
Prathibha 2020-21, ‘The
Epoch of the Dauntless’ as
a month-long celebration
of youth culture and
pressing current issues.
The purpose of choosing the theme was to Throughout the month, the college Investiture 2020
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generation, which has braved many odds on the most crucial topics of our times-
body image and expression, mental well- he much-awaited investiture
and still chooses to strive for a better ceremony of the Student Council of
world. 1st of March 2021 witnessed the being, women’s day special, environment
week, civil and democratic rights with the St. Joseph’s College (Autonomous),
inauguration of the fest where the cultural Bangalore for the year 2020-2021 was held
associations of college put on a marvellous help of multiple associations. With respect
show for the Josephites and with a special to this, programs were held in college
performance by a band, Manga. premises and a major chunk of content
was created for the Instagram page of
the council. Alongside this, an eclectic
range of competitive events were held for
students in both offline and online mode
which were hosted by every association
in collaboration with the council. The
culmination of this month-long hustle and
chaos was celebrated on 31st of March.
The overall trophy was bagged by the
students of II PCM on the 14th of December 2020. Emceed
by Prof. Taral, the ceremony began with
. the singing of the college anthem by the
Josephite choir, followed by the welcome
address by the Governor, Prof. Amita
Priyadarshini. The event then moved onto
the lighting of the lamp by the dignitaries
on the dais- Principal Dr. Fr. Victor Lobo
SJ, the Registrar Dr. Melwin Colaco, the
Governor Ms. Amita Priyadharshini, and
Council President, Ms. Shruti Lal. The
oath taking ceremony was presided
over by the Governor, followed by the
badging ceremony. Fr. Principal delivered
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members. Ms. Shruti Lal, the elected fitness, painting or sketching, unique and follow along without being overwhelmed.
president of the council proposed the vote theatre. The episode was an eye opener to many
of thanks and the ceremony ended with as it covered topics that were not talked
the singing of the national anthem. Phase one of Swagath was the class-to- about either due to negligence or because
class interaction. This was a very new it was considered as uncomfortable topics,
The members of the Student Council for initiative where the council members which was perhaps better put by Ms. Vijeta
the academic year 2020-21 were - interacted with each and every class across when she said “....People like to believe that
UG and PG. Each session was scheduled caste is invisible” while answering one of
President: Shruthi Merin Lal – III IES for half an hour, and a senior from each the questions in the interview.
batch who acted as a senior buddy was
Vice President: Anusha B.S – III PMC present too, so the juniors could also ask
course related questions. The juniors were Politics of Personal 2020
General Secretary: Angeline Katherina – II sent a form to ask questions if they had
BVOC Digital Media & Animation any regarding college life, and these were (Ep 2)
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Treasurer: James Keith Hoover – III CZBT session on the IG handle by James Hoover his was a pre-recorded session
and Michelle Stanely. posted on our Instagram where Ms.
Joint Secretary: Michelle Stanley - II Manjima indulged in a comfortable
MCOM The second phase to Swagath involved a conversation regarding the fashion
collaboration with Indie Artists through industry while also talking about the
Cultural Secretaries: ‘Last page Collective’. This was the final uncomfortable aspects of body-shaming
Aditi Sinha – III Bcom C summit of the entire freshers week. There within the industry, and how people
Israrahmed Adur – III CBBT were two Chief guests, the first being Hitha viewing it from the outside contribute to
Malavika Nandan – III CPE Chandrashekhar and Sindhu Lokanath. the same. She spoke about how people
Franklin Joseph H – III BCA The grand finale was marked by a YouTube outside the industry already have a
premier, anchored by Preetal Shanbhag tendency to think women who work in the
Asst. Cultural Secretaries: and Suraj Naik. Each event had the top 3 fashion industry only have bodies they can
Preetal A.S – III BCom B winners and three honorable mentions. use to make a living and not intellectual
Suraj S Naik – III CZBT The final and the most awaited of all was ability and how we may believe they
Sushmita Lama – II BVOC Digital Media & Mr. and Miss Fresher, who were the jack of are all elitists. She also brought in the
Animation all trades as they had won the most number element of men modeling and how they
of events across all the fourteen events are prejudiced against for working in an
Sport Secretaries: hosted by the council. Chandradeep industry that is wrongly considered as a
Ralph Rajamathi – III PCM Toppo from JIP was crowned Mr. Swagath feminine space. The session ended with
Arun T – III HEP and Vaishnavi Padmakumar Nair from how we as young adults in college can
BCom IFA was crowned Miss Swagath. break down stereotypes that contribute to
body-shaming and accept ourselves and
Swagath 2020 others for the way they are.
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life virtually. This year, fighting all odds, interview series started by the
Swagath 2020, for the first time in the history Student Council with the aim of ith the state of affairs in the
of St. Joseph’s College (Autonomous) was introducing and exploring ideas that are country, especially among
conducted virtually. Kickstarting from the either trending in current affairs or ones young adults, The Student
21st of August 2020, it was conducted in that hold significant importance in student Council thought it apt to host a webinar
mainly three phases and ended on the lives. The first episode of the Politics of that focuses on sexual consent. The
11th of September. The theme of Swagath the Personal titled the “The Forgotten resource person, Ms. Meenakshi Giridhar,
was “What’s Your Superpower”. The events Canvas” was about Dalit Art and History perfectly elaborated on every aspect of
held were - singing, dancing, photography, for which the guest was Ms. Vijeta Kumar. consent - how to say no, and take no for
videography, fashion show, poetry, The questions were specific and concise an answer, and how consent affects men,
instrumental, beatboxing, free styling, enough to pique the interest of the speaker women, and those who don’t identify as
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either. She also touched upon the element of 55 students were provided the Council Akshaya Raja - Head, School of Commerce
of power when it comes to consent, and Scholarships and additional support & Management
micro-aggressions we don’t normally was also extended by the management
notice in our day-to-day lives. The event to those students who required it. Mahima Devan - Head, School of
was concluded with a vote of thanks given The success of the Fundraiser was the Humanities and Professional Courses
by Radhai from the Gender Sensitization collaborative effort of the Student Council,
Cell. the extended council which comprises The members were responsible for making
the sponsorship, marketing and content the program intriguing and encouraging
wing and the Management of St. Joseph’s for more applicants to be peer mentors. An
Council For You 2020-2021 College (Autonomous). operational structure was formed where
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ovid 19 not only affected the Edify 2021 the other peer mentors were appointed.
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also devastated our economy.
As a result, many parents had become he Student Council started a new followed a different approach of having a
financially unstable and many had lost their Student Council programme called head mentor for each of their programs.
jobs. The Student Council started to receive EDIFY in the academic year of 2020-
many messages from students who were 2021. EDIFY is a year-long programme EDIFY registered 183 peer mentors and
unable to pay their fees for the academic based on the Ignatian principles of Magis 968 peer learners as part of the larger Peer-
year. In the hope to allow students to focus and Cura Personalis. The main pillars of to-Peer framework. Each mentor put in a
on their academics and lift some of the the initiative are academic opportunity, tremendous effort to make peer sessions
financial burden their families were facing, individuality, and holistic development. enjoyable and educational. Peer mentors
the Council proposed to set up a relief As the ongoing pandemic created a were allowed autonomy in their teaching
fund to help students who were unable disconnect amongst students, the first practice, apart from some organizational
to pay their fees. With the support of our programme to kickstart EDIFY this year restrictions. It was observed that as peer
Principal, the Student Council initiated the was ‘Peer Learning Program’. The Peer-to- mentors used interactive tools like polling,
CouncilForYou fundraiser. Peer learning programme was started as a videos, and also shared funny content
step in the direction to create a more joint to make their sessions more engaging.
Initially, NGOs and donors were and collaborative learning experience at Sources including the material produced
approached individually. Later, the St. Joseph’s College. The initial thought (notes, recordings, etc.) were shared
fundraiser was crowdfunded on Ketto. process was to create a self-dependent throughout every class. Soon, the peer
We were overwhelmed by the immense environment to boost the overall learning sessions turned into social groups where
support we received from the get go, ecosystem on campus. friends came together to study and learn
especially from our very own faculty who holistically.
understood the need of the hour and In order to implement the peer-to-peer
supported us by contributing towards learning programme, the Student Council EDIFY received great positive feedback
this cause. It also saw students themselves constituted a core team comprising of the along with few constructive criticisms.
who came forward to support this cause following members: The learners appreciated the innovative
from the little that they had. Finally, the approaches mentors had adopted to
initiative gained the support of the public Bhuvan Kashyap - Student Coordinator teach, such as popular pop culture
who came to know about this fundraiser references to gain student’s attention
through a newspaper article. The council Nilay Nitnaware - Head, Peer Learning and interactions that focus more on
was successful in raising an amount of Rs. Platform the accessible exchange of information
3,84,000 which was directly received into through voluntary participation.
the College account. The next milestone Sagar JC - Head, School of Physical Sciences
was identifying the students in need -
namely those whose parents has lost Ryan Pathak - Head, School of Natural
their jobs or were daily wage workers or Sciences
students who funded their own education
Likhith. J - Head, School of Natural Sciences
The scrutiny of applications and
distribution of the amount raised was Sagar Bishen - Head, School of Commerce
done through a committee formed by & Management
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celebrated Ignatian their lives due to the pandemic, the he Eucharistic Celebration for the
Month 2021 to Campus Ministry organised a Prayer Feast of St. Ignatius Loyola was
commemorate Ignatius Service on 7th of June 2021. During the held on 31st of July 2021, in the
500 – Quincentenary of service, staff and students gathered Xavier Hall. The main celebrant for the
transformation of St. Ignatius online to offer prayers for those who lost mass was Most Rev. Dr. Peter Machado,
Loyola. Various events were conducted their lives, the ones who were sick and Archbishop of Bangalore. The College
for staff and students of the college. The the bereaved family members. Readings Choir, coordinated by Dr Leonard Aiman
celebration began on July 1st with the from different scriptures were read and added to the beauty of the celebration.
inaugural ceremony with a message from reflected upon. The service ended with a
the Rector, Fr. Swebert D’Silva SJ. hymn.

During the month, the team shared posters of

motivational thoughts of St. Ignatius adapted
from the Scintillae Ignatianae, compiled
by Gabriel Hevenesi SJ, translated by Alan
McDougall. Jesuit priests from the Karnataka
Province spoke about their inspirational
journey in the Society of Jesus through videos.
On the 22nd of July 2021, an online talk was
held for all the faculty of the college. Fr.Joye
James SJ, Secretary, Jesuit Higher Education
in South Asia spoke on the ‘Challenges in
Ignatian Education’.
It was followed by a virtual quiz competition
on the life of St. Ignatius and the Society of
Jesus. The winners of the quiz were Dr. Mary
Princess Lavanya and Dr. Alan Godfrey. The
second place was bagged by Ms. Reshma
and Dr. Syed Wajeed. The third place was
bagged by Dr. CAR Maria Sahayaraj and Dr.
Sandiago El Canto – an evening of Ignatian
Hymns was organised on the 28th of July
2021. The Ignatian hymns were sung by the
Josephite Choir led by Dr Leonard Aiman. Dr.
Alan Godfrey shared the history of the hymns
during the event.
For the students, AICUF conducted a series of
interesting virtual events from 19th to 28th of
July 2021. The Ignatian month 2021 ended
with a short valedictory programme on the
30th of July 2021. The Special guest, Mr. Roger
Joseph Lurshay, Alumnus of the College
shared his experience on the influence of
Jesuit Education in his life. Principal, Fr. Victor
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n July 1, 2020 at 4:00 pm Action Speaks
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Council Members for the
he event was conducted on
discussion of Ignatian
September 17, 2020. The motive of
week events was held
conducting this was to experience
by Ms. Deepika S. It was
the life of the dumb, the deaf, and the
decided to conduct six events namely
blind. To make the event easy, the aicufers
‘Let all that you do be done in love’, ‘God’s
were given a choice to select any song and
precious gift to you’, ‘St. Ignatius Loyola’,
interpret a particular para (chorus, stanza).
‘Gospel according to St. John’, ‘Shine to
They were to use sign language for the
Enkindle’, ‘Hunger’, etc. On July 16, 2020, a
same. The total number of responses that
meeting was held for making e-certificates
was received was 27. The best interpreted
and to check on the events’ progress .
video was featured in our official instagram
handle.
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August 30, 2020. The event heads
s a celebration, we had a bunch
were Rahul and Roshan and the
of events from December 14-20,
judge for the event was Ganesh Aithal,
2020. All the council members
a motivational speaker who is currently
took the lead in heading each event. There
working on a project for changing the
education system. The total number of
were five events conducted namely The Silent Rally
Carol, The Promise, The Start is Yours,
responses that we received was 84. Most

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Pick and Act and The Wings. All the
of the students shared their view on the
participants depicted the life of Christ by n protest against Fr. Stan Swamy’s
event and they were happy that this event
their participation. In total we received 14 arrest, a silent rally was organised
kept them active and thinking something
responses. on October 12, 2020 in the college
creative.The top three works were given
e-certificates and the top ten works were campus. 16 of the AICUFERS had come for
featured on our official instagram handle the rally during the pandemic. The event
that is @aicuf_sjc. was held with all social distancing norms
in place.

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uva is an intercollegiate conducted
throughout Karnataka for all the his year’s Polio drive was held from
Jesuit institutes. Conducted on January 31- February 3, 2021. AICUF
August 30, 2020, it had events like model in collaboration with Bembala
making, collage, Indian folk dance, Indian Outreach organised this drive for which
folk song, etc. The motive was to encourage 49 AICUFERS participated. Conducted in​
youth to be involved in the culture and Murphy Town and ​Shanthi Nagar, both the
heritage of our living. There were six venues saw students visiting 300+ houses
participants representing our college in the every day.
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level webinar had the speaker Ms. Anita

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Binze, a renowned motivational speaker

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his drive, was organised by AICUF and educator.
Karnataka on February 13, 2021 for ICUF collaborated with Bembala
which many AICUF units around for packing the ration kits for the Agriculture Bill 2020: Mr. Ajaypal Singh
Bangalore collaborated. AICUF distributed migrant workers and marginalized Brar, author and activist, Prof. R N S Gowda,
around 250 food parcels for the needy. people in Anekal on March 26, 2021. More founder and Vice Chancellor, Karnataka
Seven students actively took part in this than 500 ration kits were packed at SJC Veterinary and Fisheries Sciences
drive from the college. and distributed to the people in Anekal. 37 University, were the chief speakers for this
members were part of this activity. webinar on December 19, 2020.

Revelations
Webinars Spread Positivity, Not COVID

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Positivity

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evelations is a gospel fest
conducted by the AICUF unit of uman Rights And Constitutional

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St. Joseph’s College of Commerce. Values: The speaker for this
It was hosted from February 25-26, 2021, webinar on August 2, 2020 his event was conducted on May
for which we had active participation. The was the Chief Justice of the High Court 16, 2021. The coordinator was
24-member team was led by Fabian and Mr.Varghese Kurian. Mohammad Asif. The participants
Dravid under Prem who were the overall Setting Goals and Developing Leadership had to shoot a video of 30-60 seconds.
runners up. Qualities: The speaker for this webinar on In the video students could speak, give a
August 20, 2020, was IPS officer Mr. Ravi D message on Covid awareness, sing a song,
Channavar. The webinar was conducted dance, or any scripted act, etc. There were
Jehoshua via Google meet and was live streamed on a total of 18 submissions.
YouTube.

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ehoshua, an online gospel fest
organised by Christ university, was
conducted on March 21, 2021, for
which six of the students participated with
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Tree Plantation Pakwada Webinar on ‘Fit India

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uploaded their entries under the hashtag
#CYP_YOGA_2020. A total of 25 cadets Movement’
and one ANO participated in this event.
n the eve of June 5, 2020

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World Environment n September 5, 2020 the cadets of
Day,1 KAR ARMD SQN 1 KAR ARMD SQN TP-3 organised
NCC TP-3, St. Joseph’s a webinar to promote the ‘Fit India’
College (Autonomous) campaign that had been launched by
Bengaluru conducted the Honourable Prime Minister, Narendra
Tree Plantation Pakwada with an aim of Modi. This was the first webinar of the Fit
spreading awareness on deforestation, India series conducted by the unit. The
global warming, environmental chief guests for the webinar were Mr.
degradation and other similar problems. Mangal Arambham (Mr. India 2018 and Mr.
Everyone planted one sapling and Asia 2019) and Mr. Songashim Rungsung
encouraged people around them to do (Mega Mr. Northeast 2019 and Rubaru Mr.
the same. The theme for this year’s World India 2020). The event was also attended
Environment Day was ‘Biodiversity’. Amid by the CO, Lt Col. Ajay Khandpal, Sena
pandemic, the cadets took the risk of Medal and the ANO, Lt. Akshay D Mandlik.
educating people on the ill effects of Mr. Arambham and Mr. Songa were both
environmental degradation. The entire ex NCC cadets of the same unit and they
event was held under the guidance of shared several valuable lessons that they
ANO Lt. Akshay D Mandlik. had learnt on fitness and discipline during
their time in the squadron. The two guests
also conducted an interactive session
Webinar on Kargil Vijay Diwas with the participants where they taught
them how to do basic workout moves like

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squats, side planks and mountain climbers.
uly 26, 2020, on the event of the 21st The webinar ended with a Q&A session.
Kargil Vijay Diwas, the NCC unit of
St Joseph’s College (Autonomous),
Bangalore conducted a webinar to
commemorate the event. The cadets of
the 1 KAR ARMD SQN NCC TP – 3 were
present and so was the ANO, Lt. Akshay
D Mandlik. The chief guests for the event
were Major General Shiv Kumar AVSM
International Yoga Day
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moderated by CSM Raksha Krishna, who
n June 21, 2020, 1 KAR ARMD SQN began the event by welcoming the war
TP-3, Group ‘B’, Karnataka and Goa veterans. Major General Shiv Kumar then
Dte., celebrated International Yoga proceeded to talk about the importance
Day. The cadets created digital posters of the day and also shared his experiences
highlighting the importance of yoga in and memories from his time in the defence
contributing to a healthy lifestyle. Cadets force. Col. Anshu Trivedi further led the
also sent videos of them doing various discussion by acquainting the cadets with
yoga asanas along with their family various ways in which they could join the
members and posted them on social defence forces, urging them to work hard
media to create and spread awareness. A to achieve their dreams of donning the
few cadets also took part in the “My Life prestigious uniform one day.
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Karnataka. Both drill and theory sessions
uring the Covid-19 pandemic, were conducted during the three days n March 14, 2021, the annual
the National Cadet Corps under to impart the necessary knowledge of marathon event by the WAAC
the guidance of DG. Lt. Gen. Rajiv NCC to the cadets and prepare them for association at St Joseph's College
Chopra, VSM conducted the “Ex- NCC their upcoming B Cert Examinations. In (Autonomous) was conducted. The cadets
Yogdan” to help people who are deprived addition, information on map reading, of 1 KAR ARMD SQN had been part of the
of basic needs. The cadets and the ANO fieldcraft and battle craft, and weapon organising team for the event. The cadets
were involved in making packets of wheat, training was imparted to the cadets. The were posted at different points along
tea powder, rice, potatoes, and onions, sessions were conducted by the PI staff, the route of the marathon to guide the
following which, this ration was distributed JUO and his team. Lt. Col. Ajay Khandpal participants.
to the people in need for a week. All the (SM), Commanding Officer of the unit and
activities were conducted with utmost Lt. Akshay D Mandlik, ANO of 1 KAR ARMD
care and following the SOP of wearing SQN TP-3 conducted theory classes for
masks, gloves, and social distancing. The the cadets. All the COVID-19 SOPs were Plastic Plog Run
other cadets also underwent the COVID 19 followed during the three-day camp.

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online training program provided by the
n April 13, 2021, the cadets of 1 KAR
Government of India on the iGot platform.
ARMD SQN TP-3 participated in the
The training consisted of DO’s and DON’Ts NAAC Visit "Plastic Plog Run" at Neelasandra.
of protocols while volunteering for the
They picked up the garbage that had been

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exercise.
inappropriately thrown on the side of the
he cadets of 1 KAR ARMD SQN NCC
roads in the neighbourhood and ensured
TP-3 took part in the NAAC visit
that they were disposed off properly. The
organised at St. Joseph's College
cadets also interacted with several of the
of Commerce on February 18, 2021. Mr.
locals to raise awareness of improper
Kinari and Mr. Kashmir Singh from NAAC
waste disposal and urged them to do their
were the chief guests for the day.
part in keeping the environment clean. All
social distancing protocols were strictly
followed during the activity.
War Memorial Cleanliness
Drive
Jallianwala Bagh Homage

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o create awareness and remember
the martyrs, DG NCC hosted a pril 13, 2021, marked the 102nd
cleanliness drive for war memorials, anniversary of the Jallianwala
statues, and monuments being neglected Bagh massacre at Amritsar, where
on March 12, 2021. Sapper War memorial hundreds of innocent souls were brutally
at Brigade Road, Bangalore, is a war murdered by the British Army. It is a day
memorial built in 1928 by the 1st Madras of great grief and is commemorated every
Pioneers of the British Indian Army in the year to remember those individuals who
First World War. lost their lives. The cadets of 1 KAR ARMD
SQN, St Joseph's College (Autonomous),
The names of the martyrs are written paid homage to the lost souls and
on the four sides of the cenotaph. The commemorated the day. They took to
CATC 2021 cadets of 1 KAR ARMD SQN NCC TP-3 the social media platforms to share the
and 9 KARNATAKA BN participated in

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importance of the day.
rom January 29 to 31, 2021, the the cleanliness drive. The event started
Combined Annual Training Camp with the welcoming and briefing of the
(CATC 2021) was held at St. Joseph's cadets and PI staff by Group Commander
College (Autonomous). The camp Col. Harish. The event was highlighted by
commenced at 8:30 am and concluded DDG, Karnataka and Goa directorate, Air
at 5:00 pm every day. Cadets from three Commodore LK Jain.

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Webinar on Youth Synergy: NCC Tika Utsav: COVID at Neelasandra. The cadets assisted the
Mental Health Vaccination Drive officials, thereby recording the names
of the individuals who came for the
vaccination, managing the crowd and

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webinar on "Youth Synergy: s part of the directive issued by ensuring that everyone followed social
Mental Health" was organised by 1 the Hon'ble PM, Tika Utsav was distancing protocols at the venue. The
KAR ARMD SQN NCC TP-3 on April observed by NCC units all over drive ended with 87 individuals being
10, 2021, on Google Meet. The chief guest, the country from April 11 to 14, 2021. vaccinated.
Ms. Kavya BV, Psychologist and Art-based 1 KAR ARMD SQN TP-3, St. Joseph's
Therapist, enlightened the cadets about College (Autonomous) also took part in
the importance of good mental health and the same. Six cadets were employed for
overcoming various mental health issues. COVID Vaccination drive duty on April
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NSS
Unit 1 informed them about the organisation the volunteers about various components
CLAW, whose major focus is people with of blood and terms like ‘immunoglobulin’,
disabilities. Volunteers were enlightened ‘thrombocytopenia’ were explained for
International Day in Support of Torture

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about the importance of trust and sacrifice better scientific understanding. She then
Victims in order to bring about a positive change offered insights on Blood Donor Day
in society. celebrated on June 14, and briefed the
he webinar was held on audience about the regulations proposed
the 26th of June 2020 to by the World Health Organisation for blood
sensitise the audience ‘Wear a Mask’ Campaign donation. Next, Dr. Santosh delved into
about the problems faced in the crisis of the COVID-19 pandemic to talk
society because of torture, The ‘Wear a Mask’ campaign conducted about the mortality rate and how plasma
indifferent treatment, on the 30th of July 2020, aimed at creating therapy has currently been implemented
and oppression. It also highlighted the awareness among people about the to treat people affected by the virus. The
ways to prevent torture. Speakers for importance of wearing a mask during event came to a close with Dr. Fernandes
this session included Ms. Aasha Ramesh, the pandemic. During this campaign, emphasising the importance of mental
Ms. Akkai Padmashali, and Mr. Mathews participants were asked to write an health.
Philip. The discussion revolved around the effective caption to promote wearing
misconception associated with the term masks in any language of their choice. The
torture which is never only physical, how campaign was spread out across various
this act has affected the LGBTQI community parts of the country to ensure maximum
and pushed them to the periphery of participation. It was conducted in public
society, and ideas on prevention of torture places such as streets, traffic signals,
and the legal issues that exist in India. etc., with utmost safety. Videos made
by participants to create this awareness
were posted on the official social media
Kargil Diwas handle of the Unit and winners were given
a certificate of appreciation. Tejaswini K
The webinar was held on the 26th of July stood first while Kevin Roy R stood second.
2020 to commemorate the victory of the Sneha S and Akel Varghese stood third. Webinar on Nuclear Disaster
Indian Army in a war against the Pakistan
troops that lasted for more than 60 days. The webinar was held on the 6th of August
Mr. Ambathy initiated the interaction by 2020, to focus on the deadly effects of
talking about his service and how one Nuclear Power Plants and Nuclear Science
should acknowledge the spirit of the on the environment. Dr. Udayakumar, the
armed forces, and face one’s own life and speaker for the day gave a brief insight
mindset. into the disasters and natural calamities, to
explain their unpredictability. He explained
how their occurrences are reasoned either
by blaming it on natural landscapes, destiny
or on mother nature taking revenge; but
never by the fault of humankind. He talked
Blood Donation, Plasma Donation, and about the Vulnerability Approach and cited
Community Health Awareness Drive examples of the nuclear accidents that
took place in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania,
The webinar was held on the 1st of August and Fukushima Daiichi to reiterate the
2020, to enlighten volunteers about the same point. The economic and political
immediate importance of blood and implications of nuclear energy were also
Mr. Ambathy referred to the spirit of plasma donation, and mental health highlighted. The session enabled volunteers
togetherness and sacrifice in the context during the COVID-19 pandemic. The first to visualize and understand the brutality
of the mindset of the soldiers and speaker, Dr. Maizy Carol Fernandes briefed behind nuclear disasters

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Webinar on Cyber Crimes, Cyberbullying, understand the situation in Kashmir and
and Cyber Laws The webinar was held on the 21st of North Eastern states, to learn about the
August 2020, to create awareness on Child intricacies involved in media publishing,
The webinar held on the 8th of August Abuse and Sexual Harassment and the the consequences of such ambiguous
2020, was aimed at creating awareness ways to handle such heinous situations. processes, and the impact media can have
about cybercrimes and laws pertaining The speaker started off by giving an on an individual and society.
to them. The speaker, Ms. Tanvi Sharma insight into occurrences of child abuse
focused on the current pandemic to understand the psychology of the
situation where people were more prone child. She shared information about the Webinar on Mental Stress and Life
to cybercrimes. She emphasised the Child Help Line number (1098) of India Management
importance of learning cyber laws. Ms. emphasising the importance of seeking
Puspha Achanta shed light on how gender counselling. She concluded her talk by The webinar held on the 30th of August
minorities were victims of online stalking giving insights into POCSO and POSH 2020, was aimed to enlighten the audience
and bullying. Ms. Brindaalakshmi K then Acts. Dr. Saldanha observed case studies about the various ways to counter stress
spoke about the role of social media and that were presented and found that most and maintain mental health, especially
its impacts. The session helped volunteers of them that revolved around women during the pandemic time. Mr. Ravi G.
realise the importance of utilising victims were related to marriage, toxic talked about the adverse impact of social
cyberspace safely and efficiently. masculinity, and in most cases, the abuser distancing and quarantine which has
was an authority figure. The session helped manifested in the form of mental stress in
the volunteers to understand the toxicity the lives of the youth. He emphasised the
of abuse and harassment and the adverse importance of physical exercise, feel-good
effects of such inhuman acts regardless of hormones, a well-balanced diet, intake of
gender. vitamin C through lime and citrus fruits,
taking breaks, staying away from social
media, indulging in recreational activities,
sleep, and laughter. This session helped in
learning about the various types of stress
and ways of countering the same.

Orientation Program
Independence Day Celebrations
The webinar held on the 8th of September
On the occasion of Seventy Fourth 2020, was aimed at briefing the volunteers
Independence Day- 15th of August 2020, about the legacy of the association and
National Service Scheme Wing-1 of St. providing an insight into the proceedings
Joseph’s College (Autonomous) organised of scheduled events. Volunteers shared
various competitions encouraging their experiences of being associated with
students to showcase their skills amidst the association, and its influence on their
the pandemic and kindle their sense Webinar on Impact of Media on Society personal and social life. The newly joined
of patriotism. It was a nationwide volunteers shared their expectations of
competition spread across various states. The webinar was held on the 22nd of the association. The programme officer,
August 2020, to discuss the adverse effects Mr. Selwyn Paul J. briefed the students
of media on society and its consequences. about the association and the activities
The speakers for this event were Ms. for the year. This session enlightened the
Puspha Achanta, Ms. Sanna Irshad Mattoo, freshers about the association in order to
and Ms. Rehman. Ms. Sanna Irshad Mattoo emulate their sense of belongingness in
spoke about her life as a journalist, the the association and contribute to the best
struggles she faced in Kashmir, and the of their abilities.
abrogation of Article 370 which resulted
in a massive blockade of communication.
Ms. Rehman shared her insights on the
misrepresentation and alienation of
Webinar on Child Abuse and Sexual the Northeast in mainstream media.
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Webinar on Building Wealth through He continued with a video presentation, used and their implementation. Training
Stock Market describing the importance of first aid and in handling equipment used for rock
the precautionary measures to be taken. climbing, trekking, and many other
The webinar held on the 11th of September The video also included the golden rules adventurous activities was also given.
2020, was aimed at enlightening the of first aid which were explained in detail "Participants were trained in belaying"
volunteers about the stock market and by the speaker. He also explained the a technique required for rock climbing.
its proceedings. Mr. Bhat commenced right techniques to conduct CPR. This A documentary was screened, and
his talk by enlightening the audience on webinar was enlightening and successful volunteers were briefed about various
some basic terminologies used in stock in providing valuable tips to be followed in initiatives of GETHNAA (General Thimayya
exchange. He shed light on the negative any given medical emergency. National Academy of Adventure).
aspects of stock markets- gambling and
its risk factors. He shared his personal
experience entering the realm of trading, Webinar on Novel Initiatives of State Level NSS Youth Festival
how it served as a learning curve, and how Entrepreneurship
it is essential to understand, analyse and The National Service Scheme Organization
gain proper knowledge of the company The webinar held on the 19th of September of Gulbarga University, Kalaburgi
before investing. The event helped the 2020, was aimed at enlightening the organised various state-level competitions
volunteers to gain deep knowledge about participants on business start-ups and set- for the students belonging to universities
stock market investments. ups, and briefing them about the possible across different cities and states to
ways into successful entrepreneurship. celebrate National Youth Day. From the
Mr. Sanjay, an entrepreneur, spoke about National Service Scheme Wing-1 of St.
the reality of starting a business and the Joseph's College, Autonomous, two
traits of a successful entrepreneur; five volunteers participated in the 4-day-long
main motivators in any business- money, camp held from the 8th of January to the
flexibility, control, teamwork and legacy. 11th of January 2021. The camp included
Mr. Menezes gave a detailed analysis of events like ethnic wear, essay writing, solo
how developing soft skills can help in dance, group singing, drawing, and quiz.
one’s endeavour. He also dug deep into This experience allowed volunteers to
topics such as ways of making oneself as socialise and understand the importance
employable as possible, being professional of team spirit.
while writing resumes, etc. Mr. Bharadwaj
gave the attendees an overview of how
sports enthusiasts can start earning and Swami Vivekananda Jayanti and
have fun at the same time, and also on National Youth Day
First Aid Awareness the importance of a good mentor. The
session enlightened the attendees about The ‘Samartha Bharata' organisation
The webinar was held on the 14th of the possible avenues of exploration, risk- and NSS Unit, Bengaluru City University,
September 2020, to brief the volunteers taking, and the soft skills required to start organised a National Youth day and Swami
about the importance of first aid and a company. Vivekananda Jayanti seminar on the 12th of
its vital role in saving lives. Mr. Sunand January 2021, at Bengaluru City University.
Sampath commenced his talk by The chief guest, Mr. Venkatesh Murthy
explaining the biological factors related to National Youth Festival Climbing addressed the gathering and narrated the
medical emergencies and their treatment. Workshop life history of Swami Vivekananda while
providing a glimpse into the Chicago
The event ‘National Youth Festival meeting. The second guest speaker for
Climbing Workshop’ in collaboration the day, Mr. Tippeswamy highlighted
with ‘Nehru Yuva Kendra Sangathan’ and the excellent deeds and principles of
‘General Thimayya National Academy Swami Vivekananda and enlightened the
of Adventure’ was held on the 2nd of audience with a quote, "Indhina prajegale
January 2020. The event was organised to naleya bavishya." The seminar helped the
build knowledge of sports and adventure volunteers in understanding their roles
among youth and enhance their sportive and duties as citizens of India.
spirit. Participants were divided into
groups and given training in various
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Joseph's College, Autonomous conducted
The ceremonial welcome for the Republic a Collage-Making competition on the
Day celebrations was led by the NCC theme 'Patriotism' on the 26th of January
cadets. The Principal inspected the NCC 2021, while strictly adhering to the SOP
troops whose cadets were in uniform listed by the college. The event aimed
and the NSS volunteers upon his arrival to bring out the feeling of patriotism
at the venue. A solemn ceremony was towards the nation in an artistic manner.
held where the Principal conferred ranks The competition winners were Sathya S
on the NCC cadets of 1 Karnataka Armed and Manish Sunnur in the first place and
Squadron and 1 Karnataka Air Squadron. Prakruthi GP and Manoj S Javali in second
Dr. (Fr.) Victor Lobo S.J. delivered a powerful place.
message bringing to light society's
actual reality and encouraging pupils World Cancer Day event
for their dedicated service. The Principal Human Rights Disclosure
was escorted back to his chamber by
the honourary representatives and the The webinar on Human Rights Disclosure The event, held from the 4th of February
volunteers of various associations bringing was conducted on the 30th of January 2021 to the 6th of February 2021, aimed
the formal event to its conclusion. The NCC 2020. The speaker for the day was Mr. Henri at spreading awareness about cancer
cadets and the NSS volunteers on special Tiphagne, Executive Director of People's and its different types. The volunteers
duty were assigned to guard the National Watch and the Chairperson of FORUM- were asked to spread awareness about
Flag. At around 6:00 pm the Protocol ASIA, Bangkok. Mr. Tiphagne stressed cancer using creative means like making
Officer lowered the National Flag and the values that Gandhiji stood for and posters, reaching out to people in old-age
handed it over to NCC for safe custody. expressed how important it was, especially homes, orphanages, public parks, etc. This
now, for the nation's people to remember event was crucial in allowing volunteers
and act on those principles. He talked to gather knowledge about cancer, bust
about the need to uphold the fundamental myths about the same, and carry forward
rights and regulations crucial in expressing the learned facts to friends, family, and
political freedom. He then spoke about the other members of the society.
problems in an eggshell democracy where
fundamental rights are under threat. The
webinar successfully allowed volunteers to Inauguration of NSS Wing-1
think over some crucial aspects of freedom,
non-violence, and justice. The inaugural ceremony of NSS Wing-
1 of St. Joseph's College, Autonomous,
was conducted on the 13th of February
Aero India 2021 2021. The eminent speakers of the day
Collage Making were Mr. Sunand Sampath, Professional
This event was conducted from the 1st Trainer (Indian Red Cross Society and
of February 2021 to the 5th of February Karnataka Civil Defence), and Fr. Dr. Denzil
2021. The theme of the 13th edition was Lobo SJ, IT Director, St. Joseph's College
Atma Nirbhar Bharat, inspired by the (Autonomous), Bengaluru. Mr. Sampath
clarion call of Atmanirbharbharat by the spoke about the importance and benefits
Honourable Prime Minister. Binding to of volunteering. He also spoke about civil
this theme, the flying display featured defence, how volunteers in it strive towards
formations showcasing India's cutting- bringing changes in society, and how civil
edge technology and capabilities in the defence is a volunteer-based emergency
aerospace sector. The first two days of response organization supporting the
the event were preceded by a detailed frontline emergency services. Rev. Fr. Dr.
briefing on the event and the allotment Denzil Lobo SJ then spoke about the origin
of volunteers to various fields of work. The of NSS stressing on the motto, ‘Not me but
volunteers were allowed to experience you.’ The executives of the year 2020-21
the trial of the Air show and explore were also honoured with their badges by
the Air Station which hosted an array of Fr. Dr. Denzil Lobo. The volunteers present
aeronautical exhibitions and emporiums. in the hall took an oath to fulfil their

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duties as NSS volunteers and take on new Importance of Democracy and Child Rights, National Commission for
responsibilities and roles. The event ended Constitutional Rights Minorities, National Commission for
with the release of the 2019-20 magazine. Backward Classes, National Commission
The session was conducted on the 20th of for Scheduled Castes, and National
February 2021, and aimed at conveying the Commission for Scheduled Tribes. This
Golden Hour and First aid meaning and importance of democracy session was crucial in helping volunteers
and constitutional rights. The guest understand the vitality of the role of civil
The session held on the 13th of February speaker for the day, Mr. Najunda Gowda society as the third sector.
2021, focused on the importance of the posed a series of questions for attendees to
golden hour following a traumatic injury. ponder over and provided in-depth insight
The session aimed to impart knowledge into the importance that democracy Development and Sustainability Conflict
about the immediate care that should be holds in molding people into responsible
provided to a person who is injured or ill and sensible citizens. He spoke about The session aimed to enlighten volunteers
until full medical treatment is available the factors that act as hindrances to the on sustainable living, intergenerational,
in the form of first-aid. The guest speaker constitution – corruption, communalism, and intragenerational sustainability,
for the session was Mr. Sunand Sampath, and casteism. He then went on to talk the obstacles in the process, and the
Professional Trainer (Indian Red Cross about certain barriers which obstruct the dangers of ignoring such a lifestyle. It was
Society and Karnataka Civil Defence). smooth functioning of democracy. The conducted on the 27th of February 2021,
session was informative and useful for on MS Teams with Dr. P U Antony, Retired
volunteers as the nation's future leaders in Professor of Zoology, Christ (Deemed to
realising their roles in the decision-making be University), Bengaluru as the guest
process. speaker for the day. Dr. Antony began
his talk by stressing the meaning and
definition of sustainability as stated by
the UN. He further discussed sustainability
in the Indian context and the easing of
green norms that covered topics like mine
development plan supplemented with
an afforestation component, incentives
for growing forests in private land,
reconstitution of National Board forWildlife,
etc. Dr. Antony also talked about the lack of
implementation of sustainability at various
levels-schools, religions, tourism, social
systems, transportation, and the power
sector. This webinar equipped volunteers
In addition, Mr. Sampath is a Certified with knowledge on various aspects of
Executive and Life Coach, Wilderness First Human Rights Discourse sustainability and how development is
Responder, Transactional Analyser, and truly possible only when the long-term
experienced in Play for Peace Methodology, The session aimed to convey the meaning effects are kept in mind.
Raccoon Circles Methodologies, Advanced of National Human Rights Institutions,
Pranic Healing, and Pranic Psychotherapy. the framework for evaluating the same,
He elucidated on the vitality of being alert and the challenges in HRI. Held on the
and looking out for danger, bringing out 26th of February 2021, on MS teams, the
the different principles of administering session elaborated the role of civil society
basic first-aid like taking immediate action, in overcoming those challenges. Dr. YSR
calming down the situation, and calling Murthy, Vice-Chancellor of RV University,
for medical assistance. This session was Bengaluru, began by elucidating on
crucial for volunteers in understanding the the several national and state human
importance of administering first-aid and rights institutions that have been
increasing the chances of saving people created to protect human rights and
by acting fast in the first 60 minutes of an investigate human rights violations, such
injury. as National Human Rights Commission,
National Commission for Women,
National Commission for Protection of

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Anti-Plastic Drive Personality Development – a spirited spread information about this initiative to
journey encourage more people to do the same.
The Anti-Plastic drive was conducted
on the 6th of March 2021, on the Bilikal- Mr. Debabrata Dutta Choudhury, a
Jawalgiri Elephant Corridor. The volunteers freelance corporate trainer and life coach, Human Rights: Origin, Evolution, and
were joined by a few members of the gave a talk on personality development Relevance in the Era of Globalisation
A Rocha India team and were briefed on the 15th of March 15 2021. The session
about the location and the work by the started with Mr. Choudhury talking about The session on the 31st of March 2021,
Forest DRDO Officer of Bilikal and the his life. He emphasised on the notion of aimed to examine the role of human
event coordinator for the day. Volunteers not knowing what to do and being okay rights and their relevance in the era of
were divided into groups to collect plastic with that. He stated that peer pressure, globalisation. The speaker for the day,
waste. This event was crucial for volunteers external factors, and the human-made Dr. Harsh Dobhal, Professor at Doon
in understanding the importance of waste environment that is built around people University shed light on the meaning of
management and forest protection. are factors that push them into thinking human rights, its origin, and the current
that they are compelled to do certain stance of the world on human rights. He
things. This event helped students to learn spoke about the role of human rights
how to cope with challenges in life. activists – how they are viewed and
about the stereotypes revolving around
them. The session was crucial in enabling
Clean-up and Pilot Project Work volunteers to know about human rights,
its origin, how their narrative has evolved,
Mr. Mohammed Moeen, an alumnus of and their importance in the current era of
the college was the speaker for this event globalization.
held on the 20th of March 2021. He talk
focussed on the hazards of plastic. After
the talk, the volunteers were divided Annual Rural Camp
into teams and were asked to collect a
minimum of ten plastic articles from the The annual rural camp of NSS was
Survey of Slum college campus to make 3-D models. conducted from the 10th of April 2021 to
They were also required to talk about the the 18th of April 2021, at Hanabe Village,
This survey was conducted on the 12th of articles' hazards and suggest alternatives Doddaballapura Taluk, Bengaluru Rural
March 2021, at Vincent House, Cooke Town. for the same. The session concluded with District, Karnataka. The camp aimed at
The volunteers were first briefed about a promise that each one will reduce the exposing rural lifestyle and inculcating
the purpose of the survey by the Program use of plastic in their day-to-day life and values of discipline and time management
Officer. Next, the founder of JFC, Mr. convince the people around to do the among volunteers. It was led by the
Umesh, took over the session to explain to same. Programme Officer, Mr. Selwyn Paul J.
the volunteers the problems people faced Volunteers were divided into teams to
living in slums, their living conditions, and take up the responsibility of different
socio-economic issues. This was followed Water Bowls for Animals and Birds committees- Mess, Timekeeping, Project,
by Sister Selena’s address who gave an Cultural, Cleaning, Housekeeping and
overview of her experience with taking The session on the 27th of March 2021, Documentation. The schedule for
care of children who lived in slums. conducted in Xavier Hall, aimed to throw volunteers to follow included yoga,
light on the importance of providing water meditation and exercises, manual work,
The volunteers collected data including to birds and animals, especially during the and other group activities. The cultural
name, contact details, employment summer season. The chief guest for the day programmes that were conducted
details, schooling for children, tobacco was Mr. Sunny Jain from the organisation this year covered themes such as child
consumption, general problems, Water for Voiceless (WFV). Mr. Sunny marriage and child labour, the relevance of
hindrances, etc. This event enabled shared his story on how WFV took shape digital media in rural India, the importance
volunteers to understand the ground as an organisation in 2015 that stemmed of Covid vaccination, discrimination based
reality of people living in slum areas from the thought of helping animals. A on caste, the life of Dr. B R Ambedkar and
through active interaction and photography competition was organised many others through skits, street plays,
observation. that required volunteers to click pictures and dance-dramas.
of birds and animals drinking water from
the pots. They were asked to share these On the last day of the camp, a few campers
videos on social media platforms to were appreciated for leaving behind a

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mark during their tenure as campers: the 6th of July 2020. awareness on cancer and how to prevent it.
A similar event was held on the 2nd of Yet another poster making event was held
Best Camper: Pavan Kumar VJ – II BCA December 2020, and was organized by on the 4th, December 2020, organized by
Best Team Leader: Sandhya Murthy - I CMS the General Secretary, Karthikeyan. It was Archana of the documentation team to
Best Team: Ee Sala Cup Namde conducted to discuss public interest in create awareness about Child Rights.
Best Entertainer: Leo Samuel Gilbert - I BCA educational rights.
Best Gatekeeper: Alphonsa Paul -I EMS
Appreciation awards: Bharath B -II CEB, On the 3rd of December 2020, on Independence Day
Pavan Kumar M - III PEM the occasion of World Disability Day
coordinator Cavin organized a similar A representative from each of the NSS
This rural camp was instrumental in event to create awareness on how disabled units was in charge of bringing the flag
exploring the latent potential among the people coped with everyday challenges. along with the coordinators from the
campers, building leaders, emphasizing On the 5th of December 2020, Neha of office to the flag hoist. At 8:45 AM the
the dignity of labor and self-help, and the the media team organized a video making flag was hoisted. Each representative of
need for combining physical work with event to create awareness among women an association greeted Fr. Principal and Fr.
intellectual pursuits. of their rights, and how to claim them Rector, who addressed the crowd present.
when needed. The annual achievements by the students
Human Rights Discourse on Dr. BR were read out by Prof. Anuplal. According
Ambedkar and his contributions to Indian On the 6th of December 2020, General to the protocol from higher authorities,
society Secretary Shobitha conducted a similar NSS volunteers were in charge of guarding
The session organised on the 31st of April event to recognize the right to information the flag till the flag was lowered. At 6:00 PM
2021, aimed at bringing awareness about of the public. the flag was lowered by NCC cadets and
Dr. Ambedkar and his contributions to moved to a safe place. The entire program
the Indian society. Mr. Arvind Narain, Webinar on Social Media as an Instrument was broadcast live through Instagram.
lawyer, writer, and research scholar at The The webinar was organized on the 18th of
National Law School of India University, July 2020. The session was hosted by John
Bengaluru spoke about Dr. B R Ambedkar’s Isaac (alumni and volunteer) to create Your Creativity
ideologies and his campaign against social awareness about the pros and cons of
discrimination towards the Dalits. He social media in contemporary times. This event was organized on the 18th of
also spoke about Article 17 of the Indian August 2020. This event was conducted
constitution-abolition of untouchability. Webinar on Human Trafficking to know how our volunteers spent their
Mr. Narain talked about how Dr. Ambedkar This event was conducted on the 30th time during this pandemic and how
believed that the constitution should not of July 2020. This was an inter-collegiate well they were feeling in the lockdown.
just exist, but should also advocate and that event where more than 17 colleges took The volunteers had to write down in a
liberty and equality cannot be achieved part. The event was organized to depict paragraph/poem/drawing about their
unless fraternity is taken seriously. The how human trafficking was done, what experiences in the lockdown creatively.
talk concluded by throwing light on Dr its effects were, and what steps can be
Ambedkar’s concept of Constitutional taken to prevent this from happening. A
Morality. This session was instrumental in video was played depicting the reality of Webinar on Pornography Addiction
conveying some important information the trafficked victims. The speaker, Ms.
about the life, struggles, and ideals of Dr. Santa Sylvia, shared her own experience of This event was organized on the 20th of
Babasaheb Ambedkar. rescuing the victims. August 2020. The session was an interactive
one where pornography addiction was
discussed--its causes, symptoms and the
Poster Making process of addiction. A documentary
Unit 2 related to it was also played.
This event was organized on the 8th,
August 2020. It was conducted to create
Video Making awareness about certain safety measures Orientation for First-Year students

T
to be taken in the pandemic. Volunteers
his event was organized on the 3rd were asked to come up with quotes This event was organized on the 1st of
of July 2020, as an inaugural event. and hashtags on these measures using October 2020, to orient the new students
The volunteers had a choice to posters. Another poster making event about the activities of the NSS. Mr. Prasad,
speak for or against the given topic. Videos was conducted on the 6th, November the coordinator, briefed the students about
of the participants were to be submitted to 2020. The event was organized to create the agenda, goals, motto, and rules of the
the committee members before 8 pm on

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NSS. A presentation of the past events was organ donation is, and the speaker of This event was held on the 1st of
made by Someshekar. the session, Dr. Ranjini, Project Manager, December 2020, organized by Sneha of
Mohan Foundation, explained the topic the documentation team. This event was
“Live Life, Give Life”. She spoke about how held to create awareness about AIDS.
Food for Needy one can save others by donating organs to This event was held again on the 7th of
those in need. It was an informative and December 2020, organized by Cultural
This event was organized on the 6th interactive session. Secretary, Pallavi. The volunteers were
of September, 2020. This event was instructed to do hand paintings, face
conducted to encourage volunteers to paintings, or crossdress in order to create
feed the needy. The food was prepared by Gandhi Jayanthi Day Quiz awareness on the Rights of Transgenders.
the volunteers and given to those in need,
especially those affected by the pandemic. This event was conducted on the 2nd of
October 2020, on the occasion of Gandhi Webinar on Dalit Rights
Jayanthi. 15 questions were sent through a
google form and 15 minutes were allotted This event was conducted on the 8th of
to finish the quiz. This was done to know December 2020, organized by outreach
how much knowledge people have on the head, Abhishek. The speaker of the event
Father of the Nation. was Rev. Immanuel Nehemiah who threw
light on the rights of Dalits.

Chart Making
Light a Candle
This event was conducted on the 16th
of October 2020. Topics were assigned This event was held on the 10th of
to volunteers, and they made charts December, 2020, organised by media
depicting their views on poverty. Another head, Preranika. To culminate the ‘Human
chart making event was conducted on Rights Week’ volunteers were instructed to
the 30th of October 2020. The volunteers light a candle for the awareness of various
worked on charts centred around bringing rights
awareness on drug abuse.
Another chart making event was held
on the 9th of December 2020, organized
by documentation head, Sampath. This
event was organized to create awareness
on the wastage of food and its preventive
methods.

Face Painting

Caption Making

This event was organized on the 13th of

September 2020. It was an initiative to
bring awareness on the need to conserve
nature. Captions were made denoting
various ways to protect nature.
Webinar on Run-through Rights Week

Webinar on Organ Donation This event was held on the 10th of

December 2020. The speaker, Dr. Suresh
This event was conducted on the 27th of Kammar, Human Rights defender,
September 2020, in collaboration with explained the different rights for humans.
Mohan Foundation. This webinar was
conducted to get a brief idea about what

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Webinar on Cancer Prevention and Group Activity on Social Causes
Healthy Lifestyle
This event was conducted on the 5th of
This event was conducted on the 13th March 2021. Volunteers were divided
of February 2021, in collaboration into groups and assigned a social cause.
with Sanjeevani- Life Beyond Cancer. They were instructed to enact the cause,
E-Certificates were given to the showing how to overcome the effects of it.
participants. This was an informative
session where the speaker informed Campus Cleaning
students about cancer and its prevention.
This event was held on the 7th of March
2021. Volunteers were divided into groups
and assigned a specific site to be cleaned.
Refreshments were provided at the end of
the session.

Session on Self-defence

This event was held on the 9th of March

2021. Volunteers were taught a few self-
defending techniques by the trainees and
how to react if any trouble was caused.
Session on Child Abortion and
Discrimination

This event was conducted on the 20th

of February 2021. This was the first
offline event conducted by the unit, in
collaboration with various NGOs. A rally
was conducted from Holy Trinity Church,
where volunteers held placards advocating
against abortion and discrimination. All
COVID protocols were strictly followed.

Webinar on Social Justice

This event was conducted on the 21st of

February 2021, in collaboration with Jyothi
Nivas College. This was a session on social
justice in the Indian context, with regard to
society and gender.

Rally for Awareness on Child Rights

This event was held on the 28th of

February 2021. A rally was conducted
from War Memorial, Brigade Road where
volunteers held placards advocating for
the awareness of child rights.

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IQAC

T
he following were the A National level 7-Day Online Workshop College (Autonomous), Bengaluru” to
activities conducted by the on “Revised NAAC Norms and Procedures” the International Association of Jesuit
Internal Quality Assurance was organised under the Aegis of the Universities (IAJU) in January 2021. The
Cell (IQAC) for the UGC Scheme – PARAMARSH from 7th of article was selected and published in the
academic year 2020-2021. January 2021 to 15th of January 2021. first edition of the IAJU Online Quarterly
A webinar titled “NAAC- Newsletter that addressed the themes
Quality Assurance in Higher Education” A webinar titled “Effective documentation” of “Pedagogical Innovation and Ignatian
was organized on 15th of December and “Auditing (Academic, Administrative Pedagogy” in May 2021.
2020 under the aegis of UGC Scheme- and Green Audit)” was organized on 11th
PARAMARSH. of April 2021 under the aegis of UGC
Scheme-PARAMARSH.
A workshop on National Institutional
Ranking Framework (NIRF) - Strategic Internal Quality Assurance Cell (IQAC)
Implementation and its Nuances” was played a major role in submission of an
organized on 30th of December 2020 . article on “Best Practices of St. Joseph’s

Participation in NIRF 2021

Participation in India Today Ranking and

the college has secured the following at
the National Level.

YEAR Arts Science BCA Commerce MSW Mass Communication

2021 16 14 5 44 22 17

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Participation in The Week-Hansa
Research Survey 2021

The Internal Quality Assurance Cell (IQAC)

also played a pivotal role in submission
of nominations for the BEST PRINCIPAL
AWARD FOR THE YEAR 2020-21 to All
India Association for Christian Higher
Education (AIACHE). Fr. Dr. Victor Lobo, S.J.
was selected as one of the recipients of the
Best Principal Award for the year 2020-21
by AIACHE.

Meetings & other Dr. Syed Wajeed’s contribution Resource person for the webinar organised
Important Activities as a Resource Person: by St Paul’s College (Autonomous) in
association with Mount Carmel College

D D
(Autonomous), Bengaluru on 15th of June
r. Fr. Victor Lobo SJ, Dr. Syed r. Syed Wajeed served as a resource 2020 – Topic : “Outcome based education:
Wajeed and Dr. Alan Godfrey person for the following events: Principles and its Process”
served as speakers in the NAAC
Sponsored webinar series titled “Engaging Speaker at two days State level workshop Resource person for two days National
Minds and Hearts - Research, Extension on NAAC metrics for Quality Assurance level online FDP on Quality Assurance
and Education" on the 29th of July 2020. organised under the UGC Paramarsh in Higher Education on 19th of June
Scheme by Sadaqathulla Appa College, 2020 organised by Annai Hajira Women’s
The Internal Quality Assurance Cell Tirunelveli, Tamilnadu on the 7th of March College, Melapalayam, Tirunelveli.
2020. The topic was “Institutional Values
(IQAC) organised meetings with the IQAC
and Best Practices”. Resource person for the webinar
Core Committee, NIRF Team, Criteria
Coordinators and the extended team to organised by BET Sadathunnisa Degree
Resource Person for the Five-Day online College, Bengaluru on the topic “Ensuring
ensure smooth functioning of the IQAC Faculty Development Program on "NAAC:
activities. Educational Certainty during Uncertain
Revised Accreditation Framework – Issues
times” on 4th of July 2020.
and Challenges" Organized by IQAC,
Meeting with class mentors in coordination Sri Krishna Arts and Science College,
with Ms. Nisha Menzies Rao was organised Coimbatore Under UGC Paramarsh Resource person for the webinar
on 11th of November 2020 to discuss the Scheme from 25th to 30th of April 2020. “Innovations and Best Practices in Higher
various aspects of Student Progression and Education” organised by Hindustan
give clarity about the Student Progression Resource person for the UGC Sponsored College of Arts and Science, Coimbatore
data template towards the National National Webinar Series at St. Teresa’s and MHRD’s Institutions Innovation Cell on
Institutional Ranking Framework (NIRF). College (Autonomous), Ernakulum: 16th of July 2020.
Topic: Criteria V - Student Support and
Introductory meeting was organised Progression, organised by the IQAC “Implementation of OBE to Enhance
with the Mentee institutions on the (mentee institution) under the UGC quality of HEIs” (Phase 1), organised by Sri
1st of December 2020 to kickstart the PARAMARSH Scheme on 16th of May Ramakrishna College of Arts and Science,
PARAMARSH Activities. 2020. Coimbatore on 18th of July 2020. The
topic dealt was “Innovations in Classroom

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teaching and Laboratory work required for Education Institution organised in "Outcome Based Curriculum Planning,
OBE”. collaboration with NSS Training College, Mapping and Measurement, (Phase 2)
Pandalam, Kerala from 19th to 25th organised by School of Management, Sri
Resource person for the Webinar on “Best of November 2020. Dr Syed Wajeed Krishna College of Technology, Coimbatore
Practices, Engaging Minds and Hearts presented a two-hour lecture on the topic on 5th January 2021. The topic dealt was
–Research, Extension and Education”, “Curricular Aspects” and provided insights “IQAC quality initiatives and Best practices”.
jointly organized by National Assessment on various key metrics pertaining to the
and Accreditation Council (NAAC) and Criterion-Curricular Aspects. Dr. Syed Wajeed served as a moderator on
St. Joseph’s College (Autonomous), the 7th day of National level 7-Day Online
Bengaluru on 29th of July 2020. Resource person for the National Level Workshop on “Revised NAAC Norms and
Seven Day Online Symposium on National Procedures” organised by the Internal
Panellist for Quality Improvement in Assessment and Accreditation Process Quality Assurance Cell (IQAC), St. Joseph’s
Higher Education Post Covid -19 Era dated 26th of November 2020, Topic: College (Autonomous), Bengaluru under
organized by Campus Technology on 1st Criteria 4 – “Infrastructure and Learning the Aegis of the UGC Scheme – PARAMARSH
of August 2020. Resources” organised by BMS College for from 7th to 15th of January 2021.
Women, Bengaluru.
Resource person for two days National Resource person for the National level
webinar-NAAC Accreditation: Prospects Resource person for the AICTE sponsored Seminar “Challenges in Revised NAAC
and Retrospect’s organized by Thiruvalluvar online Short-Term Training Programme Assessment and Accreditation Framework”
College Papanasam, Tirunelveli, Tamilnadu "Outcome Based Curriculum Planning, on 13th of February 2021 sponsored by "The
on the topic “Best Practices in Higher Mapping and Measurement, (Phase 1) National Assessment and Accreditation
Education” on 6th of August 2020. organised by School of Management, Council, Bangalore" and organised by
Sri Krishna College of Technology, and Marudhar Kesari Jain College for Women,
Resource person for Tamil Nadu Teachers Coimbatore on 1st of December 2020. Vaniyambadi.
Education Society, Chennai, for the The topic dealt was “Curricular aspects of
National Level E-Faculty Development Outcome Based Curriculum”. Resource person for the National conference
Programme on Revised NAAC Assessment Resource person for the AICTE sponsored “Quality measures to be adopted by HEI’s–
and Accreditation Framework for Teacher online Short-Term Training Programme topic of deliberation was “Approaches to

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build teacher profile & enhance quality, Curriculum Development in Autonomous
organised by Garden City University on Institution of Higher Learning", on 23rd of Resource person for a webinar on
26th of February 2021. April 2021 via Google meet organised by "Outcome Based Education” dated 31st of
Maharani Lakshmi Ammanni College for July 2021 organised by Marudhar Kesari
Resource person for the webinar on Women, Malleshwaram, Bengaluru. Jain College for Women, Vaniyambadi
"Brainstorming on assessment and
accreditation framework of NAAC" on 13th Resource person for a 4-day National He was a member Coordinator of
of March 2021, sponsored by "The National Level Faculty Development Webinar on Academic and Administrative Committee
Assessment and Accreditation Council, "Revised NAAC Accreditation Framework of National College (Autonomous),
on Bangalore" organised by Padmashree Perceptions” from 12th to 15th of May Jayanagar, Bangalore on 11th of August
Institute of Management and Sciences, 2021 organised by the Department of 2021.
Bengaluru. Computer Science, G.T.N. Arts College
(Autonomous), Dindigul, Tamilnadu. Resource person for the National
Resource person at The Oxford College of Webinar on “Learning Outcomes-Based
Business Management, Bengaluru to the Resource person for National Level Curriculum Framework (LOCF)” organised
Virtual Faculty Development Programme Webinar organised by St. Joseph’s First by Muthurangam Govt. Arts College (A),
on "Revised NAAC Framework” from 29th Grade College, Hunsur on 17th of June Vellore-02, Tamil Nadu on 14th of August
of March to 3rd of April 2021. Dr Syed 2021. 2021.
Wajeed presented his deliberation on
Criterion – III: Research, Innovations and Resource person for UBCHEA Sponsored
Extension and Criterion – IV: Infrastructure Three Day Workshop on Academic and
and Learning Resources of the NAAC Administrative Auditing in Pursuit of
Assessment procedures. Excellence in Higher Education organised
Resource person for a talk on "Electives- by Bishop Heber College (Autonomous),
a Learner Centric Approach towards Trichy on 25th of June 2021.

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JOSEPHITE
RESEARCH FORUM

T
he Josephite Research ‘The How of Research’ workshop which collate, read and understand research
Forum held its inaugural was held for 8 weeks saw participation articles, write a review of literature, plan
meeting on the 2nd of of 71 students in 24 teams. 13 faculty experiments and think about budget and
September 2020. First year members from across different a plan B. Twenty-four teams submitted
students were welcomed departments participated as supervisors research proposals, which were then
to the research forum and guided students as they converted evaluated and scored by internal/external
on this day. The guest speakers were a research idea into a doable research evaluators. The following are the research
Nithin K.V., from the PCM class of 2014- proposal. Supervisors met with the proposals submitted by various student
17, and Yashita Girhotra from CBBT class students regularly and had discussions teams reflecting a wide variety of interests
of 2015-18, both of them JRF alumni, and presentations as they learnt how to across many disciplines.
talked about their experiences of being
part of the forum. Teresa Fernandez and
Sreya Mandal, of III CZBT and Hariharan S
and Anandhu UK of III PCM class shared
their research work that they presented
at the Azim Premji University’s Student
Undergraduate Research Conference.

This year, they had student talks by Niharika

Sharma and Neha Jain of I BBA on ‘The
Financial impact of COVID-19 pandemic
in the manufacturing sector of India’,
Harshita Tater and Srushti R. of I BBZ about
‘Neural disorders and nerve regeneration’,
Nikitha D. of II CZBT on 'Space Biology',
and Aryaman Sharma of I EMS about the
'Cardinal Approach to Infinity',
With an abundance of high-quality online
talks and webinars available, the Forum
decided to focus on having conversations
around what research means and to
give undergraduate students a better
understanding of some of the nuances
of conducting research. The JRF held a
workshop on ‘The How of Research’ for
undergraduate students. As prelude
to the workshop a comprehensive
and insightful talk was conducted on
'Navigating the maze of research articles'
by Dr. Saurabh Mahajan of Atria University.
Sneha Hariharan of II PCM also gave a very
thorough talk on 'How to use Mendeley for
Reference Management'.

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# Team Members Title of Research Proposal Supervisor/s External Evalu-
ator
1 S R Tarun(18PEM22068), The influence of environmental Dr. Sandra Dr. Putul Banerjee
Chaitanya factors on the onset of the Misquith,
Sampara(18PEM22062) bipolar disorder. Dr. Susan Mary
Philip
2 Shreeja R (19CBT36042), Sona The influence of environmental Dr. Sandra Dr. Putul Banerjee
Saju(19CBT36045), Pooja Raju factors on the onset of the Misquith,
Ganvir (19CBT36048) bipolar disorder. Dr. Susan Mary
Philip
3 Ramya Electrochemical sensors for Dr. Ozma Jane Dr. Anchal Singhal
Rajendran(17CBZ31047), heavy metal detection in D'Souza
Madhumita B A(18CBZ31001), drinking water
Asha Lakshmana (18CBZ31022)
4 Moumita Mandal (20CBT01), Bioluminescent Glow Sticks Dr. Susan Mary Dr. Santosh
Vishesh Asnani (20CBT06), Ryan using Quorum Sensing of Philip and Dr. Jagadeeshan
Pathak (20CBT15), Siddarth Aliivibrio fischeri Sandra Misquith
John (20CBT30)
5 Dirghayu Joshi (20BCAA69) Creativity in the field of AI Ms. Aparna MC Bojamma A M
Trevis Chang Fei Liu
(20BCAA19)
6 Shashank A (20PCM33), Manav Reduction of time complexity Ms. Aparna M C Bojamma A M
Madan Rawal (20PCM53), in linear and multilinear games
Balayogan S (20PCM07)
7 Ajith Kumar K (19CBT36027), Targeted therapeutic action Dr. Santhosh Dr. Nirmalya Basu
Lakshmikanth M against mutated Ras oncogene Jagadeeshan
(19CBT36047), Samanvitha in human colorectal cancer
K N (19CZBT37051), Tejas
V (19CBT36031)
Targeted therapeutic action
against mutated Ras oncogene
in human colorectal cancer
Dr. Santhosh Jagadeeshan
Dr. Nirmalya Basu

8 Shan Ahmed- 19EJP15009, Impact of parental stress Ms. Nisha Ami Joshi
Ancy Wilson- 15047, Chelsea levels on parent-adolescent Menzies Rao
Jaison- 19EJP15044 relationship

9 Ashitha B A (19CBZ31034), Study of the synergistic Dr. Susan Mary Dr. Reeteka Sud,
Nagapriya K A (19CBZ31029), antibacterial interaction Philip and Dr. NIMHANS
Aishwarya D R (19CBZ31037), between flavonoids extracted Sandra Misquith
Sathvik G (19CBZ31038) from Punica granatum
and antibiotics against
multidrug-resistant Klebsiella
pneumoniae

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 10 Medha M Savkur Evaluating antibacterial Dr. Santosh Dr. Sandra Mis-
(18MCB34009) properties of honey pro- Jagadeeshan quith
Trusha S Maakam
duced by different bee
(19MCB34005)
Raicha Punnamattam species
(19MCB34010)
Apeksha V (19MCB34024)
11 Nikhitha D (19CZBT37043), Protein interaction networks to Dr. Sandra Mis- Dr. Santosh
Ganesh Desai (19CBT36059) understand mitochondrial dys- quith, Dr. Susan Jagadeeshan
function in Alzheimer’s disease. Mary Philip.

12 LIKHITH.J(20PCM28) Green synthesis of functional Dr. Anchal Sin- Dr. Ozma Jane
aldehydes and their applica- ghal D'Souza
tions.
13 Prithvin Aman Bhasker, Study of micro-organisms and Dr. Putul Baner- Dr. Santosh
20CZBT33. sequencing of genes relating jee Jagadeeshan
Dharshana Guru Raghaven- to Crohn's disease.
dran, 20CZBT48.
14 Akilakarani 20CZBT10 Effects of pollutants on de- Dr Putul Baner- Dr. Susan Mary
Vidyashree s 20CZBT20 velopment of gonads using jee Philip
Vidhyulekha 20CZBT01 zebrafish as model
Monisha 20CZBT21
15 Sheetal Kooduvalli - Development of pancreatic-be- Dr. Putul Baner- Dr. Sandra Mis-
19CZBT37014 ta cells jee quith
S Sneha Keren - 19CZBT37010
Melita Pearl Cardoza -
19CZBT37027
16 Aditi Chawla (19EJP15035) The Nature of the Relationship Ms. Nisha Men- Ms. Ami Joshi
Adithi SS (19EJP15020) between Intelligence and zies Rao
Prejudice
17 Ajay Vikram (19CEZ33035) Genetic Modification of Arthro- Dr. Nirmalya Dr. Susan Mary
Keerthana G (19CBZ31033) bacter as a potential bio-con- Basu Philip
trol agent against the Desert
Locust.
18 Anusha Kulkarni (20EMS15), Fiscal and Monetary policies Dr. Tulika Bhat- Dr. Padmaja Pan-
Garvika Singh Rajawat adopted by India and the tacharya charatnam
(20EMS31), Gretel Anusha world to tackle Covid-19 - A
D’Souza (20EMS35), Ananya comparative analysis
Banerjee (20EMS66)
19 R Rohan Chakravarthy Modelling of Human Locomo- Mr. Susobhan Dr. Raisa D'souza
(18PEM22007), Amith S tion Mazumdar
Gowtham (18PEM22019), Areta
Benjamin (18PEM22035)

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 20 Aryaman Sharma (20EMS16) Brocard’s Conjecture Mr. Susobhan Dr.Suhas B N
, NagaYasaswini (20EMS38), Mazumdar
Anushka Sarkar (20EMS07) ,
Mohan Raju (19EMS25064)
21 Tina Dokaniya(20EMS29), Studying the trends of e-com- Dr. Tulika Bhat- Dr. Padmaja Pan-
Kesar Kohli(20EMS43), Khushi merce and consumer be- tacharya charatnam
Shah(20EMS45), Ananya Srini- haviour during the pandemic
vasan(20EMS56) in Urban India.
22 Bhuvan Kashyap - 20EMS20 Blockchain and Rural India Dr. Tulika Bhat- Dr. Padmaja Pan-
Adithya Prakash - 20EMS23 tacharya charatnam
23 Prakruthi M - 19PCM21058 , Reducing toxicity of Nanopar- Dr. Vignesh G Dr. Lora Goveas
Vishaak K B - 19PCM21054 , ticles for better and safe Brain
Aditi Udupa - 19PCM21006 imaging
24 Disha shankara (20PCM05) Magnetic effects on Habitabili- Dr. Rabbi Akkiba Dr. Lora Goveas
Juanita Earlyn Andrew ty of red dwarf
(20PCM31)
Aishwarya G (20PCM54)

Student presentations on the forum heal wounds?, Junk to jewels: The story of Mental Illness etc. All talks have seen active
will commence shortly and deserving dark matter of the genome, Exploring the participation of members of the Josephite
proposals will be funded through the Brain: Its birth and function, The Biology of Research Forum.
DBT Star College Scheme at St. Joseph’s
College.

Dr. Susan Mary Philip continued as the

coordinator of the Josephite Research
Forum, and also coordinated a series of
Science Setu lectures, a DBT initiative to
address the problem of paucity of teaching
resources in higher education leading to a
lack of connectivity between academic
scholarship and teaching. The programme
provides scope for the scientists in a number
of DBT Autonomous Institutions across the
country to take up systematic teaching
commitments at the undergraduate level.
The Science Setu lectures were organised
in collaboration with the Institute of
Stem Cell Science and Regenerative
Medicine (InStem), Bangalore and the
talks were scheduled for Saturdays. The
series of talks started on the 3rd of April
2021, and is ongoing, and has covered a
wide variety of topics delivered by senior
research scientists at InStem and other
premier Institutes like NCBS, NIMHANS
etc. Talks have covered topics like Origin
and evolution of cancer, Skeletal Muscle-
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MINDLER: International about methods that help to overcome Technologies’ on the 27th of August 2020,
Certified Career Coach – issues in a more positive and holistic for 275 students. The speaker was Mr.
manner. Ramkumar Arumugam, Delivery Lead,
Foundation Program

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ADM- Cognizant.

Webinar on ‘Modern Enterprise Data Lake

he Placement Office and Data Governance on AWS’
hosted a 2-day online
workshop on the 1st and The Placement Office with Cognizant
2nd of May 2020. MINDLER: hosted a webinar on ‘Modern Enterprise
International Certified Data Lake and Data Governance on
Career Coach – Foundation AWS’ on the 29th of August 2020 for 12
Program was a 2-day intensive workshop members from the faculty. The speaker
aimed to help understand the education was Mr. Prashant Dahalkar, Principal
and career ecosystem, and change the Architect, CDB- AIA, Cognizant.
face of careers in the 21st century. It also
aimed to help understand the Indian Ms. Karen M from Fort Hays State University Webinar on ‘Emerging Technologies in
career landscape, education abroad with gave students a good perspective on 2020’
an extensive discussion about enhancing success and perseverance in the job
counselling skills, creating a career market. She gave students an in-depth The Placement Office with Cognizant
counselling ecosystem in universities, understanding of preparing a resume, hosted a webinar on ‘Emerging
understanding global competencies and facing interviews, presenting oneself to a Technologies in 2020’ on the 18th of
helping skills, psychometric testing in prospective employer, education abroad, September 2020, for 572 final year
India, and effective career guidance and and preparation for competitive exams for students from various departments of the
its tools, techniques, and challenges. Two the same. college. The speaker was Mr. Tarun Patnaik,
of its main focuses were understanding AVP, Cognizant, and Campus Ambassador
the Mindler Ecosystem and access to tech- Webinar on ‘Career Dynamism and for St. Joseph's College.
enabled career guidance. Aspiration Management’ and ‘Interview
Etiquettes and Resume Building’
Webinar on ‘Understanding Purpose of
Life: Reflecting on Mental Health, Jobs The Placement Office in association with Open Heart 2021
and the Uncertain Future.’ Cognizant, hosted a webinar on the 31st
of July 2020. The webinar concentrated The Public Relations Office hosted the
The Placement Office with Team Alpha
on ‘Career Dynamism and Aspiration third edition of Open Heart on the 21st
International and Fort Hays State
Management’ and ‘Interview Etiquettes of March 2021 in the college auditorium.
University, USA, hosted an international
and Resume Building’ for graduates. The Open Heart is the PR event of the college
webinar on the 19th of July 2020. The first
speakers were Mr. Tarun Patnaik, Campus and this year the event hosted three
speaker at ‘Understanding Purpose of Life:
Ambassador for St Joseph’s College, and popular Bangaloreans as guest speakers.
Reflecting on Mental Health, Jobs and the
Ms. Arokia Mary, Associate Manager, Shri. Narayan Murthy, founder and
Uncertain Future’ was Ms. Alphona Mathai
Cognizant, Bangalore. The webinar, aimed Chairman of Infosys was the speaker for
from IBM. She spoke about the current
at helping to present a strong foot in the first session. He spoke about hard
situation in the job market and the need
their respective careers, was attended work and commitment; he stressed that
for students to develop multiple skills in
by 500 final-year students from different students need to have goals and must
order to meet the requirements in the
departments and streams. work towards them. He continued to
demanding job sector.
speak about Social commitment to the
Webinar on ‘Coding and Web country and the community we all live in.
Ms. Anu Hasan an actor and Ms. Aarthi a
Technologies Mr. Murthy spoke about how he started
motivational speaker spoke about mental
’ Infosys with Rs. 10,000 and the challenges
health and the challenges of maintaining
The Placement Office with Cognizant he faced, but never gave up on achieving
a healthy state of mind. They also spoke
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what he wanted to in life. He spoke about of Fr. Swebert D’Silva SJ (Rector), Dr. Victor Mr Rajeev Mathew, Head of Starts-up
his childhood days and how difficult it was Lobo SJ (Principal), Fr. Denzil Lobo SJ (IT & Corporate Innovation, Oracle India,
for him and the family. The session was Director), Dr. Melwin Colaco (Registrar) addressed the student community on
very inspiring and a special word of thanks and the Staff Coordinator/PRO Prof. Kiran ‘Entrepreneurship in India’. He spoke
to Dr. Cheriyan Alexander for moderating Jeevan about the changing India and the need to
the session. Mr. Mohandas Pai gave a very eloquent innovate.
presentation on the topic ‘Go Digital or Go
The speaker for the session was Bust - Technology For Business Resilience’. Ms. Sharanya Mahesh of the London
Shri. Krishna Byre Gowda, an Indian He gave an elaborate and scientific School of Economics and current
politician who was the Minister of Rural presentation on the topic throwing light Fellow at University of Birmingham
Development, Law and Parliamentary on the future of digitalization and the need conducted a session on Leadership and
Affairs in the cabinet of H D Kumaraswamy, to adapt. Dr. Arathi Venkatesh, Associate Professor
and Member of Legislative Assembly of of Psychology, Christ (Deemed to be
the Byatarayanapura Constituency, in Dr. Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw who joined us University) also addressed the participants
office since June 2008. This session was online wished the event a great success on ‘Need for Psychologist in India’.
moderated by Prof. Anuplal Gopalan. and also stressed on the need to constantly
Speaker for the third session was Ms. innovate and adapt to the changing times. The PR and Placement Office conducted
Deepika Das, an Indian actress who Our other speakers included, Mr. Sudheer this event in collaboration with the
primarily works in Kannada and Telugu Noohu, CTO & Deputy CEO, Ceridian Inc. Western Music Association, NSS Unit 2,
film industry. Dr. Joyce Dsouza moderated Mr Rajeev Mathew, Head of Starts-up & The College Choir and the III BSW Fashion
the session. Ms. Deepika’s message to Corporate Innovation, Oracle India, Mr Team.
students of the college was to work hard in Nikhil Bhatt, Vice President - R&D, Nokia,
any task one takes up and give it your best Ms. Sharanya Mahesh – Workshop From
and you will experience great success. She the University of Birmingham and Dr. Placement Award
spoke about her role in movies and acting Arathi Venkatesh, Associate Professor
and said that she works hard in any project of Psychology, Christ (Deemed to be
given. University). For the second time in a row, the
Placement Office of St. Joseph’s College
Mr. Nikhil Bhatt (Vice President - R&D, (Autonomous), Bangalore was voted (by
Corporate Genesis 2021 Nokia) spoke on the topic ‘Insights into the the student’s of final year) as the Best
Telecom Industry’. He also spoke about his Placement Cell Award (2nd Place) under
own life and the transition that he has seen the Category of providing effective
The PR and Placement Office of St. Joseph’s in the industry and what the future holds services for Career Enhancement, Training,
College (Autonomous), Bangalore hosted for us. Counseling, the award is for the dedication
its fourth Annual Edition of Corporate of the Placement Cell in helping students
Genesis on 27th of March 2021. ‘Corporate Mr. Sudheer Noohu, CTO & Deputy CEO, reach their potential and boost their career.
Genesis- the Renaissance’ is a platform Ceridian Inc spoke on the topic ‘ Future As a benefit of this award all students of St.
that focuses on setting an Entrepreneurial of Work’, giving an in-depth analysis of Joseph’s College (Autonomous) will have
culture to uplift students with an Social Networks 10 years ago and today first access to all job postings from CPCN
entrepreneurial mindset and to propel and what we can expect in the future. He – Comunev, in addition to other benefits.
them to start their own business ventures. also addressed how the workforce will be
The event also aims to bring much needed forced to adapt to new working styles with
clarity on how organisations and people technology.
in leadership positions must function to
manage their workforce.

The inauguration was held on 27th of

March 2021 in the College Auditorium. Mr.
Mohansas Pai, Chairman Manipal Global
Education was the Chief Guest and Keynote
Speaker. The Guest of Honor was Dr. Kiran
Mazumdar Shaw, Chairman, Biocon, India
who joined us online, and Mr. Nikhil Bhat,
VP, Research and Development, Nokia. The
inauguration was graced by the presence

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Philatelists And Numismatists Association Online Philatelic And To mark the 125th anniversary of Netaji
(PANA) Numismatic Exhibitions Subhas Chandra Bose, online study classes
and posting of exhibits of philatelic and

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numismatic materials on the Revolutionary,
National Webinar

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o mark the 151st Birth Anniversary was organized in the month of January
of Mahatma Gandhi, a week-long 2021. PANA also ensured the availability
n July 3, 2020, PANA, online exhibition of Philatelic and of all the new commemorative special
in collaboration with Numismatic materials on the Father of the postal covers and the commemorative
the Centre of Indian Nation was held from the 2nd of October postage stamp & postal stationery on the
Numismatic Studies 2020. Over 150 postage stamps, postal Revolutionary, for the members interested
and the Department stationery, coins, currency notes and in the theme.
of History conducted Philatelic literature on Mahatma Gandhi,
a national webinar on ‘Assimilation and from the personal collections of Staff & Online exhibition of various postage
Assertion- A Numismatic Narrative of student members and honorary members, stamps and philatelic materials on war
Foreign Rulers In India’. Around 700 were displayed on PANA Official and PANA against the covid-19 pandemic was
people attended the event. Well known General WhatsApp groups. another unique activity organized by
Indian Numismatists. S and Numismatic PANA during March-May 2021.
Historians, Mr. Purnanand Balasubramanya Due to the absence of regular offline Online study classes on philately and
Sanket and Mr. Mohit Kapoor were the classes, it was decided to have a mini- numismatics took place every week during
resource persons for the event. Another version of the annual exhibition-PANEX, these months.
leading Bengaluru based Numismatist Mr. online. On the 13th of October 2021, Dr.
Gautam Jantakal was the moderator. Berin Lukas, the founding member of PANA Updating of stocks of Indian philatelic
and former faculty member inaugurated and numismatic items was ensured, with
the first ever three-day online Philatelic the assistance of the Philatelic Bureau of
Bangalore G.P.O.
Staff Achievement: and Numismatic Exhibition. Apart from
student members, few faculty members

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took part in the online exhibition.
n the 2nd of October 2020, Mr.
G.Anuplal, Associate Professor in
Industrial Relations and In charge
President of Philatelists And Numismatists
Association (PANA), was awarded
Certificate of appreciation for participation
in the National Online Philatelic and
Numismatic Exhibition on Mahatma
Gandhi, under the ‘Gandhiphily Literature’
category, organised by The Cannanore
Philatelic Club, Kerala.

Mr. Anuplal displayed his publications (10

Articles and short write ups in English and
Kannada published in various magazines
and newspapers) on Mahatma Gandhi in
Philately. This was the only entry under The
Philatelic Literature Category.

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Neerathon 2021

he 4th edition
of Neerathon,
a run for water
conservation
hosted by the
Wildlife Awareness
Conservation Club (WACC) had
over 1500 participants who ran 2 km
and 5 km variants of the marathon.
The runs were inaugurated by Shri C.P
Yogeeshwara, Minister of Tourism and
Minister of Ecology and Environment,
Government of Karnataka.

The run was flagged off by the Chief Guest,

Mr. Yogeeshwara at 7:00 a.m. Medals
and certificates were given out to the The
participants after completion of the run. Nine- event
A majority of the students running were year-old has become
students of St. Joseph’s College and from Daiwik was a brand in the
other colleges and clubs in the city. A cash placed among the city of Bangalore, and
prize of five thousand rupees and two top 10 in the 2 km run for water for 4 years the college has been
thousand rupees was given to the winner conservation; his duration of completion creating awareness in the city on saving
of the 5K and 2K run, respectively. stood at 7 minutes 51 seconds. Jennisha, water.
a five-and-a-half-year-old took part in the
Neerathon, this was her 19th marathon.

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he Josephite Choir is one finally about 130 students were selected which the Choir won the second place
of the oldest associations to join the Josephite Choir. At present and a cash prize of Rs. 6000. The Choir also
at St. Joseph’s College the choir consists of about 150+ students participated in a few TV channels namely
(Autonomous) and is coming from different parts of the country. Goodness TV and Salvation TV. Apart from
proud to be graded as the these outdoor events, the Choir has sung
first, among the student As the situation didn’t allow the students in various events held in college such as the
conducted choirs in the city. to gather together, the Josephite Choir inaugural of the Admin Block, Investiture
came up with its first ever virtual song- “I Ceremony, Mass, Open Heart, Prathibha,
Due to the ongoing pandemic, the will Sing” by Don Moen. Holding on to National conferences conducted by
Josephite Choir came up with a new way of the motto of the Choir, ‘Singing for the various departments and so on.
conducting events in the year 2020-2021. greater glory of God’, the Josephite Choir
Mr. Jude Samuels of III B. Com and Ms. performed this song with the message The Josephite Choir, under the able
Nicole Cherian of III BSW were appointed that even when all things fall apart, we will leadership and guidance of the staff
the student conductors for the academic continue to hold on to God. coordinators Ms. Joy Keren S and Mr.
year. Although everything had to be Leonard Winston Aiman and their student
done online, the Choir saw a tremendous The choir participated in various events conductors, faced all the challenges
response for its virtual auditions. The held online during the Christmas season caused by the pandemic and had a
auditions went on for over a week and like Basel Mission, News Karnataka; in successful academic year 2020-2021.

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Inauguration of ‘Kalah’

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he Indian Music Association
‘Kalah’ was introduced
to the newly admitted
students
during the online
orientation in August 2020.
The association received more than 60
recordings from enthusiastic vocalists and
instrumentalists as part of the audition
process.

The staff and student coordinators were

involved in the auditioning and shortlisting
of
new members. A meeting of the 2019-
2020 members of Kalah was held on the Dr. Nalini Sundaram, the staff coordinators,
4th of September 2020 to finalise the new were the judges.
members of the association and to discuss
the inauguration of Kalah for the year Finals of Raaga and Sargam were held March 2021, at MLR convention centre, JP
2020-2021. The inauguration took place on offline in Aloysius hall on the 12th of Nagar.
MS teams on the 15th of September 2020. March. Mr. Skanda Shankar and Mr. Sachin
The program started with an invocation Prakash were the judges. KALAH won 3rd place in the ‘Eastern
by Sumukha. Apeksha (Vocal), Sahil Das Group Acoustic’ event. Kalah competed
(Tabla), Srividya (Veena) and Lorraine against various other talented bands from
(Keyboard) gave solo performances. multiple colleges. Members of Kalah that
Lavya: participated in the event were Sumukha R
A video compiled with the achievements The Intercollegiate Fest Bharadwaj, Sanjana S, Amogha H, Vishnu
of Kalah was screened at the event. It was Dixit, Preksha Bharadwaj, Sathvik, Martin,

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also decided that a new music video would Lorraine Rithika, and Rohan Verma.
be released in the first week of October entre for Management Studies,
2020. The newly elected members include JGI, organised ‘Lasya’ - the
Aditya Rao, Varsha Ravi, Apeksha, Aarya intercollegiate fest on the 19th of
Ganesh and Preksha for vocal, Srividya for
veena, Lorraine for keyboard, Sahil Das for
tabla, Kevin Sabu for bass guitar, Rohan
Varma for acoustic guitar and Pranav
Harihar and Shreyas for drums.

Raaga and Sargam

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relims of interclass solo singing
‘Raaga’was held on the 2nd of March
2021, and duet singing ‘Sargam’ on
the 3rd of March 2021. Dr. Shobha SV and

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he Western Music The objective of the association is to create Any student with a keen interest in music
Association (WMA) is an a platform to support our local artists & is welcome to join us.
association for budding spread music awareness across campus.
artists, musicians and Our Association encourages budding
music lovers who strive Josephites to foster artistic integrity
to promote music culture through various divisions- Acapella,
Events
across campus and all fronts. The Teacher Acoustics, Rap & Beatbox Collective,
Coordinator for the association is Prof. instrumentals, music production &
Inter-collegiate:
Neeta Pereira (Head, Dept. of Psychology). Western band. We strive to spread
Mount Carmel College Fest: CUL-AH
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were - Kevin Noel Sequeira as President, through online campaigns and events
he Western Music Association took
Jyothi Bendala as Vice-president, Nabeen such as ‘The Artist’s Corner’ (for talented
part in Mount Carmel College’s
Bhusal as General Secretary, Jennifer Artists on campus) and ‘Music Speaks’ (for
annual cultural fest: Cul-ah held
Mary Jason as Treasurer, David Rosario students to express their love for music).
on March 10, 2021. The team was placed
as Vocalist Division Head, Aadhithya KR Our activities include webinars, ‘We-Jam’
2nd in the overall Western Acoustics
as Instrumental and Music Production (platform for all artists and musicians to
competition and took part in all three
Division Head, and Walter Anthony as Rap share what they love) and other events
categories, that is, solo, duet and group
and Beatbox Collective Division Head. where our artists showcase their talent.
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event for the Association for the academic same and be one with the association. team. This breakdown of sorts consisted
year 2020-2021. After the decisions were finalized, the of a few words about the team’s journey
second round of live auditions was held with music and their respective courses
from September 14th to the 16th. at St. Joseph’s. After which the heads of
every division in the Association discussed
Lasya: Jain University the agenda for the year, their expectations
from the new team and a few words of
WMA Inauguration (2020)

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advice.
he Western Music Association

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participated in the ‘Tropical
Symphony’ (Western Acoustics) he inauguration ceremony of
event and the ‘Pitch Perfect’ event as a part The Western Music Association Open Mic (For Performers
was held on Monday, October 5,
of the intercollegiate fest, “Lasya”, hosted
2020. The event was held online through Across College)
by Jain University, which took place on
March 19, 2021. The team was placed first YouTube Livestream and led by Jyothi

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in the event, receiving various prizes, and Bendala and Nabeen Bhusal. There were
a variety of performances like singing, he Open Mic event was held
second in another program that required on October 21, 2020, through a
them to perform songs from different original compositions, beatboxing and a
musically produced track all performed by YouTube live stream, where 25
genres on the spot. A member from the individuals registered for the virtual event
Association, Anushka S. also took part in members of the Association.The audience
was given a sneak-peak to upcoming making it open to all talents of music,
the Western Singing (Solo) event that was regardless of their background in the
held online and was placed second. workshops, campaigns and the Rap &
Beatbox Collective’s upcoming Mental field. A wide range of performances was
Health Cypher. showcased such as singing, guitar-playing,
drumming and rapping.
InBloom- Christ University
Mixers

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E-cell - Corporate Genesis:
he Western Music Association,
participated in Christ University’s Music Community Mixer
Renaissance Launch

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International-Level Cultural Fest-

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InBloom, which was held online from he Western Music Association
8th to the 11th of April, 2021 winning (WMA) of St. Joseph’s College he Western Music Association
the first in the western acapella event. (Autonomous), held a yearly mixer (WMA) performed live at the
They also received the titles of “Best for their first-of-its-kind Music Community Entrepreneurship Cell’s (E-Cell)
Original Composition” written by Kevin which was conducted by Jyothi Bendala launch program of Corporate Genesis:
Noel Sequeira (President) and Sofia S and (Vice President), who focused on Renaissance, held on February 18, 2021.
“Best Beatboxer” achieved by Kevin Noel interacting with the members within the This live performance was made possible
Sequeira. community. The community shared their under the guidance of the Association’s
insights on music along with their favorite president, Kevin Noel Sequeira who led
genres of music. After this, the members the team and performed songs that were
were asked to put forth any suggestions an absolute crowd puller. There were also
Intra-Collegiate: or feedback for the Association in terms of few fillers that were performed during the
musical content and content for the page. event.

Music Community and Auditions for the

Association
The Artists/Musicians Mixer Corporate Genesis:

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hile the first round of auditions

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was viewed through recorded
videos from September 10, he much-awaited mixer of the

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2020, the WMA also held registrations for Western Music Association took he Western Music Association
their first-ever Music Community. In this place on Saturday, October 17, (WMA) performed in yet another
community, all music-loving Josephites, 2020, with all the current members and program conducted by the E-cell
regardless of their musical capabilities, freshers of the Association. The meeting called, “Corporate Genesis: Renaissance,”
were allowed to join and be part of the began with the introduction of the current

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held on the 27th of March, 2021, where The certificates of all these winners were World Music Day
members from the Association showcased later on collected by the event heads

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an astounding performance by displaying during the Valedictory ceremony that was
two medleys during the program formed held on March 31, 2021. orld Music Day was celebrated
of both our senior team and the new by the association to
members of the Association. commemorate and celebrate
the greatness of the culture and art form
Lip Sync Battle that music has become today. The WMA
released three appreciation posters (mood
Prathibha 2021

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boards), on June 21, 2020, about some of
he Lip Sync Battle organized by the the greatest artists of the ’70s as well as
Western Music Association on April the 2010s. They celebrated musicians and
Prathibha: Inauguration 28, 2021, held on Google Meet artists across genres such as Jazz, Rock,
and was open to all artists, musicians, and Pop, Indie and Metal who created a legacy
The Student Council of St. Joseph’s music enthusiasts. It was hosted and led for themselves and for other budding
College (Autonomous) organized the by Sofia S, a vocalist from the team. There artists.
college’s annual interclass cultural festival, were 4 participants in total and each of
Prathibha: Epoch of the Dauntless, during them put up a wonderful performance
March. The inauguration ceremony was ranging from Adele’s Rolling in the Deep
held on March 1, 2021, for which the to Indo-Western mash-ups. The first Tac (The Artist’s Corner)-
Western Music Association was invited to place went to Alona Saji from the 1st Platform For Young Artists
perform. The team performed an acoustic year, second place went to Tessa Thomas
cover of “New Invention” by I Don’t Know from the 1st year and the last place went And Musicians
How But They Found Me. to Srushti R from the 1st year. A special

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mention was also made to Ritu Maria for
her performance. The winners were also n June 7th, 2020, the Western
Music Association released a one-
Prathibha: Events asked to send a short 30-seconds video of
of-a-kind initiative called, “The
them performing a song of their choice to
be featured on the Association’s Instagram Artist’s Corner.” This platform spread across

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page. two segments showcased stories of the
he Western Music Association
journeys of budding, talented artists and
took responsibility to host events
musicians of the college and shared videos
under the annual fest of St. Joseph’s
of performances, to give all students of
College (Autonomous). These events
included Western Singing (Solo), Rap Projects: St. Joseph’s College (Autonomous) an
opportunity to display their musical talent
Battle and Beatbox Battle. Each event
on the WMA’s Instagram page.
was conducted by the Association’s very 1st ever Beatbox Cypher in St. Joseph’s
own members from the 9th to the 19th of College
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the Western Singing (Solo) competition he Beatboxers of the association
and over 10 participants for the Rap and came together for a first-of-its-kind
Beatboxing events. The events were Beatbox Cypher. With their varied
conducted on Microsoft Teams while the technical & musical styled routines, the
Beatbox Battle was conducted offline, on group innovated with stylistic elements
campus grounds. and sounds within traditional songs and
After two rounds of competing under the instrumental music. This event has set
Western Singing (Solo), Prajanya Thapa a high benchmark for all the upcoming
took 1st place with Sofia S. taking 2nd place events and the college’s Beatboxing culture.
and Soundreya MS bagging 3rd place. In
the inter-class Beatbox Battle, Kevin Noel
Sequeira took 1st place with Adeeb Aamir
and Tarun K being 1st and 2nd runner up,
respectively. Meanwhile, Nawang came
in 1st place under the Rap Battle while
Shashwath Gupta bagged 2nd place and
Shamit Shankara placed 3rd.

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 Teacher’s Day Celebration individuals and the impact it has had on Campaigns:
with the WMA their life. The project allowed all students
of SJC to express their opinions along
with their favourite go-to-song being Trivia Quiz: G-Sharp (every Tuesday)

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featured on the WMA’s Instagram page. It
he WMA created an appreciation
consisted of two segments: one, common his was an interactive session
post and original composition
to all students and another for the Student with the association followers on
for Teacher’s Day, on September
Council of St. Joseph’s. The initiative Instagram where they participated
5, 2020. Additionally, the newly-created
was taken to give voice and feature the in a quiz and answered a few music
Acoustics team composed a heartfelt song
Josephites and was well-appreciated by trivia questions. This interactive practice
called, “Guidance,” written by Trina Dutt, III
the audience. continued to take place every Tuesday to
BVC and performed by the team- Vocals
by Trina Dutt and Marea, Beatbox and encourage the audience to know more
message by Kevin Noel Sequeira, Guitar about the unknown histories/cultures,
and Keys by Kenneth Moses and Aadhithya fundamentals and pioneers of Music.
KR respectively, to let every teacher know
Acapella Division-
that their students appreciated them to Cover of Vuelie
the fullest. This received the most love and Top-6 Songs Of The Week

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appreciation from the teachers across the
college. he WMA’s 6-member Acapella (Every Friday)
team created a cover of Frozen’s

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Vuelie on August 13, 2020. This was
the first online project that the Acapella op 6” was created by Kevin Noel
Rap Cypher- World Mental team produced. It received 2.7k views Sequeira (President) aiming to bring
on Instagram and much appreciation forward new songs every week
Health Day which were trending or are at the top of
from reputed colleges and music forums
around Bangalore. Fascinating supporters the billboard charts. The campaign aimed

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also left them wanting to listen for more to at sharing new songs and to broaden
orld Mental Health Day is the musical spectrum of the followers. A
come from the Acapella division and the
celebrated every year on list of songs was first curated after which
association.
October 10 to create awareness they were posted on the Association’s
about mental health topics that make Instagram story from Spotify. The songs
people uncomfortable and to remove were from all genres of music. They ranged
the stigma around it. It is an important Lo-fi Track (Original from The Beatles’ to modern-day artists like
day as it helps people become self-
aware; and to kick-start this conversation
Composition) by the Olivia Rodrigo. It also included renditions
by musicians from the college.
among young people. The members of Instrumental Division of
WMA prepared a perfect mix of audio WMA
and visuals to represent how important
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it is to talk about mental health in today’s
life. The cypher’s 100% vocal track (curated fter being initiated, the members
without instruments) was created by Kevin

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of the Instrumental division
Noel Sequeira, featuring Namith NP and collaborated to produce a first-of- his campaign aimed at providing
Walter Anthony as the main rappers. The its-kind Lo-Fi track which was appreciated fun facts and information about
visuals were presented by Marea Thomas, by the Instagram followers and students various legendary musicians and
Nabeen Bhusal, Anya Menon, David Rosario of the college. Produced and posted on bands. It consisted of 4 story slides that
and Roshan Pinto. February 3, 2021, on an online platform, introduced each band, the artist’s or
it was marked as one of the many band’s musical background as well as their
achievements of the division receiving influences on music. This was followed by
Music Speaks (#MusicSpeaks) support from most associations across the fun and interesting facts about them.
college.

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n July 21, 2020, the Western Music
Association launched a project
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Campaigns:

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Magnetic Melodies rtist Represent” was a campaign he Western Music Association
that showcased the talents of brought about a 7-day campaign

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the senior members of the to associate music with activities
agnetic Melodies”, aimed to association. This four-post activity on the that promote positive mental health.
bring about an interaction Association’s Instagram page discussed It consisted of having the participants
with our Instagram audience important aspects of each featured carry out 7 simple tasks for 7 consecutive
by understanding what type of music or member: an introduction to them, their days while assigning a song to the activity
song relieves or helps them stay resilient inspiration to become an artist/musician, that the participant thought fits best. This
through strenuous times. This question their biggest achievements, along with campaign included tasks like exercising,
was posted on May 12, 2021, asking the three pieces of their musical work. The dancing, taking a shower, studying,
audience to suggest go-to songs that they campaign took place from the 26th to sleeping, cleaning up and having a cup of
usually listen to during difficult times. The the 29th of May, 2021. It started with coffee or tea. It aimed at instilling a sense of
activity received 21 songs from viewers Trina Dutt, a profound vocalist, and calmness and tranquillity.
which were then re-posted on stories progressed to Kevin Noel Sequeira, the
through Instagram music. Association’s president and Beatboxer,
The second segment of this campaign Tejas Ramakrishna, an intricate musician,
included compiling a few of these and finally, the senior Acapella team, a Workshops and Webinars:
songs suggested by our audience into versatile group of the Association. Being a
a medley, involving all the divisions one-of-a-kind campaign, “Artist Represent”
of our Association, the entire acapella also consisted of four live sessions on WMA X SUMANA: Music and Mental
team, the rap collective that created an Instagram. This segment was conducted Health Webinar
original composition and beatboxers and

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by Sofia S., a member of the vocalist
instrumentalists, came together to put division, wherein various questions were he online seminar, conducted on
forth this music collective as their final asked about each member on their August 29, 2020, was a collaboration
project for the academic year of 2020-21. It specific days. All four featured entities were between the Department of
concluded with the band’s rendition of the also asked to perform for those watching Psychology’s Association, SUMANA and
song ‘Fighter’ by Christina Aguilera. This the event. the Western Music Association to bring
complex routine was posted on June 10th out the connection between music and
through the WMA’s Instagram page. mental health. The guest speaker for the
event was Mr. Kamal Singh, a Clinical
Spotify Playlists: A new Music Therapist, who works with multiple
venture for the WMA learning and developmental disabilities like
Express: Music Art Features Alzheimer’s, Autism spectrum and other

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Mental Health disorders. He interacted
he Western Music Association with the participants of the webinar

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took to social media once again in through a YouTube live-stream, which was
his campaign was an activity October 2020, set out to produce attended by nurses, teachers, psychologists,
conducted by the Western Music three playlists through Spotify, a music enthusiasts and school/college counsellors.
Association (WMA) for Mental streaming platform. The first playlist,
Health Awareness month. It was organized “Lokal Sounds” was released on October
to urge Josephites to bring about their 4th to appreciate and uplift all local artists
creative and artistic side, by asking them and musicians within St. Joseph’s College
Music and Mental Health
to produce artwork related to music (Autonomous) and Bengaluru city. The

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such as Album art and art inspired by the second playlist, “Mainstream Sounds”
participant’s favourite Artist. This activity he Western Music Association
released on October 9th, provided listeners
was posted on the Association’s Instagram conducted the ‘Music and Mental
with chart-topping ‘pop’ tunes. The last
Stories, with eight creative Josephites Health’ webinar, in light of Mental
playlist of feel-good, healing music for the
showcasing their talent on May 31, 2021. Health Awareness month. The discussion
soul called “Mental Health” was released
took place on May 15, 2021, on Google
on October 20th. All three playlists were
Meets and aimed at creating a safe and
taken well by Spotify’s audience as many
secure space for students to discuss how
Josephites tuned into the playlists.
music has helped their mental health. The
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mediated the discussion. It then progressed video that addressed the Western Ghats Instagram page, the WMA was an addition
to each participant conversing with each situation with the help of music to put forth for all freshers to see. The video, posted on
other to create a wholesome experience. its message. To further promote the project, August 22, 2020, was the first of its kind for
the WMA worked in association with the the WMA, a full-fledged project ever made
Josephite Choir to create a complete song in the history of the Josephite music culture.
by February. This marked the WMA’s first It was a culmination of the Association’s
“Introduction to Jazz” experience in collaborating with fellow many divisions and members, who came
Workshop college-led associations. together to create one continuous piece. An
initiative was taken to let freshers explore

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all parts of the association. It was also a
he Western Music Association gateway for Josephites who would like to
hosted a workshop on an Wma X Cmcb (Music And join the association for this year.
“Introduction to Jazz,” conducted by Research: First-Of-Its-Kind-
the well-renowned Jazz pianist, Mr Ronojit Initiative)
Chaliha (aka Ron Cha). An alumnus of WMA X WACC
Berkeley College of Music, Mr Ron Cha has

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worked with some of the biggest artists in Collaboration
n July 8, 2020, the WMA launched
the music industry such as Vishal Dadlani, a collaboration with the Centre

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Clinton Cerejo and international musicians for Molecular and Computational
like Ferenc Nemeth and Jacques Schwarz- he Wilderness and Wildlife
Biology (CMCB). This initiative included a Awareness and Conservation Club
Bart. The workshop took place on April 16, series of videos discussing scientific research
2021, hosted by Jyothi Bendala and Kevin (WACC) and the Western Music
(for CMCB) and about musical inventions Association (WMA) collaborated to educate
Noel Sequeira. Mr Ron Cha spoke about (for WMA), their histories and fun facts that
the world of Jazz, giving us an insight into viewers and students of St. Joseph’s College
may have been unknown to many. The (Autonomous) on the effects of music on
what the genre of music is like and what Association provided instrumental tracks
scope it holds in the music world. He also animals such as dogs, cows and elephants.
for the CMCB’s videos through Instagram. The collaboration consisted of three posts
presented several demonstrations on his The Instrumental division of the WMA took
piano to better explain his skill and learning. on both the associations’ Instagram page
charge of the project to showcase their skills. as well as through an exclusive “Bio Music”
The event ended with a question-answer This marked the successful completion
session. video posted by the WMA. The collaboration
of six videos on the Association’s page on started on October 27, 2020, and ended on
September 12, 2020. November 5, 2020, emphasising how Mother
Nature provides for us even within the sphere
Collaborations: of music.

Fresher’s Day (In

WMA X UCMA (Music Video for Collaboration With The
Environmental Awareness)
Student Council)

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ith the Student Council looking
to showcase every association
for the freshers on their

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he WMA alongside the United
Conservation Movement (UCMA),
collaborated with the Rap & Beatbox
Collective (a division of the WMA) during
the end of the academic year (2019-20)
and posted on June 2, 2020. This music
project consisted of four multi-lingual
Rappers and one Beatboxer, along with
the UCMA’s members for a wholesome

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DANCE ASSOCIATION

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rityunjaya, the Jayanthi College online on 29th of April annual fest of Symbiosis Law School, Pune,
Indian dance team 2021. Fida placed first in the Western which was held online on 30th of April
of the college, dance solo. Srinivas and Christina placed 2021. A team of ten - Prerna, Alona, Adline,
participated in third in the Eastern duet dance. Niveditha Niveditha, Khushi, Dhruthi, Winston,
Cul-ah organized and Rohith placed second in Eastern duet Rohith, Srinivas, and Sunetra participated
by Mount Carmel dance. Alona and Sunetra placed second in in the Indian group dance. Srinivas and
College on 9th of March 2021. A team the Classical duet. Adline and Khushi were Christina were placed Second in the Duet
consisting of eight members - Prerna, placed Second in the Folk dance duet. dance event.
Adline, Alona, Niveditha, Sunetra, Srinivas,
Winston, and Rohith participated in Mrityunjaya represented the college at the
the Indian Group Dance event - Dvitva.
Christina and Sumukha participated in the
Indian Solo Dance competition.

Mrityunjaya represented the college at

the CMS annual fest, Lasya, held at the
MLR Convention Centre on 18th of March
2021. The team placed second in the
Indian group dance event - Pravah. The
team consisted of Prerna P Patro, Alona
Saji, U S Sunetra, Khushi Shah, Dhruthi D,
Adline Riya Braggs, Niveditha Narayanan,
Winston Mascarenhas, Anthony Rohith
and Srinivas N. Niveditha Narayanan and
Prerna P Patro participated in the Indian
Classical Solo and Indian Solo respectively.
Mrityunjaya represented college at Christ
University, Kengeri, on 27th of March 2021.
A team of ten participated in Magnovite
Dance Battle.The team consisted of Prerna,
Alona, Sunetra, Khushi, Dhruthi, Adline,
Niveditha, Winston, Rohith and Srinivas.

Mrityunjaya participated in In Bloom

organized by Christ University, Bangalore.
The event took place online on 14th of
April 2021. A team of ten participated in
the group dance and duet dance. The
team consisted of Prerna, Alona, Sunetra,
Khushi, Dhruthi, Adline, Niveditha,
Winston, Rohith and Srinivas. Christina
took part in the Indian solo. Adline and
Khushi took part in The Indian duet dance.

Mrityunjaya represented the college at

the annual dance fest organized by Kristu

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ASSOCIATION
Group Events Duet Events

J S
Streets Crew, the western dance unil J and Akshay Chethan M.M from
team of the SJC was placed first in the J Streets Crew represented SJC in
the western group dance event - the duet dance events this year-
Tropic Like It’s Hot, conducted
by Jain- Centre for Management 1st place at Manan Humanities Fest-
Studies held on the 19th of Mount Carmel College held on the 22nd of
March 2021 at MLR Convention Centre. January 2021
The event was judged by Velu Kumar.
1st place at Nrityanjali Dance Fest- Kristu
J Streets Crew, was placed second in the Jayanthi College held on the 29th of April
western group dance event, Dougie Down, 2021
conducted by Mount Carmel College on
the 13th of March 2021. This was the first 1st place at Symbhav- Symbiosis
offline fest since the lockdown. The event International University held on the 30th
was judged by Gagan Somaiah from of April 2021
Graffiti Crew and Nikhil Z Shenoy.
2nd place at Inbloom Fest- Christ
J Streets Crew conducted its first college University held on the 12th of April 2021
cypher called Future Elements on 7th
of February 2021. It was conducted at
the House of Liberal Arts and was open Solo
to college students only. The team
successfully hosted the event and received

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some overwhelming responses with over kshay Chethan M M represented
30 participants. The event was attended SJC at various solo events this year
by choreographer Gagan Somaiah who -
shared his knowledge and experience. The
team ensured that Covid protocols were 1st place at Spectrum Fest- Nift College,
followed throughout. Chennai held on the 17th of April 2021.

1st place at Instincts Fest- Ssn College,

Chennai held on the 3rd of April 2021.

2nd place at Dance Till Dawn, Cultrang

Fest- IIT Goa held on the 12th of April 2021.

2nd place at Manipur University, Jaipur

3rd place at SIBM Law School, Pune

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he SJC Fashion Team
participated in an event
called “Beach Please” at
Jain University on the 20th
of March 2021. The team
received appreciation
from the judges and the attention of the
audience for their unique performance.

The SJC fashion team took part in Ablaze,

a fashion event of the Symbhav Fest 2021,
organised by Symbiosis College of Law.
The online event was conducted on the
29th of April 2021. The team received
special mention by the judges for their
exceptional performance.

MIMA
Auditions for the Academic Lasya 2020 Lockdown with MIMA
Year 2020-2021

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he college entertainment association eeping the lockdown in mind,
uditions for the MIMA took part in the fest Lasya students of MIMA conducted
academic year 2020- 2020 organised by CMS Jain college an online competition with the
2021 were conducted on March 18th and 19th, 2021. The team theme "Lockdown with MIMA" from 23rd
from 29th October secured 3rd place in Icebreakers and 1st to 25th of April 2021, to boost the students'
to 15th of November place in Mime. creativity and entertain the Josephites. The
2020. Categories like online event had three competitions with
acting, narration, scriptwriting and stand- 61 registrations.
up comedy were offered and encouraged. Enact fest
Students selected were sent for a second-
round audition that was conducted in mid

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February. The best of them were selected he college entertainment association
and officially added to the MIMA group. MIMA took part in "Enact Fest"
There are currently 47 students in the conducted by St. Joseph's College of
Association. Commerce on April 6, 2021. They bagged
1st place in Mieming.

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STUDENTS ASSOCIATION

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he Inauguration of CSA also organized an online Christmas intercollegiate gospel fest ‘Revelations’
the Christian Students Programme ‘Conceiving Christ’ for the conducted by St. Joseph’s College of
Association took place on students of our college which included Commerce on 26th and 27th February
September 16, 2020 on various events such as poster making, 2021. CSA also participated and bagged the
Microsoft Teams. The chief carol medley, ‘Can you be like the wise overall championship in the intercollegiate
guest and speaker for the men?’(Quiz), Pick and Speak, sketching. gospel fest ‘Jehoshua’ conducted online
day was Mr. Philip Cherian, the director of These events were conducted online on by Christ (Deemed-to-be University) from
Formations. A speech which included the December 21-23, 2020. February 28 to March 21, 2021.
overview of the association was delivered
by Mr. Ricky Wilfred, the coordinator. CSA also participated in various
intercollegiate fests. In this academic CSA in collaboration with the AICUF
CSA organizes ‘Not by Sight’ fellowship year, CSA participated and won prizes participated and won the Runner’s Up
every Wednesday on MS Teams where in the intercollegiate gospel fest ‘Exalted Overall Trophy at the intercollegiate gospel
we look to strengthen each other to grow 2020-Epiphany’ conducted online by the fest ‘Revelations’ conducted by St. Joseph’s
in the Lord. It also organizes ‘At the Cross’ Bishop Cotton Women’s Christian College College of Commerce on 26th and 27th
fellowship on some Sundays where the on October 7, 2020. CSA in collaboration February 2021
opportunity is given to students to testify with the AICUF participated and won
their walk with the Lord. the Runners Up Overall Trophy at the

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Bembala Outreach online teaching program for government Nagar Slum, White Field Slum, Don Bosco

B
school children and school dropouts Ch ildren's Home, etc. On World Aids Day,
conducted entailed sessions on life skills the team visited Accept and Snehadaan –
embala – St Joseph’s over Zoom. The Online Citizen Journalism Home for children with HIV. Students also
Outreach, is a BJES programme was initiated to make helped organize the first Covid Vaccination
community outreach students aware of the impact of Covid-19 Drive for frontline workers for which BBMP
programme designed for among the most vulnerable communities recognition followed.
students of St. Joseph’s in Bangalore.
College (Autonomous) The Bembala staff and students celebrated
initiated to realize the Jesuit vision of life The students were divided into small the 73rd Republic Day with marginalized
and education. St. Joseph’s Institution groups to interview and submit the report people of Siddapura slum through flag
envisions forming young men and women based on the same. More than 1000 hoisting.
with a strong concern and commitment saplings were planted in Sapling Plantation
for the society they live in. Drive. Let’s recharge was a programme
that created an impact among students
As part of the outreach activity, all and motivated them to raise money to
the second and third year UG and PG recharge the internet for 35 children from
students attended webinars organized by marginalized communities as a form of
Bembala on different social issues. Some education support for their online classes.
of the prominent resource persons who
addressed the students were Dr. Karen
Maria (Director Planet Hope Foundation,
Netherlands), Dr. Ramachandrappa
(DCP Bangalore), Immanuel (Secretary,
Compassion in Action and Coordinator
of Covid Relief NGO Bangalore Region),
Dr. Sonali (Director –Helping Hand India)
and Dr. Prasad Xavier (Director- Bosco They also joined a farmers' protest to show
Mane). An NGO and Orphanage Needs solidarity at freedom park. Close to 150
Analysis was conducted by students to students were given a target to cover and
assess the needs of the NGOs during their to vaccinate 150 children below 5 years
visits. The needs and the difficulties faced old as a part of Polio vaccination drive. A
by each NGO would then be presented The Publishing Module on Life Skills had Walkathon and webinar was organized
by the students to the Bembala team. The students present on Communication, Self- for World Cancer Day. Quiz Bee was an
objective of the programme was to make awareness, Problem Solving, etc. to the online quiz competition conducted as
Bembala a support system to these NGOs. government school children. A newsletter part of the Outreach programme. Visit to a
The Government School Needs Analysis was also published which contained the government-run school saw participation
required students to assess the needs objectives of Bembala and reports on all of all the students. Apart from conducting
of the schools during their visits and the the activities. On the occasion of Children’s activities, stationery was also distributed. A
same format of functioning would follow Day, the Outreach team distributed series of online awareness drives on topics
with students presenting findings to the chocolates for more than 750+ children like mental health, LGBTQ+ and farmers'
Bembala team and the later brainstorming in Siddapura Slum, Lakkasandra Slum, SR struggle were done. The students visited
over resources that can be mobilized. An the National Association for the Blind

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that trains and equips visually challenged sanitizer, masks etc. to frontline workers
workers. in collaboration with BBMP and Act of
Love NGO. Covid tracing and testing was
The students also visited Children’s conducted for students and staff with
Creativity Center, an NGO solely the help of the health care professionals.
established for underprivileged kids, on Management, as part of the relief work,
multiple occasions. Shishu Vihara, a day initiated Covid Vaccination Drive in SJEC
care near Madiwala market, was painted Campus for staff, frontline workers and
by students from March 5-6, 2021. students. On the occasion of World
Environment Day, an online plantation
Online webinar as part of BBMP’s Swacch drive was conducted wherein the students
Survekshan on Solid Waste Management planted one sapling in their own places.
was held on March 7, 2021. The resource On the occasion of World Day against
person was BBMP Special commissioner Child Labour, a webinar was conducted.
doctor consultations among other medical
for Solid waste Management, Mr. Randeep
aids. As part of other covid relief work,
Singh, BBMP Officer Dr. Shanti and Ms.
packed and distributed 5000+ ration kits
Shobha. A webinar was organised on
to marginalized families. 8000+ biscuit and
the occasion of World Women’s Day. The
juice packets were distributed to children
speaker was Ms. Karan Maria – Director
at various places like schools, tuition
of Plant Hopes Foundation, Netherlands.
centres, slums. 10000 + food packets were
Bembala Outreach in collaboration
distributed to covid patients, frontline
with SJC WACC association also helped
workers and the destitute as well. 500+
conduct Neerathon, a marathon for water
protein powder packs were distributed to
conservation.
covid patients in Government Hospitals
and Covid Care Centres. In association
A Covid Virtual War Room in association
with Indian Christian Cemetery, Bembala
with CIA and BBMP was set up by Bembala
Outreach assisted 100+ families for the
which assisted 3000+ covid patients
burial of their loved ones. They also
get ICU beds, oxygen cylinders and
organised a distribution drive of PPE kits,
concentrators, coordinating with the covid
care centres, ambulance services, online

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COLLEGE DAY AWARDS
137 th College Day Awards List held on 6 th of March 2021
(postponed from March 2020)

RANK HOLDER LIST: PG (2017-2019)

Sl. no. SUBJECT NAMES

1 ECONOMICS 1. NACHAMMAI. L
2. SAMPURNA MITRA
2 BIG DATA 1. SRIVIDYA N S
ANALYTICS
2. VISHNU R NAMBIAR
3 BOTANY 1. RAKESH B
2. SHIRLEY UDAYA DEEPTI
4 CHEMISTRY 1. TEJASWINI S RAO
2. RUBY MARIAM RAJU
5 ENGLISH 1. GONSALVES ZENISHA
2. FERNANDES ROCHELLE ANN
6 JOURNALISM 1. ANUSHA J
2. REEMA ROY

7 MATHEMATICS 1. EMIN JOSE

2. ROSAN ROY
8 MICROBIOLOGY 1. NIDHI V HEGDE
2. SIMRAN THAWANI
9 COMPUTER 1. JOY KEREN
SCIENCE
2. KM NITHYAA YOGA NANDINI
10 SOCIAL WORK 1. SANTHOSH WILSON WALDER
2. SATYA SANDHYA HIRA
11 PHYSICS 1. RAMYA SURESH
2. ELSA ANTONY
12 POLITICAL 1. PRIYANKA CHOPRA
SCIENCE
2. WONCHIBENI TSOPOE

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Sl.no. COMBINATION NAME ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

1 BCA 1. M.N. VARUN SOMANNA

2. MOHAMMED MUEEN PASHA M

2 BOTANY 1. PRANAV M. SHARMA +Chemsitry(1 st ) + Zoology(2nd )

2. MADHUPREETA M + Chemsitry(2 nd)+Sanskrit(1ST)
+Environmental Science(1 ST )
3 CHEMISTRY 1. PRANAV M. SHARMA
2. MADHUPREETA M
4 BIOTECHNOLOGY 1. SATYAJIT S
2. HARSHITHA N
5 ELECTRONICS 1. S RAMA CHANDRA KARTHIK
2. N. ARJUN
6 ECONOMICS 1. KANUPRIYA CHOWDHARY + Statistics(1 st )
SCIENCE
1. TARUN MEHTA +Statistics(2 nd ) + Mathematics
(2 nd )
2. OSHIN BENNY ANTO

7 HISTORY 1. VIVEK JOSEPH

2. VARSHA K
8 INDUSTRIAL 1. VIVIAN SHAUN P. THOMAS
RELATIONS
2. SHARON NOELEEN BARROWS
9 JOURNALISM 1. SHALOM GAURI1
2. UDIPTO PHUKAN
10 MATHEMATICS 1. ANIKET SEN +Physics(1 st ) + Computer sci.
(1 st) + German(1 st )
2. TARUN MEHTA
11 MICROBIOLOGY 1. SHREYA KORDALE Zoology(1 st )
2. VAISHNAVI R
12 OPTIONAL 1. DIPANNITA MUKHERJEE
ENGLISH
2. ARCHITA RAGHUNATHAN
13 PHYSICS 1. ANIKET SEN
2. SUDHINDRA P

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14 POLITICAL 1. NAL NANGAI VENKATAKRISHNAN +French(1 st )
SCIENCE
2. DAVID THANGLALIAN PHIEMPHU +Economics arts(1 st )

15 PSYCHOLOGY 1. DEVAYANI SATHYAN

2. FEMITHA RACHEL RUBY

16 SOCIOLOGY 1. ANNA MARY

2. SNIGDHA SUMAN + Hindi(1 st ) + Economics arts

(2 nd )
17 STATISTICS 1. KANUPRIYA CHOWDARY

2. TARUN MEHTA

18 ZOOLOGY 1. SHREYA KORDALE

2. PRANAV M.SHARMA

19 BSW 1. RENU R

2. MARIA ROSHINI SUNDAR RAJ

20 ADDITIONAL 1. AYESHA DASH

ENGLISH
2. REKHA JOLY

21 HINDI 1. SNIGDHA SUMAN

2. JINAL U JAIN

22 KANNADA 1. SHASHANKA S

2. SNEHA CHITRIGEMATH
2.PRADEEP GOUDAR
2.NANDITHA P
23 GERMAN 1. ANIKET SEN

2. SHARMISHTA R SOMAYAJI

24 FRENCH 1. NAL NANGAI VENKATAKRISHNAN

2. CHRISTAL ELSA JOHN

25 GENERAL 1. EDWIN PETER LOBO

ENGLISH
2. MANASA S MURTHY

26 SANSKRIT 1. MADHUPREETA

2. GIRISH CHANDRASHEKAR + Computer Science (2 nd )

27 TAMIL 1. GOKUL S

2. KARUPPIAH SARAVANAPPERUMAL
2.KIRUBA. H.B

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 28 BVC 1. SIMRAN KAPOOR

2. VISHNU B R

29 COMPUTER SCIENCE 1. ANIKET SEN

2. GIRISH CHANDRASHEKAR

30 ECONOMICS ARTS 1. DAVID THANGLALIAN PHIEMPHU

2. SNIGDHA SUMAN

31 B.COM 1. ASHWIN RAJ

2. YASHASVI S

32 B.COM (BPS) 1. ARCHANA SATHISH KAMATH

2. MURALIDHARA K

33 ENVIRONMENTAL 1. MADHUPREETA
SCIENCE
2. MONOJ P

34 B.VOC (DIGITAL MEDIA 1. A. NUNMOZHI

AND ANIMATION)
2. POOJA SHAH

35 B.VOC (VISUAL MEDIA 1. KARISHMA MADHUSUDHANA N

AND FILM MAKING) MENON

2. NITIHIN JAMESON

Department of Physical Education

ACHIEVERS 2019 - 2020

Sl. No. NAME ACHIEVEMENTS

1 MangaalArambam (II MA Eco) International Natural Bodybuilding Association (INBA) Asia Pacific
International Championship, held in Bangalore, India. Awarded
Bodybuilding Jr. Overall and 3rd Place Classic Bodybuilding

53 rd Mr Asia and 11 th Mr World, held in Khamam, Telangana.

Selected to represent India in Mr World

Represent Bangalore Central University in the All India Inter-Uni-

versity Best Physique Competition held at Chandigarh University,
Mohali from 11 to 20 December 2019.

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2 Lloyd Cyril (II MCOM) Represented Bangalore Central University in FootBall, organized in
VIT, Vellore

3 S Ajith Albert (II PGDFM) Represented Bangalore Central University in Badminton at SRM
University from 15 to 20 December 2019

4 Jerome (III BCA) 7 th Senior Nationals Dueball Championship, held in Rupnagar,

Punjab

5 Shivanth M J (III EPS) 1st Runner up in the Mumbai Hockey Tournament. Represented
Bangalore University Hockey Team and was Runners and selected
for All India Inter-University Tournament

6 Ravi S (III BA) Represented Bangalore University Basket Ball Team

7 Shaik Sadiq Uwais (III BCOM) Represented Bangalore University Foot Ball Team

8 Hemanth Devaiah (III BA) Represented Bangalore University Hockey Team and was selected
for All India Inter-University Tournament

9 Sanjay V S (III BCOM) Selected to represent Bangalore University in Judo and Wrestling
(Greko Roman Style).

10 Shashith G Raj (III BA) Selected to represent Bangalore University in wrestling (Greko
Roman Style) at Harayana

11 Arjun C K (III HEP) Represented Bangalore Central University in FootBall, organized in

VIT, Vellore

12 Sabiya S (I MCOM) Represented India in the Indo-Malaysia Throw Ball Tournament at

Kaulalmpur, Malaysia and were Winners.
13 Prashanth V (II HEP) 18 th Karnataka State Wushu Championship, held in Mysore. 3
Gold Medals and Overall Championship in Men’s Best Physique
2019

14 Nachappa I R (II EPS) 1st Runner up in the Mumbai Hockey Tournament

15 Bharath R (II CBZ) 4th Elite Men’s National Boxing Championship 2019 under the
weight category 46-49 kgs, organized by Boxing Federation of
India in Baddi, Himachal Pradesh

Represent Bangalore Central University Boxing competition held

at Bhagpat, UP organized by Ch Charan Singh University, Meerut
from 20 Dec 2019 to 02 Jan 2020

16 A Md. Moinuddin (II IES) Represented Bangalore Central University in FootBall, organized in
VIT, Vellore
17 Leonard Cyril (II PCM)

18 Shashank C (II EPS)

19 Shravan Kumar (II HEP)

20 Ralph Rajamathi (II PCM)

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 21 AdvaithNachappa (II EPS) Represented Bangalore Central University Hockey Team held in
Bangalore and was selected for All India Inter-University Tourna-
ment and has secured Silver Medal organized in Gwalior (M.P)
22 Somaiah N G (II HEP)

23 Shivashankar S (II BCOM) Selected to represent Bangalore Central University in Judo at

CSJM University, Kanpur

24 Bhavishya K J (II BCOM) Selected to represent Bangalore Central University in Badminton

at Manipal University, Udupi

25 Om Tolani (II BCA) Selected to represent Bangalore Central University in Table Tennis
organized by HITS, Tamil Nadu

26 Evangeline Sharon Bhuvana (I 35th National Junior Athletic Championship, held at Vijayawada,
HEP) Andhra Pradesh and won the silver medal in 4x100 Mts Relay

27 Kameshwran M (I CBT) 30 th Senior Canoe National Championship at Bhopal, MP

28 M Laksha (I HEP) 10 th Hockey India Senior Women National Championship held at

Kollam, Kerala

29 Richard Peter (I BPS) Represent Bangalore Central University held at Bhagpat, UP orga-
nized by Ch Charan Singh University, Meerut from 20 Dec 2019 to
02 Jan 2020

30 Rithin Christy (I BPS) Represented Bangalore Central University in Cricket, organized in

Mysore

31 Francis Xavier (I IES) Represented Bangalore Central University in FootBall, organized

in VIT, Vellore

32 Mohan Bahadur (I IES)

33 Ganesh N (I BCA) Selected to represent Bangalore Central University in Hand Ball,

organized by NHCE, Bangalore

34 Meghna Ann Mathew (I HEP) Selected to represent Bangalore Central University in Judo

35 Joannah John (I EMS) Selected to represent Bangalore Central University in Table Ten-
nis, organized by KLU, Vijayawada

36 R Seema (I CBZ) Represented Bangalore Central University in Taekwondo, orga-

nized in Punjab University

37 Rishikesh S P (I BBA) Represented Bangalore Central University in Tennis, organized by

Jain University

38 Shwetha Prem (I IES) Selected to represent Bangalore Central University in Volleyball

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 NCC

1 KAR AIR SQN NCC

GURUDEEP. S. GOWDA Cadet Warrant Officer Gurudeep S. Gowda, son of Srinivasa Gowda M.G and
Hemalatha. M, of 1 st HEP successfully completed inter directorate shooting
competition (IDSC) Mavalankar 2019 at West Bengal representing Karnataka
and Goa Directorate. He is the first cadet in the history of 1 KAR AIR SQN NCC
to take part in this competition.

LALROHLUI COLNEY CDT/CPL Lalrohlui Colney, daughter of Lallawmzuala and Lalremrauti, of 2 nd

PMC represented Karnataka and goa at the Republic Day camp 2020. She was
a part of the All India Guard of Honour 2020. This is the first time in the histo-
ry of 1KAR AIR SQN SJC to have a female cadet be part of the All India Guard
of Honour. She gave the guard of honour for the Chief Minister of Delhi Sri
Aravind Kejriwal, Chief of Air Staff Air Chief Marshal RKS Bhadauria, Chief of
Naval Staff Admiral Karambir Singh, Defense Minister Rajnath Singh, Minister
of the State for Defence Dr Subhash Ramrao Bhamre and was also a part of
Prime Minister’s rally and gave the guard of honour to the honourable Prime
Minister of India, Sri. Narendra Modi.

CHIRAG SAGAR CDT Chirag Sagar, son of Venugopal N and Meenakshi C, of PMC represented
Karnataka and Goa at Republic Day camp 2020.

He was a part of all India Republic day marching contingent 2020 and is the
only air force cadet from the directorate this year to be part of the Rajpath
contingent 2020.

He saluted the Amar Jawan and the esteemed dignitaries including the Pres-
ident of India, Sri. Ramnath Kovind and Chief Guest of the Republic Day 2020
Brazil’s President Jair Bolsonaro and Prime Minister of India Sri. Narendra
Modi and was also part of the Prime Minister’s rally.

NANDINI M Leading flight Cadet Nandini, daughter of Mallikarjun and Pushpavathi, of 2

nd PCM was part of Karnataka and Goa’s contingent at Pre-RDC-III- 2019.

She was a part of a special national integration camp (SNIC-Delhi) where

she showcased the cultural dance of Karnataka and Goa. She was part of the
Prime Minister rally (PM rally-2020) conducted on 28/01/2020 in Cariappa
ground Delhi.

CHAITRA R Leading flight Cadet Chaitra, daughter of Ravi and Uma, of 2 nd PMC success-
fully completed inter group competition /RDC -2020 at Hoskote, Bengaluru
and represented Bengaluru B group of Karnataka and Goa Directorate.

She was a part of the Bangalore b group cultural team.

She was also a part of the Bengaluru b group Flagarea team which won third
place in intergroup competition.

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V NAVEEN KUMAR Leading flight Cadet V Naveen Kumar, son of Velayuthan and Valliammal,
of 2 nd MEC successfully completed inter group competition /RDC -2020 at
Hoskote, Bengaluru and represented Bengaluru B group of Karnataka and
Goa Directorate.

He was part of the drill team and represented the Bangalore B group in the
guard of honour team, contingent drill and PM rally

ANUSH SHETTI Cadet Anush Shetti, son of Nagesh N Shetti and Vandana N Shetti, of 2 nd
PMC successfully completed Vayu Sainik camp-3 2019 at Jalahalli, Bengalu-
ru and showcased his skill in skeet shooting. He represented Karnataka and
Goa directorate in Ek Bharat Shresht Bharat 2019 held at Mysuru. There he
successfully completed his comprehensive all-round development and em-
ployability training programs, organized by the NCC Exchange Participants
Association of India.

1 KAR ARMD SQN NCC TP-3 GP-B:

DIYA D’SOUZA CSUO. Diya D’Souza, of III – EJP, represented Karnataka and Goa Directorate
in the Republic Day camp, Guard of Honor – 2019 and represented India
in the Youth Exchange Programme held at Sri Lanka – 2019. She is the first
cadet in the history of St. Joseph’s College and 1 Karnataka Armoured Squad-
ron to represent the college at the International level. She is the recipient of
the Deputy Director- General Commendation Card – 2019.

ALLEN I FERNANDES CQMS. Allen I Fernandes, of II – PCM, represented Karnataka and Goa Direc-
torate in the All India Thal Sainik Camp (AITSC) – 2019 and secured a Gold
medal at the State level and stood 12 th in the All India best cadet competi-
tion out of 3 lakh cadets.

NARASIMHA MURTHY CSUO. Narasimha Murthy J, of III – B. Com ‘C’, represented NCC in the 28 th All
India G. V. Mavlankar Shooting Championship – 2018 and
bagged the silver medal. He is the recipient of the Chief Minister’s commen-
dation card 2019 and 2020 and has successfully completed the Basic skiing
course – 46 held at Gulmarg, Kashmir with an overall second place.

SURAJ SEN SGT. Suraj Sen, represented Karnataka and Goa Directorate in the Republic
day camp, Prime Minister’s Rally – 2020, he also represented the Bangalore
“B” Group in IGC/TSC -2019 as the Best Cadet and secured a bronze medal in
the competition.

GAIJAILUNG KAMAL B K Cdt. Gaijailung Kamal B K, of II - HEP represented the Bangalore “B” Group in
IGC/TSC – 2019 and was a part of the Field Signal team which secured
second prize in the competition.

SUSHMA PRAJAPATI Cdt. Sushma Prajapati from II – EPS represented the Bangalore “B” Group in
IGC/TSC – 2019 and was a part of the Map-reading team which secured the
third prize in the competition.

RISHABH RATHORE L/cpl. Rishabh Rathore of II – CPE successfully completed the Basic skiing
course - 46 held at Gulmarg, Kashmir with an overall second place.

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RUKVITH G SHIVAYOGI Cdt. Rukvith G Shivayogi of II – PCM successfully completed the Basic skiing
course - 46 held at Gulmarg, Kashmir with an overall second place.

NSS: Awards for the year 2019 - 2020

UNIT- 1: S YADHUNANDAN
NISHA . R
UNIT- 2: AKEL VARGHESE
REENA R

Appreciation for service for Student Council

POSITION HELD NAMES

PRESIDENT L Kevin Lloyd
VICE PRESIDENT Malavika T
GENERAL SECRETARY Bindushree V
TREASURER C Venkata Vamsi Krishna
JOINT SECRETARY Akshay Kumar R
CULTURAL SECRETARY Mayank Gaurav
Syed Rayan Asim
Adnan Ahmed Khan
SPORTS SECRETARY S R Ermin Jamjoyson

Best out-going students for the year 2019 - 2020

Social Science (UG) – Mr TONY BRIAN D’SOUZA -17EJP15057

Professional (UG) –Ms SANJANA SALOME DURAIRAJ -17BSW42003

Physical Science (UG) – Mr SEBASTIAN THOMAS -17EMS25003

Natural Science (UG) – Mr B. SHREYAS PADMANABHA SHARMA- 17CBT36013

Commerce (UG) – Ms NISHA . R -17BCOM52007

PG (Arts/Professional) – Ms TEENA MARIA RANI -18MCOM81004

PG (Science) – Mr SUHITH K.N -18MAT76002

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 LIST OF PRIZE WINNERS FOR COLLEGE DAY
ON, SATURDAY 25 th SEPTEMBER 2021
UG : 2017-2020

BIOTECHNOLOGY
# COMB REG. No. Name of i ii iii iv v v vi vi Max Total Marks Perce-
Candidate Marks Obtained ntage
1 CZBT 17CZBT37002 SHREYA 123 137 135 92 140 137 139 130 1150 1033 89.83
MUTHUKUMAR
2 CBBT 17CBT36036 MARIAM 132 129 128 85 137 138 133 128 1150 1010 87.83
ATAULLA

BOTANY
# COMB REG. No. Name of i ii iii iv v v vi vi Max Total Marks Perce-
Candidate Marks Obtained ntage
1 CBZ 17CBZ31016 SUJAY RAJ 139 143 137 90 143 133 145 146 1150 1076 93.57

2 CBZ 17CBZ31006 SUPRIYA H 128 134 143 94 137 142 141 141 1150 1060 92.17

CHEMISTRY
# COMB REG. No. Name of i ii iii iv v v vi vi Max Total Marks Perce-
Candidate Marks Obtained ntage
1 PCM 17PCM21001 LIONEL JEEVAN 150 148 147 98 142 147 145 145 1150 1122 97.57
DMELLO
2 PCM 17PCM21005 GODWIN 150 150 145 98 149 148 140 141 1150 1121 97.48
MARTIN

COMPUTER SCIENCE
# COMB REG. No. Name of i ii iii iv v v vi vi Max Total Marks Perce-
Candidate Marks Obtained ntage
1 PMC 17PMC23001 SREYA 139 145 143 93 148 135 138 137 1150 1078 93.74
CHOWDHURY
2 PMC 17PMC23040 MELWIL VAS 145 140 122 89 145 128 140 143 1150 1052 91.48

ELECTRONICS
# COMB REG. No. Name of i ii iii iv v v vi vi Max Total Marks Perce-
Candidate Marks Obtained ntage
1 PEM 17PEM22027 PULAMATHI 132 129 124 98 121 141 136 129 1150 1010 87.83
VIKRANTH
2 PEM 17PEM22013 ARSHITHA M 130 131 144 92 115 139 131 125 1150 1007 87.57

HISTORY
# COMB REG. No. Name of i ii iii iv v v vi vi Max Total Marks Perce-
Candidate Marks Obtained ntage
1 HEP 17HEP11006 GOLDY RAJ 85 75 82 44 86 88 86 93 750 639 85.2
EKKA
2 HEP 17HEP11008 S ASHWINI 70 79 76 44 86 86 87 94 750 622 82.93

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 MATHEMATICS
# COMB REG. No. Name of i ii iii iv v v vi vi Max Total Marks Perce-
Candidate Marks Obtained ntage
1 EMS 17EMS25009 VAARUNI H 144 145 148 100 146 150 150 146 1150 1129 98.17
RAO
2 EMS 17EMS25003 SEBASTIAN 148 149 148 99 148 149 146 142 1150 1129 98.17
THOMAS
3 PCM 17PCM21005 GODWIN 150 149 150 99 145 150 142 138 1150 1123 97.65
MARTIN

PHYSICS
# COMB REG. No. Name of i ii iii iv v v vi vi Max Total Marks Perce-
Candidate Marks Obtained ntage
1 PCM 17PCM21005 GODWIN 148 139 141 97 141 144 143 144 1150 1097 95.39
MARTIN
2 PMC 17PMC23040 MELWIL VAS 140 126 130 92 143 138 144 146 1150 1059 92.09

ZOOLOGY
# COMB REG. No. Name of i ii iii iv v v vi vi Max Total Marks Perce-
Candidate Marks Obtained ntage
1 MCZ 17MCZ35032 SAYANDEEP 138 142 136 94 135 141 138 139 115 1063 92.43
DAS
2 CBZ 17CBZ31016 SUJAY RAJ 124 134 128 88 141 136 142 140 1150 1033 89.83

BCA
# COMB REG. No. Name of i ii iii iv v v vi vi Max Total Marks Perce-
Candidate Marks Obtained ntage
1 BCA 17BCA41052 MARIA 592 592 589 479 574 550 3500 3376 96.46
BASILICA
2 BCA 17BCA41038 ADARSH 540 546 565 477 564 563 3500 3255 93
JHUNJHUNWALA

MICROBIOLOGY
# COMB REG. No. Name of i ii iii iv v v vi vi Max Total Marks Perce-
Candidate Marks Obtained ntage
1 MCZ 17MCZ35032 SAYANDEEP 126 136 128 83 127 121 141 138 1150 1000 86.96
DAS
2 MCZ 17MCZ35008 GAURI 118 132 132 88 125 110 133 119 1150 957 83.22
SHARMA

JOURNALISM
# COMB REG. No. Name of i ii iii iv v v vi vi Max Total Marks Perce-
Candidate Marks Obtained ntage
1 EJP 17EJP15044 NIKHITA 116 111 114 83 121 113 104 120 1150 882 76.7
THOMAS
2 EJP 17EJP15038 SANDRA JIJU 112 110 115 74 120 107 111 115 1150 864 75.13

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 BVC
# COMB REG. No. Name of i ii iii iv v v vi vi Max Total Marks Perce-
Candidate Marks Obtained ntage
1 BVC 17BVC14012 A S RAGHUL 443 450 442 371 541 417 3550 2664 75.04

2 BVC 17BVC14007 ANURAG 475 462 417 358 562 389 3550 2663 75.01
BARUAH

BSW
# COMB REG. No. Name of i ii iii iv v v vi vi Max Total Marks Perce-
Candidate Marks Obtained ntage
1 BSW 17BSW42030 MRIDULA T 320 338 333 331 512 610 2900 2444 84.28

2 BSW 17BSW42003 SANJANA 302 311 309 321 476 636 2900 2355 81.21
SALOME
DURAIRAJ

ECONOMICS SCIENCE
# COMB REG. No. Name of i ii iii iv v v vi vi Max Total Marks Perce-
Candidate Marks Obtained ntage
1 EMS 17EMS25003 SEBASTIAN 85 94 47 95 94 186 650 601 92.46
THOMAS
2 EMS 17EMS25015 DIVYANGSHU 83 89 44 91 93 187 650 587 90.31
DASGUPTA

ADDITIONAL ENGLISH
# COMB REG. No. Name of i ii iii iv v v vi vi Max Total Marks Perce-
Candidate Marks Obtained ntage
1 EMS 17EMS25017 RAHAEL 67 71 82 78 400 298 74.5
CHERIAN
2 PCM 17PCM21021 SANJANA K 74 72 73 77 400 296 74
SHANBHOGUE

FRENCH
# COMB REG. No. Name of i ii iii iv v v vi vi Max Total Marks Perce-
Candidate Marks Obtained ntage
1 CBBT 17CBT36043 KOUAME ANGE 93 84 87 84 400 348 87
WILFRIED
2 EJP 17EJP15005 ADITI KUMAR 95 89 82 81 400 347 86.75

GERMAN
# COMB REG. No. Name of i ii iii iv v v vi vi Max Total Marks Perce-
Candidate Marks Obtained ntage
1 CEZ 17CEZ33027 RISAAL AMINA 99 97 99 99 400 394 98.5

2 EMS 17EMS25062 RESHMA DUA 85 91 91 98 400 365 91.25

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 HINDI
# COMB REG. No. Name of i ii iii iv v v vi vi Max Total Marks Perce-
Candidate Marks Obtained ntage
1 BCA 17BCA41052 MARIA 81 84 92 91 400 348 87
BASILICA
2 PMC 17PMC23009 AISWARYA 83 86 86 82 400 337 84.25
SASIKUMAR
SANSKRIT
# COMB REG. No. Name of i ii iii iv v v vi vi Max Total Marks Perce-
Candidate Marks Obtained ntage
1 EMS 17EMS25009 VAARUNI H 99 94 98 99 400 390 97.5
RAO
2 MCZ 17MCZ35008 GAURI SHAR- 94 98 97 97 400 386 96.5
MA
TAMIL
# COMB REG. No. Name of i ii iii iv v v vi vi Max Total Marks Perce-
Candidate Marks Obtained ntage
1 PCM 17PCM21034 BENET 94 86 91 85 400 356 89
ZENIKA J
2 CPE 17CPE16015 ANTONY 90 84 82 84 400 340 85
LOURDHU
MARY.M
KANNADA
# COMB REG. No. Name of i ii iii iv v v vi vi Max Total Marks Perce-
Candidate Marks Obtained ntage
1 PCM 17PCM21014 PRAGATHI M S 91 97 97 99 400 384 96
2 EMS 17EMS25003 SEBASTIAN 94 94 96 99 400 383 95.75
THOMAS
GENERAL ENGLISH
# COMB REG. No. Name of i ii iii iv v v vi vi Max Total Marks Perce-
Candidate Marks Obtained ntage
1 MCB 17MCB34029 ADITYA 74 81 76 82 400 313 78.25
SARKAR
2 PCM 17PCM21005 GODWIN 79 75 81 77 400 312 78
MARTIN

INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS
# COMB REG. No. Name of i ii iii iv v v vi vi Max Total Marks Perce-
Candidate Marks Obtained ntage
1 IES 17IES13010 ANN CATHARIN 79 85 84 38 85 88 90 92 750 641 85.47
ANTONY
2 IES 17IES13081 ANKANA 76 83 78 44 85 82 90 87 750 625 83.33
DUTTA
3 IES 17IES13004 PALLAVI V 76 84 79 36 82 86 92 90 750 625 83.33
NAIR

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 POLITICAL SCIENCE
# COMB REG. No. Name of i ii iii iv v v vi vi Max Total Marks Perce-
Candidate Marks Obtained ntage
1 HEP 17HEP11001 ADLINE KUJUR 82 82 86 42 77 86 92 96 750 643 85.73

2 HEP 17HEP11006 GOLDY RAJ 77 77 86 38 85 85 89 92 750 629 83.87

EKKA

PSYCHOLOGY
# COMB REG. No. Name of i ii iii iv v v vi vi Max Total Marks Perce-
Candidate Marks Obtained ntage
1 EJP 17EJP15033 JINIA 126 126 125 89 122 126 139 138 1150 991 86.17
MUKHERJEE
2 EJP 17EJP15044 NIKHITA 129 115 125 89 117 124 135 142 1150 976 84.87
THOMAS

SOCIOLOGY
# COMB REG. No. Name of i ii iii iv v v vi vi Max Total Marks Perce-
Candidate Marks Obtained ntage
1 IES 17IES13010 ANN CATHARIN 76 80 84 43 81 81 83 81 750 609 81.2
ANTONY
2 EPS 17EPS12066 ANUSHKA 69 77 82 40 79 88 86 88 750 609 81.2
MADHUKAR
3 IES 17IES13003 SARAH MANSI 71 72 79 40 83 82 87 89 750 603 80.4
TALUJA

STATISTICS
# COMB REG. No. Name of i ii iii iv v v vi vi Max Total Marks Perce-
Candidate Marks Obtained ntage
1 EMS 17EMS25003 SEBASTIAN 147 150 147 99 145 147 146 148 1150 1129 98.17
THOMAS
2 EMS 17EMS25009 VAARUNI H 141 144 142 97 146 140 135 138 1150 1083 94.17
RAO

B.Com
# COMB REG. No. Name of i ii iii iv v v vi vi Max Total Marks Perce-
Candidate Marks Obtained ntage
1 17BCOM52069 ANUSHKA 332 331 321 255 540 548 2700 2327 86.19
SARASWAT
2 17BCOM51032 REENA R 337 342 332 228 512 508 2700 2259 83.67

OPTIONAL ENGLISH
# COMB REG. No. Name of i ii iii iv v v vi vi Max Total Marks Perce-
Candidate Marks Obtained ntage
1 EJP 17EJP15044 NIKHITA 109 123 110 84 108 132 11 111 1150 898 78.09
THOMAS
2 EJP 17EJP15038 SANDRA JIJU 104 105 104 77 111 127 119 108 1150 855 74.35

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 INTRODUCTORY KANNADA
# COMB REG. No. Name of i ii iii iv v v vi vi Max Total Marks Perce-
Candidate Marks Obtained ntage
1 BSW 17BSW42030 MRIDULA T 92 96 97 100 400 385 96.25
2 CEZ 17CEZ33016 GREESHMA 88 100 97 99 400 384 96
VINOD

B.Com BPS
# COMB REG. No. Name of i ii iii iv v v vi vi Max Total Marks Perce-
Candidate Marks Obtained ntage
1 B Com. 17BPS55016 SANJANA S 344 347 335 235 515 564 2700 2340 86.67
BPS
2 B Com. 17BPS55013 PREETHI 316 333 315 227 517 516 2700 2224 82.37
BPS PRABHA-
KARAN

DIGITAL MEDIA & ANIMATION

# COMB REG. No. Name of i ii iii iv v v vi vi Max Total Marks Perce-
Candidate Marks Obtained ntage
1 B.Voc. 17VOA43006 SANDHYA 431 426 458 399 470 569 3600 2753 76.47
RAMAN
2 B.Voc. 17VOA43014 AAFIA FEROZ 434 402 445 360 476 548 3600 2665 74.03
ISMAIL

VISUAL MEDIA & FILM MAKING

# COMB REG. No. Name of i ii iii iv v v vi vi Max Total Marks Perce-
Candidate Marks Obtained ntage
1 B.Voc. 17VOF44039 NIDHI 444 455 430 432 484 448 3600 2693 74.81
REJITHLAL
2 B.Voc. 17VOF44006 ROSHAN 420 406 441 408 426 512 3600 2613 72.58
ANTONY

ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE
# COMB REG. No. Name of i ii iii iv v v vi vi Max Total Marks Perce-
Candidate Marks Obtained ntage
1 CEB 17CEB32005 SAHANA K 131 141 144 99 90 140 131 188 1150 1064 92.50

2 CEZ 17CEZ33004 SHREYAS 135 137 137 87 83 129 138 186 1150 1032 89.74
MANDYAM

COMMUNICATIVE ENGLISH
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Candidate Marks Obtained ntage
1 CPE 17CPE16006 RACHEL S. 114 109 115 71 115 117 118 111 1150 870 75.65
LYNGDOH
2 CPE 17CPE16056 GODWIN 107 103 117 79 109 122 107 108 1150 852 74.09
GEORGE

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ECONOMICS
# REG. No. Name of i ii iii iv Max Total Marks Percentage
Candidate 500 500 450 500 Marks Obtained
1 18ECO61016 AKHILA MANTAPA 427 420 381 425 1950 1653 84.77
UPADHYA
2 18ECO61019 R ANUSH HARIHARAN 434 414 397 412 1950 16.39 84.05

BIG DATA ANALYTICS

# REG. No. Name of i ii iii iv Max Total Marks Percentage
Candidate 500 500 450 500 Marks Obtained
6 18BDA71009 DAISY RHEA 813 815 797 184 3150 2609 82.83
DHARWADKAR
7 18BDA71059 S HARINI 791 795 800 174 3150 2560 81.27

BOTANY
# REG. No. Name of i ii iii iv Max Total Marks Percentage
Candidate 500 500 450 500 Marks Obtained
11 18BOT72024 SACHIN B 541 537 445 592 2350 2115 90

12 18BOT72006 BHAVYA. D 525 549 428 580 2350 2082 88.6

CHEMISTRY
# REG. No. Name of i ii iii iv Max Total Marks Percentage
Candidate 500 500 450 500 Marks Obtained
16 18CHE73019 NIKHIL N RAO 633 615 568 274 2300 2090 90.87

17 18CHE73010 SUJANA C 611 591 554 268 2300 2024 88

ENGLISH
# REG. No. Name of i ii iii iv Max Total Marks Percentage
Candidate 500 500 450 500 Marks Obtained
21 18ENG62001 DE SOUZA NADIA EMA 383 361 354 418 1950 1516 77.74
MARIA
22 18ENG62003 SINAI SANCOU ARCHA 378 369 357 409 1950 1513 77.59
DATARAJ

JOURNALISM
# REG. No. Name of i ii iii iv Max Total Marks Percentage
Candidate 500 500 450 500 Marks Obtained
26 18COM63022 NITHIN E ANTONY 583 450 354 399 2400 1786 74.42

27 18COM63012 VANI VINOD 527 474 347 437 2400 1785 74.38

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 MATHEMATICS
# REG. No. Name of i ii iii iv Max Total Marks Percentage
Candidate 500 500 450 500 Marks Obtained
31 18MAT76003 MEGHANA P V 545 569 435 484 2150 2033 94.56

32 18MAT76002 SUHITH K N 549 570 434 478 2150 2031 94.47

COMMERCE
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Candidate 500 500 450 500 Marks Obtained
36 18MCOM81028 PRADEEP P 425 452 446 536 2300 1859 80.83

37 18MCOM81004 J. TEENA MARIA RANI 431 404 415 569 2300 1819 79.09

MICROBIOLOGY
# REG. No. Name of i ii iii iv Max Total Marks Percentage
Candidate 500 500 450 500 Marks Obtained
41 18MIC75001 ANN IRENE. D. SHILPA 420 475 425 318 1950 1638 84

42 18MIC75003 APOORVA D 414 487 431 303 1950 1635 83.85

COMPUTER SCIENCE
# REG. No. Name of i ii iii iv Max Total Marks Percentage
Candidate 500 500 450 500 Marks Obtained
46 18MCS74002 HARINI R 506 599 426 445 2300 1976 85.91

47 18MCS74006 P.M.JERALD PANNER 532 587 396 423 2300 1938 84.26
SELVAM

SOCIAL WORK
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Candidate 500 500 450 500 Marks Obtained
51 18MSW65015 KAJOL SINGH 426 485 520 613 2650 2044 77.13

52 18MSW65008 ANJALI I R 464 505 486 575 2650 2030 76.6

PHYSICS
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Candidate 500 500 450 500 Marks Obtained
56 18PHY77017 DINESH D 504 394 456 392 2150 1746 81.21
57 18PHY77021 RANDA NILOFER K 469 400 434 418 2150 1721 80.05

POLITICAL SCIENCE
# REG. No. Name of i ii iii iv Max Total Marks Percentage
Candidate 500 500 450 500 Marks Obtained
61 18PLS64007 K.M.MANISHA 372 386 320 401 1900 1479 77.84

62 18PLS64027 SHIVANI PATHAK 333 382 296 404 1900 1415 74.47

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 AWARDS UNDER NCC/NSS/SPORTS/BEST OUTGOING/
STUDENT COUNCIL/EXTRAORDINARY WORK

1 KAR AIR SQN NCC BEST CADET

1. CSUO Lalrohlui Colney 18PMC23067

2. CSUO Chirag Sagar 18PMC23067

SPECIAL ACHIEVEMENT

1. LFC Chandra Bhushan 18PEM22048

2. Cadet Nishant Garg 18EPS12103
3. CDT CPL E HRISHIKESH 19BPS55052
4. CDT CPL Elizabeth Kuriakose 19IFA56060
1 KAR ARMD SQN NCC BEST CADET
TP – 3 1. CSUO. Allen. I. Fernandes 18PCM21005

SPECIAL ACHIEVEMENT
1. CJUO. Suraj Sen 20IES30
2. CPL. Isha Tojan 19JIP17055

SOCIAL ACTIVITIES
1. CQMS Armaan Eddya 19CBZ31026
2. L/CPL Ankitha K V 19JIP17038
3. CDT. Nayana Chandrika 20CMS55

Cadet volunteers who worked at the Covid

Care Centre
1. CDT. Ajaib Abbas M 20HEP088
2. CDT. Syed Atib 20EPS073
3. CDT. Rahul Singh 20HEP080
4. CDT. Rushil Ram G A 20MEC20
5. CDT. Nithish Kumar 20IES053
6. CDT. Dimpi Karjee 20EPS081
7. CDT. Livencee Marandi 20HEP054

List of cadets worked at the volunteering tele-

communications service, organized by
Rotaract Banglaore West
1. CDT. Samuel P James 19BBAR59085
2. CDT. Seema R 19CBZ31050
3. CDT. Abhay Pratap Singh 20MEC22
4. CDT. Sharath Shaji Thomas 20CZBT65
5. CDT. VK Vishal Gowda 20BCOMA030
6. CDT. Satvik KS 20CBT28
7. CDT. Chandan N 20CMS17
8. CDT. Bhoomika M 20IES091
9. CDT. Drithi P 20IFA049
10. CDT. Sakthi Swetha S P 20CMS56
11. CDT. Patricia Rebecca 20CBZ02
12. CDT. Asha Ramachandran 20EPS029

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 NSS Unit -1 1. Yadhunandhan 18PEM22021
2. Suguna 19BCOM52015
3. Nandhini 19BPS55047
4. Asad Ullah 18EPS12003
5. Pavan kumar M 18PEM22031
6. John Jestin A 18MEC24028
7. Alvin Daniel V 18BCA41031

NSS Unit -2 1. Sharan Kumar S 18PMC23005

2. Joshmina 18BCOM54016
3. Pallavi L 18CEB32031
4. Stephen Raj 18BCOM51016

1. Aslan Mohammad Ibrahim 19HEP11092

2. Evangeline Sharon Bhuvana 19HEP11001
3. Rohitha Chowdry P 20JIP020
4. Alex Chethan A 18BCOM54073
5. Franklin S B 18BCOM51008
6. Rohit D 18BCOM51036
7. V Steve Wagh 18BCOM51032
8. J Daniel Michael Roy 18BCOM51035
SPORTS 9. Christy Nandhan J 18BCOM52064
10. Murali T 18BPS55054
11. Aaron Joshua M 18BCA41037
12. Manoj M 18HEP11006
13. Gurudeep S Gowda 19HEP11025
14. Manoj Kumar K V 19BCOM51041
15. Sushant Goyal 19MEC24034
16. Kushee M Jain 20EPS033
17. Sachin Raj .P 18IES13063

Award for extra ordinary Community Service 1. Suraj SK 18BSW42043

work in national and in- 2. Bharath R 18CBZ31009
ternational level
Environment James Keith Hoover 18CZBT37049
(2020-21)
POST NAME REGISTER NUMBER

President Shruthi Merin Lal 18IES13077

Vice President Anusha B.S 18PMC23025

General Secretary Angeline Katherina 19VOA43018

Treasurer James Keith Hoover 18CZBT37049

Student Council 2020-21 Joint Secretary Michelle Stanley 19MCOM81055

Cultural Secretaries 1. Aditi Sinha 18BCOM53057

2. Israrahmed Adur 18CBT36056
3. Malavika Nandan 18CPE160063
4. Franklin Joseph H 18BCA41054

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 Assistant Cultural 1. Preetal A.S 18BCOM52016
Secretaries 2. Suraj S Naik 18CZBT37048
3. Sushmita Lama 19VOA43028

Sport Secretaries 1. Ralph Rajamathi 18PCM21039

2. Arun T 18HEP11090

Physical Science (UG) Ralph Rajamathi 18PCM21039

Natural Science (UG) Bharath R 18CBZ31009

Social Science (UG) Malavika Nandan 18CPE16063

Best Outgoing Student
Commerce (UG) Aditi Sinha 18BCOM53057
for the year 2020-21

Professional Course (UG) Suraj SK 18BSW42043

PG (Arts/Professional) Michelle Stanley 19MCOM81055

PG (Science) Vivek Bhabani Lama 19MAT76008

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 DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH
Writing Auto Ethnography: Mixer Week & Staff Causerie
An Online Panel Discussion Association Inaugurals

T T
he department conducted its

T
he Department of English he department launched its first causerie of the academic
conducted a panell association activities for the year on August 8, 2020. Ms.
discussion on ‘Writing year on August 24 at 6 pm. This Shefali Matthew, Assistant Professor,
Autoethnography’ was followed by a week of interactive convened the event. The event was
on July 26, 2020. The programmes titled Mixer Week run by mediated by Dipanitha Mukherjee,
panellists were Ms. Vijeta the department’s five associations. a student from II MA English. Ms.
Kumar, Assistant Professor, Department Shefali Matthew has authored a
of English; Dipannita Mukherjee, II paper titled, “Calvin and Hobbes:
MA English; and Ms. Anquna Ananita, Real? Not Real?” It commenced with
an alumna, who had submitted an
Fandoms and Fanwork a brief explanation of the paper
autoethnographic paper as part of her by the host who also provided her

T
research for the paper on ‘Resisting he panel on Fandoms and Fanwork, insights and interpretations of reality
Caste’. The panel shed light on how conducted on November 9 from in fiction and writing in general. She
Anquna wrote her autoethnographic 6 pm on Microsoft Teams, was also emphasised on the vast reach
paper, in which she looked at her own moderated by Ms. Shefali Matthew and that Children’s literature has on
history, and that of her family, through consisted of panelists Vismaya Vishwa, readers across the globe regardless
the lens of caste. Nirmala Cynthia, and Angelin Jose. The of the age of the reader.
panelists discuss their love for the world
of fanart and fanfiction by describing their The second online Staff Causerie was
personal experiences with creating and conducted on September 24, 2020.
consuming content. The speakers were introduced by

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Ms.Shefali Matthew who moderated the audience and introduced the first speaker, Mr. Pramod Harle. His
the session. The first speaker was speakers. Ms. Maya Philip spoke causerie was based on microhistories
Ms. Parul Batra who titled her about the Malayalam novel Othapp and this topic tied in very well with his
session “Duncan Checks In” which written by Sara Joseph and how it research. The next part of the session
was an exploration of Isadora helped her understand more about titled ‘From Secession to Infusion’
Duncan’s story and her contribution her own history in her session titled by Dr. Muthukumar was about the
to contemporary art. The second “Understanding Hometowns and troubled history of the North East,
speaker was Ms. Jyothsna K whose Home-truths”. Ms. Drishti Rakhra, specifically the lesser-known history
session was titled, “Looking Glass the next speaker, was introduced by of the conflict between Nagaland
Self” and was an exploration of her Ms. Shefali Mathew as someone who and mainland India. The department
own experiences as a teacher in inspires others to write. Ms. Rakhra conducted its eighth Causerie on
the light of the novel, Trick Mirror: introduced the audience to Miranda October 29, 2020. The first session
Reflections on Self-Delusion by Jia July, an author who constantly was conducted by Mr Vinay BS
Tolentino. inspires her in her session titled, who discussed and presented his
The department conducted another “Writing in July”. transition from a science student to an
staff causerie on September 16, 2020. The department conducted its fifth academic of the arts and humanities,
The speakers for the session were online Staff Causerie on October 8, bridging perspectives of science and
Ms. Rency Thomas and Ms. Vijeta 2020. The first session was conducted arts through journalism. The second
Kumar. In a conversation moderated by Dr. Amrita Banerjee who discussed session was conducted by Ms.
by Ms. Shefali Matthew, Ms. Thomas and presented her opinion about Micah Thambi, a professor from the
highlighted the challenges and Education and Nationalism in Tarun Department of English. Ms. Thambi
rewards of immortalising memories Majumdar’s films. Her session was conducted a session titled ‘Narratives
through writing. Ms. Vijeta Kumar, titled “The Failing Bangalee.” The of Conspiracy and Paranoia’ where
in her segment titled; Women and second session was conducted by Dr. she discussed and presented her
Writing; spoke of her love for the work Cheriyan Alexander on “The Novelist research of post-millennial myth
of Dawn Powell and Fran Lebowitz. as Jokester” where he discussed and fiction and thriller novels, with its
She elucidated on the writing culture re-read Milan Kundera’s book, The connections to political agendas.
among women authors in New York Joke.
City and their unapologetic approach
to their work. The sixth Causerie began at 4pm on
22 October, 2020, and was facilitated
by Ms. Amanda D’Souza who
introduced the speakers. Dr. Geetha
Rathod talked about her research on
the Lambanis of Karnataka and their
language and literature. Mr. Christy
Thomas, whose topic was Basil
Joseph and his films, began with a
short introduction into Malayalam
cinema and the fact that it generally
focuses on socioeconomic themes
as opposed to cinema from other
parts of the country. He went on to
introduce Basil Joseph to the viewers
before talking about the Cinematic
Universe’ within the films.

On October 28, 2020, the department

organized a Staff Causerie in order to
introduce two new professors, Mr. Voice Culture Workshop
Pramod Harle and Dr. Muthukumar,

T
and welcome them into the
The fourth edition of the Staff department. The session began with aking the current changes in
Causerie was conducted on October Dr. Arul Mani, Head of the Department, academia into consideration,
1, 2020. Ms. Shefali Mathew welcomed introducing the session and the a Voice Culture workshop for

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online classes was organized by the wanted to ask him. He gave the class on Dr. Faustus presented in a play
Department of English for its faculty some time to think of any question format.The second video was the
on the 20th and 27th of March assuring the class that no question presentation of a Shakespearean
2021. The resource person for the would be wrong. Mr. Manoharan sonnet by Maria, Delphina and Alice
workshop was theatre artist and introduced us to design thinking and using a puppet show. The third video
voice coach Mr. Nazarius Manoharan. how to strategically and practically was of Shona Desilva presenting a
Over the course of the workshop Mr. create while we design and develop monologue by Mephistophilis from
Manoharan provided the faculty an concepts and how to use it in our Dr.Faustus. The fourth video was
insight into multiple aspects of voice work. d speaking to him directly. a “Humans of Bangalore” take on
training like three circles of energy, Shakespeare’s sonnets. The fifth
voice modulation and dynamics, video was a presentation titled,
pace, pause, pitch and intonations Slavery: Millions of “Sin, Damnation and Redemption in
among other things. Dr.Faustus by Christopher Marlowe”.
Stories Untold and Unheard The sixth video was a presentation
BOS of a Baconian monologue by Swathi

P
titled, “Bedtime Bacon”.
anelists Juje, Shreya and

T
Roshan, students of I MA
he Department of English had The second day of their watch party
English began their discussion
its Board of Studies meeting on May 5, 2021, showcased various
and dissemination of slavery on their
on May 3, 2021, on Microsoft performance videos of stories and
panel at 5:30pm on MS Teams on May
Teams. The meeting was organised in plays. The first video shown was
6, 2021. The panel was conducted
three rounds. The BoS for Journalism a fairytale narrated by a student
under the department’s public
and Communicative English was at 9 and animated as a comic; short
communication initiative.
am. Mr. Simon Varghese, NSOJ was but fascinating, the performance
the University Nominee. Mr Nithin was greatly enjoyed. Next, viewers
Manayath, MCC, and Mr. Sachin were treated to an Apple Animoji
Ravikumar, Reuters, were also part of Native Americans: enactment of the Shakespeare
the Board, in addition to the faculty An Erasure and Reclamation Play, ‘The Merry Wives of Windsor.’
What followed was an interesting
members of the department. The BoS of Spaces presentation on Christopher Marlow
for Theatre Studies was held next, at
11.30 am. The external members of and the Art of Characterization

T
the Board were Dr. T.H. Lavakumar he I MA English Initiative through a study of his play ‘The
(SJCC), Mr. Nazarius Manoharan,Ms. conducted a panel on the Tragical History of Dr. Faustus.’
C.K. Meena, and Mr. Philip Victor. Erasure and Reclamation of
The BoS for all other UG and PG Native American Spaces on May 7,
papers were held at 2 pm. Dr. Roopa 2021. Panellists Wesley, Anushka, Staff Achievements
Philip (JNC), Dr. Nitya Vasudevan, and Shona, discussed the issue of
Ms. Vismaya V, were the external indigenous erasure, particularly that
members of the Board. of the Native Americans by colonial
settlers. Dr. Arul Mani
Dr. Arul Mani, Head of the
Design Thinking for Innovation Department of English, penned
& Entrepreneurship Bangalore Brit-Lit several columns for Deccan Herald’s
Movie Party: Day 1 & 2 Saturday supplement ‘Showtime’. The

O
details of the articles are as follows:
n March 29,2021 students of ‘The first response to a virus terror

D
II MA English attended a talk is a fairy tale’ published on March
ay 1 hosted by I MA students
on Design Thinking organized 20, 2020; ‘The hidden politics of
started at 4:30 pm on May
by the Department of English. The Asterix’ published on April 11, 2020;
4, 2021. The Brit-Lit Movie
speaker was Mr. Nazarius Manoharan ‘A minute is all it takes’ published
Party was a viewing party of the
who took up the theme of Innovation April 18, 2020; ‘Irrfan Khan &; Rishi
videos made by the students of I M
and Entrepreneurship in the field of Kapoor, gone too soon’ published
A as part of their British Literature
Humanities. Mr. Manoharan started on May 1, 2020; ‘The peripheries that
public communication classes.
his talk by asking the students Nissar Ahmad saw’ published on May
The first video was a modern take
to think of a question that they 10, 2020; ‘For B V Karanth, greatness

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didn’t mean taking credit published Dr. Amrita Banerjee the sword too‚”: Understanding
on September 26, 2020; ‘The Italian the neo-nationalist womanhood
spin on a mythical American past’ Dr. Amrita Banerjee, Assistant in contemporary Indian English
published on July 10, 2020; and Professor, Department of English, myth-fiction’ at DCU’s 4th Annual
‘Beyond Bond films: remembering served as Resource person for the Conference on South Asia on April
Sean Connery’ published on National level workshop on ‘Gender 30, 2021.
November 6, 2020. Dr. Arul Mani and Research Writing’ organised by
also served as a Resource Person the UGC Centre for Women Studies, Ms. Vijeta Kumar
for an Online Faculty Development Vimala College (Autonomous),
Programme organised by St. Joseph’s Thrissur on 2 February, 2021. Dr. Ms. Vijeta Kumar, Assistant Professor,
College of Law, titled ‘Approaches Banerjee spoke on the topic ‘Women Department of English, published a
and Challenges to Interdisciplinary in Nationalist Historiography: short fiction for Identity in Volume
Research’, held from August 5-7, Researching the Archives’. The 7 of the Helter Skelter Anthology of
2020. Workshop was held on Google Meet, New Writing, 2021. She published
with around 50 participants. She By Ponnuthai’s Side, a profile of
Dr. Etienne Rassendren also served as a speaker at a Special photographer Jaisingh Nageswaran
Web-Talk on ‘Revisioning History: A for The White Review in April 2021.
Dr. Etienne Rassendren, Associate Postcolonial Perspective’, organised She published Wait for me in the
Professor, served as a speaker by The Department of English, North corner and I’ll tell you how I ran
for a special online lecture Bengal St. Xavier’s College, Raiganj, away from home, an essay on writer
titled ‘Subalternity, Gender and on July 13, 2020 at 11 am on Google Dawn Powell for the LARB’s new
Representation: Revisiting Spivak’, Meet. channel Literature Around the World
held on May 16, 2020 from 11 am to in June 2021. Ms. Vijeta Kumar also
1 pm, organised by the Department Dr. M. Muthukumar published Between Rage and Silence:
of English, Bangalore University. On being Dalit on Twitter, a chapter for
June 11, Dr. Rassendren published the peer-reviewed journal, ‘Feminist
Dr. M. Muthukumar, Assistant
a paper titled ‘Ethics and Pestilence: Media Studies’, Volume 21, 2021 for
Professor, Department of English,
Discerning the Greater Common Issue 1 of Routledge publishing.
served as resource person for a
Good and Mutual Reciprocity’ in She wrote the Foreword for ‘Fiery
one-day webinar on ‘Introduction
the Journal of Dharma, Vol 45 No 2 Tales of Courage and Resilience’,
to North-Eastern Writing in English’
(2020), a SCOPUS- indexed journal. a graphic book published by WSS
conducted by PG and Research
He served as a resource person for (Women against sexual violence and
Department of English, Government
a webinar titled ‘COVID-19 and The state repression) in April 2021. She
College for Women (A), Kumbakonam.
Human Condition’ organised by the wrote a book chapter titled 'Self-
Department of English, St. Aloysius made vs Self Respect: The Politics
College (Autonomous), Mangaluru Mr. Pramod Harle of Belonging in Zoya Akhtar’s Films':
on July 4, 2020 from 10:30 am to 1 The Films of Zoya Akhtar’ published
pm. He also served as a speaker at an Mr. Pramod Harle, Assistant Professor, by the Edinburgh University Press,
International Webinar Series on Department of English, presented a 2021. She published an essay titled
‘Negotiating Postcolonial Spaces’ paper titled "Praying through ‘Give A Dalit Man A Pair Of Scissors,
organised by St. Joseph’s Evening the Pandemic: Praying through the And He’ll Show You What Freedom
College (Autonomous and Re- Pandemic: An autoethnographic Is’ for HuffPost in October 2020. She
accredited) in collaboration with study of St. Mary’s Feast, Bangalore also conducted ‘Creative Reading
Christ (Deemed to be) in 2020’.; at a national conference > Creative Writing’, a two-hour
University, Bangalore. He served on The Story: Life Narratives of writing workshop, conducted for the
as a resource person for a three- Experience, Memory, Identity and students of Uzbekistan State World
day international webinar titled Agency organised by Kristu Jayanti Languages University in August
‘Neither East nor West: Vistas of College, Autonomous, Bengaluru, 2020. She was the Guest speaker
Postcolonial Discourses’, organised from March 25-26, 2021. for a talk on ‘Gender and Higher
by the Department of English, Education’ at Baduku Community
Women’s College, Agartala, Tripura. Ms. Micah Thambi College in August 2020. She gave a
Dr. Rassendren spoke on the topic guest lecture on Autoethnography
‘Critical Regionalism: Thinking Ms. Micah Thambi, Assistant at St. Xavier’s College, Mumbai, in
Through Postcoloniality’ on day one Professor, Department of English, November 2020. She was a guest
of this programme, viz. August 17, 2020. presented a paper titled “She holds reader at ‘Mother

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Tongues’, a multilingual open mic The poster presentation was titled September, 2020. Ms. Murthy also
at The American Poetry Museum, 'Re-reading Intimacy on Instagram'. facilitated a training program for
September 2020. She was the guest The conference was held on April trainers at the same organisation.
speaker for a talk on ‘How to talk about 24, 2021. Ms. Drishti Rakhra’s review
caste in classrooms?’ conducted by of Elena Ferrante's The Lying Life of Ms. Navya Dennis
Study Hall Education Foundation Adults was published in Huffpost
in October 2020. She was the guest India in October, 2020. Ms. Navya Dennis, Assistant
speaker for a talk on ‘Marriage and Professor, Department of English,
the Caste System’ conducted by Ms. Vijayshanti Murthy presented a paper titled ‘Into
Telangana Social Welfare Residential Bhasha through English - Lost and
Educational Institutions Society, Ms. Vijayashanti Murthy, Assistant Gained in Translation in the phase of
January 12, 2021. She presented a Professor, Department of English, Online Learning’ at an international
paper titled ‘Who Owns Shakespeare?’ was invited for a panel discussion conference on ‘Electronic Textual
at “Shakespeare in the ‘Post’ Colonies: on Mental Health and Caste by Cultures: A Study of Digital Literature
What’s Shakespeare to Them, or Smartmoves, a platform for visual and Literature in Digital Spaces’
They to Shakespeare?” organised arts, as part of their Expressive organized by the Department of
by the Shakespeare Association of Conversations series on February 12, Indian and World Literatures at The
America on April 2, 2021. She was 2021. She published an article titled English and Foreign Languages
the guest speaker for a talk on ‘Issues ‘My Ancestors Lived the Lives Shown University, Hyderabad, from March
at the Periphery – a talk on caste in Enjoy Enjaami, Getting Us Where 9-12, 2021. She also presented
and diversity’ organised by the DEI We Are Now’ in the online magazine a paper titled ‘Oral Histories of
change makers’ program, May 2021. ‘Women’s Web’ on March 20, 2021. Ms. Chavittnadakam with respect to
She gave a guest lecture on ‘The Murthy was invited to give a lecture Performance and Spectatorship’
polyphonic I. Who is I and when do on ‘Women’s Representation and at the national webinar on
you tell her to shut up?’ at Azim Premji Feminist Lens in Indian Cinema’ by ‘Performance Narratives’ organised
University on May 13, 2021. She was Baduku Community College on May by the Department of English,
a panellist for a dramatic reading 16, 2021. She published an article Postgraduate centre, Jyoti Nivas
and discussion of Ismat Chugtai’s titled ‘Why Intercaste Marriages Need College (Autonomous), Bengaluru on
Lihaaf organised by Belongg library to be Sensitive to Gender and Caste to March 20, 2021.
network in collaboration with Lahe be Successful’, in the online magazine
Lahe in June 2021. ‘Women’s Web’ on June 4, 2021. She Dr. Mini Mark Bonjour
was also invited as a guest by The
Ms. Drishti Rakhra Brekking Point with Nalme Nachiyar, Dr. Mini Mark Bonjour, PG
a podcast, for a conversation on Big Coordinator, Department of
Ms.Drishti Rakhra, Assistant Joys of Small Eateries on June 8, 2021. English, was a resource person at
Professor, Department of English, She co-authored a manual along a national seminar on ‘Literature
presented a poster at the University with authors, Rajkumari Nimable and and Interpretation: An Exploration’
of Staffordshire conference Roshen Chandran for an organisation organized by Morning Star Home
Communities and Communication. called Children Believe from April to Science College, Angamaly South,
Kerala on August 1, 2020.

Ms. Maya Philip

Ms. Maya Philip, Assistant Professor,
Department of English, was invited
for a panel discussion titled ‘Insider
Sessions’ by Lekh-Haq, a culture
impact cinema company, on the
movie ‘Kumbalangi Nights’ on May
30, 2021.

Ms. Rajalekshmi L S

Ms. Rajalekshmi L S, Teaching

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Assistant, Department of English, programme titled ‘ProAct Digital organized by Binghamton University
was invited for a panel discussion Teacher’. The programme was and Christ Deemed to be University,
titled ‘Insider Sessions’ by Lekh-Haq, organised and conducted by Loyola on April 16, 2021.
a culture impact cinema company, Institute of Business Administration
on the movie ‘Kumbalangi Nights’ on (LIBA), Chennai, and held from June Aishwarya C Chandavarkar presented
May 30, 2021. 15 to June 22, 2020. Ms. Shefali a paper titled ‘Christie’s Marple: A
Mathew, Ms. Amanda D’Souza, and Study of Empowerment through
Prof. Nadika Nadia Ms. Rajalekshmi L S also served as Feminine Characterisation’ at the
Resource Persons and Organisers for ‘International Virtual Conference
Prof. Nadika, Assistant Professor, the Faculty Development Programme on Gender Studies and Women
Department of English, reviewed titled 'SJC Digital Teacher ' Empowerment’ organized by
Thangam movie for the anthology held from June 25, 2020 to June 30, National Institute of Technology,
Paava Kadhaigal for Tamil Magazine 2020, training the faculty members Agartala, on April 18, 2021.
Neelam in January, 2021. of the college in Asynchronous
and Synchronous Learning Tools. Nikita Chung presented a paper titled
They repeated this training for ‘Poetics, Art and The Black Bauhinia
Ms. Shefali Elizabeth Mathew the professors who joined college Flag’ at a national seminar on ‘Art,
this academic year, at a week-long Protest and Politics 2020’ organized
Ms. Shefali Elizabeth Mathew,
Faculty Development Programme by Jyoti Nivas College, Bengaluru,
Assistant Professor, was second
organised for them, titled ‘Induction on February 15, 2021. She presented
author for a paper titled, ‘Lexical
Programme’. another paper titled ‘Surrealism and
Cohesion in ESL Writing’ published in
the Woman: through the works of
Vol 8. Issue 2 (April – June 2020) of
Research Journal of English Language Mr. Christy Thomas Eileen Agar’ at the ‘International
Virtual Conference on Gender
and Literature.
Mr. Christy Thomas successfully Studies and Women Empowerment’
completed and was awarded organized by National Institute of
Mr. Mark Abraham certificates for a total of 34 MOOCs. Technology, Agartala, on April 17,
2021.
Mr. Abraham published a paper
titled ‘Striking balance between the Student Achievements Radhika Chatterjee presented a
technology and the environment paper titled ‘Wyndham’s Post War

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in Amitav Ghosh’s The Hungry Tide’ Humanism in John Wyndham’s Day
in Shodh Sarita - Journal of Arts, esmona de Melo presented
of the Triffids’ on April 30, 2021.
Humanities and Social Sciences, a a paper titled ‘Migration,
UGC-Care journal. Development and the
Sasha Elaine Barreto presented a
Goan Environment: A Rereading of
paper titled ‘Caste encounters: An
Mauzo's Short Stories’ at a national
Ms. Amanda D'Souza conference on ‘Cultural Crossings:
assemblage of body memories from
that of a child to an adult’ at a national
Diffusing Borders’ organized by
Ms. Amanda D’Souza presented a conference on ‘The Story: Life
Kristu Jayanti College (Autonomous),
paper titled ‘A Flight from Reality as a Narratives of Experience, Memory,
Bengaluru, Karnataka, on February
Journey Towards Identity: Exploring Identity and Agency’ organized by
11, 2021. She presented another
Selfhood Through Escape and Kristu Jayanti College Autonomous),
paper titled ‘Motherhood and
Metamorphosis in the Animorphs Bengaluru, Karnataka, on March 25,
Catholicism in Katharine Tynan’s
Series’ at the International 2021.
Poetry’ at the ‘International Virtual
Conference on The Possible and
Conference on Gender Studies and
Impossible Worlds of Science Fiction, Anika Eliz Baby, published an article
Women Empowerment’ organized
organised by the Department titled ‘Throwback Tuberculosis’ in the
by National Institute of Technology,
of English, St. Andrew’s College, online magazine, Helter Skelter, on
Agartala, on April 18, 2021. She also
Mumbai, on September 12-13, 2020. June 21, 2021.
presented a paper titled ‘Building
a Deeper Awareness of Self and
Other Staff Achievements Society: An Autoethnographic Study
Saishyam Srikanth of III EJP published
articles titled ‘Arjun Erigaisi - a
of Caste in Goa’ at an international
Ms. Shefali Mathew, Ms. Amanda peaceful warrior and the future
conference on ‘Memory and
D’Souza, and Ms. Rajalekshmi L S of Indian chess’, ‘P.V. Nandhidhaa:
Narrativization: History, Culture and
attended an online teacher training Engineer, India no.7 and a future GM’,
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‘19 years old and 2585 Elo - the story You Need to Know About the Riots 7. Sahay was asked to elaborate on
of Delhi boy Aryan Chopra’, ‘P. Iniyan’s that have Broke Out’, ‘The Kangana her taste in music and the influences
road from Erode to Sochi’, ‘The Pride Controversy - a Timeline of Events’ for that contributed to her currently
of Pune: Abhimanyu Puranik’ for Newshamster. held preference for the indie pop/
ChessBase India. rock genre.
Annie Louis of III EJP published
Vikas Bhatt of III EJP published articles a short story titled ‘Summer’ on
titled ‘Was French Biryani Delicious INKSPIRE and personal essays titled SJC Performing Arts Society
Enough? Movie review 001’, ‘Single ‘To Heal’ on Esthesia and ‘Njanjan
Screen Theaters - A Dying Story’, ‘Best Veedu’ on The Whineyard. Voice-So-Serious
Benne Masale Dose in Town’, Shutters

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go down on Bengaluru’s favorites’, Nikhita Thomas of the EJP 2017 batch
‘Bengaluru’s solidarity with the city’s cleared the EFLU Hyderabad Entrance oice-So-Serious was an online
sports clubs’, ‘Drone Pratap - Science for MA English. event that took place on
or Scam?’ for NewsHamster. Day 4, August 27, of mixer
Chinmay Manoj from 2016 EJP cleared week from 5:30 pm. Students were
Vijay C of III EJP published an article the MA Comparative Literature encouraged to use their creativity to
titled ‘Prostate and Patriarchy’ on Entrance at EFLU. dub short films with scripts they had
Agents of Ishq. Rohit Ravichandran of the 2017 EJP written. Fatema Zavery (III EJP) was
batch topped the EFLU Entrance for the host of the event and introduced
R Shishma Jeevitha of III EJP published Journalism. the first team consisting of Malavika
an article titled ‘Familiarizing the Vinayan (II EJP), Nithya (III EJP), Anisto
Unfamiliar’ on MagTwentyTwenty. (II HEP), and Aishwarya (II CPE). The
first short film was a humorous
Association Activities take on a zombie invasion and was
Anika Eliz Baby of III EJP published
articles titled ‘Dear Girls Who Sent Nous described by Malvika Vinayan as
Nudes, Thank you!’ and ‘Uncle’s Nosecut “a creative outlet in the time of the
Fault’ for Agents of Ishq, ‘Vijay P pandemic.” Sarang Jayaraj (III CPE)

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Nair Case: Why My Feminism is introduced the next short film which
Loud and Destructive’ for Feminism osecut was held on August was a satire, described as a “sarcastic
In India, ‘The Bloody Letter’ for 29, 2020, via Microsoft Teams, take on the life of a common man”.
MagTwentyTwenty, ‘The Curious Case by SJC Nous, an association His team consisted of Priyanshu (II
of Cervical Cancer’ for Smashboard, under the Department of English. It EJP), Medha(III CPE), and Rohan(III
‘Throwback Tuberculosis’ for started at 5.15 PM, and there were CPE).
HelterSkelter Mag, ‘Aftermath of 5 teams that participated. The first
Slavery- Carribean Countries Insist individual participant was Anirudh
Europe Must Pay Debts’, ‘COVID Nair, from III EJP, who portrayed Linguistics Society
Penalties:Authoritarianism in the LeBron James, the second being Diya
guise of Social Control’, ‘Young Haneena, from II EJP, who took part Wordnik
Women Win Big in Kerala Local Body as Rakhi Sawant. The third individual

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Elections’, ‘#JusticeForSnehlata: Dalit participant was Prithvi, from II EJP,
Girl Burnt Alive by ‘Upper’ Caste who took part as Eminem. Maahir and s part of Mixer week, the
Men in Andhra Pradesh’, ‘Hathras, Gingo, former EJP students, played Linguistics Society conducted
Love Jihad law, and Beef Ban: How Narendra Modi. The final team was its first event ‘Wordnik’ on
Manusmriti continues to influence Ankitha and John, from II JIP, who August 31, 2020, hosted by Dr.Arul
our lives’for Gauri Lankesh News. portrayed Donald Trump. Mani. The event was conducted in
3 rounds. Round one was clarifying
Nikhita Raaj of III EJP published the sentence by adding a word or a
articles titled ‘Cancel Culture - The Listening Post phrase, Round two was word ladder
Good, the Bad and the Ugly’, ‘Sharan and the last round was ‘say it in Shitkil’
was a translation round. Participation

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Sharma as Gunjan Saxena, the Kargil
Girl Aims High and Lands Smoothly’, ‘Is ous hosted their second was in teams of two, 10 teams
SSR and Nepotism Debate an Outcry edition of Listening Post this participated in the event. The winners
of the middle class?’,‘Shakuntala semester, featuring speaker of the event were, Keith Jordan (II
Devi- Do the Numbers Add Up?’, ‘All Drishti Sahay (III CPE) on November MEC) and Andrea Aishwarya (II BSW)
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MA) and Aishwarya Chandavarkar (II students of MA English hosted an Louis from III EJP who bagged the
MA) in event that explored the intricacies first prize, followed by Saran Sibu
second place, and Gautami N B (III of languages. Students presented from I EMS and Suhasini from I EJP-B
EJP) and Anika Baby (III EJP) who won various videos they had made on the who both bagged the second prize
third place. nuances found in different languages. and Naina M Sebastian from I EJP-B,
Some of the languages spoken about and Shaivik Shetty from II CPE who
were Hindi, Tamil, Malayalam etc. The both won the third prize.
Panic! At the Parlour presentations explored phonetics,
similarities in Indian languages to The second event was Illustration.
- Misogynistic Media others and much more. The event was conducted on
September 16 at 1 pm. Illustration

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is a solo event conducted, in which
n April 29, 2021, this event SJC Literary Society the participants have to provide an
was hosted by The Linguistics Arre Bhashe illustration using the limerick given
Society as part of a series of to them as a prompt. The winners of
events titled Linguini. The session the event were Anna Abraham from

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focused on feminist stylistics and ay five of Mixer Week saw I EPS who bagged the first prize,
gendered writing in the media, the much-touted event Arre Rakshithaa Balasubramanian from I
specifically in Indian advertisements Bhashe happening on August EMS who bagged the second prize,
that overgeneralized facts about 28, 2020. Conducted by SJC Literary and Mischelle Elsa Santhosh from
women. Attendees of the session Society, the programme had Vineet I MA ENG, and Shaima Althaf from I
looked into Sexist Language, Correa from III EJP in conversation EJP-B who both won the third prize.
Misogyny, and Phallocentrism in with Ms. Wilma Laveena D’Souza
these advertisements. from the Department of Mathematics
about her recently published poems
Linguascope in Konkani that won the Sahitya
Academy YuvaPuraskar.

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he Linguistic Society conducted
Linguascope on May 4, 2021 Metonym 2020
at 5:30 pm. Linguascope is
an initiative to uncover hidden

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languages. The event encourages etonym is an inter-class literary
students to discover and talk about competition organised by the
unique, unknown languages. The Literary Society featuring
event was hosted by Archa from II events from all of the department’s
CPE and was mediated by Devansh five associations.This year, the fest
Arora and Dupee Taipoda from II was conducted from September 16-
CPE. Devansh who was the first 22, 2020 and the valedictory was held
speaker of the day spoke about the on October 28, 2020. Students from The third event of the day was Fandom
language Multani and presented its various courses across the college Menace which was conducted on
origin, dialect, etc. to the audience. participated in and won various September 16 at 1 pm. Fandom
Dupee, who was the second speaker, events. Menace is a solo writing event in
spoke about the language Galo and which the participant has to bring
its origin, dialect and nuances to the The first event of Metonym 2020 was together his/her favourite characters
audience. Takedown which is a solo writing in a single story in under 1500
event wherein the participants have words. The starter given to them was
to pick one of the three prompts “His companion took refuge in his
Lean on Language given to them and write a takedown, a flowing beard. The woman continued
deflation, or an evisceration in under abusing them in three
1500 words. The topics given were languages.” The winners of Fandom

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“Lockdown Videos”, “Modi’s Pandemic Menace were Yasmin Daniel from I JIP
his was a two day event that
Messages”, and “Friends (open to the who was awarded the first
took place on the 19th and
participant’s interpretation)” The
20th of May 2021 where the
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prize, Parvathy Shaji from III CEB same day was Nosecut. Nosecut is a Geetanjali Kanate and Shreya Sriram
who bagged the second place, and very popular team event where each from I TEP who bagged the second
Rebbecca Reji from I EJP-B who won team is assigned a popular news prize and Gayathri B Prachod and
the third prize. person who is in the news, whom one Surya Saathi from I TEP who won the
of the team members is supposed to third prize.
The fourth event was Bhoot Polish. impersonate. The other member is to
Bhoot Polish is a solo event conducted assume the role of a researcher.The The second event conducted was
by the Performing Arts Society of team is required to handle a press Bollygood at 5 pm. Bollywood is a solo
the department. The final event conference and answer the questions event conducted by the Performing
conducted on September 16 was the by the audience as their impersonated Arts Society where the participant
Bollygood Workshop. The Workshop self. The winners of Nosecut were is required to perform or read his/
was conducted by alumnus Rohit Ravi Megha and Anna from I MCJ, who her own translation of the lyrics to a
at 6 pm through Microsoft Teams. Rohit bagged the first prize followed by filmy number, Bollywood or regional
helped the participants to understand Soumyadeep and Tanzia from II PEM in under 3+1 minutes. The winners of
how to translate their favourite songs who bagged the second prize and Bollygood were Anshu Shetty from II
from regional languages to English Spoorthi and Likitha from I BPS who JIP and Ayushi Dey from I EJP-B who
and make it captivating and fun. won the third prize. shared the first prize followed by
Bhumika from I CZBT and Roshan from
On September 17, Nous conducted The third event for the day was III EJP who shared the second prize
Boom Voyage at 2 pm. Boom Voyage Classified Intelligence which is a team and Cynthia from I TEP and Anika Eliz
is a solo writing competition wherein quiz conducted by the Quiz Club. Baby from III EJP who shared the third
the participants are required to write Classified Intelligence is a general prize.
about the ordinary in an extraordinary quiz covering all the topics around
way. The participants were required the globe. The winners of Classified On September 21, the Linguistics
to take an ordinary trip from their Intelligence were Saishyam and Society Spellunked at 5 pm. Spellunked
lives and describe it in a travelogue Anirudh from III EJP who bagged the is a new addition to Metonym this
style writing and make the journey first prize followed by Anshu and Sarah year and is a combination of Spelling
appear like a tourist destination trip from II JIP who bagged the second Bee and other word games. The
in under 1000 words. The winners prize, and Veneet and Anindhya from winners of Spellunked were Diya and
of Boom Voyage were Sahaya Riju III EJP who won the third prize. Drishti from III CPE who bagged the
from III CPE who bagged the first first prize followed by Aishwarya C
prize, Elizabeth Eldo from II BCOM-D The last event conducted on and Dippanita Mukherjee from II ENG
who bagged the second prize, and September 18 was 20 Questions. 20 who bagged the second prize and
Aishwarya Radhakrishnan from II CPE Questions is a team quiz where the Lithesh and Soujanya from I JIP who
and Anirudh from III EJP who both team has to ask questions to arrive at bagged the third prize. September 22
won the third prize. a personality/place, or the team has was the last day of Metonym 2020.
to give someone clues to help them The Linguistics Society conducted
The third day of Metonym began arrive at the personality/place. The the final event of the year, By the
with Scriptease. Scriptease is a winners of 20 Questions were Alita Book at 5 pm. By the Book is a team
team writing event hosted by the and Nikita from I EJP-B who bagged event where the participants dress
Linguistics Society. The event was the first prize, followed by Allen and up as characters from a book. They
conducted on September 18 at 4 pm. Shivani from I JIP who bagged the are required to pick a book and pick
The participants were required to second prize, and Litesh and Soujanya five characters from it. They then have
create a script for a language based from I JIP who won the third prize. to use available clothes/material to
on the prompt given to them. The The first event conducted on dress in character and speak their
winners of Scriptease were Aishwarya September 19 was Scene it all at favourite lines/do things the character
R and Indulekha KM from II CPE 4pm. Scene it all is a team writing is known for. They are also required
who bagged the first prize, Radhika event conducted by the Performing not to reveal the title of the book, or
Chatterjee and Dipannita Mukherjee Arts Society where the teams were character name and ask the audience
from II MA English who bagged the required to develop a scene for the to guess them. The winners of By the
second prize and Anika Eliz Baby and stage using the photograph given Book were Anindya, Nitya and Veneet
Gautami N from III EJP, and Akshaya R to them as a starter.The winners of from III EJP in the first place. Geetanjali
and Devika Biju of II BCOM who shared Scene it all were Kevin Noel Sequeira Kanate, Sneha Agarwal and Miriam
the third prize. and Fatema Zavery from III EJP who Tom from I TEP in second place. The
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Roy, Santri S, and Shriya B from I BVC department were called upon to on the topic New Directions for
and Malaika Fatima, Shaima Althaf talk about their experience of META English Departments. The panel
and Vidhi Chawla from I EJP. and their thoughts on the theme consisted of Ms. Drishti Rakhra, Ms.
for this year. Dr. Mini Mark Bonjour Micah Thambi, Ms. Shefali Elizabeth
The valedictory for Metonym 2020 talked about appreciating the irony Mathew, Dr. Muthukumar M and Mr.
was held on October 28 at 7 pm on of the Unconfined. Dr. Etienne Pramod Harle, “the fresh faces of
Microsoft Teams. The event was kicked Rassendran explored the assertion of the English department.” The panel
off by a small note from the convenors the unconfined and Ms. Vijeta Kumar was moderated by Ms. Dipanitha
of all the five associations who also spoke about how it felt to conduct Mukherjee, a II year MA student. The
shared a video presentation of some META in April and how Dalit History panel discussed teaching during the
interesting and funny moments Month connected to the theme. pandemic as members of the English
during the different competitions and department, the challenges and their
a concluding note by Dr. Arul Mani. III innovations.
EJP won the rolling trophy with a total Prof. Barbra Naidu Personal
of 199 points, I JIP with 153 points
Essay Contest Reading Malayalam
placed second, and I EJP-B with 126
points placed third. I EMS was named Writing English
the Best PSA class, I CZBT the Best NSA

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Class, III EJP the Best Humanities Class, n the college category, Pranav V
he panel on Reading
I BCOM BPS the Best B.COM Class, and S and Eshwari R were adjudged
Malayalam Writing English was
I MCJ the Best Master’s Class. winners. In the open category,
moderated by Ms. Vijeta Kumar
the best essay win went to Fatima
and consisted of panelists Ms. Nikita
Hijas and in the school category,
Thomas and Ms. Nisha Susan. The
Anirudh Varma won the contest.
META 2021: The Beginning Special mention for the essay
panel discussion, on April 16, 2021,
began with a short introduction of
went to Chadala Valli. The judge
Nisha Susan and her work by Annie

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was Paromita Vohra. The winners
Louis and Ms. Vijeta Kumar. Nikitha
n April 15, 2021, Department were announced on April 17, 2021.
Thomas then shared her admiration
of English, St. Joseph’s for Ms. Susan and the panelists
College (Autonomous) discussed her book ’Women Who
inaugurated the 9 th edition of the The TRH Peck Forgot to Invent Facebook and Other
Josephite Annual Literature Festival. Stories’;. Nisha Susan then began to
Before the inauguration began, Memorial Lecture Contest discuss her experiences with reading
there was a sense of excitement Malayalam.

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with discussions about virtual owl
backgrounds and online experiences. his contest required
The event began at 5 pm with host participants to give a short Just-A-Minute
Ms. Anika Eliz Baby from III EJP lecture on a literary work,

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introducing META and calling upon idea or author of their choosing.
the head of the department of The students were judged by Ms. eta 2021 would not be
English Dr. Arul Mani to say a few Priyadarshini, an alumnus of the complete without the
words. Dr. Arul Mani introduced the college. Ms. Priyadarshini announced much-awaited return of Just
theme of META ‘Unconfined’ the the winners. First place went to a Minute (JAM), moderated by the
essence of which was captured by Rohit, he was followed by Christina head of the English department and
telling the attendees stories like that in second and Sasha came in third. resident JAM enthusiast, Dr. Arul Mani.
of RK Narayan, the Wellisian Frog The contest tested the creativity and
and of Ambedkar and the notion orating ability of six participants who
of fraternity. After this, the winners were given prompts. Astha (II EJP)
of The Fr. Cecil Saldana Memorial emerged victorious with a whopping
Wildlife Writing Contest was New Directions for 125 points, followed closely by Suraj
(III CZBT) with 117 and Rohit (III EJP)
announced. Andy Lewis won for the English Deprtments with 67.
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for the Open Category. Next year’s he first panel discussion of
theme was announced as Winging META 2021 took place on April
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order to get insight on how to solve
Valdyanathan Film anagrams. Next, several clues were
Review Contest (9th Edition) given for one anagram to make things
more difficult and the audience had
to come up with different answers

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for each clue. After this the patterns
he literary society conducted
in setting a cryptic puzzle and the
the 9 th edition of The Prof. T
language used by
G Vaidyanathan Film Review
the setters were discussed. The last
Contest on April 17, 2021 at 4:30
part of the workshop was about
PM. The event was hosted by Sarah
chain words as answers. Chain words
George of II JIP. The participants
are words that share a syllable, in
were required to watch the 1979
crosswords and quizzes they will
Malayalam movie Kummatti and
usually be connected by the singular
write a review for it in around 1500
clue provided.
words. Astha Sharma was declared
the winner followed by Amalnath
Rajeevan who placed second and Workshop - What's
Shreya Ghosh and Samriddhhi
faculty. The list of the participants the good word?
Gahatak who tied for third place.
who qualified for finals was later

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Diya Ashtakala and Sarang Jayraj
were given special mentions for their circulated on the Discord Channel. A
he SJC Quizzers hosted a
reviews. total of 25 teams registered for the
‘What’s the Good Word?’
quiz, and 11 teams qualified for finals.
workshop on October 9, 2020.
The finals of the quiz was held at 6:30
The workshop was conducted by Dr.
Departures and Continuities pm on the Club’s Discord Channel
Arul Mani and was aimed at reviving
- The English Department and was open to all who wished to
the dying quiz event of ‘What’s the
attend. The finalists had to partake in
Good Word?’ by introducing it to the
two written rounds and two pounce/

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attendees of the workshop. After
he Literary Society conducted bounce rounds. The final scores
the general introduction to WTGW,
Departures and Continuities - tallied, the winners were announced
Dr. Arul Mani, explained the rules of
The English department as part and were lauded by all. The first place
the competition and the participants
of Meta 2021, on April 17, 2021 at 5:30 was bagged by Assistant Professors
tried to guess words based on clues.
PM. The panellists were Dr. Arul Mani, Ms. Amanda D’Souza and Ms. Drishti
The workshop came to an end with
Dr. Mini Mark Bonjour and former Rakhra. Sreya and Teresa placed
Dr.Arul Mani giving tips on how to
professors Dr. Etienne Rassendren second followed by Ruchira and
practice for WTGW.
and Dr. Cheriyan Alexander from Arathana who secured third place.
the department of English. The four The quiz master for both the rounds
professors discussed at length their was Dr. Arul Mani, the head of the Pushups
arrival, first class and embarrassing Department of English.

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moments.
JC Quizzers in partnership with
the Karnataka Quiz Association
Cryptic Clues held the first Pushups session
Quiz Club - SJC Quizzers of the season on September 5, 2020,

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Women's Quiz n Friday, September 4, the
at 3:30 pm. Over 50 people took
part in the quiz from all across the
Quiz Club held the first

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country. The week’s pushups were set
workshop of the semester,
JC Quizzers, an association by Praneeth Bharadwaj, Ravi Shankar
Cryptic Clues. The workshop began
under the Department of S and Dr. Arul Mani. The pushup’s
at 8:00 pm and was conducted on
English held a Women’s Quiz winners were as follows: Subhajit
Microsoft Teams. The event was
on August 27 as part of Mixer Week Sengupta in the open category,
conducted by Dr. Arul Mani. He
arranged by the college for first year Harinarayanan K from NIT Calicut
introduced the idea of quick versus
students. The quiz was open to all in the college category, Mileena
cryptic crosswords and the basic
female quizzers, both students and Jacob in the woman’s category and
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Kushagra Agarwal from Presidency from all across the country and even category, Pranav P V, R V College of
School NLO won from the school from places outside India such as Engineering in the college category,
category. The winners took home Kuwait. The week’s pushups were set Sania Narulkar in the women's
Amazon gift vouchers worth ₹ 150
for their performance.

SJC Quizzers and KQA held the

second Pushups session of the season
on September 19, 2020, at 3:30 pm.
Nearly 50 people took part in the
quiz from all across the country. The
week’s pushups were set by Saishyam
Srikanth, Sreya Mandal and Dr. Arul
Mani. The pushup’s winners were as
follows: Adheesh Ghosh in the open
category, Anshuman Pal, University
of Chicago, in the college category,
Jayashree Mohanka in the woman’s
category and Kushagra Agarwal,
Presidency School NLO won the
school category. The winners took
home Amazon gift vouchers worth ₹
150 for their performance. category and Adi Amartya Shankar -
by Alan Shaju, Saitej Amonkar and Ekya School, ITPL won the school
SJC Quizzers and KQA held the third Dr. Arul Mani. The pushup’s winners category. The winners took home
Pushups session of the season on were as follows: Arun T.P in the open Amazon gift vouchers worth ₹ 150
October 3, 2020, at 3:30 pm. 40 category, Adarsh Das in the for their performance.
people took part in the quiz from all college category, Jayashree M in
across the country and the world. The the women's category and Quiz Club Weekly
week’s pushups were set by Taaby, Kushagra Agarwal won the school
category. The winners took home

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Allan Joseph and Dr. Arul Mani. This
edition saw ties in two categories. Amazon gift vouchers worth ₹ 150 JC Quiz Club held their weekly
The pushup’s winners were as follows: for their performance. quizzes virtually on Discord due
Venky Srinivasan & Shubhendu SJC Quizzers and KQA held the fifth to the ongoing pandemic. The
Saha in the open category, Spandan Pushups session of the season on quizzes were held every Friday at
Das - NPS, Koramangala & October 30, 2020, at 6:30 pm. 40 6:30 pm, the weekly event sees up
Kushagra Agarwal - Presidency, NLO people took part in this final pushups to 20 participants which include
in the school category, Jayashree M in edition of the semester. The week’s regular Quiz Club members and new
the woman’s category and Adheesh pushups were set by Ravi Shankar S, members as well. The quiz includes
Ghosh - Ashoka University won the Nikhita Thomas and Dr. Arul Mani. cryptic, connect-the-pictures, and
college category. The winners took The pushup’s winners were as follows: other engaging questions.
home Amazon gift vouchers worth ₹ Thathagatha Chatterjee in the open
150 for their performance and joint
winners took home gift vouchers
worth ₹100.
SJC Quizzers and KQA held the fourth
Pushups session of the season on
October 17, 2020, at 3:30 pm. Close
to 40 people took part in the quiz
from all across the country and even
from places outside India such as
Kuwait. The week’s pushups were set
by Alan Shaju, Saitej Amonkar and
Dr. Arul Mani. The pushup’s winners
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National Webinar Hindi Diwas Celebration: Parishad for organising the week-long
Hindi Diwas through an online platform.
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The winners of various competitions
he Hindi Parishad of the were announced and a poster with all the
Department of Hindi, St.Joseph’s winners was uploaded on the official Hindi
epartment of Hindi at
College (Autonomous), Bangalore Parishad Instagram page.
St. Joseph’s College
(Autonomous), organised Hindi Diwas Celebration on
B e n g a l u r u September 19, 2020. On this auspicious Staff Achievements:
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National Webinar on Mahima Prassano, Dr. Priyanka and
“Phaneeshvaranaath Renu ke Sahity mein Mr. P Henry James - gave valuable and r. Hasan Yunus Pathan
Sthaniyata, Aanchalikata aur Yathaarth” on insightful talks on the significance of participated in multiple
July 27th, 2020. The resource persons for Hindi as a language. All the members webinars and workshops over
the session were Dr. Surendra Narayan of Hindi Parishad made videos in their this academic year. Dr. Pathan also
Yadav, subject specialist and former areas of interest i.e. kavita, stories, or convened a one day National Webinar on
Head of Department, Purnia University, shayari along with the teachers to “Phaneeshvaranaath Renu ke Sahity mein
Bihar, Dr. Vishal Srivastava, Government promote Hindi language on Hindi Diwas. Sthaniyata, Aanchalikata aur Yathaarth”
College, Pachavas Basti, U.P and Dr. Suraj The Hindi Parishad organised a singing held on July 27, 2020, at St. Joseph’s
Kumar, Central University of Karnataka, and instrumental music competition, College (Autonomous), Bengaluru. Dr.
Kalaburagi. Over1200 participants from wherein the students from different Pathan also wrote an article titled, ‘Itihaas
across the country registered and 750 streams including the non‐Hindi students Kee Vartamaan Yaatana ka Dastaavez : Saat
participants connected through Google participated and entertained the audience. Aasamaan’ in Sahityasetu (Included in the
Meet and YouTube Live. At the end of the program, Dr. Pathan UGC- CARE list) Vol.10 in May-June 2020.
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 Hindi Parishad: Shreema Shetty were selected as Student guest where he gave some valuable tips
Coordinators from various sections. Dr. to students on how to write poetry and
Election of the Office Bearers Pathan Hasan, Coordinator of the Hindi enhance the skill.
Parishad, congratulated all the students
in the Hindi Parishad and invested them with the responsibility
2020 - 21 Hindi Week:
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n August 25, 2020, an open he Hindi Parishad organised an
invitation was given to all the Hindi Parishad: online Hindi Diwas celebration for
students of BA, BCom and BSc one week from
September 14 to September 19, 2020.

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streams to come forward and volunteer
for various posts of the Hindi Parishad. n September 5, 2020, the Hindi There were a number of events that were
A form was circulated to all students Parishad observed its inaugural conducted. Students from all streams
where they had to put in their details and ceremony under the guidance of participated and displayed their talents.
the posts they would like to stand for. its coordinator Dr. Pathan Hasan. Dr. Sajida On September 14, 2020, a Hindi quiz was
After an online selection process by the Ahmed, Head of the Department of Hindi conducted. On September 15, 2020, an
coordinator Dr. Pathan Hasan, a meeting and Mr. Ramadge Gangadhar Piraji were essay writing and extempore competition
was organised through Google Meet and also present. The guest of honour on this took place. On September 16, 2020,
all the aspirants were required to attend auspicious occasion was Dr. Nitin Patil of St. a declamation and drama event was
it. All nominees had to prepare a speech Francis College. All the names of the office- conducted. On September 17 and 18,
of two minutes explaining their motives, bearers were announced by the president 2020 events like ‘shayari’ and storytelling
objectives and methods to make Hindi of the Hindi Parishad. They shared their and stand up comedy were conducted.
Parishad a more recognisable body, their experience and motivated the newly Finally, on September 19, 2020, the last day
reasons for joining the Hindi Parishad elected council members to give their of Hindi Week, a singing and instrumental
and their field of expertise and interest. best. A poetry recitation event was held competition was organised. The main
The results were declared a day after the to make the inauguration ceremony more aim of the week-long programme was to
interview session, on August 31, 2020. interesting. Students from all the different spread awareness about the importance
The officer bearers of the association streams took part and recited their of Hindi language among students of the
were - Samuel James as President, Naina original compositions. Dr. Hasan and Dr. college. The members of Hindi Parishad
Singh and Kajal Kumari as Vice Presidents, Gangadhar also recited their poems to took up all the responsibilities under the
Harshitha S. as treasurer, Nikitha M Jain and the students. Dr. Sajida congratulated all guidance of Dr. Pathan and Dr. Ramadge
Shweta Singh as General Secretary. Shruti the council members and wished them Gangadhar Piraji and every event was
Srivastava, Jyothi Rathod, Zaid Baig, H well for the upcoming year. The program executed very well.
Vikas Kumar Jain, Dholakiya Namratta and was concluded by the speech of the chief

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Samskrita Tarangini competition where the chosen song .
mandatorily had to have Sanskrit lyrics.
Various bhajans, subhashitas and classical
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keerthanams were sung by the participants.
Aanarthanam was a solo-dancing
competition of classical, and folk-dance
tkarsha was the first forms. Participants performed various
‘inter-collegiate fest forms of dance ranging from classical
organised by the forms like Kathak and Bharatanatyam to
Samskrita Tarangini, folk forms like Yakshagana. Geetoktam was
the Sanskrit association a Sanskrit recitation competition where Yaksha prashna, the Sanskrit quiz was
of SJC. The event the participant not only had to memorize the last live event lined up in the inter-
was conducted from February 16 to the verses from Bhagavadgita but also college Sanskrit fest- Utkarsha. There
February 18, 2021, and comprised of five present the interpretation of the same. The were participants from various colleges
events, namely Ragamajari (Solo-singing), competition was judged by Mr. Adarsha whose knowledge on the various aspects
Aanarthanam (Solo- dance), Yakshaprashna K S, Head of the Department of Sanskrit of Sanskrit language ranging from basic
(Quiz), Geetoktam (Recitation) and at Trisha College of Commerce. Utkarsha’s grammar to the epics and Puranas were
Chaturaleela (Potpourri). The events were first live event was Chaturaleela. The event’s tested in the quiz. Three winners were
held on Microsoft Teams and Discord. The main objective was to provide the chosen per event making it a total of
events were well received and participants participants with a challenging yet fun 15 winners who were rewarded with
from various colleges took part in them. activity to display their skills in Sanskrit. e-certificates and vouchers. Altogether,
The participants had to email their song This being the first online event for the the fest was very successful and served as a
and dance clips to the association, which association and for most of the participants, very creative and enjoyable platform for the
were then evaluated and marked by the there were a few technical hiccups but on participants to display their Sanskrit skills.
judges. Ragamanjari was a solo-singing the whole, the event went on smoothly

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he Department of Tamil end with the vote of thanks by Ilamathi
and Tamil Sangam from III EPS.
Association of St. Joseph’s
College conducted a
webinar titled 'Corona and
the student community’
( கொ ரோ னா வு ம் மா ண வ ச்
சமுதாயமும்)on MS Teams, on 17th
May, 2021. This event was organised
and hosted by Ms. Arokiya Mary, Head
of the Department of Tamil. The event
started with Tamil ‘Thai Vaazhthu’ by
Thejashwini from II EPS and a welcome
speech by Pavithra from II EJP. The
chief guest speaker of the event was
Mr. Muthumani Nannan, President of
Karnataka Tamil Journalist Association.
The event saw seventy one participants
including students of the college,
Tamil scholars, Tamil enthusiasts and a
few alumni. The question and answer
session was very interactive as the guest
speaker enthusiastically answered the
students; questions regarding media
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Webinar on A eminent guest speaker was Mr. Vijayan
Agneeswaran, Head of the Department
Comprehensive insight into of French. He gave a detailed insight
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into the geography of France, speaking
about its different regions, prominent
physical features, major rivers and
he Department of French famous monuments. He later delved
and the members of into the History of France- talking about
the French association la Révolution Française (the French
Rendez-Vous organized Revolution), Siècle des lumières (The Age
a webinar on August of Enlightenment), Napoleon Bonaparte
2, 2020. The theme of and his contribution to French society.
the webinar was 'A Comprehensive Mr. Agneeswaran then went on to discuss
Insight into the French Universe.' The the prime focus of the webinar- French
literature and the works of celebrated
French authors. In this section, he shared
his immense knowledge of fables and
recited works of the famous fabulist
Jean de La Fontaine in an interactive
manner. The presentation was followed
by a Q&A session and concluded with a
vote of thanks delivered by the President

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organised in collaboration with R. Gyaneshwar Singh, Secretary,
Destination Heritage on the 9 th Ramsons Kala Pratishtana, Mysore
n collaboration with PANA of August 2020, titled & Scripted and Ms Riddhi Joshi, Postgraduate
(Philatelists and Numismatics Stones.; The resource persons student, Department of History,
Association) of SJC and The were Dr T S Ravishankar, Retired University of Mumbai. Both speakers
Center of Indian Numismatic Director (Epigraphy), ASI, Mysore highlighted the colourful history
Studies, the Department and Dr Krishnaswamy S, Assistant of board games across India. The
organised a national level Epigraphist Epigraphy Branch, ASI, webinar was a chance for students
webinar on July 3, 2020, titled Mysore. Both speakers are noted to learn more about their culture
'Assimilation and Assertion'- A Epigraphists who have worked and explore facets of history that
Numismatic History of Foreign Rule on several projects across India. generally remain untouched.
in India.’ The webinar saw eminent The speakers also highlighted the
speakers from across India speak importance of preserving On the 18th of July 2020, the
about the rich history of Numismatics inscription stones across India Department conducted two Online
in India and how foreign rulers have and urged people to take a keener National Level Inter- Collegiate
impacted Indian coinage and currency. interest in the subject of Epigraphy. Debating events - a Silent Debate
The resource persons were Mr and an Open Debate. The motion
Purnanand Sanket, Mr Mohit Kapoor, A national-level webinar in for the Open Debate was ‘Structural
Founder Trustees of the Centre of collaboration with Destination racism is prevalent in most parts of
Indian Numismatic Studies. Mr Mohit Heritage, Bengaluru, was organised the world’;. The motion for the Silent
is also the Director of Imperial Auctions, on the 18th of October 2020. The Debate was ‘History has been used as
licensed by ASI and Mr Gautam Jantakal, webinar was titled ‘Art of Play’, an a form of propaganda’; on the Google
a numerical consultant with the Center informative session on the cultural Meet platform. The main aim of the
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of dialogue and discourse among the History, Bangalore University. This Bengaluru, organised a Certificate
students and encourage students to lecture focused on the rich legacy Course in Indian Numismatics for
critically analyze a particular topic of the Freedom Movement and the the academic year 2020 - 2021 titled
before coming to conclusions. contributions of Indian Christians to ‘Gleaning India’s History through
the movement. Numismatics’.
To commemorate India’s 72 nd
Republic Day, a National Level Online ‘Reform or Annihilation – Revisiting
Quiz was conducted between the Indian Renaissance in terms of Staff Achievements:
26 th and 28 th of January 2021. The Unending Caste Atrocities’ on the
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part across India. The theme of the person was Mr Sonal V Manoj, Alumni, ane D’Souza, Head, Department
quiz was ‘Indian National Movement Batch of 2016-19, who is currently of History, attended 26 online
and Independence’. pursuing his Master’s in History seminars & conferences
at the Pondicherry University. The held by various colleges across the
lecture highlighted the social reform country during the academic year.
Guest Lectures: movement taken up by Jyotiba Phule Dr D’Souza also participated and
and Savitribai Phule in Maharashtra presented a research paper in the
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Online Annual History Students
he following guest lectures impacted the Dalit movement in Conference organized by Madras
were conducted for B.A. HEP contemporary times. Christian College, Chennai on the
students. ‘Relevance of the 19 th of March 2021. The theme of
Freedom Movement in the 21st the Conference was ‘My City: Local
Century’ on the 18 th of August 2020, Workshop: to Global’. Ms D’Souza presented
by Dr Jeevan Kumar, Retd. Professor of a paper on the topic ‘Glimpses of

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Political Science, Bangalore University Bengaluru through inscriptions’
and an Honorary Professor at the workshop in Corporate Skills along with Abhirami & Sandra
Karnataka State Rural Development titled ‘Boost your Corporate from II HEP.
and Panchayat Raj University. The Skills’ was held on the 6th of
lecture was held to commemorate February 2021. It was co-hosted by Dr Paul Newman, Faculty, Department
the 74 th Independence Day and the Department of History and Bridge of History was an external examiner
reaffirm our country’s values. IT- a firm focusing on enhancing at North Maharashtra University,
young people’s corporate skills. The Jalgaon for two PhD theses. He was
‘A Journey through Civil Services’ on resource person was Ms Bernadin B, also invited as a resource person
24 th of August 2020, by Ex Josephite Associate Director, Learning & to various institutions, including -
Mr Deepak Raj. Since many of our Development, with UBS Business Institute of Human Rights Education
students aim at cracking the UPSC Solutions Center, and Founder & (IHRE), and Kempegowda Institute of
exams, this lecture was delivered Owner of Bridge IT Learning Solutions Management Studies and Research,
to provide the students with some & Development Strategies. The to provide his insights into topics
insights on how to prepare for the workshop covered a range of topics such as Human Rights, Refugee
UPSC exams. like interview etiquette, writing Rights, Constitution and Social
skills, and confidence-building with Responsibilities of Educators.
‘Career options in History and mock interviews conducted to show
Understanding Bangalore’s Heritage’; students how to tackle a formal job
on the 9 th of September 2020, by interview. Students were also taken
Dr Githa U Badikillaya, Founder through a resume writing session.
Trustee of Destination Heritage. Dr
Githa introduced the students to the
multiple career options available to Certificate Course in
them in History.
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Movement in Karnataka’ on the
12 th of September 2020, by Dr he Department of History in
Narasingaraju Naidu, Retd. Prof. collaboration with the Centre
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articles in various international for the academic year 2020 -2021 17th of October 2020, where students
journals - ‘An Adivasi Crusader Under with the selection of its office were asked to showcase a dish that
Trial: A Blot On Indian Democracy’ bearers. Three III HEP students were has a historical significance in their
and ‘The Forgotten Genocide of unanimously selected as the office community or family. Students were
Sikhs in June 1984’ in Eurasia Review; bearers: Aaisha Nehal as President, asked to make a short video on
‘The need for the US presence in Shreyas Isaac as Secretary and the methods used, family history,
the UN human rights council with Poireitomba Huidrom as Joint ingredients, etc. The event helped
particular reference to Sri Lanka’ Secretary. students understand how food and
in the International Journal of History were closely connected. The
Multidisciplinary Education and Amidst the Covid 19 situation, prize winners were Malegere Swathi
Research. students were encouraged to of I HEP, Dhaaneswaran B of I BCom
write articles on various historical IFA and Anu Rasha of I HEP.
aspects, events, and monuments
Student Achievements: across the country. The department,
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aisha Nehal and Shreyas Isaac winning entries were featured on the
of Final B.A. HEP published social media pages of Destination
a paper titled ‘Gandhian Heritage and received a lot of positive
Feminism’ with Project Statecraft; feedback from readers.
a youth-led policy think tank
that focuses on International and Activities :
National level issues. Eight students August 2021 saw the new B.A.
from I & II B.A. HEP participated batch on the virtual campus and
and presented research papers in Parishodhana held a welcome session
the Online Annual History Students on the 2 nd of September 2020. After
Conference organized by Madras a quick ice breaker students were
introduced to the department’s As a part of Pratibha 2021, St. Joseph’s
Christian College, Chennai, on the Intra-Collegiate fest, Parishodhana
19 th of March 2021. The theme of legacy and were given a glimpse into
the future events. hosted a Heritage Photography
the conference was ‘My City: Local contest in the second week of
to Global’. The paper presentations March 2021. Students were asked to
were as follows : The first inter-class event was ‘Viva
La Poster Revolution’, where students send pictures of heritage sites and
‘Glimpses Of Bengaluru through monuments and a short write-up on
inscriptions’ by Abhirami M D & had to design and recreate historical
posters, either digitally or handmade. the same. The judge for the event was
Sandra Wilfred of II HEP Sonal Manoj, an ex-Josephite who is
‘The second siege of Kochi’ by Teerth The prize winners were Prerna
Kumari of II HEP, Nihal Mushtaq PM of currently pursuing his Master’s in
Narang of I HEP History at the Pondicherry University.
‘Analysing the historical city - I HEP, Dia Sharma of I BVC and Divya
R Reddy of I HEP. The winners were - Varshitha Hegde
Amritsar’ by Navneet Kaur & of I CZBT, Diya Anna Simo of II BBA A
Karen Benaifer of II HEP and Anoushka Sudhir of I CPE.
‘Flora, fauna and ecotourism - A case Ancestral Recipe – An inter-class food
study Of Palakkad’ by Anisto Issac videography contest was held on the
Saju & Jiss Thomas of II HEP
‘A study of environment in Bengaluru
city - Lakes, flora And fauna’ by Ankith
C of I HEP

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association of the Department
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Economics of Economics Forum an inspiring message to students.
The guest speaker was Dr Prabhakar
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sustainability. Around 200 students
ikonomika, the Post Graduate
participated in the event.
he Department of Economics Association along
Economics organized a with the Economics Forum
webinar on ‘Economics Association for Under Graduate
of Consumer Behavior Economics students of St. Joseph’s
during covid-19’ on the College (Autonomous), Bengaluru,
14th of May 2020. This inaugurated their activities for the
webinar was organized in association academic year 2020-2021 with a
with the Department of Psychology. guest lecture on ‘Small is beautiful’
The Resource people was Dr Robert on 27th of August 2020, on MS Teams.
Clive, From Cross Land and Little The session advanced with a
Rock Institutions. His main focus presentation of past year reports,
was the impact of the coronavirus announcement of the new core
and changing consumer needs committee student members of
and behaviours which poses new Oikonomika and Economic Forum
challenges to marketers. and the tentative events for the year
2020-2021. Ms Anita Noronha from
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Modern Thought aculty of the Department Analytics Impact Factor 1.797)
of Economics participated Bairagya, I., T. Bhattacharya & P.

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in multiple national and Tiwari (2021), “Does Vocational
he Department of Economics international webinars. They were Training Promote Female Labour
conducted its second webinar also involved in organising many Force Participation? An Analysis
on the 7th of September webinars, panel discussions, talks for India”, Margin: The Journal of
2020. Dr Niharika Singh, an Assistant and FDPs for the department as well Applied Economic Research, 15 (1):
Professor at Symbiosis University was as the college. They also successfully 1-25. (Published by SAGE, included in
the resource person for the event. completed MOOCS in the academic SCOPUS and UGC-CARE list)
She discussed how economic history year 2020-2021.
differs from the history of economic Bhattacharya, T. (2021), “Farmers in
thought and the importance of Prof Clement Dsouza delivered Peri-Urban Regions in India: Are their
understanding them. As modern a guest lecture on the 27th of Financial Statuses
economics relies heavily on numbers, December 2020 on the topic, ‘A different from Rural Farmers?”,
the labour- intensive industries paradigm shift in economic thinking Urban India (UGC-CARE list) Prof.
seem to be turning to machines toward technology’ on invitation by Tulika Bhattacharya is also involved
and the human side of economics Indian Economic Association held in an ongoing project titled
is getting lost. She also elaborated at Dr B. A University, Agra. He was ;'Discrimination in Maternal Health
on how dependence on Psychology nominated by Bangalore Central Care and its Impact on Female
and Sociology is being replaced by university to frame the syllabus for Labour' Force Participation: 'A Study
artificial intelligence. quantitative papers for the UG level. of Indian Economy'; funded by Indian
He also attended the Board of studies Council of Social Science Research
meeting on the 15th of January 2021 (ICSSR) (Grant Amount: Rs. 5,00,000)
The paradox of choice: Making held at St Joseph’s Evening College. She submitted a research proposal
for a sponsored research project
Career Decisions titled ;'A Study on the Mental Health
Prof Nikhil Jha published the
following articles in the academic and Quality of Life of Survivors of

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year 2020-2021 in StoriesAsia.org.--- Intimate Partner Violence' (IPV) in
he paradox of choice:
“Why a Free Informal Sector Can Ease Metropolitan Cities in India"
Making Career Decisions was
Lockdown Pains”,“Why Not to Fear the to the National Commission for
an international webinar
Rising Covid-19 Cases”and“The Cost Women (NCW). (Grant Amount: Rs.
organised by the Department of
of Unbalanced Views on COVID-19”. 18,15,000) She also presented a
Economics in association with
paper titled “Imported Intermediate
The Placement Office, St Joseph’s
Prof Tulika Bhattacharya published Inputs and Firm Productivity Across
College (Autonomous) Bengaluru
the following papers in the academic Developing Economies: An Analysis
on 23rd of September 2020. There
year 2020-2021 - Bhattacharya, T., B. Based on Input-Output Technique”
were about 800 participants who
Bhandari & I. Bairagya (2020). for presentation in the 36th IARIW
registered for the webinar from all
“Where Are the Jobs? Estimating Skill- General Conference under the
over India. Ms Anita Noronha and
based Employment Linkages across theme 'Economic Growth and
Mr Kiran Jeevan led the team and
Sectors for the Indian Economy: An Productivity with Special Emphasis
worked with a student coordinator
Input-Output Analysis”, Structural on Developing Economies; to be
who led the technical team to
Change and Economic Dynamics, held from August 24th to 28th,
successfully conduct this webinar.
Vol. 53, pp. 292-308. (Published by 2021 in Oslo, Norway. (Accepted
The speaker invited was Ms Smrithi
ELSEVIER, included in SSCI, SCOPUS for presentation with full financial
Ramesh, Director, AAA-ICR Asia Case
and UGC-CARE list, Clarivate Analytics assistance).
Management Centre, Singapore.
Impact Factor 2.023) Dr Bhattacharya also delivered
Ms Smrithi was invited to help the
a lecture on the topic “Training
students understand the possible
Bairagya, I., T. Bhattacharya & Session on Input-Output Analysis”
career options and opportunities
M. Bhattacharjee (2020). “Impact of at the National Institute of Industrial
available to them after graduating
Credit Accessibility on the Earnings Engineering (NITIE), Mumbai on 19th
with a degree in Humanities and
of Self-employed Businesses in India”, of February 19 2021.
Commerce.
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of the event were Dr Samir Kagalkar,
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for United Nations Association For a Public Policy Researcher and
Development and Peace (UNADAP), Podcaster. Both the platforms had a he Modern Society was
for the International summit on combined viewership of over 1000 launched on 1st of October
online learning platforms organised attendees. 2020 as the third wing under
by Marian International Institute of the Economics Forum, St Joseph’s
Management in association with College (Autonomous). Its aim was
to establish a discussion group to
UNADAP, on 15th of August 2020. Life Around Covid communicate, present and have
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authored a paper titled “A tale of opinions. The panellists were chosen
ikonomika, the PG economics
how Coronavirus stalled the growth from the third-year students who
association, School of
engines of the world” which was had been to National conferences
Humanities, brought out
published in Juni Khyat (UGC Care and had presented their Research
an interesting module on COVID19
Group I Listed Journal) ISSN: 2278- Papers. Modern society also had a
titled “Life Around Covid” during
4632, Vol-10. Issue-6 No. 7 June 2020. core committee group of 9 members.
the difficult time. It included some
These members were responsible
positive news from around the
for marketing, topic generation and
world, some details about how the
registration of attendees. The
OKIONOMIA health sector of our country is faring,
highlights of recent reforms by the
The society was inaugurated with
government for the health sector
Dialectics and some guidelines about taking
its first workshop on “How To Write
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the 19th of October 2020. The first
situation better from an economic
kionomia, the Post Graduate session of Modern Society was titled
point of view sources were listed in
Economics Association ‘Pandemic Supply of Demand and
the module. The module was created
organised an online debating Supply’. The second session was
by students of I MA Economics.
event, ‘Dialectics’ on the topic ‘Will titled ‘Pandemic Supply of Demand
conventional education be replaced and Supply’. The third session of
by online education?’ The event took Modern Society was titled ‘Union
place on the 24th of September Connectonomics Budget 2021’.
2020. The event was judged by Ms

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Rasia Elsa Joseph, a part-time faculty
of the Department of Economics. The ikonomika, the post-graduate
economics association Academic Peer
winners for the event were Saran
Sibhu (first place), Ruchira Radhe organized an inter college Training
(second place), Joel Antony (third event- “Connectonomics” on the 28th of
place). May 2021. The event was judged by Dr
S Rajesh, Principal, BM English School, On 8th of September 2020, the
Mr Jishnu Vipin – faculty St. Joseph’s department got the permission to
Boys High School. Each participant was start working on the Academic Peer
Union Budget and given a series of pictures based on a Training Wing of APT. APT provides a
Urban Planning theme which they had to interpret and safe space and learning environment
connect. This was followed by remarks for students. They are formed of

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by the judges. The session was highly positive peer influencers to help out
t. Joseph’s College (Autonomous), interactive and challenging to the students with subjects which aim at
Bengaluru, in collaboration with participants. Ms Palak of Jyothi Nivas reducing the stigma associated with
B.Pac, held a national webinar College, Bangalore won the first prize academic help-seeking.
on the Union Budget 2021 and Urban followed by Mr Avinash of St. Joseph’s
Planning. The event was organised by the College (Autonomous), Bengaluru.
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 Econ 101 registrations from colleges all across help and guidance by Ms Anita
India and more on spot registrations. Noronha, Head of the Department of
On day two of the fest consisted Economics and Mr Keshavamurthy K.,
An Introductory Session To of two events as well: Morsus De Staff Coordinator for the Economics
All Things Economics oeconomica and Firentia. At the end Forum.
And All Things Fun of day two Prof. Clement D’Souza,
the Dean of Humanities at St Joseph’s

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College (Autonomous), Bengaluru Economics of the Farm Laws
he APT Wing of The Economics gave the participants words of
encouragement followed by the

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Forum, St. Joseph’s college held
an introductory session on All award ceremony, where the winners he Department of Economics
Things Economics And All Things Fun of each event were announced. The and the Economics Forum
on the 22nd of September 2020, and day ended with an inspirational in collaboration with the
the event lasted for about an hour. vote of thanks given by Prof. Anita Meghnad Desai Academy of
Organised by the entire team of APT, Noronha, the Head of the Department Economics hosted a guest lecture
the session commenced with the of Economics at St Joseph’s College on the ‘Economics of the Farm Laws’.
mission of making economics simple, (Autonomous), Bengaluru. The guest speaker of the event was
fun, interactive and available to Dr Ajit Ranade, Group Executive
anyone in need of help. An informal President and Chief Economist with
session of games followed. The event The Economics Gazette the Aditya Birla group. The webinar
received much appreciation, with was held on 13th of March 2021.

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several requests for more such events The guest speaker spoke in depth
to be conducted in the near future. he Economics Forum, about the farm law bills passed, their
St. Joseph’s College repercussions and effects on the
(Autonomous), Bengaluru, farmers and the corporate sector,
released its monthly publication, and why the farmers are revolting
E-Bizz Report the online magazine, The Economics against these laws.
Gazette, on the 15th of February

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2021. The Inaugural Edition included
he Economic Forum fest feature stories that sought to
- E-Bizz was held on the Global Sand Challenge
highlight contemporary economic
19th and 20th of May 2021. phenomena in order to bring about

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The organising team of E-Bizz a greater understanding in the minds he Department of Economics
consisted of the event heads from of the readers. and the Economics Forum
the marketing and design team
hosted a guest lecture on the
and the director of the fest. The fest The second edition of its monthly Global Sand Challenge on the 18th
comprised of five events-Trade Wars publication, The Economics Gazette, of March 2021. The guest speaker
headed by Ananya Vinod, Nishant came out on 9th of April 2021. was Ms Kiran Pareira, Founder and
Garg and Sanskriti, Best Economist The edition focused on the theme Chief Storyteller of www.sandstories.
headed by Kenneth Godffrey, Ishan ‘Women and the Economy’, seeking org. The talk bestowed light upon
Nayar and Maha Aslam Firentia to bring to the forefront, the issues the sand challenge, one of the major
headed by Palak Biyani and Sharmila, that beleaguer women’s progress global sustainability challenges.
A Morsus De economica headed by and participation in the economy. Ms Kiran Pareira gave insights into
Neeraj Tom Savio and Neha Joseph, The edition also introduced two the global sand challenge and the
and Carte Blanche headed by Neeraj new columns, namely ‘Those who amount of destruction the public
Tom Savio. The fest was launched came before’ which celebrates and caused by the extraction of sand.
with a short speech from the commemorates the economists of She spoke about possible solutions
coordinator of the economics forum, yore and their accomplishments and and several alternatives to using
Prof. Keshavmurthy, after which the ‘In Conversation With’, a column in sand and how important it is to raise
participants from different colleges which the Editor-in-Chief engaged in awareness.
were directed into the meetings of a discourse with several eminent
their respective events. Day one of women from the college over issues
the fest consisted of two events: that plague women’s economic lives
Trade Wars and Best Economist. The and the solutions for the same. The
fest received more than forty early team was provided much-needed

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POLITICAL SCIENCE
Webinar on India-China Webinar on Changing Staff Achievements
Ongoing Boundary Dispute Dimentions of India’s

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Foreign Policy r P. E. Somaiah, Associate
Professor; Head of the
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Department
a National Webinar on he Department, under the
the topic: ‘India-China Aegis of Spectrum, hosted a Dr Somaiah delivered two special
Ongoing Boundary National Webinar on the topic: lectures this year. One on the topic,
Dispute’ on the 20th ‘Changing Dimensions of India’s “Role of Youths in Nation building”,
of June 2020. The Foreign Policy’ on the 14th of at a Webinar, organized by Spoorthi
resource persons for the webinar September 2020. The resource Yuva Kavi Balaga, Bengaluru. The
included Maj. Gen. KA Muthanna persons for the webinar included Dr other on the topic, “Intellectual
(Retd), Garhwal Rifles Regiment, Manish, Professor and Dean, Centre Property rights”, at a National
Brig. PT Monnappa, General Staff for International Politics and School Webinar, organized by Cauvery
Intelligence, Eastern Command, of International Studies, Central College, Virajpet, Kodagu District, on
Dr MJ Vinod, Professor, Bangalore University of Gujarat. the 24 th of August 2020. He was also
University and Dr BM Chengappa, invited as a resource person for the
Defence Analyst, Bengaluru. Faculty Development Programme
(FDP), by the FDP Cell of St. Joseph’s
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December 2020. He also gave a Dr K.P.Ashwini, Assistant Professor Branch) and St. Joseph’s College of
lecture on the topic “Governance of Dr K.P.Ashwini was a panellist at the Law, FMKMC Road, Bengaluru, on the
the Minority Educational Institutions online Panel Discussion, “To Interfere occasion of United Nations Public
in India” for the participants of the or not interfere: The role of our biases Service Day, on the 23 rd of June
programme. in determining bystander action”, 2021.
organized by Breakthrough India,
Dr Parvathy Poornima, Assistant Zamrudpur, New Delhi, on 5 th of
Professor Dr Parvathy Poornima March 2021. Student Achievements
published a book review, ‘Mapping
Indentured Indian Women’, Amba Dr Anitha. V, Assistant Professor

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Pandey, edited, “Indentured and Dr Anitha was Invited as a speaker good number of students
Post-Indentured Experiences of for the Webinar, “Citizen-Centric from the Department
Women in the Indian Diaspora”, The Administration”, jointly organized have forayed into higher
Book Review Journal, XLIV, Number by the Indian Institute of Public education at reputed national and
12, December 2020. Administration (Karnataka Regional international institutions.

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AND INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS
DEPARTMENT OF INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS AND
INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS FORUM

International and National Post COVID-19”, with academician & by the Industrial Relations Forum
Industrial Psychologist Dr M.V. Jose was delivered by the PRO of the
Webinars

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and Director-H.R. of Raymond’s, Mr College Prof. Kiran Jeevan on the
Mohan Raj as resource persons. “On- 24 th of October 2020. On the 6
line Preparedness: A New World for th of February 2021, a well-known
he Department of In- Education Frontline Workers in India”, Corporate Trainer, Mr T.K. Rajiv gave
dustrial Rel tions in with the Hon. Vice-Chancellor of Ban- a guest lecture on “Importance of
association with the galore University, Dr Venugopal K.R. Entrepreneurship and Online Courses
Industrial Relations Fo- as the resource person. in Entrepreneurship
rum organised two In- Development”.
ternational and one Na-
tional webinar, attracting more than
500 academicians and students from Guest Lectures/ Invited Talks
ten countries - “COVID-19 Pandemic: Online Training Programme

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Labour, Livelihood and Rights”, with

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academician and Kisan Sabha Lead- he Inaugural Guest Lecture
er & former faculty of SJC, Dr Vijoo titled “American Income Tax rom the 20 th of February 2021
Krishnan as the resource person. System and Social Security in to the 31 st of March 2021, ten
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trial Relations Forum underwent a Management and allied disciplines, in connection with the COVID-19
rigorous online training programme through Coursera and edX. pandemic was also taken up by the
in “Entrepreneurship - The New Era faculty and forum members in all the
Perspective” under the auspices of B.A. Industrial Relations classes.
Suprajiv Technical and Management Documentation And
Studies Pvt Ltd., Bengaluru.
Discussions
Staff Achievements

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MOOCs

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he Industrial Relations Forum
documentation team, as r G. Anuplal, Associate

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in the previous years, has Professor and HOD,
any final-year and second- been documenting important participated in the National
year members of the press cuttings related to Industrial Level Online Training Programme on
Industrial Relations Forum Relations. In this academic year, the “Industrial Relations in India”, organised
made full use of the opportunity documentation has a special section by Mahatma Gandhi Labour Institute,
provided by the college during on press cuttings on the COVID-19 Ahmedabad on the 29 th of May, 2021.
lockdown to complete many online Pandemic and its effects on Industrial
courses and took a special interest Relations. Mr G.Anuplal also completed four
in successfully pursuing a number of Regular discussion of Industrial MOOCs through Coursera with
online courses in Human Resource Relations news from all over the world Distinctiontion between July and
August 2020.

DEPARTMENT OF SOCIOLOGY

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n the 3 rd of June 2020, On the 10 th of June 2020, the Department Consultant and former Professor at St.
the Department of of Sociology organised an international Joseph’s College (Autonomous). He
Sociology organised an webinar on “Unleashing Information spoke about the use of technology in
international webinar Technology: Opening Frontiers to the the search for a cure for COVID-19. This
on “Positive Impact of New Normal”. The webinar was attended highly technical session was extremely
Covid-19 and its Psycho- by approximately 250 participants from insightful and structured in such a way
socio-spiritual Dimensions”. The webinar various institutes from multiple countries. that everybody would understand the
saw over 450+ participants from around The speakers were Mr D V Swamy, IAS issue at hand starting from the biological
the world (India, Sri Lanka, Afghanistan, (Development Commissioner, Cochin facts about COVID-19 and the coronavirus
Bangladesh, USA, Slovakia, Italy (Rome) Special Economic Zone, Kerala and all the way to the use of Bioinformatics and
and Canada). The webinar began with an Karnataka) and Mr Nikhil Dubey, MPAS AI in the search for
introductory address by Prof. Berin Lukas (Assistant Director, InformationTechnology the cure.
(Former HOD – Dept. of Sociology and Department, State Government of Madhya
Industrial Relations). The first speaker, Pradesh). After the welcome address by On the 19 th of June 2020, the Department
Prof. R Rajesh (Dept. of Sociology, the department faculty, the speakers of Sociology organized an international
Bangalore University, Bengaluru; Registrar took turns to speak about the rise of IT in webinar on “Crisis Confronting a Changed
Evaluation, KSGH Music and Performing India, its impact on various industries and World: A Humanitarian Response”. The
Arts University, Mysuru) spoke about also the downside of IT. They focused on three speakers were distinguished alumni
the positive social impact of COVID-19. the sociological impact of AI, Blockchain, of St. Joseph’s College (Autonomous).
Next, Rev Fr Shaji M.L., CSC (Vice-Principal IoT, etc and introduced a relatively new The first speaker, Mr Kabir Ashik (Senior
and Administrator, Holy Cross College, concept i.e., the Sociology of Cyberspace. Programme Support Assistant, Transition
Agartala, Tripura) spoke about the spiritual On the 13 th of June 2020, the Department & Recovery Division (TRD),
dimensions of COVID-19. The third and of Sociology organised an international International Organization for Migration,
final speaker, Ms Lubin Lukas (Clinical webinar on “Search for a Cure against United Nations Migration Agency,
psychologist, formerly NIMHANS) focused COVID-19: Data Analytics, Virtual Screening Bangladesh), spoke about the plight of the
on the positive psychological impact of and Drug Discovery”. The webinar hosted Rohingya Muslims in Bangladesh and the
COVID-19. Prof. Anuplal (Dept. of Industrial participants from various institutes from efforts taken by the UN in helping them
Relations) delivered the concluding multiple countries. The speaker was Mr lead marginally better lives. He also spoke
remarks followed by a short Q & A session. Chris Lewis, an Independent Management about the impact of COVID-19 on this

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 Preparedness: A New World for
Education Frontline Workers in India’
conducted on 27th of June 2020.

On the 23rd of June 2020, the

Sociology department and the
Industrial Relations (IR) department
hosted their Valedictory ceremony
for the academic year 2020. Mr
Cherian Varghese, the outgoing
Editor-in-chief requested Dr Berin
Lukas to unveil the annual association
magazine ‘GUSTO’. Ms Maria David
announced the new office bearers
for the year 2020-2021. A tribute in
the form of a page in the magazine
titled, ‘The feminist of St. Josephs’
was dedicated to Dr Berin Lukas.
The evening ended with Dr Berin
community as well as in Bangladesh. The been supportive of female students, about Lukas giving her regards and leaving
second speaker, Mr Hamidullah Afghan the various positions held by her and how some words of wisdom to everyone
(Director for Internally Displaced Persons, she has excelled and left her indelible mark present there.
Ministry of Refugees and Repatriations, at every one of those. Prof. G. Anuplal, the
Government of Afghanistan, Afghanistan), Dean of Social Sciences and Professor of
shed light on the influx of refugees Industrial Relations spoke about how he Inauguration
(returnees) in Afghanistan as well as the was indebted to have been a student and

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internally displaced people. He also spoke peer of Dr Berin Lukas. He spoke about her
in detail about the impact of COVID-19 in courage in talking about topics that were ocial Zest conducted its annual
Afghanistan, especially on the returnees considered taboo in society but needed inauguration ceremony for
and the internally displaced people. Mr to be considered. Lastly, Prof. Maria A. the academic year 2020-2021
Moslem Shah (Risk & Compliance spoke very movingly about how Dr Berin on the 21 st of August 2020. Dr
Advisor, Catholic Relief Services, Maryland, Lukas has changed her life both as a Indira Ramarao, President of the
USA), the third speaker for the day, spoke teacher and a colleague and how she has Indian Sociological Society and the
about the efforts of the Catholic Relief touched lives throughout her career. Dr Chairperson of the Department of
Services which has 165 relief, development Berin Lukas inspired her to be a feminist Sociology, Mysore University, graced
and social organizations in 200 countries and to speak out against issues in society. the occasion as Chief Guest. The chief
to provide relief and aid in humanitarian The Department of Sociology and its guest was introduced and welcomed
issues irrespective of race and religion. This students wish her farewell and all the by Prof. Melissa Remedios, this was
was a highly enlightening and relevant best for the next big phase of her life. followed by a prayer rendered by
session for it highlighted the efforts of Seenu Sara from 3 rd IES. Prof. Melissa
the Government, an International Agency The faculty of the department Remedios then administered the Oath
(UN) and a non-government agency in attended multiple webinars and FDPs of Office to the Core Committee. The
combating COVID-19 in some of the worst- over the academic year 2020-2021. chief guest addressed the audience
hit communities. and encouraged them to explore
Sociology and actively involve
The Department of Sociology arranged a Social Zest themselves in sociological activities
Farewell for the retiring H.O.D. of Sociology, and deliberations. The President of
Dr Berin Lukas. Dr Berin Lukas had been

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Social Zest, Neeraj Tom Savio, then
teaching in St. Joseph’s for 31+ years. Both ocial Zest concluded the addressed the audience and the
faculty and students paid tribute to the activities for the academic year association members briefing them
invaluable service rendered by Dr Berin 2019-2020 with a national level about the plan for the academic year.
Lukas. Dr Somaiah, the H.O.D. of Political workshop on “Transitioning from a
Science spoke about how he knew Dr Seminar to a Webinar: A Complete
Berin L kas since he joined the college in Guide” conducted on 25th of June
1991. He spoke about how she had always 2020; and a webinar on “Online

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 Inaugural Debate the socio-political impact of the political and economic discourses of
Hindu nationalist movement in contemporary times. It was followed
Competition contemporary India.” by the exploration of the waves of
feminism throughout the years,

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The third session was held on after which contentious issues with
he inaugural debate competition
the 12th of April 2021. The first regard to radical feminism and its
was organized on the 20th and 21st
presentation was by Sanjana Chopra contributions, the purpose of the
of August 2020, on the topic “Racial
of III IES on “Gender budgeting and movement and its implications for
Discrimination in Cinemas is a Myth”. The
its implementation in India”. This the movement were deliberated.
teams were well prepared, presenting
was followed by Seenu Sara Saji’s (III
fortified and convincing arguments while
IES) paper presentation on “Sexual The second edition was held on the
also substantiating their arguments with
behaviour of young adults”. 30th of April 2021, and the topic
various statistics and real-life examples.
of discussion was “Is Veganism the
The competition was judged by Dr
The last session was conducted on way for the future?” The discussion
Indira Ramarao and the Social Zest Core
the 15th of April 2021. The speakers began with participants sharing
Committee members. The debate was
for the session were Ananya Vinod their experiences with veganism,
moderated by Ananya Vinod from 3 rd EPS
and Neha Joseph of III EPS who the movement and its meaning and
and Yadhu Krishna Raj from 2 nd EPS. The
presented papers on “The foreign relevance in contemporary times.
winners of the debate competition were
policy of India: A trajectory analysis The discourse soon continued onto
as follows: First place - Chandni Ganesh
(1950-2020)” and “India-China the first sub-topic; Privilege and
and Nishad Mohammed; Second place -
relations concerning international veganism, where topics like access,
Raghava B. Sastry and Paroma Raha; and
trade 2020: An analysis”, respectively. the role of socio-political dimensions
Third place - Ananth Preveen and Aswath.
like caste, class and other factors
were discussed. The other topic
Student Lecture was the environmental effects of
Reseach Paper Presentation veganism, what the reduction or
exemption of meat from a diet can

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he first student lecture by the do for health, and the truth about the
n the 8th of April 2021, Social fad of sustainability of veganism was
Research & Academic wing of
Zest organized a Research also explored in detail.
Social Zest was conducted on
Paper Presentation which
the 20th of October 2020, on two
focussed on providing some insights The third session was held on 15the
chapters from the first year Sociology
and tips on how to work on a research of May 2021, and the topic was
syllabus- ‘Basic structure of Indian
paper. The event was open for all the “Capitalism vs Socialism”. The sub-
Society’ and ‘Tribes in India’. Students
first and second-year students. This themes of this session were as follows;
from both EPS and IES attended the
event was divided into four sessions a) Economics of the Ideologies, b)
lecture held on Google Meet. The
where two speakers presented their Political
student lecture was started after
papers in each session. Dimensions, c) Sociological Dime
brief speeches by Neeraj Tom Savio
and Neha Joseph, the Head of the sions, d) India and the Nehruvian
The first session was held on the 8th model of Socialism and, e) Alternate
Research and Academic wing of the
of April 2021. Preethika Sabu of III themes.
association. It was a great experience
EPS commenced the event with her
as it gave the student a taste of the
paper “Understanding soft power The last session for the academic
teaching experience.
and its implication for contemporary year was held on 29th of May
India”. This was followed by Zelda 2021, on the topic “Justice and
Rozario’s (III IES) paper presentation Accountability”. The session started
on “Usage of menstrual cup among Discussion Forum with the participants giving their own
college-going women.” thoughts on the theme of Justice,

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what they understood by Retributive,
The two speakers for the second he first edition of the Discussion Restorative, Transformative Justice.
session held on the 9th of April 2021, Forum was held on the 10th The session was mainly divided
were Ardra Mathai and Neeraj Tom of April 2021. The topic of into 5 sub-themes; a) Economics
Savio of III EPS. Ardra presented her discussion was “Is Feminism a of Justice, b) Politics of Justice, c)
paper on “Divorce and its effects justifiable ideology?”. The event Sociological Dimensions, d) Indian
on women and children”. Neeraj had a brief explanation of the topic Justice systems, e) Miscellaneous
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Dimensions. This session like all the Sebastian of I EJP-B in 3rd place. Maa”. It was an open event aimed at
other sessions gave many students creating a platform through which
(from and outside of the college) an one could appreciate motherly
opportunity to have conversations Project Maa figures in their life. The pictures
that were academic and included were edited by the Photography

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intersectionalities, thus widening the team and posted on the association’s
possibilities for more deliberations. he Photography wing of the Instagram page.
Social Zest association started
a new campaign called “Project
Interview Series

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n the 30th of April 2021,
Social Zest conducted an
informational interview
with esteemed guests, Kannan
Gopinathan, ex-IAS officer and
Abhinandan Sekhri, CEO and Co-
Founder of Newslaundry. The
interview was held in private to be
presented to the students later.

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he editorial wing of Social
Zest conducted a Sketching
competition titled ‘Sketch
away Stereotypes’ from 5th to 9th of
October 2020, based on the theme
‘Stereotypes’. The competition was
judged by the editorial team, and the
event was coordinated by Tabitha
P, the Editor-in-Chief of Gusto and
Nisha A, assistant Editor-in-Chief. The
winners of the competition were as
follows; 1st place by Pallavi L of III
CPE, 2nd place by Aditi L Hasyagar
of II CZBT, and 3rd place by Likitha
James of II CEB.

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he editorial wing of Social Zest
held a writing competition
from 26th to 30th of April
based on the theme ‘Stereotypes’.
The prize winners of the competition
were Sarang Jayaraj of III CPE in 1st
place, Joann Miriam Mathew of I
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Panel Discussion One Breath at a Time Staff Achievement

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he Department of n July 18, 2020, the rs Neeta Periera received
Psychology conducted Department of Psychology a grant of 18 lakhs from
an international conducted an international the National Commission
panel discussion webinar titled ‘One Breath at a Time’ for Women for a project on Intimate
on Neurodiversity for students and non-students Partner Violence along with the
(in educational alike. The webinar dealt with Department of Economics and
institutions) on March 20, 2021. The breaking down stigmas around Department of Social Work. She also
resource persons and panellists were Social Anxiety. The keynote speaker supervised, organized and trained
Dr Maureen Dunne, Co-founder and was Ms Aparna Balasundaram, student volunteers in collaboration
managing partner of the Autism a certified psychotherapist and with Mission Vishwas and BBMP for
Angels Group (AAG), a former National teaching associate at Columbia providing psychological support for
Science Foundation Fellow and University (New York) and TEDx people who tested positive for COVID
Kauffman Entrepreneurship Fellow; speaker. The session covered various and reached out to more than 10,000
Dr Georgina Perez Liz, Research topics around Social Anxiety, how people in Bangalore. She designed
Associate at AJ Drexel Autism it manifests, Introverts and Social and developed mental health
Institute (AJDAI), Drexel University; Anxiety, as well as proven strategies capsules for SAMAGRA (Karnataka
Ms Aparna Balasundaram, Wellbeing to manage Social Anxiety. It was a Jesuits Mental Health Care). She also
and Mental Health Thought Leader, success, with active participation organized the international panel
TEDx, Author, Psychotherapist, from the attendees during the Q & A on ‘Neurodiversity’. Ms Ami Joshi
Doctoral Candidate at the University session. attended a research summer school
of Pennsylvania, Teaching Associate programme by Monk Prayogshala -
at Columbia University (New York). a not-for- profit academic research

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institution. She represented St. in various cultural fests and events and works part-time with Heart It
Joseph’s College at project Baat Cheet over the past three years. Also Out, a mental health and wellbeing
- an initiative by Mission Vishwas and being the President of the Western initiative committed to making
LabourNet in January 2021. She also Music Association, he secured mental healthcare accessible to 1.5
assisted in designing and planning the title of “Best Beatboxer; Best billion people by 2030.
of FGDs. She was also part of the Original Composition” consecutively
core team of Let Us Dream - 2020 - for two years at the International
Triennial International Conference. Cultural fest In-Bloom organized by Green Ribbon Campaign
Mrs Nisha Menzies Rao published Christ (Deemed to be University),
a paper on ‘Factors that influence Bengaluru. He is now working as

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Reading Acquisition in L2 English Assistant Facilitator (for Voice & n ‘Mental Health Awareness
for Students in Bangalore’. She also DARE programs) in Durga India, Month’, Consilium held ‘The
published four papers in review Bengaluru. Green Ribbon Campaign’. The
‘Impact of Predictor Variables on Association launched their own ‘SJC
L2 English Reading Acquisition Stories-Lockdown Edition’ through
for Grades 3 &; 5’, ‘Relation which stories of students from St.
between Decoding, Fluency & Consillium
Joseph’s College (Autonomous)
Comprehension for L2 English were put up on social media. The
Readers in India’, ‘Measuring the Drawing the Line Online campaign consisted of a seven-day
Causal Role of L2 English Reading challenge that involved students and

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Skills Using Structural Equation others to take up one fun challenge
Modeling’, and ‘Identifying Students n March 6, 2021, Consilium, a day such as doodling, making
at Risk for Reading Difficulties in the with the Department of inanimate objects come to life, etc.
Indian Context’. She also served as Psychology, conducted a A webinar was held on May 13, 2020,
a content reviewer for a tool being session titled ‘Drawing the Line on ‘Enduring Difficult Times’ by Dr
developed by Dr Renée C Howells and Online’ which focused on important Sowmya Puttaraju through which
Dr Sunaina Shenoy at the University topics like privacy, boundaries, she expressed her views on leading
of New Mexico, to assess identity and self- care in virtual classes. a meaningful life and setting goals
formation in early adults with siblings The speaker for the session was during tough times. The association
with disabilities. She moderated an Ms Delphina Esther, a counselling also collaborated with the Student
international panel discussion on psychologist, who Council in launching a special edition
‘Thymos of Neurodiversity’ organised of SJC Stories, the ‘Student Council
by the Department. Special’.
Dr Madhurini Vallikad was appointed
as a consultant for the development
of training material for the covid
helpline of Karnataka Health Webinar on Enduring
Promotion Trust. She published Difficult Times
a chapter in a book on Autism
Spectrum Disorder titled ‘A Case
Study of Various Concerns of Parents A webinar on ‘Enduring difficult
of Children on the Spectrum’. She times’ was organised by Consilium.
was invited as a guest speaker for a The campaign celebrated the mental
webinar on ‘Student Mental Health health awareness month of May. The
Issues” at St John's College, Dimapur, speaker for the webinar was Dr Sowmya
Nagaland. Puttaraju, a certified psychotherapist
from the Albert Ellis Institute, USA. Dr
Puttaraju spoke about the importance
Student achievements of setting workable goals, evaluating
circumstances and dreaming infinitely
but to also realize that one only has

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evin Noel Sequeira, III BA finite time and finite effort. She
EJP (2018-2021) has won spoke about understanding the fact
several awards representing holds a postgraduate certification that certain situations are not in our
St. Joseph’s College (Autonomous) in Cognitive Analytical Therapy control.

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 Exhale Campaign back to the students within the span As an association, they help promote
of a year positive mental health around
campus, and they strive to bring that
Consilium in collaboration with to light with this campaign. They have
Under25 started a campaign called World Suicide Prevention Day hosted a few events, like an open mic
‘Exhale’. The campaign focused on that was held on October 16, and an
online Halloween celebration where

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different mental health disorders and
ways to overcome them. It revolved orld Suicide Prevention students could dress up and share
around different disorders such as Day is commemorated their favourite music on Discord on
Sleeping disorder, Anxiety disorders on September 10 every October 31. They even uploaded
etc. It discussed what these disorders year. Consilium planned to spread interactive stories on their Instagram
are, their symptoms and different awareness on this cause for an entire page so students could share things
ways of self-help. It also extended month. The campaign kicked off with that make them happy and spread
the conversation on ways to help a a writing challenge. On World Suicide positivity. They also put out a virtual
friend. This content went up on the Prevention Day, Consilium organized self-care package on October 10
Instagram stories of Consilium and a webinar and a panel discussion with which received a very positive
Under25. Sumana, the Psychology Association. response from a lot of people around
To bring the week to a close, an open campus.
mic session was conducted where
people performed poetry and music.
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onsilium conducted a three-
day icebreaker event for the he Department of Psychology friendly campaigns which
freshers. On all three days, the organised a webinar to prioritize Mental Health, Consilium
organising team interacted with one celebrate and spread
class each, viz. I EJP A, I EJP B and I awareness about International Yoga
TEP. The students got to know each Day. The webinar, held on June
other and the facilitators. The team 21, 2020 (Sunday) was handled
conducted some icebreaker activities by Sumana (an association under
and also introduced new initiatives the Department of Psychology) in
such as the ‘Time Capsule’. These coordination with NSS. Ms Ami from
sessions not only allowed them to the Department of Psychology led
bond with their classmates in a small the session by welcoming the guest
group but also their seniors in a very Ms Rohini - a yoga practitioner for
fun interactive way. the past 12 years. The yoga session
was handled by Anika Eliz Baby and
Shailee Prasad from III EJP.
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welcome event for the
freshers called ‘Time Capsule’. n view of World Mental Health
It was a self- fulfilling event that Day on October 10, 2020,
directed the students of the first year Consilium and the Psychology wanted to organize a campaign
to write a letter to themselves about department, organised a campaign highlighting the new normal –
their feelings during the first week called ‘Okay October’. Through this extensive digitalization of the world,
of college, and their experience as initiative, they wanted to remind or the shift to Online. With this in
a Josephite. These self- addressed each and every student and faculty mind, they launched the Sketch A
letters were mailed to the Consilium that it’s okay to ask for help when you Boundary campaign which aims to
Association and are now stored safely need it, and it’s okay to not be okay. start a conversation about drawing
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a line online, and promoting positive Letter - a week-long event that asked Movie Night
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Consilium organised a range of fun about lost relationships or lost loved
events as part of the campaign, ones. It was later posted on their movie night was hosted
which started on April 6, 2021. The Instagram page with their consent. on January 31, 2021. The
events were: The 14 Day Challenge, The campaign ended on May 31 with Movie Night was Consilium’s
an interactive and therapeutic Consilium Unscripted, an episode first event for the year. The event
initiative, not only to promote that addressed the anxiety students received an overwhelming response
healthy social media usage but also are going through during the course as nearly 100 people joined the
to find productive ways to overcome of the pandemic. official Consilium Discord Channel.
our online fatigue. SJC Stories The movie Dead Poets Society was
2.0, a virtual drive centred on the Art Attack selected to be screened as it is a
sharing of personal stories on the classic loved by all. On seeing the
topic ;Social Media and Its Impact

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success of the first Movie Night ’21,
on Mental Health; by the students rt Attack, an event aimed to efforts are being taken to make
of the college. Mic Cat-astrophe!, provide students a platform Movie Night a permanent event that
the first ever Pet-Friendly OpenMic to bring out their creativity takes place once every 2 to 3 weeks.
Night, which provided a platform for was organised on August 14, 2020,
students to showcase their talents and went on for a month. Students’
and for their pets to unleash their pet
mics, while also speaking up about
artworks were posted on Instagram. Hope Helpline: Tele
their experiences, all in a safe and Calling for Contact Tracing
supportive environment. Bottled by
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the Internet, a workshop to help
people understand the importance of tudents of MSW and EJP at St.

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setting and maintaining boundaries Joseph’s College (Autonomous)
o bring in Christmas feelings volunteered as tele callers for
Online was led by Ms Samindara
online, Consilium hosted contact tracing in collaboration
Sawant, a clinical psychologist.
“Rudolph’s Wish Vault” where with Mission Vishwas and the
Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara
Palike (BBMP). The volunteers were
Reigning Over the Rain trained in tele calling by Ms Aparna
Ponnappa, XLRI Alumni and Mr Sunil

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Telkar, Aspiro Consulting. Ms Neeta
eigning Over the Rain was
Pereira, Head of the Department
a campaign initiated by
of Psychology was the teacher
Consilium for the World
coordinator for the collaboration.
Mental Health Awareness Month. The
Students had to make calls to Covid
theme of the campaign was to help
positive patients in hospitals, home
people acknowledge and handle
isolation and covid care centres and
grief during these hard times. The
trace the number of primary and
campaign started on May 1, 2021,
secondary contacts of the patients.
and went on for a month. The events
The volunteers enquired about the
under this campaign were: Mayflower
general well being of the patients
Almanac, a daily challenges event
and if they needed any emergency
that encouraged people to do
assistance. They were also provided
activities at home, activities that
with emergency contact numbers in
make people happy. Beverage Day,
case the patients required medical,
Socks Day, Space Day were some
mental or other requirements. A total
of the events. Mast Aadmi, Not so
of 8129 primary contacts of infected
Mast jokes, an open mic night where
patients were traced by the students.
people joined and cracked light- participants were asked to write an
hearted jokes and harmless pickup anonymous Christmas wish and send
lines. A self-care folder was circulated it to their official mail ID which was
that had information related to their then sent to another student on their
campaign’s theme #StayINSane. Open behalf.

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he Department of Physics Staff Achievements P. Issac Nelson, A. Mohan, R. Rathes Kannan,
organised an online B. Vidhya and S. Rajesh, Materials Letters,
webinar on “Renewed 282, 128692(2021).
Interest in Venus, Our Dr Lora Rita Goveas Studies on the structure, optical and
Nearest Planet” on the 17th Dr Lora Rita Goveas participated in the photocatalytic properties of CuO/MgO
of July 2020. online training programme conducted by nanocomposite prepared by facile chemical
the Indian Institute of Remote Sensing, ISRO co-precipitation, R. Blessy Pricilla, A.
The guest lecture was given by Dr P. Dehradun in the 2020 Annual Conference Stephena Elsie, A. Mohan, V. Mahes Kumar,
Sreekumar, Satish Dhawan Professor at on Magnetism and Magnetic Materials on B. Vidhya and R. Nandhaumar, Materials
ISRO HQ. The lecture was attended by many the 5th of November 2020. today: Proceedings, (2021).
students and faculty members of various Size dependence of charge order and
departments and faculty members of the Dr G. Vignesh magnetism in Sm0.35Ca0.65MnO3,
Department of Physics, SJC. DrG.Vignesh defended his PhDviva-voceon Lora Rita Goveas, K S. Bhagyashree, K.N.
17th of February 2021, at The Gandhigram Anuradha and S.V. Bhat, AIP Advances 11,
The department also organised an Rural Institute(Deemed to be University), 025313 (2021).
online guest lecture on “Science Behind Gandhigram, Tamilnadu. His work, titled, A basic analysis of electrochemical
the Respiratory System and Respiratory “Some investigations on exciton states in impedance in Bismuth Ferrite based solar
Medicine” on the 12th of March 2021. quantum well systems”, was submitted cell, G. VIGNESH, A. Muthukumar, I. Janet
The guest lecture was given by Dr Anna under the supervision of Dr P. Nithiananthi, Sherly, I. John Peter, K. Ramachandran and P.
Rachel Menezes, MBBS, Residential Medical Assistant Professor, Department of Physics, Nithiananthi, Materials today Proceedings,
Officer, St. Anne’s Hospital, Elathigiri, Vellore, GRI-DU, Gandhigram. 35, 6-10 (2021).
Tamilnadu. The lecture was attended by International Journals publications Pressure-Induced transition of direct to
students and faculty members of the Realization of C-60 whiskers incorporated indirect excitons in double quantum well:
Department of Physics, SJC. chalcopyrite CuInxGa1-xSe2 in Cu2Se/C-60/ Effect of Γ-X crossover, G. VIGNESH,
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E: Low-dimensional Systems and Crosswords Sanchita Sharan of II PEM, Shooktija S N of II
Nanostructures, 126, 114482 (2020). PEM, Suraj Arun Bapu of II PEM, and Tanziya
Exciton Mott transition through Crosswords was the first event organised Banu of II PEM.
diamagnetic susceptibility in a quantum by II PEM on behalf of the Physics Students’
well, G. VIGNESH and P. Nithiananthi, AIP Association. The event which was held Physics T20
Conference Proceedings, 2265(1) (2020). on the 29th of July 2020, consisted of a
Stability of indirect and direct excitons physics-based crossword puzzle which the This event was conducted on the 15th of
through diamagnetic susceptibility participants had to fill using Google forms. September 2020, where physics questions
in a concentric double quantum ring The winners were Saitej Amonkar of II PEM, were blended with some cricket fun. The
structure, I. Janet Sherly, G. VIGNESH and P. Sukeerthi N of II PCM and Arunjoy Dutta of online event consisted of two rounds. Each
Nithiananthi, AIP Conference Proceedings, II PEM. question in this event was considered as an
2265(1): 030064 (2020). ‘over’ and each correct answer as ‘runs’. The
Fallacia winners were Aman Mathur of I PEM, Rajan
Ms Parul Goel Sha N of I PMC and Aditya Srivatsa of II PMC.
Ms Parul Goel presented a paper on“Analysis Fallacia was organised on the 7th of
of elastic properties of lithium substituted September 2020. The participants for Treasure Hunt
barium vanadate glasses to understand this event were shown short videos from
the structural changes” at the International popular science fiction movies and asked On the 16th of September 2020, the
Conference on Materials Processing and to identify the logical or scientific fallacies in Treasure Hunt event was held on Zoom.
Characterization (ICMPC 2020). them. The winners were Aditya Srivatsa of II The main concept behind this event was to
PMC, Saitej Amonkar of II PEM, and Manav find the ‘treasure’ by unlocking a series of six
Mr Suraj Rajasekhar Madan of I PCM. PDF documents that eventually lead to the
Mr Suraj Rajasekhar presented a paper on 7th PDF with a trophy as the treasure. The
“Low-temperature combustion synthesis of Réflexion winner was Spandan Bhattacharya of I PMC.
undoped barium aluminate nanocrystals”at
the International Conference on Advanced Reflexion was held on the 9th of September Physeekee
Material Science and Applications (ICAMSA). 2020. This event involved having to analyse
short paragraphs where one sentence The Postgraduate Physics Department
was related to another. There were a large inaugurated clicking photos depicting
Physics Students’ Association number of participants from all streams, a concept of Physics was conducted in
including Commerce and Humanities. The the second week of October. 11 students
top three winners were Anirban Nath of participated in the event.
Spectra 2021 I PEM, Rajan Sha N of I PMC and Akshay
Suresh of I PMC

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pectra 2021, an intercollegiate event
hosted by the Physics Students’ 20 Questions
Association was conducted on 31st
of March 2021. It included five events; Quiz, A Physics themed 20 Questions game was
Treasure Hunt, Crosswords, Chronology conducted on the 10th of September 2020.
and Fallacia. Participants took part in a live There were 34 participants divided into two
quiz which included three levels consisting groups. The winners were Likhith J of I PCM
of a picture quiz, a rapid-fire round and a and Saitej Amonkar of II PEM from Group
round that took place on myquiz.org. 1; Nilay Nitnaware of I PMC and Ajith U
For the treasure hunt, crosswords and Shanbhag of II PEM from Group 2.
clues were given based on sci-fi movies.
In Fallacia, the participants were shown Experencia
videos from popular science fiction
movies and asked to identify the logical or Experencia was held on the 11th of
scientific fallacies in them. The Chronology September 2020. The event involved
event was based on a word cloud which using materials available at home to create
included random physics words, and the experiments or prove a theory. Only five of
participants were required to arrange the 25 participants were able to complete
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The next event was a quiz on Nobel In November, another event, ‘Constraint’ and ‘Thursday Trivia’ every week to create
Laureates titled ‘Let’s get Quizzical’. It took was held that inspected the technical a remarkable synergy of young beautiful
place online on the 24th of October 2020. writing skills of our physics fanatics. minds who are passionate about physics.
On the 23rd of December 2020, a talk titled
‘Superconducting Quantum Systems’ was
held on Zoom. The talk was given by Ramya
Suresh, an alumnus of SJC and a graduate
student at Purdue University.
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a few games that were conducted by the
staff coordinators, Ms Veena Nirmala R and Ms Wilma was invited as a resource person
he Department of Ms Wilma D’Souza. for the first ever International Konkani
Mathematics held its Kavisghoshtti.
inauguration ceremony
on the 15th of September Staff Achievements
2020, through the virtual ABACUS

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MS Teams platform. The
chief guest for the day was the Rector s Divina R Lobo, Ms Wilma
of St. Joseph’s College (Autonomous), D’Souza and Ms Deepika S were MISSILE MATHS

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Bengaluru, Fr Swebert D’Silva, S.J. Mary part of the UGC sponsored 30th
Chriselda, one of the student coordinators Orientation Course from 28th of July 2020 he association organized the first
gave the welcome address, followed by an to 17th of August 2020. relay of events in commemoration
introduction to the association ABACUS of the birth anniversary of Dr A P J
by Eram Hayat, who also laid out the Mr Taral D Shah was invited as a resource Abdul Kalam, from the 14th of October to the
objectives for the new academic year. A person for a six-day online RBPT workshop 24th of October 2020. The events included -
couple of performances were rendered conducted by IISER Pune, MHRD of India in Winter is Coming, Memematics, Hidden in
by the members of the association after association with Wilson College, Mumbai. Figures, Sketchematics, Maths Relay, Word
which Mr John Binze, Head of Department Hunt, 20 Questions, and EL Examen. These
of Mathematics, and Fr Swebert D’Silva, S.J. Ms Veena Nirmala successfully completed events ranged from quizzing, treasure hunt,
spoke about the prowess of the association the Online teaching course titled ProAct problem-solving to explaining complex
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 THE PAPYRUS Webinar on Research in She engaged the students with interactive
games and podcasts and spoke about her
The event was conducted with the
Mathematics research experience.
objective to provide students with an It was an enthralling experience to

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opportunity to hone their research abilities bacus conducted an online witness the massive impact she had on
by being able to think out of the box and webinar titled – “Research in the students by not only inviting them
critically examine the problems posed. Mathematics” on the 16th to question beyond the known but
From amongst the entries submitted, of February 2021. The webinar was also persuading them to never give up.
Aryaman Sharma of Ist year EMS was conducted to percolate the essence of The webinar also served its purpose to
selected for stage-II of the event where research among students by motivating culminate the Papyrus event held in the
he presented his work on the Cardinal them to be curious and think beyond the month of December 2020, and the winner
Approach to infinity. box. The chief guest for the event was Dr of the event, Aryaman Sharma from Ist
Raisa D’Souza from the Department of year EMS
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suggested by IQAC.
he department conducted he department conducted
an international webinar vigorous online practical sessions
on ‘Human Brains are efficiently for the first time for the Faculty Achievements
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in which an alumnus, was highly appreciated by all stakeholders
Dr Suhas Vijaykumar, and has been included as a part of regular ll the faculty members of the
Post Doctoral Fellow, Harvard University, practicals in the syllabus. department participated in
Massachusetts, was the chief guest. Dr many international and national
Regina Mathias was the coordinator of the webinars throughout the year which
webinar in which there were more than BOS included FDPs, Nobel Laureate lectures,
250 participants workshops on simulation tools to name

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a few. Dr Priyanka Parmar was a part of
he Department of Electronics the organizing team of the national-level
conducted its Board of Studies on seven-day workshop ‘Revised NAAC Norms
May 3, 2021. The syllabi for BSc. I and and Procedures’ under the aegis of the
II semesters were discussed and finalized UGC Scheme – Paramarsh organized by
during the meeting. The department also the Internal Quality Assurance Cell of our
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 Josephite Electronics each participant that they had to connect on September 19, 2020. The event
to find the correct answer within the was conducted in two rounds. Eight
Technology Club time limit. 20 students participated from participants cleared both rounds and
various combinations. Smera Rajesh from reached the final question. Poojith Kumar
Inauguration CZBT placed first and Akshay S from PMC (I PEM) and Dhanraj (II MEC) secured the
was placed second. first and second places respectively.
Jet Club began its inauguration
on September 5, 2020, with a brief Electro Quiz Electronic Elocution
introduction of its achievements and
activities planned for the academic year.
Two students from III PEM and II MEC
shared their individual achievements and
experience under the club. The event
concluded with a vote of thanks.

Crossword

The students of II PEM conducted

Electronics Elocution on September 21,
2020. Each of the participants had to
speak for 30 seconds on an assigned topic.
The event was judged by Mr Rajesh, the
coordinator of Jet Club. Denny (II MEC)
The students of II MEC organised the
secured first place, Dhanraj (II MEC stood
Electro Quiz on September 17, 2020.
second, and Anirban (I PEM) won third
Winston Mascarenhas ( I BCA) and Tanziya
place.
(II PEM) secured first and second place
respectively.
Topic Presentation
Treasure Hunt
It was conducted on March 20, 2021, for
The students of II PEM organised Crossword which the topic was ‘Future of Electric
on September 16, 2020. The questions Vehicles’. The participants had to use PPT
were electronics-based and required the or PDF to present their topics. The event
use of the crossword grid to solve. Wesley was judged by Dr Regina Mathias and
(I MEC) and Winston Mascarenhas (I BCA) Mr Joshua Stalin. Rohit Anan of III MEC,
secured first and second place respectively. Darshan G of I MEC, Aman Mathur of I PEM
won first, second, and third respectively.
Meme Heat
Project Presentation
The topic of the March 19, 2021, event
was ‘Artificial Intelligence’. This event ‘Project Presentation’ was conducted
was judged by Mr Selwyn Paul. The first, online by Sanchita Sharan on April 12,
second, and third place was given to 2021. Dr Regina Mathias presided over the
Varshitha of II PMC, Hitesha from I PEM, presentation. There were four teams who
and Dhanraj from II MEC respectively. presented their work. The team consisting
of Shreema Shetty, Aman Mathur, Poojith
Connection Kumar, Hitesha, Ektapriya won first place.
Treasure Hunt was organised by Team consisting of Dhanraj N and Sayani
This event was conducted on April 12, the students of II PMC and II MEC Das won second place.
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stablished in the year 2010- Publications: Processes on Improving the Margins and
11, the Department of Productivity in the Packaging Industry” in the
Statistics started offering the Suresha Kharvi and TPM Pakkala published Shanlax International Journal of Arts, Science
programme of Masters of a paper titled “An Optimal Inventory Policy and Humanities in June 2020.
Science in Statistics from the when purchase price follows geometric Suresha Kharvi and Dr TPM Pakkala published
year 2020-21. It is committed Brownian motion process.” in Opsearch a paper titled “An Optimal Inventory Policy
to excellence in teaching and equipping (Scopus indexed journal) in February 2021. for Subsequent Price Reduction Problem” in
students to become practicing statisticians. Suresha Kharvi and TPM Pakkala published the International Journal of Operations and
This year a series of guest lectures and a paper titled “Inventory Policies for Quantitative Management in June 2020.
workshops were organized by the Monotonic change in the Purchase price” Suresha Kharvi and Dr TPM Pakkala published
department and lectures were delivered by in the International Journal of Mathematics a paper titled “An Optimal Inventory Policy
Mr Vadiraj, an industry expert and Mr Mithun, in Operational Research ( Scopus indexed when Purchase Price follows Geometric
a data scientist. journal). Brownian Motion Process” in the OPSEARCH
Shalu and Archana. V published a paper titled in February 2021.
“Travel tech start-up in India: reshaping the Ananda KS and Dr J.V. Janhavi published
Staff achievements travel industry” in the International Journal a paper titled “A Study on Effect of Single
of Multidisciplinary Educational Research in Additive Outlier on Estimation of Value at
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r Ananda KS submitted his thesis Deepika M and Archana. V published a paper Threshold Framework” in Elixir Statistics in
for evaluation at the University in titled“Role of Communication and Leadership September 2020.
December 2020 and defended his in Employee engagement: A study of select Ananda KS and Dr J.V. Janhavi published a
work for the award of the doctoral degree. B-Schools in Karnataka” in the Wesleyan paper titled “A New Estimator of Value at Risk
Mr Suresha Kharvi has submitted his thesis Journal of Research in January 2021. under Peaks over Threshold Framework using
for evaluation to the University in December Aju. K. Jose and Archana. V published a Optimal Loss Function” in Test Engineering
2020. paper titled “Effect of Technology and Inline and Management in April 2020.

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Department Activities Alva, Sr. Director, Clinical Affairs, Abbott Spectroscopy,Max-Planck-Institut Für

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diabetes care, CA, USA, was scheduled for Chemische EnergieKonversion, Germany).
the 5th of June 2020.
epartment of Chemistry An International webinar was conducted
conducted a National An International webinar on ‘From on the 6th of September 2020 titled
webinar on 2nd of Minerals to Futuristic Functional Materials’ ‘Translational research: opportunities &
June 2020 titled ‘Multi- by Prof. T. N. Guru Row; PhD, FASc, FNA, challenges’ by Prof. Devendra Agrawal,
component and FRCS, Honorary Professor, IISc, Bangalore, Western University of Health Sciences,
Cascade Reactions’ India was held on 10th of June 2020. California, USA.
by Prof. Irishi Namboothiri, IIT Bombay,
Mumbai. The department organized an An International webinar on ‘Reversing
International webinar on ‘History and Climate Change with Nanocrystals’ by Prof.
Biology of the Coronaviruses and Anshu Pandey, Associate Professor, SSCU,
Reflections on a Post-COVID World’ by Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore,
Prof. Padmanabhan Balaram (Recipient of India, was scheduled 12th of September
Padma Bhushan, Padma Shri and TWAS 2020.
prize awards; Former Director of the Indian
Institute of Science, Bengaluru), on 11th of The department organized an
July 2020. International webinar on ‘World of 2D
materials and their applications in energy
An International webinar was conducted storage’ by Dr K. Vijayamohanan Pillai,
on 29th of July 2020 titled ‘X-ray Dean (R&D), Prof & Chair, Chemistry, IISER,
spectroscopy to understand processes in Tirupati, Former Director CSIR, CECRI,
An International webinar on ‘Diabetes and biological catalysis’ by Dr Serena DeBeer Karaikudi, held on 19th of September
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The Department of Chemistry and Chemphyschem, 2020, 6, 1169.
PG chemistry Alumni/ae association
organized a webinar on “Applications of Dhiman, S Ghosh, R Sarkar, S, and
pyrolysis technique in the petrochemical S. J George, Controlled synthesis of
industry” by Dr Arun Kumar, Senior organic two-dimensional nanostructures
Manager, SABIC Technology Center, via reaction-driven, cooperative
Bengaluru, on 31st of October 2020. supramolecular polymerization†. Chemical
Science, 2020 (Accepted) DOI: 10.1039/
The Department of Chemistry organized
Staff Achievements d0sc02670k.
a national webinar titled ‘Interfacial
Electrochemistry: Electrocatalysis and Research Publications Ghosh, R; Dey, J; and Phani Kumar. B. V.
Energy Systems’, which was presented by N. Thermodynamically Stable Vesicle

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Prof. S Sampath from the Department of eera Erady, Ronald J. Mascarenhas, Formation of Biodegradable Double
Inorganic and Physical Chemistry, Indian Ashis K. Satpati, Arvind K. Bhakta, mPEG-Tailed Amphiphiles with Sulfonate
Institute of Science, Bengaluru, on the 13th Zineb Mekhalif, J. Delhalle, Head Group. RSC Advances, 2020, 10,
of March 2021. Sensitive voltammetric determination 32522.
of Morin in Psidium guajava leaf extract
The Department of Chemistry and at Nickel (II) phthalocyanine modified Ghosh, R. and Dey, J, pH-Responsive
PG chemistry Alumni/ae association Carbon paste electrode; Surfaces and Vesicle Formation by PEGylated
organized a webinar on “Applications of Interfaces, 19, (2020), 100517. Cholesterol Derivatives: Physicochemical
pyrolysis technique in the petrochemical Characterization, Stability, Encapsulation,
industry” by Dr. Arun Kumar, Senior Veera Erady, Ronald J. Mascarenhas, and Release Study. Langmuir, 2020, 36,
Manager, SABIC Technology Center, Ashis K. Satpati, Highly efficient and 5829.
Bengaluru, on 31st of October 2020. selective quantification of Vanillin in food,
beverages and pharmaceuticals using S. Lal, A. Singhal, P. Kumari, Exploring
The Department of Chemistry organized surfactant modified Carbon paste sensor, carbonaceous materials for arsenic and
a national webinar titled ‘Interfacial Sensors International, 1, (2020), 100023. chromium removal from wastewater,
Electrochemistry: Electrocatalysis and Journal of Water Process Engineering,
Energy Systems’, which was presented by Manasa G, Clinto Raj Ashis K Satpati, 2020, 36, 101276.
Prof. S Sampath from the Department of Ronald J Mascarenhas, S(O)MWCNT/
Inorganic and Physical Chemistry, Indian modified carbon paste - A non- P. Kumari, A. Singh, M. R. Ngasainao, I.
Institute of Science, Bengaluru, on the enzymatic amperometric sensor for direct Shakeel, S. Kumar, S. Lal, A. Singhal, S. S.
13th of March 2021. determination of 6-mercaptopurine in Sohal, I. K. Singh, M. I. Hassan, Potential
biological fluids, Electroanalysis. diagnostics and therapeutic approaches in
The Department of Chemistry and the Covid-19, Clinica Chimica Acta, 2020, 510,
Department of Environmental Science Libi Thomas, Sudhindra Pete, K. Chaitra, 488.
offered a Certificate Course in Principles Krishna Venkatesh, B. Gopalkrishna,
of Green Chemistry in collaboration with Kathyayini Nagaraju, Facile synthesis of Multi-applications of new trinuclear Zr-SMI
Dr Ram Mohan from Illinois Wesleyan PANI-MWCNT-Ni(OH)2 ternary composites complex; Sangeetha S, Krishnamurthy
University, USA from 2nd January to 30th and study of their performance as G, Jayasree AC, Sabine Foro, and Kalyan
April 2020. Dr Ram Mohan visited India electrode material for supercapacitors, Raj, Journal of Molecular Structure, 1234,
on a Fulbright Nehru Fellowship and had Diamond & Related Materials, 106 (2020) (2021) 129991.
selected our college to offer his expertise 107853.
in the field of Green Chemistry. He also Selective SO2 detection at low
delivered a special talk on Green Chemistry Sudhindra Pete, Radhika Alikkal Kattil, Libi concentration by Ca substituted LaFeO3
to the faculty members and motivated Thomas, Polyaniline-multiwalled carbon chemiresistive gas sensor: A comparative
them to concentrate on the application of nanotubes (PANI-MWCNTs) composite study of LaFeO3 pellet vs. thin film,
Green Chemistry in their laboratories and revisited: An efficient and reusable material Chethana Aranthady, Teena Jangid,
carry out research in the same field. for methyl orange dye removal. Diamond Kapil Gupta, Abhishek Kumar Mishra,
and Related Materials, 117 (2021) 108455. S.D.Kaushik, V.Siruguri, G. Mohan Rao,
Ganapati V.Shanbhag, Nalini G Sundaram,
S. Sarkar, B. Narayan, S.J. George, Sensors and Actuators B: Chemical, 329,
Circularly Polarized Luminescence from (2021) 129211.
Bischromophoric Cyanostilbene‐Derived
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transferase and hydrolase activity;
Bhavna Maurya, Lionel Pochet, Johan
Wouters, Melwin Colaço, Sandra Misquith,
Biochemie, 179, (2020), 113.

Nano-graphene-platelet/Brilliant-green
composite coated carbon paste electrode
interface for electrocatalytic oxidation of
flavanone Hesperidin; G. Manasa, Ronald
J. Mascarenhas, Arvind K. Bhakta, Zineb
Mekhalif; Microchemical Journal 160
(2021) 105768.

Simultaneous formation of CuO

nanoflowers and semi-spherical
nanoparticles onto MWCNT surface
emergent matter Arvind K. Bhakta, Sunita
Kumari, Sahid Hussain, Samir Belkhiri,
Momath Lo, Ronald J Mascarenhas, Joseph MetA (Rv3341) from Mycobacterium Trainings provided by
Delhalle & Zineb Mekhalif Emergent tuberculosis H37Rv strain exhibits faculty members
Materials (2021) https://doi.org/10.1007/ substrate-dependent dual role of
s42247-021-00196-4. transferase and hydrolase activity; Dr Joyce, Ms Christine, Dr Suhas, Dr Sunita
Bhavna Maurya, Lionel Pochet, Johan and Dr Jayasree were involved as resource
Sudhindra Pete, Radhika Alikkal Kattil, Libi Wouters, Melwin Colaço, Sandra Misquith, persons for the “SJC Digital Teacher” in-
Thomas, Polyaniline-multiwalled carbon Biochemie, 179, (2020), 113. house training. This was from 25th to
nanotubes (PANI-MWCNTs) composite 30th of June 2020. The programme was
revisited: An efficient and reusable material Nano-graphene-platelet/Brilliant-green coordinated by Dr Joyce D’souza.
for methyl orange dye removal. Diamond composite coated carbon paste electrode
and Related Materials, 117 (2021) 108455. interface for electrocatalytic oxidation of Dr Joyce and Dr Sunita were involved
flavanone Hesperidin; G. Manasa, Ronald as coordinators and organizers for the
Multi-applications of new trinuclear Zr-SMI J. Mascarenhas, Arvind K. Bhakta, Zineb induction programme for the new faculty
complex; Sangeetha S, Krishnamurthy Mekhalif; Microchemical Journal 160 members that took place from 23rd to
G, Jayasree AC, Sabine Foro, and Kalyan (2021) 105768. 30th of July. Also, Dr Joyce, Ms Christine,
Raj, Journal of Molecular Structure, 1234, Dr Suhas, Dr Sunita and Dr Jayasree were
(2021) 129991. involved as resource persons for this
Book Chapters published programme.
Selective SO2 detection at low
concentration by Ca substituted LaFeO3 Pratibha Kumari, Seema Lal, Anchal
chemiresistive gas sensor: A comparative Singhal, “Advanced applications of green Webinar attended by staff
study of LaFeO3 pellet vs. thin film, materials in catalysis applications”, Book as resource persons
Chethana Aranthady, Teena Jangid, chapter in Woodhead Publishing in

D
Kapil Gupta, Abhishek Kumar Mishra, Materials: Applications of advanced green
S.D.Kaushik, V.Siruguri, G. Mohan Rao, materials; 2021, 545-57 r Joyce D’souza was a Resource
Ganapati V.Shanbhag, Nalini G Sundaram, Arvind K Bhakta, Sunita Kumari, Sahid person for a National level webinar
Sensors and Actuators B: Chemical, 329, Hussain, Preema C. Pais, Praveen Martis, on “Environment and covid-19:
(2021) 129211. Ronald J. Mascarenhas, Z. Mekhalif, an evolving perspective” organized by St.
poster titled “Supramolecular design John’s College, Palayamkottai.
More than just a reagent: the rise of strategies for amplification of circularly
renewable organohydrides for catalytic polarized luminescence in self-assembled Dr Anitha Alanthadka was a resource
reduction of carbon dioxide; Debashis cyanostilbenes” in the International person for an International Webinar on
Ghosh, George Rajendra Kumar, Symposium for macrocyclic and “Frontier Research in Chemical Sciences
Sarvanan Subramanian, Koji Tanaka, supramolecular chemistry ISMSC, Sydney, 2020, organized by the Department
ChemSusChem., https://doi.org/10.1002/ 2020 (the poster was presented via Twitter of Studies in Chemistry, Mangalore
cssc.202002660. handle) on 25th of August 2020. University. She spoke on the topic:
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towards the synthesis of N-heterocyclic team - Joshika Komarla from II CBZ, Malavika speaker for the evening - Dr Chandrabhas
compounds.” Nandan III CPE and Sanskriti Singh III CPE. The Narayana, Dean (Research and
second division was Peer Learning Division, Development) and Professor of Chemistry
Dr Shobha S. V., was a Jury for the seminar and the Vice president of this division was Om and Physics of Materials Unit at JNCASR. Dr
contest on ‘The emerging topics in science Kumar from II CBZ and team - Shruti R Raman Chandrabhas left many of us astounded
and technology organized by Bharath from II CBZ and Sumanth N S from II CEZ. The and at the same time bewildered while he
Group of Institutions', Tamil Nadu. first-year coordinator was Likhith. J from I PCM. spoke about the importance of Chemistry
The final year was mainly coordinated by Lauren. in Modern Day Challenges.
Dr Nalini G. Sundaram gave a talk on the The Third division was the Online Newsletter
topic ‘X-ray Diffraction: Principles and Division, Jasmine from III CZBT was appointed
Instrumentation’in a UGC Refresher Course theeditorialheadandthethreeassistanteditorial
in Physics organized for college lecturers. heads Misbah Sayeeda from II CBT, Modhulika
The talk was organized by the Centre of Rana from II CBT, and Aishwarya R from III CZBT.
Advanced Study in Crystallography and Likhitha James from II CEB was appointed as the
Biophysics, University of Madras, Chennai. coordinator for the e-newsletter.
Many of the staff attended FDP conducted
by other institutes. Several staff members
have attended webinars organized by
other colleges and organizations. A total
of 45 webinars have been attended by
12 staff members. Dr Sandra, Dr Sunita,
Dr Shanty, Ms Christine, Dr Bhawani, Dr Freshers Party by
Rashmi, Ms Ozma, and Dr Rita successfully UGCS Members
completed various courses in Coursera. Dr
Rita Gosh has enrolled for a course from A Fresher’s party for the first year UG
edX. students was also organised. Ms Prakruti
Mehta and the other office-bearers
briefed the new batch of students about
UGCS and its respective activities. This
UGCS (Undergraduate was followed by a Q&A session where
Chemical Society) Inauguration Of UGCS
questions on UGCS events and research
activities in chemistry were discussed
Election Of Candidates between the first years and the members
of UGCS. Two games were conducted - the

T
he staff coordinators Dr Sunita first was the Periodic table game which
Rajamani, Dr Valeen Rashmi and Dr was headed by Ramya G from II PCM and
Rita Ghosh selected the student office team. Ten members qualified for the next
bearers through a one-on-one interview on round. The second game was Pictionary
the 15th of August 2020. The elected student which was headed by Agnideepta( II MCZ),
office bearers were: Prakruti Mehta from III Lauren (III CZBT) and Sreeshta (III CZBT).
CEZ - President; Lauren Grace De Sequeira The first prize went to Manav from I PCM,
from III CZBT - Vice President Natural Science; 2nd prize to Sharath from I CZBT and 3rd
Agnideepta Majumdar from II MCZ - Assistant prize to Sparshith from I CZBT.
The inauguration of UGCS for the
Vice President Natural Science; Devika MV academic year 2020 -2021 was held on the
from III PCM - Vice president Physical Science; 29th of August 2020. The program started Teacher’s Day Celebration
Ramya G from II PCM - Assistant Vice President with a prayer, followed by which the by UGCS Members
Physical Science; Sreestha Dinesh Parambath President, Prakriti Mehta briefed about the
from III CZBT - General Secretary. Four event activities that were conducted by UGCS in UGCS office bearers celebrated a
heads were also appointed to conduct various the last academic year and introduced the virtual Teachers’ Day on the 11th of
programmes, and they were: Aathira Suresh present office-bearers while mentioning September 2020. Faculty members of
from II PCM; Surhiya RS from II CEB; Keerthi J the goals and motives of the present other departments also enthusiastically
from II CBT; and Aishwarya R from III CZBT. team of UGCS. After the President’s brief participated in these events conducted by
Three new divisions under UG Chemical Society introduction about the association, the our students. Along with the department
were launched - Interdisciplinary division, HOD of Chemistry Department, Dr Ronald faculty members, teachers from other
coordinated by Ananya Joliholi from II CBZ and J. Mascarenhas introduced the guest departments were also part of the event

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- Ms Amita, Ms Anita, Dr Vanitha, Dr of numbers. Participants were asked to Chem Cross 2021
Thomas, Mr Kiran, Ms Latha, Ms Viola, mail the completed sudoku word file to
Ms Satyashree, and Ms Padmaja. There the given email id. The winners were, 1st– The event was held on 23th of April 2021.
were two games, and the first one was Hariharan S from III PCM; 2nd – Modhulika Students took part in teams of two and
“The word-forming game,” in which Dr Rana from II CBT and 3rd – Urshitaa had to fill the crossword grid with words
Nalini (Department of Chemistry) won Mukherjii from I CZBT. related to chemistry, using the clues given.
the first prize, and Ms Anita (Department The winners were;
of Economics) won the second prize. The Event By The 1st - Manav Madan Rawal from I PCM &
second game was “Pictionary,” in which Interdisciplinary Division Shashank A from I PCM
Ms Amita (Department of Commerce and 2nd - Likhith J from I PCM & Balayogan
Management) won the first prize, and Dr from I PCM
Joyce (Department of Chemistry) won the The interdisciplinary division of UGCS 3rd- Apeksha V from II MCB & Sinchana R
second prize. organized their first event titled“Discussion from II PCM
on Pesticide Industries- The good and the The events of POLARISE were conducted
bad” on the 10th of October 2020. The by Agnideepta from II MCZ, and Ramya G
presenters of this session were Ananya, from II PCM.
Joshika from II CBZ, who was accompanied
by Nidhi from III IES. They presented their CHEM TALKATHON
perspectives on how pesticides can be 2021
very beneficial, as well as harmful. This
informative session was followed by a The Chem Talkathon event was conducted
healthy discussion between the speakers on the 26th of April, 2021. The event
and the participants. Moderators Malavika was judged by Dr Shobha S.V. and Dr
and Sanskriti from CPE helped in the Jayashankar from the Department of
smooth sailing of the event. Chemistry. All 6 participants presented
ELUSION
their talk in the given time limit of 5+1
ELUSION was conducted on the 16th minutes, after which each was given 3
POLARIZE minutes to answer the questions. The
of September 2020. Ms Aathira Suresh,
Keerthi J, Surhiya R S and Aishwarya R concluding remarks for the event were
Chem Boggle 2021 given by Dr Shobha S. V. The event was
organized the event, which took place on
Zoom with 20 teams (40 participants) and conducted by Aathira Suresh from II PCM,
This event was held on the 19th of April Aishwarya R from II CZBT, Keerthi J from II
10 others. It was a questionnaire-based 2021. In the event, students framed
event where the questions were sent to CBT, and Surhiya R S from II CEB.
the name of the chemical compounds The winners were;
participants using Google form with a time using the grid containing the formula of
limit of 35 minutes along with 5mins as 1st – Likhith. J from I PCM
compounds. 2nd – Sreestha Dinesh from III CZBT
buffer. Hints were also provided for required The winners were;
questions. The winners were Team 16 - 3rd – J Anoop from I PCM
1st – Apeksha V from II MCB3
Akshat Mishra from II CBT and Agnideepta 2nd- Hari Haran S from III PCM
Majumder II MCZ. The second place went to 3rd- Aathira Suresh from II PCM EXPERIMENTZILLA
Team 9 - Vishnu Thirtha SH from I PCM and
Vivekananda Nayak I PCM, and the third Word Hunt 2021 Likhith and Prakruthi conducted the
place to Team 18 - Sharath Shaji Thomas online event ‘Experimentzilla’ on the 8th
from I CZBT and Roshan George from I CZBT. The second event was held on 21th of April of May 2021 where they conducted live
2021. A total of 32 students took part in the experiments for students and had a quiz
CHEM SUDOKU event. The students were given a puzzle to related to these experiments. A total of 35
hunt down the words in chemistry in the participants were present.
Chem Sudoku event was conducted grid, using the hints.
on the 7th of October 2020, headed by The winners were; The winners were:
Agnideepta Majumder and Aathira Suresh. 1st- Vinayaka S Koppad from III MCB 1st – Shashank Arunkumar from I PCM
A word file was sent to the chem sudoku 2nd- Grisha Sharma from I MCZ 2nd – Alefiya from I CEB
WhatsApp group for the participants. 3rd- Keerthi J from II CBT 3rd – Srishti Pargai from I CBT
The word file had a Sudoku (9×9) grid.
The Sudoku had to be filled on the basis
All the events were conducted under the
of the general rules of sudoku. The twist
supervision of Dr Sunita Rajamani and Dr
was that it had chemical formulas instead
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 Peer Learning Classes For The2nd-semesterclasseswerecoordinated E-newsletter Team
Odd And Even Semester by Likhith J from I PCM and the remedial And The Process
classes for supplementary students were
Peer learning classes started inUGCS from coordinated by Vivekananda Nayak from The e-newsletter team published the first
May 1st week and lasted till 20th of June I PCM. volume of the e-newsletter from the UG
2021. Lauren and Devika were the overall Chemical Society. It helped many students
coordinators for the 6th semester. The Vishesh Asnani from I CBT, Vivekananda to get help with their writing ability.
following students were directly a part of Nayak from I PCM, Prathika Natarajhan Students were happily involved in writing
the sessions. from I CEZ, Sharath Shaji Thomas from I short scientific articles.
Lauren from III CZBT, Swapna from III CZBT, Samridhi Dubey from I PCM, J Anoop
CZBT and Prakruti Mehta from III CEZ, from I PCM, Likhith J from I PCM taught
Vivekanand Jha from III MCB taught chemistry classes and made the sessions
Inorganic and Biochemistry. interactive.
The students found it very helpful while
Om Kumar coordinated the 4th-semester teaching since they gained confidence
remedial classes. Om Kumar from II CBZ, and their own doubts were cleared. All
Thejesvini A from III CEB, Vishaak K B from II the classes were coordinated by staff
PCM, Aathira Suresh from II PCM, Sanjana K coordinators of UGCS, Dr Sunita and Dr
B from II PCM, Modhulika Rana from II CBT, Rashmi.
Sagar J C from II PCM, Keerthi J from II CBT,
Sai Sri Navya from II CBT and Anuraag S
Avadhany from II MCZ taught few lectures
from the topic – Alkyl halides and Alkenes
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 DEPARTMENT OF BOTANY
Webinars participants on the theme of current trends of Colombo, talked about the role of plants

A
and research in the field of Phytomedicine in the treatment of cancer. Dr Ahmed Al-
research was promising. Hejin, Professor of Molecular Biology and
national webinar on Biotechnology, Head of Microbiology
‘Species Recovery Laboratory and Entrepreneurship and
and Conservation of International Conference on Knowledge Creativity Unit at King Fahad
Endangered Species Medical Research Center, King Abdulaziz
in India’ organised
Cancer and Genetics University, UAE, gave a talk on Cancer and
by Dr Paramesha Genetics. Dr Clarisse Nobre, University of

O
M was conducted on June 5, 2020. The Minho, Portugal, presented a paper on
n February 26, 2021, the
resource person for this event was Dr G the ‘Role of Prebiotics and Probiotics in
international conference was
Ravikanth, scientist at ATREE, Bengaluru. Colorectal Cancer Treatment’. Dr Ashwath
declared open by Rev Fr Francis
The webinar had 534 participants. Channareddy, Principal Scientist and Head
Pinto, SJ,Vice Principal of St. Joseph’s College
of Flowers and Medicinal Plants, IIHR,
(Autonomous). The academic events
An international webinar on ‘Current spoke on the effects of lifestyle on cancer.
began with the keynote address by Dr K
Trends in Phytomedicine Research’ was
V Venkatesh, a renowned professor from
conducted on June 14, 2020, with 85 Dr (Fr) Victor Lobo, SJ. was the chief guest.
IIT, Bombay, on ‘System Biology of Cancer:
participants in attendance. The sessions Dr Ramachandra, Director of Kidwai
Interplay between Genetic, Signalling,
included invited lectures from resource Institute of Oncology, Dr Lingegowda,
Immune and Metabolic Factors’. This was
persons and paper presentations of former Director of Kidwai Institute of
followed by a series of talks by eminent
participants. Students of MSc and PhD Oncology, and Dr Syed Wiqar, Director,
oncologists. Dr. Vinay Hazare was declared
scholars presented their dissertation Apollo Hospitals, were present. A parallel
the “Living Legend of Oncology by NCBI”,
works in the conference. Best Presentation session of student paper presentations
National Institute of Health, USA. Ms C M
Certificates were awarded to three was conducted. Dr Praveen Kumar and Mr
Nanayakkara, Professor and Head of the
participants. Overall, the feedback of the B S Ramesh chaired the sessions. Out of
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45 research papers from this session, ten Botanical Society, St. Joseph’s College KCS1 to improve VLCFAs contents and
best papers were selected. The valedictory (Autonomous), Bengaluru. chilling tolerance of Arabidopsis thaliana,
and prize distribution function was held The Plant Journal, 2020.
on February 27, 2021. Rev Fr Swebert D’ Dr Stephen A was invited as the resource
Silva, the Rector, was the chief guest. Dr person for multiple events. ‘Are we doing Srivastava A.P, Mishra N., Prasad R.L.A.,
Rangaswamy, Registrar, Vishweshwaraiah enough for a better future? Biodiversity Rajesh P., and Knaff D.B., Thermodynamics
Technological University, Belgaum, and Conservation: Averting Biodiversity of ferredoxin binding to cyanobacterial
was the guest of honour. Best papers meltdown in Tropics’ was an international nitrate reductase, Photosynthesis
presented by the students and delegates workshop/webinar organized for Green Research, 2020.
were awarded. All the coordinators of the warriors of Cognizant by Outreach- Wijewardene I., Mishra N., Sun L., Smith
conference were presented with‘Sandman Environment, Cognizant, Chennai, India. J., Zhu X., Payton P., Shen G., and Zhang
awards’. For the academic excellence and ‘Should you do a PhD?’ was the topic H., Improving drought-, salinity-, and
scientific contributions made, Dr Jayarama dealt with at the induction programme heat-tolerance in transgenic plants by
Reddy, Professor St. Joseph’s College, was for a week-long FDP organized at college. co-overexpressing Arabidopsis vacuolar
honoured with the G.R. Patel ‘Dronacharya ‘Facets of Biodiversity and its Conservation’ pyrophosphatase gene AVP1 and Larrea
Award’ by the International Society of at a webinar organized by Cognizant Rubisco activase gene RCA, Plant Science,
Gene and Cell Therapy and Gene Research in association with Air Force School, 2020, 296.
Foundation on February 27, 2021. Hebbal, was another topic. ‘Medicinal
Plant Diversity and its Applications in Pehlivan N., Sun L., and Mishra N.,
Pharmaceuticals’ was dealt with on a Defensive manoeuvres of NHX1 and SOS1
Staff Achievements one-day national webinar at Palamuru co/overexpression in plant salt tolerance,
University, Mahabubnagar, Telangana. Turk J Bot, 2020, 44.
‘Our Medicinal Plants – Our Heritage:
Immune Boosting Medicinal Plants’ at Dr Paramesha M
a national webinar at Department of Deepthi, N., Nagaraja, B.C., Paramesha,
Advanced Zoology and Biotechnology, M., (2020) Riparian zones and pollination
Ramakrishna Mission Vivekananda College service: A case study from coffee-
(Autonomous), Chennai. The same topic agrosystem along river Cauvery, South
was handled at AARI Bioscience webinar India. Nature Environment and Pollution
series at Annakili Amma Research Institute Technology. 19(3):1235-1240.
(AARI), Chennai.
Popular Publication: Stephen, A. 2020. Dr Lokesh Ravi
Tavaram Arivom. Arivukkan, India (in Lokesh Ravi, Kannabiran Krishnan (2020).
Dr A. Stephen Tamil). Antifungal potential of green synthesized
Dr A. Stephen contributed a chapter silver nanoparticles (AgNPS) from the stem
titled ‘Biodiversity Conservation through Dr Neelam Mishra bark extract of Kigelia pinnata. Research
Urban Forests: A Case Study from Chennai, Chatterjee A., Paul A., Unnati G.M., Rajput Journal of Pharmaceutical Technology,
India in Khajure and Rathod (Eds.) Marine R., Biswas T., Kar T., Basak S., Mishra N., 14(4), 1-5.
Biology and Ecology through Narendra Pandey A., and Srivastava A.P., MAPK
Publishing House, Delhi. cascade gene family in Camellia sinensis: GenBank - NCBI Submissions
In-silico identification, expression profiles GenBank Accession ID: MT509544
He was appointed as external examiner and regulatory network analysis, BMC “Protease producing Bacillus velezensis
for a research candidate’s dissertation Genomics, 2020, 21, 613. SJCYVSP01”
titled ‘Kedayan Traditional Healing and Varuni Nagraik, Pravallika B. Chowdary,
Their Calendric System - Where Do They Esmaeili N., Cai Y., Tang F., Zhu X., Smith J., Yasmine Mawthoh, Sandy Hlychho,
Meet?’ from the Faculty of Arts and Social Mishra N., Hequet E., Ritchie G., Jones D., Rajamani Sosai, Lokesh Ravi
Sciences, Universiti Brunei Darussalam, Shen G., Payton P., and Zhang H., Towards GenBank Accession ID: MT509549
Jatan Tungku Link BE1410, Negara Brunei doubling fibre yield for cotton in the “Pigment producing Saccharomonospora
Darussalam. semiarid agricultural area by increasing azurea SJCJABS01”
tolerance to drought, heat, and salinity Anupama Harry, Bhavya Doddavarapu,
He was also an organizer for a webinar on 05 simultaneously, Plant Biotechnology Charlotte JF, Sri Priya SD, Rajamani Sosai,
May 2020 for which Dr Albert Premkumar, Journal, 2020. Lokesh Ravi
Tübitak, Guest Scientist, Istanbul Chen L., Hu W., Mishra N., Wei J., Lu H., Hou GenBank Accession ID: MT507102
University, Turkey, delivered a lecture on Y., Qiu X., Yu S., Wang C., Zhang H., Cai Y., “Plant tissue culture contaminant
‘Plant Omics in Space’ in association with Sun C., and Shen G., AKR2A interacts with Pseudomonas oryzihabitans SJCSHLV01”

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Shreyanka S. Moily, Leanna Joe, Varsha Botanical Society and should have complete background
Toppo, Harini AP, Rajamani Sosai, Lokesh information on several universities of
Ravi interest and only apply to that university
GenBank Accession ID: MT491092 What’s Next After Your Master’s which is apt. He then cleared some of the
“Soft Rot Causing Bacteria” Programme? questions posed by the staff and students

T
Sherin S. Kizhukarakkattu, Gandhimathi JV, and provided his contact source at the end
Tanisha Dey, Parvathy Sumam, Rajamani o clear the confusion in the minds of the webinar.
Sosai, Lokesh Ravi of PG students, the Botanical
Society organised a webinar by Dr Sustainability at Home
Dr Jayarama Reddy Viraj Muthye, a postdoctoral researcher
Ravi L, Jindam D, Kumaresan S, Selvaraj at Iowa State University, Ames, USA. Dr A workshop/webinar on ‘Sustainability at
V, Reddy J. Anti-Methicillin Resistant Muthye was welcomed and introduced by Home’ was conducted by Mrs Vani Murthy,
Staphylococcus Aureus Potential of Mr Ganesh V of the society. Dr Viraj Muthye Composting Queen and Founder
Phytochemicals in Terminalia Catappa took forward the webinar by narrating his Member-SWMRT, Bengaluru as speaker of
and their Proposed In Silico Mechanism own journey and experiences of getting the day. Ms Nithya welcomed the gathering
of Action. Asian J Pharm Clin Res. a doctoral degree in a foreign university. and introduced the speaker. The webinar
2019;12(10):133-7. He then quoted some pros and cons was entirely based on the production of
Reddy J. Computational Design of of applying to foreign universities for organic fertilisers and bio-enzymes using
Novel Oral Insulin Conjugates for the doctoral research work. He also gave some the kitchen bio-waste produced in our
Development of Solid Oral Insulin Dosage ideas and tips on how students have to be homes. Mrs Vani Murthy also stressed on
Forms. Asian J Pharm Clin Res prepared with utmost alertness the ongoing water and land pollution
2020;13(5):141-51. problems due to excessive usage of plastic
Conferences Chaired: and insisted to use alternatives to the
Chaired the international webinar on plastic containers, and also demonstrated
‘Current Trends in Phytomedicine Research’ the process of making bio-enzymes as well
on June 14, 2020. as organic manure from the kitchen waste
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with no or less expenditure. She concluded Carnation Art of Scientific Writing
her talk by answering the questions from
the audience.

Lecture on Botanical History of India

A warm virtual welcome was accorded to

the new batch 2020-2021 of the Botanical
Society on August 8, 2020. MSc Botany
student volunteers organised team
building activities. The association was
inaugurated on the Teams platform on
August 27, 2020. Dr Mayur Nandikar, senior
scientist, Naoroji Godrej Center for Plant
Research Shirwal, Satara, was the chief
guest who delivered a thought-provoking
lecture on ‘The Botanical History of India The most awaited event of the year was On November 10, 2020, the association
and Socio-economy’. An interactive session ‘Carnation’, an intercollegiate fest that conducted a webinar focused on scientific
of 20 minutes was given to a total of 200 celebrates the diversity of nature and plant writing from 2:30 pm to 4:00 pm via
attendees with students from parts of culture. A total of six events focusing on Microsoft Teams. Dr Anju Kumar, Post-
Maharashtra and Rajasthan participating ecology were organised, namely quiz, doctoral Researcher, Virologist, INSERM,
where they shared a few interesting stories photography, videography, painting, joined the team from France and shared
and facts. sketching and storytelling. The event his professional expertise and presented
was open to registration and submission the students with a few tips on the ‘Art of
Transpire from October 19, 2020, and ended on scientific writing.’ A total of 200 students
November 11, 2020. All events were attended the webinar and by the end
On September 1, 2020, the association conducted on virtual platforms like Google of it, many of the questions & doubts
launched a social media series called meet, Google forms, and Instagram. A were clarified and discussed by the guest
‘Transpire.’ Transpire aimed at giving its total of 78 entries came in from 14 colleges lecturer. Though 2020 was a tough year,
audience insights into the creative side of across the country. Winners were declared the association and its members have
the plant kingdom. This social media series on November 14, 2020, and were awarded been committed to their aim of connecting
had an audience from kids to teachers. cash prizes. A gifting sponsor, Arni Garden young minds to nature and providing the
The 15-day event was a success and had Boutique gave special vouchers worth Rs. required industry skills.
received photographs, poetry, fiction 2000 to the winners.
pieces, etc., on Instagram along with ten
articles from students across different
states, including Kerala, Andhra Pradesh
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participants had to follow. Various Colleges
across the city participated online and can help them understand the disease
won prizes. better.
n the 30th of April
2021, a virtual session
was conducted by Webinar on Drug Discovery: Anti Plastic Drive
the Department of

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Zoology with Ms Probable approaches to
he Department of Zoology and
Merlyn James who is combat COVID-19 A Rocha India, Bannerghatta
currently pursuing MSc. in Biotechnology
organised a field event titled Anti

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and Bioinformatics at Latrobe University,
he Zoology department conducted Plastic Event on the 6th of March 2021 at
Australia as the resource person. The
a webinar on ‘Drug Discovery: the Bannerghatta National Park.
webinar guided the students to apply for
various courses in Australia and in other Probable approaches to combat
European countries. COVID-19’ on the 7th of August 2020 via
Microsoft Teams. This webinar gave a Zoophite -21
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Natural Science Association understanding of the Covid19 pandemic,

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to a layman. The speakers of the webinar Zoophite-21, an intercollegiate
week-long inter collegiate were Dr Devaraju K. S, Professor and carnival which included
competitions such as photography, Chairman, Department of Biochemistry, competitions associated with Zoology,
sketching, mimicry, pets talent and Karnataka University, Dharwad and Dr a student career webinar as well as a
creative writing were conducted from Sivashish Banerjee, M.B.B.S., JIPMER, virtual conference on ‘Diversity and
the 26th of April to the 29th of April 2021. Puducherry. The aim was to enable the distribution of Indian Birds’. There were
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these programs. The resource person for in the Deccan Herald newspaper.He was Webinar on Career guidance

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the student webinar was Ms Meryln James invited as a guest speaker for a number of
from Latrobe University, Australia and the webinars this academic year. n the 30th of April 2021, a virtual
resource person for the virtual conference session was conducted by the
was Dr Raju Kasambe from Bombay He was also invited to the University Department of Zoology with Ms
Natural History Society. The events were Of Mysore, St. Joseph’s ICSE School, Merlyn James who is currently pursuing
conducted from the 26th of April 2021 to Calicut and a talk organised by an NGO MSc. in Biotechnology and Bioinformatics
the 1st of May 2021 and had participants Swaasthya circle Foundation.He reviewed at Latrobe University, Australia as the
from various colleges across India. two research articles for the Journal of resource person.
Asia-Pacific Entomology And Journal of
Staff achievements Scientific Research and Reports.

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r Jayashankar M authored
an article titled ‘Lakes and
Multifaceted Ecosystems’ that
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Department Activities ‘Role of Data Science in Cancer Research’. Dr Staff Achievements
Rini Shah, postdoctoral fellow at Boston’s
Children’s Hospital, Harvard Medical

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Folding’. The department also organized
he Department of an online ‘Covid-19 Awareness Quiz’ in the part from attending numerous
Microbiology, St. Joseph’s first week of May 2020. webinars and completing online
College (Autonomous), courses, Dr Beatrice Sequeira has
Bengaluru, organized Scientific writing workshop attended several Faculty Development
its first international Programmes and workshops of which
webinar lecture series The Department of Microbiology prominent are ‘Approaches and
‘Kaleidoscope 3.0 from July 9-11, 2020. organized a two-day online workshop Challenges to Interdisciplinary Research’
The speakers were Dr Pankaj Prasad, on ‘Scientific Writing’ from January 29- from August 5-7, 2020, organized by St
postdoctoral associate at Weill Cornell 30, 2021. The resource person for the Joseph’s College of Law, Bengaluru and
Medical College, New York City, USA. workshop was Dr Saurabh Mahajan, an online workshop on IPR organized by
He spoke on ‘Cancer Stem Cells: Future Atria University, Bengaluru, and Dr SJC and SJCR on August 26, 2020. She also
Implications and Challenges’. The other Kruttika Phalnikar, Indegene Inc., completed a one-week national-level
speakers were Dr Arpit Mishra, Scientist, Bengaluru. The lectures were hosted on online workshop on ‘Interdisciplinary
University of Washington, Seattle, WA. He the official Zoom platform of the college. Research Methodology, ICT Application
spoke on ‘DNA Looping and Editing in The speakers spoke about how to design and Innovations in Teaching Learning
Diseases’. Dr Kartik Subramanian, Senior and write scientific articles with special Process’ organized by St Francis DeSales
Research Investigator at Bristol– Myers emphasis on review articles. College, Nagpur, from June 08 - 12, 2020.
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Dr Vanitha NM by the Department of Microbiology, with his lecture ‘Tracking Stress-Induced
St. Joseph’s College (Autonomous), Epigenetic Changes: from Human Cancers
Dr Vanitha NM served as the resource Bengaluru. She also co-organized and to Chlamydomonas’. The event was
person and one of the organisers for ‘SJC participated in the two-day lecture attended by the faculty members, office-
Digital Teacher’ conducted by our college. workshop on ‘OMIC Sciences in the times bearers, postgraduate and undergraduate
She was also the coordinator, organiser, of COVID - 19 Pandemic’ organized by the students of microbiology, and was also
and resource person for the Induction Department of Microbiology, St. Joseph’s live-streamed on YouTube to a wider
Programme for new faculty from July 23- College (Autonomous), Bengaluru in audience.
30 at St. Joseph’s College (Autonomous). association with the Indian Academy
She also attended numerous webinars of Sciences, Bengaluru, Indian National Crafting your careers
and workshops prominent of which are Science Academy (INSA), New Delhi
Faculty Development Programme on and the National Academy of Sciences, Microbiological Society organized a talk
‘SARS-COV-2 Research: Insights from Allahabad on 9th and 10th October 2020. on ‘Crafting your career’ by Dr Smita Jain,
Computational Biology’ by Kristu Jayanti executive director of IndiaBioscience,
College (Autonomous) and a five-day Ms Shahmali Kamath Prabhu Bengaluru on November 6, 2020. The
hands-on training E-workshop on ‘Use lecture was hosted on the official Zoom
of Animations in creating Virtual Lab for Ms Shalmali Kamath Prabhu convened platform of the college. Dr Jain spoke
Biosciences’ from August 25-29 by Atmiya the international webinar lecture series about the importance of knowing the
University, Rajkot. ‘Kaleidoscope 3.0’from July 9-11, organized various intricacies of careers and what
by the Department of Microbiology, St. they entail. She also emphasized on how
Dr Jothy W Joseph’s College (Autonomous). She was to work on establishing interests and
invited as an external examiner for the accomplishments in the most interesting
Dr Jothy W defended her PhD thesis online assessment of Internal Literature and concise way, while being noticeable
titled ‘Development of plant growth Review Projects by T Y BSc (Batch 2020-21) too.
promoting microbial consortia based on on April 26, 2021, by R D and S H National
interaction studies to reduce Sclerotinia College and S W A Science College, Bandra Conversations around Sci-Art
rot in Brassica oleracea L.’ on May 09, 2020, West, Mumbai. She also co-organized
under the guidance of Dr Srividya, HOD and participated in the two-day lecture On December 18, 2020, Microbiological
and Associate Professor, Department workshop on ‘OMIC Sciences in the times Society organized an interactive lecture
of Microbiology, JAIN (Deemed-to-be- of COVID - 19 Pandemic’ organized by the on scientific art by Dr Ipsa Jain, science
University), Bengaluru. She also organized Department of Microbiology, St. Joseph’s communicator and illustrator. The lecture
and was the Coordinator of the two-day College (Autonomous), Bengaluru in was hosted on the official Zoom platform
lecture workshop on ‘OMIC Sciences in the association with the Indian Academy of the college at 6:30 pm and was attended
times of COVID - 19 Pandemic’ organized of Sciences, Bengaluru, Indian National by the staff and students of the Department
by the Department of Microbiology, St. Science Academy (INSA), New Delhi of Microbiology, as well as other interested
Joseph’s College (Autonomous), Bengaluru and the National Academy of Sciences, students. The talk was highly interactive,
in association with the Indian Academy Allahabad on 9th and 10th October 2020. and Dr Jain kept the audience engaged
of Sciences, Bengaluru, Indian National She completed a synopsis presentation throughout with activities. These activities
Science Academy (INSA), New Delhi and registered for PhD in the Department demonstrated how our interpretation of
and the National Academy of Sciences, of Microbiology, CPGS, Jain University, science depends on our skillset as well as
Allahabad on 9th and 10th October 2020. Bengaluru. our preexisting knowledge, preconceived
notions, and inherent biases, which is why
Dr Popy Dutta visuals are important in the field of science
Microbiological Society in particular.
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workshop on ‘Scientific Writing’ from
January 29-30, 2021. She also completed a icrobiological Society, the Microcosm
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conducted by Mizoram University from Department of Microbiology,
St. Joseph’s College (Autonomous), icrocosm, the undergraduate
July 28-August 17, 2020 with grade A.
Bengaluru, was inaugurated on September association of the Department
26, 2020, at 4:30 pm on Microsoft Teams. Dr of Microbiology, St. Joseph’s
Ms Ria Saha
Subhojit Sen, Ramalingaswami Fellow, UM- College (Autonomous), Bengaluru,
DAE Centre for Excellence in Basic Sciences, conducted its inauguration for the
Ms Ria Saha co-organized the international
School of Biological Sciences, Maharashtra, academic year 2020-2021 on August 27,
webinar series‘Kaleidoscope 3.0’organized
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Sheela Reuben, Secretary of the Biorisk Convergence The lecture was hosted on the official MS
Association of Singapore, Singapore. Teams and Zoom platform. 15 colleges from
Dr Reuben talked on ‘Biosafety - from ‘Convergence’ was Microcosm’s fourth across the country participated.
Principles to Practice’. event for the academic year. It was based
Microcosm hosted its first event for the on the idea of emulsifying science and Ubiquitous 3.0
year on September 19, 2020, with a talk literature together. It was open for all
on ‘Learning and Memory Formation in combinations. Convergence had a total Microcosm’s annual newsletter was
Songbirds’ by Dr Payal Arya, post-doctoral of 5 events, namely, creative writing, officially released on April 10, 2021, during
fellow at the Wellesley College, Boston. poetry, caption making, meme-making the valedictory ceremony of Ferment-21.
and illustrations. The newsletter is a collection of stimulating
Treasure hunt articles written by the students of the
FERMENT-21 Department of Microbiology. There are
Microcosm hosted its third event on also comic strips, puzzles, riddles and
October 18, 2020. It was conducted Microcosm hosted its intercollegiate fest artwork etc. made by the students of
after two rounds of prelims. There ‘FERMENT-21’ from April 5-10, 2021. The our department. The newsletter was put
were a total of 27 teams from different events included an online treasure hunt, together by Neeleshwar (III MCB) and
combinations including Humanities Off the Cuff, The Science Entrepreneur, Vaibhavi (II MCB). After its official release,
and Commerce. Satire, and Photography. the newsletter was sent to all the classes
and was made available on Microcosm’s
Instagram page: microcosm_sjc.

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he Department of Biostatistics for the final year CBBT and Science Academies Lecture
Biotechnology was CZBT students. The resource person was Dr
granted permission to start Saurabh Mahajan of Atria University. The
Workshop
the M.Sc. Biotechnology workshop allowed students to understand

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course from the how R is useful in a variety of biostatistical he Department organized the
academic year 2021-22. analysis and data representation. Science Academies Lecture
Dr Susan Mary Philip was appointed Workshop on “Recent Trends
as the coordinator for the programme. The final year research projects had to be in Microbiology and Biotechnology”
The department has developed a reimagined in the context of covid and the on the 12th and 13th of January, 2021.
comprehensive curriculum tailored for the inability of students to access lab space Dr Dipshikha Chakravortty, Professor,
next generation of researchers. and equipment. However, very meaningful Dept of Microbiology and Cell Biology
research projects were planned and (MCB), Centre of Biosystem Science and
On the 16th of April 2021, the department supervised by the faculty. Research Bioengineering, Indian Institute of Science
collaborated with Bayer Corporation Ltd to findings were presented by student teams (IISc) was the Convenor, and Dr Grace
conduct an online lab tour and interactive of both the 2017-20 and 2018-21 batches Prabhakar was the coordinator for the
session in lieu of the annual field/industrial on project symposia conducted online workshop. The workshop shed light on a
visit for the final year CBBT and CZBT on MS teams. This year’s final year batch range of topics from human pathogenesis
students. The sessions focused on new- presented their project findings over a to the utility of microorganisms as well as
age techniques in farming and insights two-day online symposium on the 18th interactions of the plants – microbes.
into Agriculture in the 21st century. and 19th of June 2021 and there were a The following talks were delivered:
The department conducted an online variety of very high quality and interesting Bacterial Pathogenesis by Dr Dipshikha
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Molecular Needles by Dr Dipshikha Pathology with an Impact Factor of 2.442 Dr Susan Mary Philip
Chakravortty in November 2020. Dr Susan Mary Philip and Dr Lindsay
Microorganisms for human welfare by Dr “Pathophysiology of high fat diet induced Whitlow of Seattle University, along with
D.J.Bagyaraj, Centre for Natural Biological obesity: impact of probiotic banana juice colleagues at St. Joseph’s and Seattle
Resources and Community Development, on obesity associated complications and University also presented a poster
Bengaluru. hepatosteatosis” in the journal Scientific titled ‘Global Educational and Research
Mycorrhizal fungi for sustainable Reports 10, 16894 with an impact factor of Partnership in Bangalore and Seattle by St.
agriculture by Dr D.J.Bagyaraj 4.379 in October 2020. Joseph’s College and Seattle University’ at
Study of Molecular Dynamics at Plant- Dr Anthony Johnson also published the three-week Justice in Higher Education
Molecular Interface by Dr Channarayappa, a book chapter entitled GM Crops for Conference, from 8th of June through
Ramaiah College of Arts, Science and Virus resistance - A Primer in the book 24th of June 2021. This virtual conference
Commerce, Bengaluru. “Genetically Modified Crops Current was organised by the Association of
Oxidative Stress: An overview by Dr Status, Prospects and Challenges Volume Jesuit Colleges and Universities (AJCU),
Channaraya by Dr K M Harinikumar, GKVK, 2” edited by Kishor, P. B. Kavi, Rajam, M. V., and coordinated by the Centre for Social
UAS, Bangalore Pullaiah, T. (Eds.). Springer/Nature ISSN: Justice, Research, Training and Service
Molecular Markers by Dr K M Harinikumar 978-981-15-59i. at Georgetown University, USA. The
conference had plenary sessions on
Dr Madappa MB Spirituality and Justice in Jesuit Higher
Staff Achievements Dr Madappa MB was part of the team Education, Racial and Immigrant Justice,
that translated an information booklet Women in Leadership and Environmental

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on COVID-19 called “The Pandemic Justice.
s Teresa Fernadez Notebook” into the Kannada language. Was a member of the Board of Studies of
(18CZBT37006), Ms Sreya The translated version was published by the Department of Biotechnology, Garden
Mandal (18CZBT37016), and The Hindu on the 10th of April 2020. The City University, and a doctoral committee
Ms Sumayra Sultanji (18CZBT37040) from book was released in many languages member for a PhD scholar at GCU.
the final year CZBT class co-authored a across India. The Centre of Excellence Was the keynote speaker and trainer for
research paper entitled ‘Analysis of the in Science and Mathematics Education, the ‘Science through Inquiry and Research’
potential impact of genomic variants Indian Institute of Science Education and workshop, organized for faculty of Life
in SARS-CoV-2 genomes from India on Research (IISER), Pune coordinated the Sciences by the Bishop Heber College,
molecular diagnostic assays’. Dr Saurabh process. Dr Madappa was also part of the Trichy, and funded by the United Board
Mahajan from the department was part team that designed the diagrams for all for Christian Higher Education in Asia held
of the research team which collaborated versions of the translated languages. from 23rd to 26th of June 2021.
with Dr Vinod Scaria at IGIB, New Delhi. Dr Madappa MB was part of the team that Was the organizer and coordinator of the
The work is published in the International constructed the online software platform two-month-long workshop conducted
Journal of Infectious Diseases. for the conduction of end semester exams by the Josephite Research Forum, for
2020, jointly coordinated by Mr Cyril in undergraduate students of St. Joseph’s
Dr Debarati collaboration with LINWAYS company. College titled ‘The How of Research’.
Dr Debarati published a research article Dr Madappa MB is nominated as the Was involved in the organisation of a
titled ‘Longevity promoting efficacies Bangalore City University nominee for National level FDP on ‘Frontiers of Smart
of rutin in high fat diet fed Drosophila the board of studies meeting at the Learning’, jointly with coordinators of
melanogaster’ in Scopus Indexed journal Department of Biotechnology, Mount the DBT Star College Coordinators in
Biogerontology with impact factor 3.8. Carmel College, Bangalore. Bangalore held from 24th to 26thof June
2020.
Dr Anthony Johnson
Dr Anthony Johnson published the
following papers - “Nickel tolerance and
biosorption potential of rhizobia associated
with horse gram [Macrotyloma uniflorum
(Lam.) Verdc.]”, in the International Journal
of Phytoremediation with an Impact
Factor 3.212 in February 2021.

“Multilocus sequence analysis of a

‘Candidatus Phytoplasma australasia’-
related strain associated with peanut little
leaf disease in India” in the Journal of Plant

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 Student Achievements She is currently working under the nternational Summit Youth AG Summit
supervision of Dr R. Harinarayanan at 2021, organised by Bayer Corporation Ltd.

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CDFD, Hyderabad.
heethal Kooduvalli of III CZBT was Sanskriti Suman of 2017-2020 CZBT
selected for the 8-week, HMS Cell Nikitha D of III CZBT was selected for the IAS cleared the National GAT-B examination
Biology summer research scholars’ Summer research fellowship programme with an All India Rank of 32.
program in March 2021. This international in May 2021 and is part of the IAS SRFP
selection is part of the Harvard Medical group of 2021. She will work under Mandhara Bellur of 2017-2020 CZBT, AIR
School online summer research program. the supervision of Dr Moinak Banerjee, 890 and Swapna of 2018-2020 CZBT,
Rajiv Gandhi Centre for Biotechnology, AIR 1303 cleared the National level JAM
Namrata Achan of III CZBT was selected Thiruvananthapuram. entrance exam.
for the IAS Summer research fellowship
programme in March 2021 and is part of Shreyas Padmanabha Sharma of 2017- Elten Johni of 2017-2020 CBBT cleared CAT
the IAS SRFP group of 2021. 2020 CBBT was selected as a delegate to 2021 and has admission offers from IIMs at
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ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE
Green Chemistry continuously based on their attendance, Architect. The moderators were Ms Tanvi

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class participation and presentation and Agarwal and Ms Madhupreeta Muralidhar. The
also on a minor research work and poster webinar was conducted in different segments.
epartment of presentation. 28 Undergraduate Biological Prof. Varanashi spoke about sustainable living
Environmental Science and Chemical Science students successfully and connecting architecture to sustainability.
and Department of completed the course. Dr Ram also delivered It was an informative webinar that gave a new
Chemistry offered a a special talk on Green Chemistry to the perspective on sustainable living.
Certificate Course in faculty members and motivated them to
Principles of Green concentrate on the application of Green Conversations on conservation
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Mohan from Illinois Wesleyan University, USA research in the same field.
from 2nd January to 30th April 2020. Dr Ram n September 12, 2020, a webinar
Mohan visited India on a Fulbright Nehru Environment- From Science to titled ‘Conversation on Conservation’
Fellowship and had selected our college Culture was organised by the Department
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Chemistry. He was very keen to interact were Mr Gopakumar Menon and Mr Raghav
with our staff members and students to n August 1st, 2020, a webinar titled Gupta. The moderator was Ms Shree Kumari.
promote and incorporate the principles of ‘Environment- From Science to Culture’ The speakers spoke about the importance
Green Chemistry into our curriculum. He was organised by the Department of of conservation ethics that needed to be
conducted the course on Saturdays and Environmental Science on Google Meet. The followed in various fieldwork along with their
public holidays, and whenever students resource person for the event was Mr Satya work and experience in conservation. It was a
had free time. He assessed the students PrakashVaranashi, a professor and a practising very interactive and knowledgeable session.

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SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
Staff Achievements Dr Mohan Kumar S LIBA, Chennai. He also participated
Dr Mohan Kumar S from the department in a National Webinar on Nutrition,

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of Food Science and Technology Nutraceuticals, Health and Wellness –
Dr Anupriya Mazumder secured 2nd Prize for oral presentation Academia Industry Interface organized
r Anupriya Mazumder in an international virtual conference by the Nutrition and Nutraceutical
from Food Science and organized by Sree Balaji Dental College Research Centre (NNRC), Ramaiah
Technology department and Hospital, Tamil Nadu on “Oral University of Applied Sciences,
successfully completed Microbiome - ORMICON 2020” in June Bengaluru on 16th of December 2020.
AICTE Training and 2020. He published a paper on ‘Evaluation
Learning (ATAL) of antibacterial activity of the endophytic Dr Sunita Adak
Academy Online Faculty Development fungi isolated from spice plants’ in the Dr Sunita Adak successfully completed
Programmes on “Non-thermal Processing International Journal of Botanical Studies. the National Level Online Workshop on
of Food Products” conducted by the Dr Mohan presented his PhD research “E-Content Development” with a 98%
College of Food Processing Technology work in three international virtual score organized from 7th to 12th of June
and Bioenergy held from 29th of June conferences and participated in several 2021 by St. Ann’s College, Kokrajhar,
to 3rd of July 2021. She acted as a National and International conferences. Assam. Dr Adak also participated in a
technical reviewer for the Journal of Three Day Virtual International Workshop
Applied Phycology and Algal research Mr Abel Kooran Varghese on “Research Methodology” organized
and reviewed 5 international articles. Dr Mr Abel Kooran Varghese attended a by the Department of Physical Science in
Mazumder participated in two national workshop on Research and Publication Association with IQAC APS College of Arts
and one international conference virtually Ethics held on the 13th of February and Science from 17th to 19th of June
and presented her research work. 2021 held under the auspices of 2021.

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& BUSINESS MANAGEMENT
Online workshop Guru Gyaan- communication, the importance
of communication strategy in crisis
on Structural Corporate Communication management, approaches to strategic
Equation and planning, and consciously determining
Modelling (SEM) using Strategy Planning the current scenario considering the
competitive business world.
AMOS

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s a part of integrating corporate
he School of Commerce skills with academic excellence, Research Methodology using
and Management Guru Gyaan – a gateway to ace in
organized its first online the very dynamic corporate environment
SPSS
workshop on ‘Structural

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was held on 23rd of September 2020,
Equation Modelling (SEM)’ for post-graduate students. Experts workshop on ‘Research
using AMOS, from the and professionals from the corporate Methodology using SPSS’ was
5th of 2020 to the 8th of August 2020. domain shared their insight, experience, conducted on the 24th of
Dr R Kasilingam, Professor, Department and essentials of being the next-gen January 2021. The students understood
of Management Studies, School of prospective employees through lectures. the A, B, and C of report writing Accuracy,
Management, Pondicherry University, was Guru Gyaan - lesson 3 was a culmination of Brevity, Clarity, Criteria for Acceptance or
the resource person for the workshop. The two robust, formidable motifs: Corporate rejection of null hypothesis, Outcomes
focus of the workshop was to learn the Communication and Strategy Planning. and Type 1 and Type 2 errors, principles
tools and techniques of SEM using AMOS The highlights and learning outcomes of good report writing and elements of
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 Road to Research-Art of on the 29th of April 2021. The resource Virtual National Level Faculty
persons deliberated on the various risks
Analysis and Interpretation involved in Commodity derivative trading
Development Programme
and measures to value it. The highlight of On “Research Methodology
‘Road to Research-Art of Analysis and
the session was showing the Real-Time In Commerce And
trading platform, which takes place on the
Interpretation’ was organised on the 13th
MCX platform.
Management”
of March 2021. The session cleared the

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route for researchers to facilitate their
issues identified with their study. This he School of Commerce and
session was fruitful for the students and Emporio 2021- Tilting the Management proudly organised its
professors since it had a lot of information Hourglass first Virtual National level FDP series
about research analysis and tools like SPSS. on “Research methodology in Commerce

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and Management”, on the 27th and 28th
he School of Commerce and of May 2021.
Statistical Design Management conducted a two- Dr I. R. N. Gaudar, Former Scientist G. NAL,
day inter-collegiate Business Fest was the resource person for session one of

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for students across the country on the 21st Day 1. He spoke on the topic, “Introduction
workshop on ‘Statistical Design’ and 22nd of May 2021. This was the 6th to research design, Art of literature review;
was conducted on the 31st of edition of the fest from the School. The chief E-resources”.
March 2021. The statistical design guest for the inauguration was Mr Shabbir Dr Rupesh Kumar A, Assistant Professor,
comes under experimental design. The Raja, co-founder of Blue-chip computer Department of Studies and Research in
event was mainly focused on the concepts systems and Liberty computer systems Library and Information science, Tumkur
of randomised blocks, Latin square design, active in the IT sector in Dubai, Abu Dhabi University, was the resource person for
and factorial design and was explained and Sharjah. Mr Shabbir encouraged the Day 2. He elaborated on the topic, “Cite
with different kinds of examples. students on being future entrepreneurs while you write: Reference Management
and spoke on the importance of ethics in Scholarly writing”.
as a must in business. There was a series
Placement Orientation of events live-streamed using Twitch -
Programme for Professional Finance, Marketing, Human Resource, Staff Achievements
Business Quiz, Best Manager, Event
Studies Management, Corporate sustainability,
public relations, Board Room and Product
Dr Christo Selvan V

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Launch.
‘Placement Orientation Programme Dr Christo Selvan V Published research
forProfessional Studies’wasorganised paper titled, An Exploratory Study on
on the 9th of April 2021. The session the extent of Budgeting Practices within
highlighted the need for employability and
Guest lecture on Small and Medium-sized Enterprises in
interpersonal skills. Skills required to grow and Fundamentals of Capital International Journal of Psychosocial.
Published research paper titled, A Study
sustain in the dynamic environment outside Markets on the Factors Affecting the Knowledge of
campus life. This placement orientation session
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was presided over by Placement Officer Mr
Pruthvi Kashyap. of Psychosocial Rehabilitation.
he purpose of the guest lecture
Published research paper titled, A Study
was to gain Awareness about the
on the Use of Gamification in Human
early savings habit that can affect
Resource Management: Impact on Job
Guest lecture on Risk one’s future from uncertain activity/ events
Satisfaction and Engagement in Studies in
of life, tax planning, careful budgeting
management measures on techniques and various investment
Indian Place Names.
the Commodity derivatives Published research paper titled, The
options.
Liquidity Impact on Bond Calculation
market on Credit Losses: A Malaysian banks’
Perspective in International Journal of

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Finance, Insurance and Risk Management,
uest lecture on ‘Risk management Volume 10, Issue 2, 79-115 2020.
measures on the Commodity Published a paper entitled “The Impact of
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Profession – A Descriptive Study”in Journal 2020 organized by St. Joseph’s College, 2nd-semester B.Com course, Bangalore
of Huazhong University of Science and Bengaluru. central University by Skyward Publisher.
Technology Volume 50 Issue 03 - 2021. Contributed as resource person for Addressed the students as resource person
Contributed as resource person for “Induction Programme”- a week long at Sheshadripuram Institute of commerce
National Conference on Progression of Faculty Development Programme and Management on the topic “Etiquettes
Statistics in Indian Business organised by held from 23rd July 2020 to 30th July of Online Classes”.
the PG Department of Commerce and 2020 organized by St. Joseph’s College, Authored a book on ‘Marketing and Event
Research Centre, Nazareth Margoschis Bengaluru. Management’ - Skyward Publisher.
College at Pillaiyanmanai Nazareth, Tamil
Nadu. Dr Padma Nandanan Mr Prabhakar K
Declared and awarded the Degree, Published research paper on Effectiveness
Contributed as resource person for Doctorate of Philosophy (PhD) by R&D of Performance Appraisal system in
National Conference on “Progression of Centre, Bharathiar University, Coimbatore Zomoto, Bengaluru in Studies in Indian
Strategies in Indian Business” organised effective from 10th July 2020. Place Names- Vol-40, Issue-60-March 2020.
by the PG Department of Commerce and Published research paper titled, A study on
Research Centre, Nazareth Margoschis
College at Pillaiyanmanai Nazareth, Tamil Mr Cyril customer awareness and services towards
Published research paper on “Behavioural Bancassurance in Bengaluru city in Studies
Nadu. in Indian Place Names.
change of Individual Investors during the
Financial Crisis” in International Journal of Published research paper titled, Digital
Mr Charles Ambrose Psychological Rehabilitation with ISSN: Marketing and Its Impact on buying
Authored a book on “Income Tax-I” and 1475-7192. behaviour of youths in Bengaluru in
published by The Native Tribe Publications. Studies in Indian Place Names.
Edited a book on “Sustainable Published research paper titled, A study
Development Goals - A Quest by Ms Amita Priyadarshini on Impact of social media marketing on
Generation Z” and published by The Native Invited to speak at a webinar organised consumer buying behaviour with special
Tribe Publications. by the Environmental Science Graduates reference to youth in Studies in Indian
Co-Edited the book Titled “Impact Association, Karnataka on the topic, Place Names.
of COVID-19 on Economy, Business, “Corporate Sustainability in the 21 st Contributed as subject matter expert on
Education and Social Life” Volume-2, Century – The ESG Era” on the 10th of July Digital marketing organised by Pragathi
published by The Native Tribe Publications. 2021. Group of Institutions.
Presented a paper titled “A Study on Contributed as resource person for an
the scope of implementation of Social Ms Princy Nisha invited talk on Career Opportunities
Stock Exchange in India” in KRISYM 2020- Published paper titled “A Study on the organised by Pragathi Group of Institutions.
The 13th International Conference on Scope of Implementation of Social Stock
Revisiting Three Decades of Liberalization Exchange in India”in Turkish Online Journal Ms Ria Idicula
and Globalization- Status, Prospects and of Qualitative Inquiry (TOJQI) Volume 12,
Challenges organized by the School of Issue 8, July 2021: 323-339. Published a paper titled “ The economic
Management, Kristu Jayanti College Published Paper Titled “A Comparative impact of Covid 19 and the transformation
(Autonomous), Bengaluru on 14th & 15th Analysis Of Customer Service Quality In in the GST system in the Journal of
February 2020. Public And Private Sector Banks In India Management in Government.
Published paper titled “A Study on the With A Special Reference To Bangalore”
Scope of Implementation of Social Stock In Journal Of Hunan University (Natural Presented a paper titled “ Impact of
Exchange in India”in Turkish Online Journal Sciences) Vol 48 No 6 June 2021. IT in the GST System in India “ in the
of Qualitative Inquiry (TOJQI) Volume 12, National Conference on Digital India:
Issue 8, July 2021: 323-339. Ms Ahana Ruth Pinto An IT Revolution. National Conference
Published Paper Titled “A Comparative Published a paper titled “Employee jointly organized by Social Science &
Analysis Of Customer Service Quality In Engagement of Female Workforce” in the Management Welfare Association, Youth
Public And Private Sector Banks In India international journal of Scientific Research Economics Association & Radiant Group of
With A Special Reference To Bangalore” in Engineering and Management, Vol-5 Institution, Jabalpur (M. P.), INDIA.
In Journal Of Hunan University (Natural issue-2(February 2021).
Sciences) Vol 48 No 6 June 2021.
Contributed as a Resource person and Ms Niha Asif
organizer for the Faculty Development Mr Mohammed Umair Published a book on International
Programme titled “SJC Digital Teacher” Published a book on the title “Modern Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS)
held from 25th June 2020 to 30th June Marketing” as per New CBCS Scheme for as per CBCS syllabus for 5th-semester

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B.com, Bengaluru Central University and Mechanical and Production Engineering at Presidency College (Autonomous),
Bangalore North University. Research and Development in Vol 10, issue Bengaluru.
Presented a paper titled “ Impact of -3 June 2020 with impact factor.
IT in the GST System in India “ in the
National Conference on Digital India:
An IT Revolution. National Conference
jointly organized by Social Science &
Management Welfare Association, Youth
Economics Association & Radiant Group of
Institution, Jabalpur (M. P.), INDIA.
Presented a paper titled “ Impact of
Chatbots in India “ in the National
Conference On Digital India: An IT
Revolution. National Conference
jointly organized by Social Science &
Management Welfare Association, Youth
Economics Association & Radiant Group of
Institution, Jabalpur (M. P.), INDIA.
Presented a paper titled “Impact of GST
on hospitality post COVID”, in a two-day
International Conference on “Geopolitics
in post COVID Era: Emerging Dimensions
and Dynamics” organized by the UGC-
HRDC, Osmania University, Hyderabad,
in collaboration with Hyderabad Institute
of social sciences (HISS) Hyderabad,
Telangana State.

Ms Sayantani Banerjee
Published a paper in International Journal
of Advanced Science and Technology, on
the title “A Study on the Effect of Capital
Inflow in India on Exchange Rate Indices”.
Published a Book chapter on A study of Ms Usha Priyadarshini
External, commercial, borrowing, and Published research paper titled, “Role Published a paper titled “CSR contribution
its relation with the index of Industrial of Social Entrepreneurs as Social towards the normalcy and upliftment of
Production in India by Shanlax Publications. Transformation Agents: An Insight in the society during Covid 19 pandemic “ in
Completed eight-week online MOOC Studies in Indian Place Names (UGC CARE Palarch’s Journal of Archaeology of Egypt/
course by NPTEL funded by the Ministry of Journal). Egyptology, Volume -18, Issue - 9, 2021.
MHRD on “Educational Leadership”.
Presented a paper titled “A study on
Published research paper on The Ebb and
personal factors influencing Women Dr Hariharan R
Flow of Indian Retail Sector in the time of Successfully defended his doctoral thesis
Pandemic in An International Bilingual Social Entrepreneurs Across Bengaluru
City” in the 7th National Level Conference titled “A Study of Price Fixation Mechanism
Peer Reviewed Refereed Research Journal. in Indian Commodity Market” at the
Invited and part of Associated Chamber of (Virtual Edition) on “Women in Leadership”
organized by Kristu Jayanti College University of Mysore.
Commerce of India as the core committee
member CSR and Sustainability (Autonomous), Bengaluru.
Published research paper Titled, “Lead-Lag
Committee, Southern Region at the Relationship between Commodity Spot
National Level. Presented and Received best research
paper award for her paper titled “CSR and Futures Markets in India” in Studies in
contribution towards the normalcy and Indian Place Names (UGC CARE Journal).
Dr S. Amudhan upliftment of the society during Covid Delivered a guest lecture on the topic of
Published a research paper entitled, “A 19 pandemic “ in ICON 2021 virtual commodity market at Indian Academy
study on Investment Behaviour among international conference on “New order College and St. Joseph’s Evening College.
Investors with special reference to & its implications on Business Dynamics
Bangalore city in International Journal of Presented Research paper Titled, “Price

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discovery on Spot and Futures Commodity and tools for online teaching and learning delivered a special lecture on “Set your
Market in India”, at the International “ in Three Day Virtual FDP on “Covid 19 goal” at KSR College of Arts and Science for
Finance Conference online organised by Creating a Paradigm Shift in rural teaching Women, Namakkal.
K J Somaiya Institute of Management, & Learning practices organized by IQAC, Contributed as a resource person and
Mumbai, India. Caussanel College of Arts & Science. delivered a special lecture on “How to
prepare for NET?” at PPG College of Arts
Ms Sana Begum M Mr Pruthvi Kashyap and Science, Coimbatore.
Published a paper in International Journal Contributed as resource person in training
on Emerging Technologies on the title the students on Resume building and Ms Gisa George
“Economic Impact of Gender Inequality in Pre-placement training organized by Published a research paper on A study
Service Sector in Bengaluru City”. Department of Commerce, Christ Deemed on Employee Attrition in the Corporate
to be University. world with reference to Bengaluru in
Secured 2nd place in B.S. Narayan Memorial International journal of multidisciplinary
Throwball Intercollegiate tournament held Dr B Senthil educational research.
on 19th and 20th February 2021 organised Contributed as resource person for an Presented a paper titled, “Incorporating
by the Department of Physical Education Orientation Programme on National the new normal in human resource post
and Sports Science at B.M.S College of Innovation and Start-up Policy organized covid-19 and thereafter – hr morning” in
Engineering Bengaluru. by K S R College of Arts and Science for “Vishleshan- International Conference on
Women, Salem. Post Covid Practices 1.0”, organized online
Presented and received best research by ISBR Business School, Bangalore, India
paper award for her paper titled “CSR Presented a paper titled “Impact of GST on 23rd February 2021.
contribution towards the normalcy and on hospitality post COVID”, in a two day Published paper titled “ Incorporating the
upliftment of the society during Covid International Conference on “Geopolitics New Normal in Human Resource Post
19 pandemic “ in ICON 2021 virtual in pot COVID Era: Emerging Dimensions Covid-19 And Thereafter – HR Morning”
international conference on “New order & and Dynamics” organized by the UGC- in International Journal of All Research
its implications on Business Dynamics held HRDC, Osmania University, Hyderabad, Education & Scientific Methods, (IJARESM).
on 1st and 2nd July 2021 at Presidency in collaboration with Hyderabad Institute Presented a paper titled “ Incorporating
College (Autonomous), Bengaluru. of social sciences (HISS) Hyderabad, the new normal in HR post covid-19
Published a paper titled “CSR contribution Telangana State, India. and thereafter- HR morning “ at the
towards the normalcy and upliftment of international conference organised by
the society during Covid 19 pandemic “ in Contributed as resource person and ISBR Business School, Bangalore.
Palarch’s Journal of Archaeology of Egypt/ delivered a special lecture on “National
Egyptology. Innovation and Startup Policy 2019” at KSR
Polytechnic College, Namakkal. Students Achievements
Dr Fathima Farzana J
Successfully defended her doctoral thesis Contributed as resource person and
at Madurai Kamaraj University, Tamil Nadu delivered a special lecture on “Accounting
on 28th April 2021. Information System” at Alpha Arts and
Successfully cleared K-SET examination in Science College, Chennai.
Management paper. Delivered an expert online session on
Contributed as Resource Person on the “Significance of Rural Research under
topic, “Accounting & Auditing” during the New Education Policy 2020” as a Guest
Five-day Online Crash course on “UGC NTA Speaker under Series of National Webinar
NET/SET paper-II Commerce”, conducted on “Research Perspectives In The New
by the Department of Corporate Education Policy 2020” at G. S. College of
Secretaryship in association with IQAC, Commerce, Wardha.
Patrician College of Arts & Science, Adyar, Contributed as a resource person
Chennai. and delivered a special lecture on
Published an article in an International Agripreneurship The Sole Saviour of Rural
Journal of Psychosocial Rehabilitation Economies in the NABARD Sponsored
paper titled, “Sustainable Accounting National Conference on Sustainable
through Ind AS 116- AN investigation” Agriculture And Farmers Welfare For Rural
vol.24, Issue 8. Development held at AVVM Pushpam
Contributed as a resource person and College, Tanjore.
delivered a lecture about “Technology Contributed as a resource person and

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Ms Teena Maria Rani of 2nd M. Com Bengaluru” at St. Joseph’s College Arts and Manasa N, Devika B Prasad and Bensen
(2019-21batch) has successfully cleared Korah Alex on “Customer Experience
KSET examination in January 2021. Science, Chennai, under the PG scholars’ of Youth in Bangalore Regarding
category. Microtransactions In Online Mobile
Ms Yashasvi S of 2nd M. Com secured Eshwar, Shashikanth and Deepika of 2nd
First place in Albert-SJIM Business Plan M. Com won second prize and Second-Best Multiplayer Games”.
Competition organised by St. Joseph’s paper award titled, “A Study On Consumer
Institute of Management. Perception Towards Mobile Payment Apps Stephen A, Jinu Mathew, Swetha N on “A
In Urban Bangalore” in Samshodhan 2021, study on the impact of consumer buying
The first batch B.COM IFA students the national level online research seminar behaviour on apparels with reference to
(2019 batch) appeared for ACCA skill for postgraduate students conducted Gen Z”.
level professional examination papers in by the Department of Commerce, Christ
the month of February 2021 and have (Deemed to be University). Verahu tetseo, Vethizo d video, Lotener
successfully cleared the exam in the areas- Jamir on “A comparative study on
Financial Reporting - Deeksha S M; Research paper Publication: customer engagement among selected
Mohamed Hashim Sait; Jevin Mathew telecommunication service providers in
Jacob; Mohammed; Salman; Dhun.D; Anup Andrew and Kavya Prakash of Kohima district, Nagaland”.
Boney Thomas; Bushra Khanam; Ain 2nd M. Com presented and published a
Masoomeh Mirza; Adriel Aaron Alemao; research paper titled, “Behavioral factors Shiva Kumar R and Bensen Korah Alex on“A
Nivedya Das; Nehashree S; Neha Janet influencing Traders’ Decision making in study on the role of emotional marketing
A; Deekshitha Reddy Nagirimadugu; Bengaluru” at St. Joseph’s College Arts and on purchase decision of consumers in
Madhumita Bm; Aaditya Siva Kumar; Nitin Science, Chennai. urban Bangalore realigning the future
Mayur.S of business opportunity, adaptability,
Paavana C D and Gayithri of 2nd M. Com sustainability”.
Financial Management - Abel Thomas; has published a research paper on A
Akankshya Das; Manikanta S; Hrithik Study on Foreign Direct Investment on Soniya V and Anusha R of 2nd. M.Com
Ramachandran; Ayan A; Sourav Shrimal; Health Care Sector Towards Columbia Asia presented a Research paper on “A study
Shivani Singh; K Pratheek Medappa Hospital in an International journal with on customer perception towards online
Audit And Assurance - Tanushka R Prasad; IJRESM. shopping of apparels in urban Bangalore
Sreesha district” at an international conference
Bensen Korah Alex, Saranya U and Jeya organised by St. Joseph’s College Arts and
The following students cleared CA Sherene of 2nd M. Com have presented Science, Chennai.
foundation level exam - Amit B R, D Sai and published a research paper on Impact
Pooja, Aravindan T S of 1st B. Com A; Prerna of Covid-19 On the Food Consumption Competitions
Salva of 1st B. Com B; Mohammed Kamran Behavior of Consumers in Bengaluru
and Muskan Bansal of 1st B. Com C; Devdut City in proceedings of Restructuring of Juliya Antony of 1st B. Com B secured 1st
Dutta of 1st BPS; Hamza Sait of 2nd B. Com Trade & Industry for the Upliftment of place in Sounds Worth in Aura organised
B; Ganesh, Ashwin Subhash, Lokesh K P, Indian Economy at Virtual International by St Joseph’s College of Commerce.
Prajwal G, Rishab Jain of 2nd B. Com B. Conference on Restructuring of Trade
& Industry for the Upliftment of Indian Ganesh Jaju of 1st B. Com B secured 1st
The following students have successfully Economy with Utkal Historical Research place in Zoophite 21 in Aura organised by
cleared the Company Secretary foundation Journal -International Journal. St Joseph’s College of Commerce.
level exam - Monika S of 2nd B. Com B;
Arun Vyas of 2nd B. Com C. Research paper Presentation: Lokesh KP of 2nd B. Com C secured second
Shafiya Sultana of 2nd BBA- A regular place in Treasure Hunt in Aura organised
has successfully cleared the Company The following M.Com students presented by St Joseph’s College of Commerce.
Secretary CSEET level exam. research papers at CONNAISSANCE 2021,
national level conference -
Best paper awards:
Paavana C D and Johanna Mathews
Anup Andrew and Kavya Prakash of 2nd on“A Study on the Impact of Customer
M. Com won the Best paper award on a relationship management of South Indian
research paper titled, “Behavioral factors Bank in Bangalore City”.
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SOCIAL WORK
Helping the Helpless during International Webinar On
Lockdown ‘Mental Health For All:

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Strategies And Roadmap’

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he Department of Social
he Department of Social Work
Work has outdone itself,
under the guidance of Dr Shari
with students of both MSW
conducted an International webinar
and BSW, along with faculty
titled “Mental Health for all: Strategies
members spending about
and Roadmap” on the 10th of October
two months ensuring that
2020 which is observed as World Mental
food and necessary kits were provided to the
Health Day. There were three sessions and
marginalised, the daily wage workers, as well
each session had different speakers who
as the migrants in Bengaluru city. In May and
emphasized on different topics related
June of 2020, the student volunteers of the
to the theme. Prof. Hye Kyung Kang
Department under the leadership of the Head
(Chairperson of Department of Social
of the Department, Lt Akshay D Mandlik and
Work, Director of Master of Social Work
Dr Fr Augustine Lourdu, Assistant Professor,
Program and Associate Professor in Seattle
in collaboration with the College and COVID
University), Mrs Eliza Pereira (Former Head
Relief Bangalore, were able to distribute 85,000
of the Department of Medical Social Work
kits to those in need in and around Bengaluru.
at St. John’s Medical College Hospital,
Furthermore, the Department created a biker
Bangalore), and Mr J. W. James (Assistant
relief team for this purpose as well.
Professor in Psychiatric Social Work, Central

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Institute of Psychiatry, Ranchi) were the Covid and its effects on A Three Day Virtual
three resource persons. Ethics and Values in Higher International Conference in
Education Collaboration with UNCW,
USA
Unnat Bharat Abhiyan

A A
three-day virtual international
total of 22 students and three conference was organised in
faculty members - Lt Akshay D. collaboration with the University
Mandlik (HoD), Dr Fr Augustine of North Carolina Wilmington (UNCW),
Lourdu (PG Coordinator) and Dr Alan USA, from the 18th to 20th of March,
Godfrey conducted 3 pilot visits and 2021. The conference was titled- ‘A Virtual
have selected 2 villages in Anekal Taluk Conference on Cross-National Perspectives
for currently carrying out the Unnat on Social Work in the time of COVID-19’.
Bharat Abhiyan, a programme by the Rev Fr Dr Victor Lobo SJ, the Principal, was
Government of India. As part of the the guest of Honour. Dr Fr G. Augustine
ongoing programme, a total of 94 Lourdu, Dean, School of Social Work, was
households have been surveyed in the two the convenor of the joint conference.
villages. Meetings with the stakeholders
in the community were also held and a
Participatory Rural Appraisal (PRA) was Psychopathology Virtual
conducted to gain a better understanding Seminar
of the villages.

A I
n collaboration with the University of
Workshop on Data two-hour programme was held Carolina Wilmington (UNCW), a virtual
Analysis-2020 online for the students of both Psychopathology seminar was held
BSW and MSW on the 18th of for the Medical and Psychiatry students.
December 2020. Fr Jose Nandhikkara, There were 10 students each from SJC
the National Director of Globethics.net, and UNCW. Students were divided into
India, researcher and philosopher, was 10 groups and each group was given a
the first speaker on the topic for the day- specific psychiatric diagnosis to discuss
‘Covid and its Effects on Ethics and Values and present.
in Higher Education’. The next speaker
was Ms Christine Housel, Donor Relation
and Strategic Partnership, Globethics.net, Covid Relief Efforts of
Geneva. College led by the School of
Social Work
Debate on Death Penalty

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n response to the pandemic, the

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students and faculty from the School
he Department of Social Work in of Social Work are heading the relief
collaboration with SWSA (Social efforts of the College. The faculty in charge
Work Students’ Association) of the relief efforts are Fr Francis Pinto,
conducted a debate on the topic - ‘Death Assistant Professor, School of Social Work,
penalty’ on the 20th of February 2021. who is leading the efforts as the faculty

A
Concept Note on the topic was presented coordinator, Fr Augustine Lourdu, Dean,
six-day workshop on data analysis
by the organiser- Dr S. Rama Gokula School of Social Work, and Lt Akshay D
was conducted for the students
Krishnan. The Chief Guest of the event Mandlik, Assistant Professor, School of
of 2nd year MSW from the 8th-
was Mr Nirmal Joseph Das- Manager, Social Work. Suraj from III BSW is the
14th of December 2020. The workshop
International Justice Mission. Ms Kezia of student coordinator. Kushveer, Praneesh,
was initially planned for 5 days but was
II MSW was selected as the ‘best debater’ and Arun Peter from III BSW, are some
extended for another day to let students
through an audience poll. of the other students who are actively
pick a skill of data analysis using SPSS. The
workshop was conducted by Dr S. Rama involved in the relief efforts.
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 private sectors. A WhatsApp group aimed Work, Chennai.
at informing the youth about employment Was invited as an external consultant
opportunities and opportunities for skill to review the progress of a short term
development was launched on the 22nd project by Aide Et Action, Chennai, on
of June, 2021 in a government school in improving the livelihood of the rural
Anekal. The programme’s chief guest was poor through the Mahatma Gandhi
Mr Mahanandhan, the Circle Inspector of National Rural Employment Guarantee
Anekal. Scheme (MGNREGS) on April 6, 2021. This
project is funded by the United Nations
Development Program (UNDP), supported
Staff Achievements by MGNREGA, Rural Development and
Panchayati Raj Department, Government

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of Karnataka.
aculty Members from the Was invited as a panellist to speak on the
Department secured a Major theme “Social Work Profession and Covid
Research Project from the 19 Pandemic: Perspective on Vulnerable
Government worth 18 lakhs. The Major Groups”, at a session jointly organised by
Research Project Proposal sent to the the Department of Sociology and Social
National Commission for Women (NCW), Work, GEMS Arts and Science College,
Government of India, by three faculty Malappuram and School of Behavioural
members from the Department of Social Sciences, Mahatma Gandhi University,
Work (Dr S. Rama Gokula Krishnan, Lt. Kerala.
Akshay D. Mandlik, and Ms Viola Noronha) Was invited to be the moderator by
The efforts began on the 15th of May 2021. and a few other faculty members from
A total of 500 essential needs kits have SICHREM, a Human Rights-based
two other departments- Dr Tulika organisation from Bengaluru for a National
been distributed to vulnerable groups Bhattacharya from the Department of
in and around the city. Coolie workers, Webinar.
Economics (the Principal Investigator), Ms
members of the transgender community, Treesa Joy (Department of Economics),
and senior citizens were a few of the Dr S Rama Gokula Krishnan
and Ms Neeta Gerosa Pereira (Department
vulnerable groups who were provided of Psychology), has been sanctioned.
support. Apart from this, financial support Dr S. Rama Gokula Krishnan presented a
is being provided to students who need paper titled ‘Predictors of Hopelessness
Dr Alan Godfrey A among Youth living in Slums of Bangalore
it at this juncture. The relief efforts also
involve providing counselling to students City’. He won the award for best paper in
Dr Alan Godfrey A was a panellist at a the Social Work Practitioner category at the
affected by covid and students who have discussion on the theme of ‘Patriarchy-
family members who are affected by annual conference of the Indian Society of
From the Lens of Men’, which was Professional Social Work (ISPSW), held in
covid. organised by Durga, a women’s rights- Ranchi, Jharkhand.
based organisation in Bangalore. Was the resource person for a training
Served as resource person in a four-
Yuva Margadarshini - An day workshop on Social Work Research
programme for the employees of
initiative to empower rural Methods and SPSS held on 20th of
International Justice Mission (IJM) on
youth how to use SPSS software and on how to
December and 9th of January 2021 by DG employ the World Health Organisation’s
Vaishnav College.

S
(WHO) tool on quality of life to measure
t. Joseph’s Resource and Served as a resource person at a session the quality of life of respondents.
Convergence Centre (SJRC) on the theme “Quantitative Research Was a resource person for a webinar
representing St. Joseph’s College Methods” as part of a one-week training related to outreach activities at SJEC &
(Autonomous) Bengaluru, in collaboration course on ‘Inclusion of Marginalized Rural SJCC in September.
with Damana Mahila Sangha, Ambedkar Labour in India’ jointly organised by VV Was invited as a resource person for a
Thoughts Library, and Jnana Jyothi have Giri National Labour Institute and Noida workshop on data analysis using PSPP by
embarked on an initiative called “Yuva & Centre for Study of Social Exclusion and the Department of Social Work, Shrimathi
Margadarshini”. This is the brainchild of Inclusive Policy, Gandhigram University, Devkunvar Nanalal Bhatt Vaishnav College
Prof. Y.J Rajendra. The main objective of Dindigul. for Women, Chennai, India.
this initiative is to connect the rural youth Served as a resource person at a two-day He authored an article titled ‘Mental Health
and direct them about employment hands-on training cum workshop on SPSS and Quality of Life of Youth Living in Slums’
opportunities in both the government and for the II year Post Graduate Social Work which is available for purchase on Amazon.
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He also authored an article titled ‘Overall Was invited as a resource person for Social Work Students’
Significant Predictors of Awareness a webinar on “Importance of Human Association (SWSA)
on Reproductive Health among Rural, Relationships: Social Work Perspective” on
Urban, and Tribal Individuals’ published the 3rd of September 2020 organised by
in the International Journal of Biological the Department of Social Work, Salesian Online Valedictory
Research. College, Siliguri.
Organised UBUNTU 2021- a virtual With the online platform being the
Dr Shari Tess Mathew inter-collegiate fest on the theme new normal, the Social Work Students
Dr Shari Tess Mathew was invited as a “Strengthening Social Diversity and Association(SWSA) 2019-20 headed
resource person for the topic ‘Covid-19 Interconnectedness” from April 22 to 27, by the coordinator Ms Viola Noronha
Pandemic, Implications for Geriatric Social 2021. conducted its first online Valedictory in
work' at the International webinar on May of 2020. The programmes of the
‘COVID-19-Challenges and implications Dr (Fr) G. Augustine Lourdu association throughout the year were
on elderly care in the Indo- Dutch context’, Fr Dr G. Augustine Lourdu authored conducted by the core committee
organised by the Netherlands-based two chapters in a book on “Social Case consisting of Brandon Chettri (President),
NGO Planet-Hope, in collaboration with Work: Practical Guide for Diagnosis Mridula T (Vice President), Sharifa
St. John’s Medical College & Hospital, and Intervention”, published by Xpress Behzad (Treasurer), Roopika R Nair
Bangalore, Ashley Care Home, Bangalore publishing along with his colleagues. (General Secretary), Renu Philips (Cultural
and Department Of Social Work, St.Joseph’s Secretary), Abhirami Menon (Program
College (Autonomous), Bangalore. coordinator), Marryam Jahangir (Program
Dr Shari also published a book titled ‘Social Student Achievements coordinator) under the guidance of
Case Work-Practical Guide for Intervention the coordinator. The announcement of

F
and Diagnosis’, which included casework winners of the graduating batches was
interventions on clients of varied mental our students from the Department made to acknowledge the extraordinary
disorders, diagnoses and problems. of Social Work were posted in contributions of students of the
Dr Shari published a chapter titled‘A case of telemedicine call centres as part of Department.
Paranoid Schizophrenia with Poor Insight’ the Government of Karnataka’s Apthamitra
in the book ‘Social Case Work-Practical 14410 helpline to help people affected by
Guide for Intervention and Diagnosis’. “The Covid 19. The helpline is primarily aimed at
chapter is a description of psychosocial providing medical advice to those affected
intervention on a person suffering from by the virus.
Paranoid Schizophrenia
The students of second-year MSW
Lt Akshay D Mandlik students specialised in Medical Psychiatry
Lt Akshay D Mandlik was conferred worked in different hospitals across the
Raksha Sachiv Prashansa Patra -- The country from Delhi to Kerala and from
Defence Secretary’s Commission Card is Assam to Rajasthan, along with several
awarded for outstanding acts or deeds in other states including Karnataka, as part of
the fields of adventure sports, training or their month-long consolidated fieldwork.
for outstanding contribution in social or
cultural activities. Four students from II MSW secured
the second prize in the poster making
competition held at St. John’s Medical Webinar on Cancer Prevention and
Ms Lata Paul Healthy Lifestyle
College Hospital on March 26, 2021, in
Ms Latha Paul published an article in NCCI
Bengaluru as part of World Social Worker
review on NEP titled “National Educational The Webinar on Cancer Prevention and
Day. The four students are Roopika R Nair,
Policy is Liberating or Enslaving -A Review” Healthy Lifestyle was organized by SWSA in
Christin Ezhil A, Kezia Nikita, and Ashwini
U. collaboration with Sanjeevani Life Beyond
Ms Viola M. Noronha Cancer (SLBC). Ms Ruby Ahluwalia, co-
Mr Songashim Rungsung from the II MSW
Published a book titled “Social Casework- founder of SLBC addressed the students
batch has won the Rubaru Mr India-United
Practical Guide for Diagnosis and about various flagship projects run by
Continents title at the Rubaru Mr India
Intervention.” the organization. The resource person for
2020-2021 pageant which was held in Goa
Published a chapter titled: “Social the session was Ms Sumki Begum, Senior
on April 10, 2021. He will now represent
Casework Intervention and Self Esteem” Programme Coordinator. The session was
India at the Mr United Continents event to
in “Social Casework- Practical Guide for followed by an online quiz by Mr Pratik
be conducted later this year.
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by an open discussion during which the The session started with an introduction Alumni Lecture Series: Social
attendees could clear their doubts about to the Alumni lecture series by the emcee, Workers as Human Rights Activists
cancer prevention. After which, Mr Anil Janane Shree from I MSW. Ms Gangamma
Ahluwalia, co-founder of SLBC addressed addressed the gathering on the theme The second session of the alumni lecture
the attendees about the role of social ‘Social Work in the Corporate Sector series, under SWSA, was held on the 13th
workers in spreading awareness related to – Perspectives and Scope.’ She shared of November 2020.
cancer some of her experiences in the field in St. The alumni guest, Mr Emmanuel David,
Joseph’s College (Autonomous), and also talked about how Social workers can be
Inauguration and Investiture as the first President of Reach (Former Human Rights Activists With his impactful
Ceremony name of SWSA). work and great experience, students
were able to gain knowledge about
The Inauguration and Investiture Lecture on Labour Codes: Challenges human rights violations and the role and
Ceremony of SWSA was held in September and Prospects challenges of social workers as human
2020.The emcee, Ms Deekshitha welcomed rights activists.
the Chief Guest for the ceremony, Ms Leila SWSA organised another lecture on
Passah who is an Independent consultant, ‘Labour Codes: Challenges and Prospects’. Panel Discussion on Constitutional
Gender and Development. Ms Leila Passah The session began with Ms Nadiya Democracy and Indigenous Culture
is a passionate professional advisor who is welcoming the speaker on behalf of the
committed to the development of women association, Sr. Adv. S Balan, High court,
and girls across boundaries of race and and a Trade Union Leader. Sr. Adv. S Balan
religion. The programme continued with addressed the gathering on the theme
Mr Kiran Jeevan giving a brief introduction ‘Labour Codes: Challenges and Prospects
to SWSA from the time of its inception. (with reference to the recent policies
Ms Leila Passah officially inaugurated declared by the Central government)’.
SWSA for the academic year 2020-21. Ms
Viola Noronha, the faculty coordinator of Photography Competition
SWSA introduced the core committee and
initiated the oath-taking ceremony.

As part of the ten-day Human Rights

celebration in collaboration with
ISI, SICHREM and NSS, the Social
Work Students Association (SWSA)
organised a Panel Discussion on the
topic Constitutional Democracy and
Indigenous Culture. The first panellist,
Mr Robin Christopher, a lawyer from the
United Christian Forum, elaborated on the
As part of World Mental Health Day nation’s nature of diversity and expressed
2020, SWSA organised a photography the beauty of the constitution. The second
Alumni Lecture on ‘Social Work in
the Corporate Sector – Perspectives competition on Instagram with the panellist, Ms Vijeta Kumar, Assistant
and Scope.’ theme ‘Moments of Resilience’. Professor, highlighted that along with the
The participants were asked to submit constitution, ideologies and life of Dr BR
SWSA organised its first lecture in the their entries along with a small write Ambedkar must be taught in schools. The
series of ‘Alumni Lectures’ in the month of up describing the entry. SWSA received final panellist Mr Vasanth Adithya, Founder
September. The speaker for the session a total of 30 entries. Shwetank Suman of Kreetam Law Associates, focused on the
was Ms Gangamma, Program Manager at stood first, Tarun K was second and constitution’s role in safeguarding SC and
Amazon. Allen Marc third. STs’ rights.

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COMMUNICATION
Staff Achievements Program organised by Mindler from May
30, 2020, to May 31, 2020.

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Participated in the UGC-sponsored
Orientation Course and obtained an
Nevil D Souza
A grade. Organised by the University
resented a paper on
Grant Commission Human Resource
‘Effectiveness of Media
Development Center, Mizoram University.
Technology’ in Higher
Education in the International
Dr (Fr) Richard Rego SJ.
Conference‘Media Education
Published a research article on ‘Media
in India - A Legacy To Hold, A
Education for Democracy in India’ in
Future to Build’ as a part of the Centennial
Communication Today.
Celebration of Media Education in
India:1920 - 2020.
Participated in an International Web
Mark Rasquinha Student Achievements
Presented a paper titled ‘Issues Vs Agendas
Convention ‘Hundred Years of Media
in 140 characters: A Multimodal Analysis
Education’ decoding South Asian mystique
of an Indian Political Campaign’ at the MA Journalism & Mass Communication
in December of 2020.
Asia Pacific Public Relations Research & (MA MCJ)
Published a research paper - Immersive
Education Network (APPRREN) Online
Digital Technology and Media in the
Symposium from February 16-17, 2021. Suhas N Kashyap of I MA Journalism &
International Journal of Advanced Science
All department staff of ICMS attended and Mass Communication was invited as a
and Technology, 2020 ISSN-0971-1260.
participated in various webinars and FDPs keynote speaker for a student development
Successfully completed 15 credits of
for the academic year 2020- 2021. programme organised at Surana College,
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Peenya, Bengaluru. He spoke on the topic Work Art: Twilight Year’. Pooja’s artwork will the Innovative International Film Festival,
‘Choices and Consequences’. also be featured in the Kaunas International Best Actor at the Kalburgi International
Illustration Biennial, Lithuania. Film Festival, Best Film and Best Editing at
Bhavana M Shankar (19COM63029) and the Praguni Kannada Film Festival, Best
Anna Mary (19COM63010) participated in Nitya Menon, III BVC, was part of a collective Dialogue Writer at the Cine International
the Manipal International Media Research of Kochi artists who created a comic book Film Festival, and second place at the DMW
Conference 2021 held on February 18, anthology about the COVID-19 pandemic. Film Fest for Best Film.
2021, on ‘Reimagining the Media and Her illustrated artwork is featured on the
Entertainment landscape during COVID 19 cover of the book titled ‘Hope on’. Kevin Williams from III year BVoc Visual
Pandemic’. They presented a paper titled Media and Filmmaking has won the
‘Transition to E-learning in India: A Study of ‘Chips’, the final short film project of BVC Special Jury Prize in the NIGLI Short film
its Effectiveness among University Students graduate Raghul Sukumar, won the Competition conducted in Bangalore in the
of Bengaluru’. Outstanding Achievement Award at the month of February 2021. The award was
Calcutta International Cult Film Festival. presented to him by Karnataka’s Tourism
Ananya Mariam Rajesh (19COM63012) and The single-shot film, which is about police minister C P Yogeeshwara.
Reenu Cyriac (19COM63025) presented a brutality in judicial custody, was also
paper titled ‘A Study on the Adaptation of selected to be screened at the Bangalore BVoc (Filmmaking) alumnus Nishant Naidu
Indian Regional Films to Online Streaming Short Film festival, Tagore International Film made his acting debut in ‘November
Platforms During Covid-19’ at Manipal, Festival and Lift off sessions. Story’, a limited series on Disney+ Hotstar
Dubai, on February 18, 2021. that premiered on May 20. Nishanth stars
Anna Mary was featured in Muktha Katha BVC student Sidharth Suresh has won alongside South Indian actress Tamannaah
which is a Stories of Liberation initiative by several accolades for his short film in the crime thriller web series.
Muktha Foundation on May 19, 2021. She ‘Kaanunnundo (Are you Watching?)’. The
shared her story of the struggle of being film won the Critics’ Choice Award at the Department Associations
bullied and how she strived back to form. Tagore International Film Festival and the
Ananya Mariam Rajesh volunteered with Outstanding Achievement Award at the
the Distress Management Collective Calcutta International Cult Film Festival. Association of Art and
(DMC), a global initiative with distinguished Kaanunnundo has also been officially Animation
members who aim to help and guide the selected for Jaipur International Film Festival
people, and have been closely working for and Jharkhand International Film Festival.
COVID relief. Art and Photography competition
BVC alumnus Adithyaa Sadashiv’s
Yashas Bharadwaj was quoted by The documentaries ‘The Selected Book’ and
News Minute in a story on May 22, 2021, ‘The Organic Seed’ have been officially In July 2020, the Association of Art and
regarding the increase of human-snake selected for the 11th Dada Saheb Phalke Animation under the Department of
conflict during the lockdown. He also Film Festival, 2021. Communication, St. Joseph’s College
volunteered with the Red Cross corona- (Autonomous) conducted an art and
warriors task force during the pandemic BVC student Keerthana Senthilkumar’s photography competition. Almost three
in feeding stray animals and rescuing and short film ‘Keeral’ won accolades at the 23rd dozen pieces were received on the
rehabilitating wildlife in the state. Besides Tagore International Film Festival. themes of ‘My Household stuff’, ‘Family
this, Yashas was also appointed divisional Relationships during lockdown’ and ‘Act of
warden by the Civil Defence Karnataka BVoc Visual Media & Filmmaking/Digital Kindness’ for the photography competition,
during the lockdown for animal welfare. He and the themes ‘Mental Health’, ‘Real
Media & Animation Heroes’, ‘Invention and Fantasy’ and ‘Indian
is currently volunteering with the Wildlife
Crime Control Bureau (WCCB) under the Freedom Struggle’ for the art competition.
Ministry of Environment and Forestry for Aryan Anup of II B.Voc Filmmaking bagged
controlling the illegal wildlife trade in the third place in a photography competition
country. conducted as part of Concordia, a fest at
Xavier University, Bhubaneswar.
BA Visual Communication (BVC)
BVoc student Deepak R Jain’s ‘Chappli’ has
Pooja Sreenivasan, III BVC, had her artwork been officially selected for the 11th Dada
put on sale at an art gallery in Poughkeepsie, Saheb Phalke Film Festival 2021. The short
New York. The digital art piece titled film was made by him and his classmates
‘Macabre’ was part of the exhibit ‘Women’s as their fifth-semester project. ‘Chappli’ has
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International Webinar Narayanan. Dubbed as ‘Let’s Get Real at Clarkson University in New York, and a
Behind The Reel’, Mr Narayanan discussed member of the Producers’ Guild of America.
The Association of Art and Animation his journey, inspiration, experience and Mr Miller screened various clips from
organised a two-day international webinar also talked about two of his multiple notable Sci-Fi films from the Hollywood
from award-winning movies, ‘Take Off’ and ‘C U industry such as Blade Runner, 2001: A
September 11-12, 2020, on ‘Carving’and ‘3D Soon’. He discussed the difficulties and the Space Odyssey, Star Trek and a television
Lighting and Texturing’ respectively. experimental nature of the movie. Over show called The Mandalorian, to depict
The guest speaker for the first day was Fr 300 people watched and attended the live how lighting is used in big-budget films. As
Trung Pham, Associate Professor in the session. The event was headed by Mr Nevil lighting is an essential element in the art of
Department of Art and Art History, Seattle Dsouza, whose incredible support helped filmmaking, he explained its fundamental
University, Washington. Fr Trung Pham make this webinar a success, along with usage and its effects on how the narrative
showcased models of chairs made out of the core committee and took care of all of is revealed. He also talked about how
different materials like soap, wood, plaster, the nitty-gritty and arrangements of the lighting can be controlled by colour, shape,
etc. He also showcased a bathtub made from webinar. quality, angle, movement and intensity,
soap, a human body sculpted out of clay, a and can be used to create a sense of depth.
human face model carved out of wood He said, “Good cinematography draws
which is his most complicated artwork, a your eye to a single place on the screen
ladder made of wood and the basic tools which is especially important in sci-fi films
and materials for carving. He talked about as it is easier to help sell ‘your’ world”. The
how he designs his idea before he begins session was moderated by Dr Fr Richard
working on the actual material while Rego, who added his valuable insights
emphasizing on just how important it is to and coordinated the question and answer
have a reference of the idea while carving. session with more than 215 students that
He also talked about the ideal materials to attended the webinar.
use, the significance of a chair and why he
loves to carve them, how to preserve the
soap models, how to control the burning
while scorching a wood sculpture to
Images
achieve the perfect texture, etc. Around
300 students attended the session live from
Building the World through Lighting in
various places in India and abroad. The
guest speaker for the second day was Mr AC Sci-Fi Films
Balaji, Head of Department for Animation
from Manipal Institute of Communication.
Mr AC Balaji showcased some of his works
along with the works of his students and
peers illustrating the importance of lighting
and texturing in making something look
real. He talked about the importance of
irregularities and imperfections which add
to the realism. During the Q&A session, Mr
Balaji spoke about his personal experience
and answered numerous questions put
up by the attendees. Around 400 students
and professionals attended the session live Webinar on Underwater Photography
from various places in India and around the IMAGES, the Association of Visual
world. The event was headed by Mr Nevil Communication, St. Joseph’s College
How do you react when a shark recognises
Dsouza, Coordinator with the Department (Autonomous) conducted a webinar on
you as someone who is not from the usual
of Communication. ‘Building the World through Lighting in Sci-
group of divers? Mr Anup K Jat narrated the
fi films’ over Zoom. Mr Zachary Miller was
answer to this question during a webinar
invited as the guest speaker. Mr Zachary has
Let’s Get Real Behind The Reel on Underwater Photography organised
a prolific career spanning over 15 years in
by Images, speaking to not just students
making independent feature films. Apart
The Association of Art and Animation but participants across the country. Mr Jat
from founding an independent production
organised a webinar with award- explained various aspects of underwater
company called Uncommon Image
winning Director and Editor Mr Mahesh photography interspersing them with
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anecdotes from his own experience in the Rushes Film Club Josephite Media Forum (JMF)
field. Helped by his colleague Mr Vivian

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Ambrose, he explained to them the process
of how to get a certification in diving and Webinar: The Power of Visual he first webinar by JMF hosted
from where in India one can get them. Storytelling Address Health Founder & CEO Dr
Then, during a lively question-and-answer Anand Lakshman in November. He

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session, Mr Jat gave the participants some led an extensive and informative session
ideas about the price of the equipment he Rushes Film Club of the on ‘The newest trends in the promotion
needed for underwater photography and Department of Communication of public health in media’. With the timely
the conditions that determine the feasibility organised a national-level webinar example of the Covid-19 pandemic, Dr
of such work. He also spoke about his work on ‘The Power of Visual Storytelling’. The Lakshman explained the Health Belief
as a cinematographer and also showed resource person was Mr Hari M Mohanan, Model. He also explained the use of
a video that demonstrated the use of an award-winning filmmaker. Mr Mohanan, Persuasive Communication as seen in the
ultraviolet light underwater. who won a Filmfare award for his film case of Amitabh Bachchan in the older Polio
Invisible Wings, recently made a music video ads. He also elucidated the role of social
titled Onamaanu, which focused on the media campaigns in the realm of public
lonely lives spent by elderly parents in Kerala health before touching upon many other
because of their children being away for issues. The session ended with an active
work. One hundred forty seven participants Q&A.
from around the country took part. Mr
Mohanan spoke in detail about the creative Following this event, in November, JMF
process of filmmaking and emphasised hosted Nawaz Mohammad, Associate
how honesty is a basic requirement in Director in Marketing and Communications
storytelling. He also elaborated on how at Uniphore and a St. Joseph’s College
various life experiences and choices affect Alumnus to have a discussion on ‘New
the creative process. To young filmmakers, perspectives in B2B marketing’. Included
he said, the capacity to understand human in the conversation were topics like key
emotions and the philosophy of life will components of B2B marketing, the process
help them make better films that would of writing a PR plan, use of the proactive
resonate with the audiences. Athul Vinu and reactive strategy in a crisis situation
and Sreshta Das of I BVoc Visual Media and and many others. The students actively
Film Making moderated the session. engaged with the guest through a Q&A
session held towards the end of the session.
Online workshop on 16 mm film
projection In the month of October, JMF hosted a
webinar on ‘Environmental Journalism:
What does it take to be a cinematographer? Going Green All The Way’ with senior
According to the director and journalist Ms Meera Bharadwaj as the
cinematographer Arun KR, all you need speaker.
to do is start. “Watch a lot of films, build
your knowledge and just dive in”, said the
former alumnus of St Joseph’s College
(Autonomous) during a workshop on 16-
mm film projection organised by Images.
Mr Arun elaborated on the specifics of a 16-
mm film where the measurement refers to
the width of the film. He showed students
how projection works, especially with 16-
mm film, and the basic system behind it.
He further demonstrated the workings of
the film on a 16-mm projector, one that had
to be thoroughly serviced before it could
be used because this technology is not as
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In this interactive session, she spoke Advertising & Public Relations Multiple webinars were also conducted by
about the absence of the conservation the department. ‘Writing for Social Media’
of environmental issues, innumerous
(APR) by Shamma Hameed, ‘Essentials of Event
government projects affecting the Management’with Gibin E Jacob,‘Shades of
environment, and so much more. She Alex aka Maya’ with India’s first mainstream
concluded it with suggestions on how to The following events were organized by drag artist and communication expert,
address these environmental issues. Advertising & Public Relations (APR) ‘Fundamentals of Business Storytelling’ by
We closed the academic year with our final Navnita Kedar, webinar with Anuradha

A
webinar in December where the city editor panel discussion titled Altekar on staying current and ahead
of The New Indian Express (Hyderabad), ‘MediaFluent’21’ consisting of during rapid changes, ‘Understanding our
Manju Latha Kalanidhi gave a talk on ‘Media Nagesh Manay CEO, OpusCDM; Responsibility towards the Environment’,
in 2021: The Way Forward’. In this webinar, Riya Joseph, Media Head, Britannia ‘Crisis Management’ by Narahari KS were
she spoke about how the pandemic has Industries; Kishan Kumar Shyamalan, Chief some of them. Other talks included
affected print media, and how experienced Growth Officer, Wavemaker; and Mona ‘Nuggets of Wisdom’ by Sangeetha
journalists reinvent themselves with Thangaraj, India Head, Talent Acquisition Janachandran, ‘Mind Talk’with Dr Rema MK,
changing times. Ms Manju gave a lot of tips GroupM, was conducted ‘Clarity in Confusion: Getting started in the
on covering new stories by thinking of new PR Industry’ with Sayooj Surendran, and
angles and using social media platforms. ‘Talk Master’ with Shabana Jahangeer.

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SCIENCE & COMPUTER
APPLICATIONS
Recent Trends in Networking’ Fact & Furious - National Level
- National level Webinar Series Quiz

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he Computer Science
department organised
a national-level webinar
series on ‘Recent Trends
in Networking. The
session commenced with
‘Introduction to Network Security’ by Dr
B.G.Prasanthi followed by‘Cyber Security’by
Shelton K.The third session was facilitated by
Kaushik on ‘Convolutional Neural Networks’.
A webinar ‘Vehicular Adhoc Networks’ was
done by Shobha Rani, and the final session
in the series was on ‘Simulation on IOT’
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A Staff Achievements
national-level quiz was hosted operandi. Each team was given web-based
by Technophite, the Computer challenges to complete within a stipulated
Science Association.The event was period of time. These challenges dealt with
conducted on Discord and 40 teams from a wide range of concepts including, but not Dr B.G. Prasanthi
all over the country registered to participate limited to cryptography, steganography, Participated as a BOE member at National
in the quiz. The event had three rounds DNS, capabilities of developer tools, and College and at Maharani Ammani College.
that included MCQs, ‘Guess the Personality/ HTTP requests. On the completion of the Invited as a resource person in areas like
Logos’ and a few Rapid Fire questions. challenge, a team would end up with a flag, E-Commerce Vs E-Business at Surana
whose submission would gain them points, College, Bangalore, ‘Recent Trends in
depending on the level of difficulty of the Computer Networks’ at St. Joseph’s College,
Advanced Excel challenge and on whether they used our ‘Introduction to Network Security’ at Periyar
hints. The department had designed a total University, Thanjavur, and ‘Implementation

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of 23 challenges of different levels to cater of Security Controls in Networks’ at
he workshop focused on providing to and enhance the skills of participants Maharani Ammani College, Bengaluru.
an introduction to MS Teams from different educational backgrounds. A She published a paper titled ‘Big Data
and Advanced Excel for the non- total of 195 participants had registered and Analytics in Healthcare’ at ACJ Journal, UGC
teaching staff. There were 45 attendees the winning team was from CMR Institute CARE Group Scopus indexed, Volume 9,
and this workshop intended to orient the of Technology. The students of St. Joseph’s Issue 4 on June 18, 2020, with ISSN 7021-
non-teaching staff towards developing College were the runners up. 2008 and with Impact Factor 6.83.
their computer skills. Dashboard on MacOS, She published a paper titled ‘Contraptions
data entry form creation, and certain useful to Avoid Redundancy in Quad drone: How
formulas were covered in this workshop. Gaming and its Future to build your own drone’ at IJIRSET, Scopus
indexed, Volume 4, Issue 10 with ISSN 2319-

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8753.
Capture the Flag 2020 reranika Madabhushi and Piyush She published a paper on ‘An empirical
Banerjee presented a student study on risk and returns of HDFC and ICICI
talk titled ‘Gaming and its Future’ banks’in PalArch’s Journal of Archaeology of
which garnered an audience of over 150 Egypt/ Egyptology(Scopus indexed) ) with
participants from different combinations. ISSN no: 1567-214X
Preranika walked the participants through
the phases of game development and shed
some light on Indie and AAA games. Piyush
spoke about new technologies emerging
in gaming like augmented reality (AR) and
virtual reality (VR).

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he department organised a webinar
on ‘Future of AI’ on March 20, 2021.

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The speaker spoke about what AI is,
he Department of Computer the future of AI, the relation between AI, ML
Science organised a national-level and DL, and how AI is changing the world for
intercollegiate event ‘Capture the the better. The bleak view of AI as a job killer
Flag 2020’ intending to educate people is one side of the coin. AI is an opportunity
on the different concepts at play on for workers to focus on the parts of their
the internet. The event took place on jobs that may also be the most satisfying.
thundercloud.net, and the communication Whether it’s teaching new languages in a
between team members ensued on a personalized way or translating speech and
Discord server set up by the department. text in real-time, AI-powered language tools Ms B. Nithya
Capture the Flag is an outdoor game where from Duolingo to Skype are bridging social Invited as a subject expert on ‘Cyber
two teams posing as enemies capture each and cultural divides in our workplaces, Security’ at Periyar University, Thanjavur.
others’ flag and bring it back to their own classrooms and everyday lives. Published a research article on ‘Hybrid ABC-
base. The online CTF had a similar modus BAT Optimization Algorithm for

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Localization in HWSN’ in the Elsevier journal Ms A. M. Bojamma Cybernetics
Microprocessor and Microsystems (Elsevier, Published a research article titled Orientation Programme
Science Direct).T ‘Preprocessing and Multi-feature Extraction ‘Multiplexer’
Method for Automated Plant Species

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Identification’ in international journal
on emerging technologies (IJET)ISSN he Cybernetics Association under
(print):0975-8364, ISSN (online):2249-3255 the Computer Science Department
held its annual orientation
Ms Banu M programme ‘Multiplexer’. This year, students
Presented a paper on ‘Big Data Analytics in from other courses also joined students of
Healthcare’ at the International Conference the Computer Science courses for the event.
on Emerging Trends in Science, Technology The event began with an introduction by
and Mathematics on September 18, 2020, Ms Aparna M C. Two alumni, Edmund and
with ISSN 2319-8753 and with Impact Samreen, spoke about their experiences
Factor 7.512 in the association. Edmund encouraged
. the participants to feel free and give ideas,
Ms Mrinmoyee Bhattacharya however small, to the coordinator to
Published a research article as a book improve the association and its activities.
chapter in Springer ‘Unsupervised Around 170 students who attended this
Techniques in Geomics’ on with ISSN no: event got to know each other and go out of
978-981-15-2444-8 their comfort zone, in small groups, through
interactive games. A few of the events
that the core committee organised were
‘Introduce yourself, Guess the Gibberish,
Rebus, Super Questions and quizzes,
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COMPUTING
Datagram v3

D
and guidelines to start the competition. The to the judges and had discussions. The
participants showcased their work competition ended with a valedictory from
the Sigma Squared Secretary.
atagram v3 was
organised online from
April 10-11, 2021. The
event inauguration
started with MSc. BDA
students’ beautiful
prayer song. The chief guest for the event
was Dr Antony K, Principle Data Scientist at
Head Operations Research Group at Infosys.
He shared a few words of wisdom with the
audience. The next speaker, Dr Srinivas
Bhogle, mentor and guide, narrated his
exciting stories. After all the insights, BDA
students showcased their artistic talent with
a song and a dance performance, lifting the
mood tenfold. After the performances, Dr
Jayati Bhadra, Head of the Department,
spoke a few words of gratitude. The
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last day of the tournament to declare the
winner. 188 students registered while 262
Committee
he department organized students registered for Fantasy IPL.

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the SJC Fantasy league for he Department of Physical
the first time. Education completed its election
Cestoball National Level for the Student Sports Committee
Tournament members for the academic year 2020-21
on the 4th of September 2020 via Google

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Forms.
he second Cestoball Senior and
Junior National Championship
2021 (Men and Women) were held
from the 26th to the 28th of March 2021
in Sunam, Punjab. 12 players from our
College represented the Senior Men Team
with Alex Chethan as captain and Ms Hazel
Mary Raju as the Team Manager.

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2021

Game Date Boys ( Results) Girls ( Results) Boys & Girls (Results)
Chess 01-02-2021 - - Winners – I HEP
Runner – III BCA
09-02-2021 Winners – I BCA A Winners – I BCOM A -
Carroms Runner – I JIP Runner – I BCOM IFA
(Doubles) First Runner up – III First Runner up –II
BCOM D CZBT

17-02-2021 Winners – III BPS Winners – I BCOM IFA -

Carroms (Singles) Runner – III IES Runner – II BCOM C
First Runner up – III First Runner up – III
BCOM B MCZ
09-02-2021 Winners – III BCOM D Winners – III PCM -
Throwball Runner – III CBZ Runner – II CZBT
First Runner up – III First Runner up – II
PEM MCOM
16-02-2021 Winners – I HEP Winners – II CZBT -
Volleyball Runner – III BPS Runner – III PCM
First Runner up – III First Runner up – I
CBZ CBBT
16-02-2021 Winners – I BCOM B Winners – II EJP -
Table Tennis Runner – II MEC Runner – III IES
(Doubles) First Runner up – I
PCM
17-02-2021 Winners – I BCOM B Winners – II MCBZ -
Table Tennis Runner – II EPS Runner – I BPS
(Singles) First Runner up – II First Runner up - II BPS
PCM

01-03-2021 Winners – III BCOM C Winners – III PCM -

Cricket Runner – I BPS Runner – III MCBZ
First Runner up – II IES
01-03-2021 Winners – II MCOM Winners – I EMS -
Badminton Runner – III BCOM C Runner – II EJP
(Doubles) First Runner up -III First Runner up – II
BCOM D BCOM A
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 LIBRARY

D
r Shivakumar T from the
department attended
numerous national and
international webinars
and participated in
various courses and
Refresher programmes over the academic
year 2020-2021. Some notable ones were:

A five-day international virtual short term

course on “Enlightening of LIS Professionals
in Emerging Technology-ELISPET-21” was
organised from 12th to16th of April 2021, at
the Department of Library and Information
Science, Madurai Kamaraj University and
Madras Library Association.

A two-week refresher course/Faculty

Development Programme in “Library
Sciences” under the Ministry of Education
sponsored by Pandit Madan Mohan
Malaviya National Mission on Teachers and
Teaching (PMMMNMTT) was organised
from 10th to 25th of April 2021. The
programme was organised by the Teaching
Learning Centre (TLC), Ramanujan College.

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 T
Zoha Shariff, II CZBT

he last 18 months have been extremely To work/study from the comfort of your homes with
challenging for the staff and students different facilities and not so similar working/study
alike, the sudden shift to an online environments, things have been harder for some than the
mode of teaching and learning was not others, but most have had their spirits and hopes held high
an easy change to deal with. To have and worked tirelessly day in and day out to get through
experienced peak college life online has this.
been immensely demanding. However, one might agree
with the fact that the past few months that we’ve spent The past year has taught us patience, the value of time,
working and studying from home did bring in a sense of and the importance of living in the moment. It's taught
peace and tranquillity. us that good times don’t last forever, and bad times don’t
either. The pandemic has drastically changed people, their
Although some days, perhaps even weeks, felt like a mindsets and ways of working, it’s brought in immense
getaway from the daily hustle for most of us initially, one change, a truckload of memories both good and bad,
cannot disagree that the pandemic has brought in a great those that make us cry happy tears and most importantly
deal of both mental and physical exhaustion overtime. which have taught us to value people, education and all
good things, because they don’t come around twice.

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 YANSAROMO J PATTON, II EJP

I take a wistful look at the memories of the year past, a half-remembered

cacophony of memories ripping at each other. The past has changed by what
came after. January jauntily hopped in, with all its jingles, February febrezed the
air with festivities and riding on that high, in March the Mariachis marched in
with the waltz of Spring. Sadly, the carol cajoled in the cold apathy of the scarlet
crowned devil. Now exiled in an oar-less raft caught between the fog and the
sea, is how the year drifts by. Half brave, half afraid, I couldn’t shake off the sinking
feeling that Belial would be right there at the doorstep, jaws wide open, ready
to snap at my neck if I ever peered a little too hard. With the days morphing
into months that passed, I had become less of a student and more of a tenant.
Keeping me company were the people now reduced to circles on a square from
the other end of the silver fibre cable of life, all similarly exiled and adrift. For
many a month, we’ve been out in the blue and wouldn’t one like to know how
far they’ve got left to go, but from the sounds of the waves crashing it seems that
we’ve hardly left the pier.

Shruti Lal, III IES

My last year as a Josephite was spent in two very contrasting

environments- my fifth semester within the confines of my yellow
room, staring at my laptop screen from 9 in the morning till
midnight, attending classes, calls, and everything in between, and
my sixth semester which gave me a little extra luck to be able to go
to college for extracurriculars, and have my feet blessed by walking
on college ground. I’ve always been romantic when it comes to
the institutions I study in. And with Joseph’s, I haven’t fallen short;
and this pandemic took people and memories from every single
one of us. We all know it’s been mentally harrowing and physically
draining. But instead of talking about all the things I missed out
on, I’m going to count my blessings and be content, because
we’re here, through all the ups and downs, we’re still standing on
the other side, and we can say that we made it. We may be a little
weary and tired, but we’re so brave for pulling through.

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 Poireitomba Huidrom, III HEP

To bid adieu to college in such circumstances leaves a heavy sigh in the heart.
The last years of college were supposed to be a stepping stone of realization,
coming of age and memories that were to be cherished forever as a part of our
lives. Unfortunately, it was fixed to a mode which no one had expected and that
which left an impact on the unfulfilled exciting memoirs. Campus, classmates,
communities, canteens, corridors, culture, chai and coffees will surely be missed.
But most importantly the stated life of a college student with friends will
somehow remain empty with this pandemic batch. It becomes more emotional
to not graduate from the grounds of college and part ways with words of farewell
in a physical state.
It definitely has created more unsaid feelings. But we must let go off and learn
to cherish the memories we have gained in this short period of time. Lastly,
as an outgoing student, I wish the coming batches enjoy their time here and
compensate for our incomplete memories. And a word of advice would be to
wear the ID cards even though it might feel like a pain. Trust me after a point of
time, one starts to miss it.

Ananya Mariam Rajesh, II MA Mass Communication and Journalism

When I look back to the time I joined St. Joseph’s for my Masters in Mass Communication
and Journalism, I remember how I was excited to begin a new journey away from home in
a different city. My first year was a great experience from making some amazing friends to
getting practically trained as part of my course. Nothing could have stopped my happiness
of actually getting to learn so much from experienced and professional lecturers.
Well, the beginning of post-graduation was smooth but unfortunately, our second year
was spent studying online through Microsoft teams. It sounded out of the box to attend
classes online, like an Archie comic prediction coming true but it wasn’t an easy journey.
Personally, the increase in screen time was a bit worrisome but I guess we have all adjusted
to the new normal. My lecturers were incredibly supportive while we faced hindrances
adjusting to the new mode of learning. It wasn’t an easy journey for many of us but we
all eventually understood the importance of being educated in a pandemic. As aspiring
journalists, education and knowledge can really keep us safe and even if it has to happen
online, we need to do it because in times such as this, to have the right knowledge and to
know the facts can take us all a long way. I am glad to learn so much even with the physical
restrictions and happy to have been a part of St. Joseph’s College (Autonomous).

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 Dhruv Kumar Jain , I MSc Food Science and Technology

To say that the past year has been rather rough would be an understatement. There
is no need for an introduction, I dare say. Such are the circumstances that I can
cut right to the chase without even having to worry about you not understanding
where one comes from. I’d always heard as a child about how life had its ‘ups and
downs’ and how no phase would be permanent. And then 2020 happened. 2020
wasn’t even a year, it was much more than that. It was an adjective in its own right.

It has been difficult, there’s no denying it whatsoever. Online classes have been
stressful, to say the least. Learning hasn’t really been that effective without any
human interaction. More than anything else, it’s the uncertainty that’s gotten to
the best of us. Plans disrupted, priorities changed, and a million lessons learnt. But
even after all of it, you have survived, we have survived. There is still hope, there
always is. I wish you have the strength and courage to hold on, and to believe that
it will get better.

Ann Elizabeth George, II MA English

My final year in SJC started with “Am I audible” and came to an abrupt
end with “oops your call was disconnected due to bad network quality”.
Everything in between is now just a lot of blurry images of sitting in my
room, staring at the occasionally blinking laptop screen and almost zoning
out on the bodiless voice emanating from somewhere within the laptop.
Trying to adjust to sitting at home in the final year of college, longing to
have the usual coffee at our designated table in the PG canteen, college
life during the pandemic has been all about new experiences, trying new
things in the ‘New Normal’. From online classes, recreating group studies
in teams to challenging ourselves with virtual theatre performances
and writing online exams; Microsoft teams became our second home,
classroom, seminar hall and online stage. For the first time in my life I am
longing for my hostel food, the 6 pm curfew and our bunk beds and the
certainty of some sort that physically going to college offered.

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 Amira Nasreen, I BPS

Excited, to finally go to my dream college, I bought my first laptop along with a new bag,
with new books and stationery that I never got to use. Moved some furniture from my room
to make space for my new study table, not knowing that this table, and later my bed, would
be my classroom for an entire year. Although my first day of college was from home, I got my
outfit ready, applied some kajal under my eyes and excitedly waited for my first class, only to
find out the classes didn’t require our camera’s to be on…and thus passed an entire year of
college, in my pajamas, listening to the voices of my teachers, wondering what they might look
like from blurry WhatsApp pictures. From writing my projects using different colour pens and
sketches to deciding which font and pictures I should use on my PPTs, a year passed by. From
trying to calculate what 8 am IST means in Arabian time to being completely immune to doing
accounting in my bed at 5:30 am, a year passed by.

Who are my teachers? Who are my friends? What do they like? Do they get excited about the
sunsets like me? Perhaps someone is experimenting with their hair, while someone else has
found the 30th way to make Maggi. In the span of a year so many strangers have become
friends...but from so far away. And perhaps that’s been the magic all along. My first year of
university, a year passed by.

Ms Parinitha L Shinde
Assistant Professor, Institute of Communication and Media Studies

The year 2020 will be firmly embedded in our collective consciousness as a year of both
turmoil and triumphs. As phrases like“unprecedented times”and“the new normal”became
a part of our lexicon, both students and teachers tried to navigate the uncertainty brought
about by the global pandemic. When physical classes shifted into virtual spaces, there was
a need to make paradigmatic changes in our teaching pedagogies. Apart from covering
the syllabus in class, strengthening resilience became a necessity. In the absence of face-to-
face interactions, cultivating camaraderie became a focal point.

There was a constant unlearning and re-learning taking place, with teachers juggling
lectures, exams, evaluation, mentoring, and administrative responsibilities. Being stuck
indoors also meant a blurring of the boundaries between personal and official realms.
The word disruption has a positive connotation in the field of technology. It points to a
software or hardware innovation that displaces established practices and alters how people
perform certain tasks. Similarly, the disruption caused by the pandemic, has recalibrated
our understanding of education. Classrooms in the last year have become communities
of shared experiences, and students and teachers companions and collaborators in the
learning process.

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 Dr. Susan Mary Philip
Assistant Professor, Department of Biotechnology

It has been a momentous year, to say the least. The pandemic upended life as we knew it. A lot of things
that we took for granted about teaching-learning and classrooms changed drastically, and there was a
scramble trying to move everything online. How does one work MS teams? How in the world does one
communicate effectively through a screen? No non-verbal cues? What??

Taking attendance-that ritual calling out of names and hearing the chorus of‘Yes, ma'am's-I never thought
I would miss that. I did. Tremendously. Downloading attendance seems so impersonal and aloof. Having
to glare-stare-‘will you please stop that’- multiple times over the duration of a class- I missed that too. I
missed the arguments and the ‘Are you serious?’ looks and the creative excuses that were paraded for
extension of submission deadlines. I missed all that and more.

But this pandemic also taught me a lot about resilience. Of our students. And us. We found creative ways
of having conversations online. We tried new ways of learning together. Some worked. Some flopped
spectacularly. We found opportunities and ways of reinventing the teaching-learning process. We are still
on that uphill climb, and no sight of the peak yet. Things are far from perfect. There is so much stuff we
still have to figure out.

But I have faith in our community. All through my bout of covid and hospitalisation, I found support and
understanding from my colleagues and friends and students. I experienced empathy and God’s grace.
I know things have been and continue to be tough, especially for many of our students. But my prayer
for them is that they will dig deep and find ways to come through this triumphant. Not unscathed or
unchanged, but determined to question everything and move things forward. For the better.

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 RETIRED STAFF

D
DR. STEPHEN TITUS DR. BERIN LUKAS

D
r. Stephen Titus has spent 31 years of his life r. BERIN LUKAS, Associate Professor and HOD of the
time in St.Joseph’s College imparting edu- Departments of Sociology and Industrial Relations,
cation, honing mathematical skills in young superannuated from service on the 30th of June 2020,
students and training them to develop life after serving the College and Student Community at SJC for
skills and counseling them. 31 long years. A Scholar-Teacher who encouraged students to
present papers and publish, right from the first year of her service
Dr.Titus did his M.Sc in St.Joseph’s College, Trichy, M.Phil in in the College, she did her best to empower her lady students,
Bharathidasan University, Trichy and his Ph.D from Bangalore especially from the underprivileged background, in various
University. His doctoral thesis was on “ Linear and Non-Linear ways. Dr. Berin Lukas has quietly helped a number of girls from
analysis of convection in Newtonian Liquids using Lorenz Model” poor backgrounds financially.
His initiation into the Department of Mathematics at St. Joseph’s
was in 1988. During the initial years he was actively involved in Dr. Berin Lukas’ M.Phil. thesis way back in 1984-85, was the first
HRD. He is an effective trainer and played a major role in help- Sociological study in India on Unwed Mothers. She is one among
ing mould the younger staff in taking up the reins of resource the very few aided staff of our college who completed her Ph.D
personnel. in Five Years without availing any leave.

Dr. Stephen served as HOD, PG coordinator of Dept. of Mathe- A passionate Philatelist and Numismatist, Dr. Berin Lukas -one
matics. He has contributed to the holistic development of stu- of the Founder Members of the Philatelists And Numismatists
dents through NLP workshops and counseling sessions. He has Association (PANA), has a fabulous collection of Postage Stamps
been a RBPT level 3 trainer. & Postal Stationeries on Women theme and British Royal
Family, apart from all pieces of Indian Commemorative low
Dr. Titus has definitely been an inspiration for many. It has been denomination coins. She has regularly displayed her collection
an honour to have been closely associated with this gem of a during PANA Annual Exhibition-PANEX. She is also a Life Member
man. As we bid adieu to our beloved Dr. Stephen Titus we assure Philatelic Society and the first Josephite to be featured on the
you that we fondly cherish the jovial man you have always been. newly introduced “My Stamp”.

Prof. John Binze Dr. Berin Lukas became the first lady faculty to lead two aided
Head, Department of Mathematics. Departments-Sociology and Industrial Relations simultaneously
from 2008 April to 2020 June. She founded the ever-active
Sociology Students Association- Social Zest and the Department
Magazine-GUSTO. She enabled a number of students to publish
their articles pertaining to Sociological Issues by bringing out

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 more than a dozen edited books. She conducted a record
number of Eight Webinars-including six international, with
resource persons/participants from 10 countries, during June
2020. She encouraged many of us to pursue higher studies in
Sociology and take up teaching as a career. Many of her students
serve the Departments of Sociology and allied disciplines at SJC
and various other colleges in Karnataka.
On behalf of all my colleagues at The School of Humanities and
on behalf of the Student Associations of both the Departments-
Social Zest and Industrial Relations Forum, I wish my Teacher and
HOD Dr.Berin Lukas all the very best. May God Bless You Dear Dr.
Berin Lukas.
DR. ETIENNE RASSENDRAN

D
G.ANUPLAL
r. Etienne Rassendren joined St. Joseph College
Associate Professor and HOD
(Autonomous) in the Department of English on 02-
Department of Industrial Relations
07-1984. He has served the Institution for 37 years. He
In-charge HOD-Dept. of Sociology.
is one of the kindest, wisest people you can meet and it is an
honour to know him. Incredibly warm and helpful, his presence
is enough to make the room a happier place. Over the years, he
has made a huge difference to the department, the college and
to students. He’s always there to comfort, to aid and to advise
and we will forever be grateful to him.

As a mentor, Dr Etienne has mentored many a mentee over

years. Students from different walks
of life, including young teachers, would seek his advice and he
would mentor them wholeheartedly.

Sometimes people simply need someone who will be there for

them; someone who will sit and listen; someone who is genuinely
concerned. Dr Etienne has been that person in others’ lives. For,
he has taught not only from volumes but from the book of life.

DR. SANDRA MISQUITH

D
r. Sandra Misquith joined the department of Chemistry,
St. Joseph’s College on 3rd October 1994 and after
serving the Institution for 26 years she retired from
service on attaining superannuation on 30th June 2020. She
was actively involved in all the activities of the Chemistry
Department and contributed immensely to enhance the
quality of teaching learning process. She was instrumental
in introducing innovative practices such as research based
pedagogical tools in undergraduate chemistry labs. Being a
passionate researcher, she was engaged in research ever since
she joined the department. Three students have obtained
their Ph.D. under her guidance and one student has submitted
their thesis. She has published several research papers in peer
reviewed journals. She has an ongoing DST-SERB project. Dr.
DR. RAJAMANI

D
Sandra has served the Institution in various capacities. She was
r. Rajamani was a graduate from St. Joseph's College,
the campus minister and coordinator of mid-day meals and
Tiruchirapalli and did his doctoral studies from Madras
coordinator of DST FIST committee. She was an active member
University. He joined SJC, Bengaluru in 1990 and
of several other committees including DBT star college scheme
has served for 30 long years teaching undergraduate and
committee and Josephite research forum. Her ability to plan,
postgraduate students. He has several paper publications to
organize and conduct events is exemplary.

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 his credit and has guided several M.Phil students and two PhD
students. Mycology was his specialization and he completed a
UGC minor project during his stay in College. He has served as
the coordinator of MSc Botany during the last part of his tenure
in college. He has been a very simple person with a systematic
work culture. Very approachable by students and he has been
very helpful to them. He had a library of his own which was used
by students of Botany in particular. He took time off to help the
academically weaker students. He often encouraged students
to work on projects and helped them make presentations in
conferences and also guided UG students to publish papers
in journals. The Department of Botany and SJC are extremely
grateful for his services.

DR. JAYASHANKAR H

D
r. Jayashankar H retired on 31st July 2021, as Associate
Professor from the Department of Chemistry after
serving the Institute for 34 long years. He completed
Master’s degree from Calicut University in 1983 and Ph.D. from
Kerala University in 1989. The Ph.D. thesis title was ‘Study of
some rare earth complexes with certain O & N donor ligands.
He was the member of the organizing committee and the
resource person for the 7-day refresher course on the ‘’Co-
ordination Chemistry’’ at St. Joseph’s College, Bangalore 1994
and a resource person for PU lecturers’ training held at Talent
Development Centre, IISc, Kundapura, on 26th July 2012. He
had also been an external examiner in Kerala and Annamalai
Universities. He served his tenure as the Head of the Department
PROF. THOMAS P ZACHARIAH of Chemistry, St. Joseph’s College (Autonomous), from 2017 to

P
2019. Dr. Jayashankar strongly believed in team work and was
rof. Thomas P Zachariah started his career as a lecturer in known for his pleasant and very gentle personality. He has
Zoology in the year 1987 at IDSG Government College, been a highly dedicated teacher and had passion for teaching
Chikkamagaluru. He moved on to St. Joseph’s College and love for the subject. St. Joseph’s College (Autonomous) and
(Autonomous), Bangalore in the year 1994 and reached his Department of Chemistry is highly grateful for his distinguished
superannuation on 31st May 2021 after nearly three decades of services and fondly remembers him.
dedicated service. He did his graduation and post graduation
from Mar Thoma College, Thiruvalla, Kerala. He completed his
Bachelor of Education in Natural sciences from PEET Memorial
Training college, Mavelikkara. He also cleared SLET in 1993. He
served the institution in various capacities like NSS programme
officer, Deputy Custodian of Bangalore University Science unit
and Custodian of Karnataka Pre-University Board exams. His
contribution towards the quality enhancement of St. Joseph’s
College has been very significant and multidimensional. He
has the unique distinction of being the first lay Vice Principal
of St. Joseph’s Pre-University College from 2001-2004. He was
also the external member of Board of Exams, Bangalore City
University. He was also a sitting member of the Animal Ethics
Committee of Christ (Deemed-to-be) University. He also served
as the Head of the Department of Zoology, St. Joseph’s College
(Autonomous) from 2017 to 2021. He has been a committed MR. KASHIRAJA

M
and dedicated teacher, very pleasant, enthusiastic and
meticulous, admired by students. He is a very good motivator r. Kashiraja joined St. Joseph’s College on 23rd
and instills positivity in the students. August 1989 and retired as Lab assistant from the
Department of Chemistry, St. Joseph’s College

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 (Autonomous) on 31st May 2020 after serving the Institute Thomas P Zachariah. He was very disciplined and regular to his
for 31 long years. He is extremely patient, obedient and has work, which was well appreciated by all the staff and students
genuine concern for students. and was loved by all. He has rendered service for a period of
37 years. We the staff and students of the College are grateful
for his services. Dr. Etienne Rassendren joined St. Joseph College

MR. VINCENT F

M
r. Vincent F worked as Secretary to several Principals MR. OMPRAKASH D

M
for over three decades of his work here at St Joseph’s
College (Autonomous). He has been an efficient, r. Omprakash D, SDC of the Arrupe Library and
hardworking and trustworthy person. Information Centre retires after 32 long years
of dedicated service. He served as a clerk in his
initial days of service at the Library. He performed his duties
with dedication and enthusiasm. During his tenure, he has
answered numerous reader’s queries, shelved countless books
and has spent endless hours cataloguing the books according
to library service.

MR. P K ANTHUVAN

M
Mr. P K Anthuvan, Lab Assistant in the Department
of Zoology, joined St. Joseph’s College in the year
1984. He joined the College under the Principal Fr. MR. KRISHNAIAH
Joseph C Nelapathy.

M
r. Krishnaiah, peon of the Arrupe Library and
He has rendered his service in the sports department initially Information Centre retires from service after 31
as an assistant.Later on he worked as Lab assistant in the long years of dedicated service at SJC. He is student
Department of Zoology. He is a very passionate worker and friendly and performed all his duties with enthusiasm and
humane person. Mr. P K Anthuvan has worked under various dedication.
heads of the department from Dr. Albert Selvanayagam till Prof.

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WEDDINGS

Congratulations to newlyweds Ms. Treesa Joy (De-

partment of Economics) and Mr. Lewin V Joey, who
tied the knot on May 30, 2020.

Congratulations to newlyweds Mr.

Prabhakar K. (Department of Commerce
and Management) and Ms. Vani A, who
tied the knot on August 30, 2020.

Congratulations to newly weds Mr. Ajay

Chandran (Department of Communication)
and Ms. Ashka Menon, who tied the knot
on November 30, 2020.

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 Congratulations to newlyweds Ms. Deepika S
(Department of Mathematics) and Mr. Bala Prakash
A who tied the knot on January 17, 2021

Congratulations to newlyweds Ms. Janis

Sweety Vas (Office Assistant, Principal’s
Office) and Mr. Len Mohan Fernandes
who tied the knot on January 16, 2021.

Congratulations to newlyweds Mr. Abel

Kooran Varghese (Department of Food
Science and Technology) and Ms. Tina
Anne Jacob who tied the knot on May 1,
2021

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 Congratulations to newlyweds Mr. Leonard Aiman
(Department of Mathematics) and Ms. Brunella
Regina Aiman who tied the knot on April 11, 2021.

Congratulations to newlyweds Dr. Mohan Kumar S

(Department of Food Science & Technology) and Ms.
Ashwini D N who tied the knot on June 4, 2021

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 In memory of all those who lost their lives this Pandemic.
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Obituary

WALTER STEPHEN ANDRADE FR. FRANCIS GUNTIPILLY

August 26, 2020 April 18, 2020
Fr. Walter Stephen Andrade, SJ (77), former Principal of St. Fr. Francis Guntipilly SJ passed away on 18th April 2021. He
Joseph's Evening College, St. Joseph's College of Commerce, was a social activist who was at the forefront of the Covid
Bengaluru, and St. Aloysius Evening College, Mangaluru, Relief Project during the first wave of Covid-19.
passed away on August 26, 2020.

FR. PRAVEEN HRUDAYARAJ FR. STANISLAUS LOURDUSWAMY

April 22, 2021 July 5, 2021
Fr Praveen Hrudayaraj SJ (41/22) passed away on Fr. Stanislaus Lourduswamy, a Jesuit priest and a tribal
April 22, 2021 rights activist based in Jharkhand passed away on 5th of
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 PROF. R PARUSURAM PROF. RAMA RAO
August 26, 2020 September 28, 2020
Prof R Parusuram, former Head of the Prof. Rama Rao (80), former Head of the
Department of Economics (until 1997), passed Department of Physics, passed away on
away on August 13, 2020. September 28, 2020.

MR P D JACOB MR PAVAN NIRMALRAJ

September 30, 2020 April 3, 2020
Mr P D Jacob (85), retired Attender (Dept. of Mr Pavan Nirmalraj (60), husband of Mrs
Chemistry), passed away on 30th September Mary Catherine (Housekeeping staff ) passed
2020. away on 3rd April 2021. He was serving as
the security at our college.

DR RAMAKRISHNA DR PADMA BALIGA

GOWDA May 12, 2020
Dr Ramakrishna Gowda (Department of Kannada) Dr Padma Baliga, who taught English at our college from
deputed to Government First Grade College, Yediyur, 2008-2016, passed away on May 12, 2021.
passed away on May 3, 2021

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 REV. SR. VALSA DR JOY THOMAS
September 14, 2020 August 26, 2020
Rev. Sr. Valsa FMM who formerly taught in the Dr Joy Thomas (57), alumnus of the college
Social Work Department during 2009-2012 and brother-in-law of Ms Sheela Jose Thomas
passed away on 16th June 2021. (Department of Physics), passed away on
September 28, 2020.

SAMANTHA DE PADUA
September 30, 2020
Samantha de Padua, an alumna of the
college (HEP 2016 Batch), passed away on
September 30, 2020.

MR. WYLL MR RAHUL

September 14, 2020 October 16, 2020
Mr Wyll, an alumnus of the college (PMC 2009-2012 Mr Rahul, a student of MCom batch 2018-2020, passed
Batch), passed away on September 14, 2020. away on October 16, 2020.

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 DIMSON PANMEI ABHINAND THEKKOOT ABHILASH
December 29, 2020 June 7, 2020
Dimson Panmei, student, III HEP, passed away on Abhinand Thekkoot Abhilash (20BCAA09) passed away
December 29, 2020, in Imphal, Manipur. on June 7th 2021.

MS. NIHARIKA VAIRAMANI

June 8, 2020
Ms. Niharika Vairamani (20TEP001) passed away on
8th June 2021

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 FINAL YEARS
CLASS PHOTOS

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PEM

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MEC

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CZBT

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CEB

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EMS

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 BCA

B.COM A

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 B.COM B

B.COM C

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 B.COM D

B.BCOM BPS

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 HEP

EPS

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 IES

BSW

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 EJP

BVC

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 CPE

B.VOC VMF

B.VOC DMA

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 M.Sc Organic Chem

M.Sc Analytical Chem

M.Sc Computer Science

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 M.Sc. Food science & Tech

M.Sc. Mathematics

M.Sc Microbiology

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 M.Sc. Botany

M.Sc. Physics

M.COM

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 M.A Pol. Science

M.A. APR

M.A. Economics

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 MSW

M.A. English

M.A. Journalism and Mass Com

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Team Blue and White

Fr Dr Victor Lobo SJ (Chief Patron)

Ms Rency Thomas (Coordinator) Ms Archita Murthy (Editor-in-Chief) Ms Rajalekshmi L. S. (Editor)

Mr Avishek Suman (Design and Layout) Ms Maya Philip (Editor) Dr Amrita Banerjee (Editor)

Faculty Team

Ms Wilma Laveena D’Souza Ms Prathiba R. D. Ms Treesa Joy

Dr Pathan Hassan Ms Aparna Chinnappa Ms Fathima Farzana

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 Student Editorial Team

Adithi S.S Sukriti Dutta

Aditi Chawla Anushka Saha Aditi Vijaykumar

Sushila Adige Astha Sharma Renata Nathania

Student Design Team

Delano King Alina Susan George Ninan Kuruvilla Vibha Murdeshwar

Special thanks to Fr Swebert D’ Silva SJ, Dr Melwin Colaco, Fr John Lang Bosco SJ, Mr Clement
D’Souza, Deccan Printers.

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 Onward and Upward
Our Theme 'Onward and Upward' sums up very well the journey of SJC as an institution
during the course of 2020-2021. SJC has responded responsibly and sensitively to the unique
challenges and uncertainties the Pandemic brought upon us. It not only is a matter of pride that
we are one step away from being a university but also a matter of great responsibility to be a
university of excellent quality.

Our theme for this year, 'Onward and Upward' is inspired by the Jesuit principle, 'The Spirit of
Magis' - the spirit to achieve more, to do more and to be more. Onward and Upward to SJU.
- Team Blue &White 2020-2021

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