The Wordsmiths Guild is the Department’s latest offering for the students. The Guild has been formed with the aim of creating a sensibility for literature, language and culture amongst students, irrespective of their choice of academic orientations. You don’t have to be an English major for it-aesthetic appreciation and creative is encouraged in all the students of the college, whether they are Arts, Science or Commerce students.
The members of the Guild are called the ‘Wordsmiths’ and a host of events and activities are conducted for them. From poetry readings, to poster making to picnic – the Guild has all this and more to offer the students.
Some of the activities on the cards are:
- Movie screenings of cultural or literature-based movies
- Personality development and public speaking courses
- Book Club meets
- Drama workshop
The Wordsmiths Nook
A Guild runs the college wall-magazine aptly called the ‘Wordsmiths Nook. The Guild has a dedicated six member editorial team that edits and updates the ‘Nook’ or board regularly. The editors, Misbah Ansari, Farida Patanwala, Saadia Al-Hadaad, Afreen Mujawar, Heena Talikoti and Rooshna Rashid collect and compile student articles, poems, musings as well as newspaper and magazine clippings of interest and post them on the board. They not only contribute to the magazine with their own articles, book and movie reviews, essays, poems, et al, but also conduct regular student opinion polls and are also responsible for the Nook’s creative layout. The Nook was inaugurated with two posters: one on Booker Prize winner Kiran Desai’s novel The inheritance of loss and another on the Man Booker Prize Winner Chinua Achebe.
You can visit this Guild’s Google group here.
