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Tips to tap resources on the Net

THE CANARA Bank School of Management Studies, a postgraduate department of Bangalore University, recently organised a three-day workshop on "B-School Libraries", where the resource persons were from the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) and the Indian Institute of Management (IIM).

The participants included librarians and information specialists working in business schools in the State and elsewhere.

They were given tips to tap resources available on the Net and other media.

ICFAI is champion

NEARLY 500 students from colleges in Bangalore, Coimbatore and Kerala turned up to add zest and colour to "Mind Quest 2004", a mega management festival organised recently by the Institute of Finance and International Management (IFIM), Bangalore.

ICFAI Bangalore emerged as the overall champion.

Among the participants were Mount Carmel College, Indian Business Academy, ICFAI Bangalore and Mangalore, IIPM, DCSMAT and PSGIM, Coimbatore.

The management games lined up for the festival tested the marketing, finance, human resource, information technology and international business skills of the students.

The grand finale of the festival was a business quiz conducted by quizmaster, Akshay of Nische Minds.

`Only Connect'

COMMUNIQUERE 2004, the annual festival conducted by the Department of Media Studies, Christ College, was held recently on the theme: "Only Connect".

The festival features several intra-collegiate events such as "JAM", "Pictionary", "Movie Review" and "Media Quiz".

The highlight of the festival was "MotorMouth", a competition for radio jockeys judged by Radio City RJ, Darius Soonawalla.

Kalanjali

THE CITY'S Sir M. Visvesvaraya Institute of Technology was abuzz last week with an inter-collegiate cultural festival called "Kalanjali 2004", organised by the college's cultural outfit, Susamskriti.

Danseuse Lakshmi Gopalaswamy inaugurated the festival. Among the events lined up for the festival were classical and light vocal music, "Mad-Ads", dumb charades, English and Kannada debates, solo and group dance, painting, sketching, collage, extempore in English and Kannada, Antakshari and quiz.

Seminar

THE DEPARTMENT of English, Jyoti Nivas College, has organised a State-level seminar on "Indian literature: Multiple approaches" on its campus on December 10 and December 11. Writer Anita Nair and Vimala Rama Rao from the Department of English, Bangalore University, will be the guests. Radha Ramaswamy from Mount Carmel College will speak on "Critical approaches to Indian drama in English" and V. Shantha from Jyoti Nivas College will deliver a lecture on "The Dynamics of Language and Representation".

A talk on "The presentation of tribal cultures in the works of Mahashweta Devi" by Saumitra Chakravarty from VVS College and another on "Gender and National: Draupadi and other stories" by Etienne Rassendren from St. Joseph's College of Arts and Science are lined up for December 11. For more on the seminar, contact Ph: 25530137.

— Rasheed Kappan

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