School of Humanities & Liberal Arts cluster university jammu organises online essay competition on int’l women’s day

Jammu 08 March : School of Humanities and Liberal Arts, Cluster University of Jammu organized Online Essay Writing Competition to celebrate International Women’s Day under the patronship of Dean Academic Affairs, Prof. Bhupinder Singh. The topic of the essay competition was “Most Inspirational Female Fictional Character in Literature.” The competition was open for the students of English Honours, Linguistics and English Literature from P.G. Govt. College for Women Gandhi Nagar, Govt. MAM College and the School of Humanities and Liberal Arts. Over 50 entries were received from these colleges wherein the students enumerated the leadership qualities, qualities of head and heart and the spiritof determination and independence in these fictional heroines of various literary texts. The event was coordinated under the supervision of Head Department of English, Dr. Twinkle Suri and Head Department of Linguistics and Literature, Dr. Reena Salaria. The jury members for adjucation of the essays included Dr. Geetanjali Multani, H.O.D. Department of English, GDC Paloura and Dr. Ritu Magotra, H.O.D. Department of English, GCW Parade. The
winners of the competition were: Hiteshi Taggar, Semester III, English
Honours, GCW Gandhi Nagar who bagged 1 st prize, second prize was bagged
by Manya Jain, Semester V, English Honours, GCW Gandhi Nagar and Kritika
Sambyal, Semester VII, PGI English Honours, School of Humanities and Liberal
Arts in a tie, the third prize went to Ambika Sharma, Semester I, English
Honours, GCW Gandhi Nagar. The consolation prize went to Shivya Gupta,
Semester I, and Nikita Sharma, Semester III, both from PGI English Honours,
School of Humanities and Liberal Arts. The event was organized to create
awareness among students regarding women and their issues pertaining to
choice, voice, safety and rights.