TENTATIVE SCHEDULE OF THE TWO DAY
ENGLISH LITERARY FESTIVAL AT MUMBAI ON 30TH NOVEMBER AND 1 DECEMBER
Programme Details in Brief 
Day One:
Friday, 30th November, 2012
    08.30 a.m.                          : Registration
    09.00 a.m.–10:45 a.m.        : Inaugural session including Books’
Release
    10:45 a.m.–11.00 a.m.         : Tea Break
   
11.00 am–01:00 p.m.          :
Parallel sessions of paper presentations on the topic      
"Contemporary Indian Literature in
English: Dimensions & Directions" 
     01:00 p.m.–02.00 p.m.       : Lunch break
     02.00 p.m.—03.00 p.m.     : English poetry writing competition for degree                                                           students
of Mumbai based participant colleges. (The 
                                                best and the runner up will be awarded.)
02.00 p.m.–04.00 p.m.      : Poetry Reading
                                          (Leading
English poets of the country read their 
                                          poems)
     
02.00 p.m.–04.00 p.m.      :
Parallel Sessions of Paper Presentations on the topic “Contemporary Indian
Literature in English: Dimensions & Directions" 
04.00 p.m.–04:30 p.m.      : Coffee break
04:30 p.m.–06:30
p.m.     :GIEWEC’s Executive Committee and General
Body    
                                           Meeting
Day Two:
Saturday, 1st December, 2012
09.00 a.m.–12.00 noon.    : Workshop on Research Methodology and MLA
Style of documentation,  conducted by Prof.
Dr. K. V. Dominic (Secretary of 
GIEWEC, Editor of two international biannual refereed journals—Writers Editors Critics (WEC) and International Journal on Multicultural
Literature (IJML), author/editor of 22 books)
    09.00 a.m.–12.00 noon       : Poetry Reading Continued
    10.30 a.m.–10.45 a.m.         : Coffee break
    12.05 p.m.–01:00 p.m.        :
Valedictory Function including awards 
                                                    presentation
and certificate distribution 
    01:00 p.m.–02.00 p.m.        : 
Lunch Break
    02.00 pm                             :  Mumbai Sight-seeing (The expense of the trip
will 
                                                   be
shared by the sightseers)
DAY
ONE – FRIDAY, 30 NOVEMBER 2012
Inaugural Session (Tentative Schedule)
09.
00 am   : The special invitees are
welcomed to the dais 
09.10
am    : Lighting of the lamp and Prayer
song 
09.15
am  : Address by Prof. Satyendra Gaur,
Head-in-Charge of the Dept. English and Convenor
09.25
am : Address by Dr. (Mrs.) Sudha Vyas, Principal, K J Somaiya College of Arts
and Commerce, Mumbai
09.40
am  : Presidential Address by Shri Samir
Somaiya, Hon. President or Shri V. Ranganathan, Hon. Secretary, Somaiya Trust           
09.55
am : Address by Prof. Rajkamal Shiromani, President, GIEWEC
10.05
am: Key-note address by Ms. Arundhathi Subramaniam, renowned English Writer, and
books’ release
10.
35 am : Vote of thanks by Prof. K. V. Dominic, 
Secretary, GIEWEC
Paper
Presentation Session 1
Date: 30.11.2012
Time: 11.00 am – 01.00 pm                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              Time:
11.30 am – 01.30 pm
Hall: Main
Auditorium
Topic: “Contemporary Indian Literature in English: 
Dimensions & Directions”
Chair Person: Dr. Latha Nair R.
| 
S.No | 
Title of the Paper | 
Presenter | 
| 
1 | 
Gestic Language in
  Mahesh Dattani’s Play Thirty Days in
  September: A Stage Play in Three Acts. | 
Dr. Latha Nair R. | 
| 
2 | 
Vasundhev
  Kutumbam | 
Mr. Jayanti M. Dalal | 
| 
3 | 
Understanding Terrorism: Can Popular Fiction
  Address Serious Issues? A Study of Jayanti M Dalal’s Novels Spatial Echoes and Bleeding Heights of Kargil | 
Dr. Jayashree Palit | 
| 
4 | 
Portrayal of
  Nature in the poetry of A. K. Ramanujan | 
Ms. Barathi S. | 
| 
5 | 
The Revolutionary Spirit of the Contemporary Women
  Writers of India | 
Dr. Itishri Sarangi | 
| 
6 | 
Prof. K. V. Dominic—The Poet with Social
  Consciousness | 
Mr. Rama Krishna Perugu | 
| 
7 | 
The Role of Women in Amitav Ghosh’s The
  Glass Palace | 
Ms. Mahboobeh Khaleghi | 
Paper
Presentation Session 2
Date: 30.11.2012
Time: 11.00 am – 01.00 pm                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              Time:
11.30 am – 01.30 pm
Hall: Mini Auditorium
No. 1
Topic: “Contemporary Indian Literature in English: 
Dimensions & Directions”
Chair Person: Dr. Jaydeep Sarangi
| 
S.No. | 
Title of the Paper | 
Presenter | 
| 
1 | 
The Metaphors of
  Conquest:  Trends in Contemporary
  Indian Woman Marginal Poets in English  | 
Dr. Jaydeep Sarangi | 
| 
2 | 
Communication in Art Song and
  Literature: Poems versus Novels | 
Mr. Aju Mukhopadhyay | 
| 
3 | 
Perpetual Quest for Identity and
  Commitment  in Nissim Ezekiel  Poetry | 
Dr. Ratan
  Bhattacharjee  | 
| 
4 | 
The Transient
  Return to the Anchorage of Life in Taslima Nasrin’s Phera | 
Ms. Taniya Chakraborty | 
| 
5 | 
A Critical
  Analysis of Jaydeep Sarangi’s From
  Dulong to Beas | 
Dr. S. Kumaran | 
| 
6 | 
Seeing Beyond the Ubiquitous: A Critical
  Scanning of  
T. Vasudeva Reddy’s Poetic Vision | 
Prof. Kavitha Gopalakrishnan | 
| 
7 | 
Recharging Physiology and Activating Spirituality –Evolutions of Hinduism in the
  Poetry of Paramhansa Yogananda and Swami Vivekananda | 
Prof. Sibasis Jana | 
Paper
Presentation Session 3
Date: 30.11.2012
Time: 02.00 pm – 04.00 pm                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              Time:
11.30 am – 01.30 pm
Hall: Main
Auditorium
Topic: “Contemporary Indian Literature in English: 
Dimensions & Directions”
Chair Person: Dr. Rajshree Trivedi
| 
S.No. | 
Title of the Paper | 
Presenter | 
| 
1 | 
The Paradox of
  Progress and Change in India: Voices of Dissent and Assent in Arvind Adiga’s The White Tiger | 
Dr. Rajshree Trivedi | 
| 
2 | 
Gujarat Jesuits’
  Contribution to Contemporary Literature in English | 
Fr. Varghese Paul, SJ | 
| 
3 | 
The Use of Myth in
  Karnad’s The Fire and The Rain | 
Mr. Kamble Rajiv Bhimrao | 
| 
4 | 
Suffering of Women in Anita Desai’s Fire on the Mountain | 
Dr. Dipali N. Deshmukh | 
| 
5 | 
Hypocrisy
  and Moral Breakdown of Modern Women in Shobha De’s Snapshots  | 
Dr. B. Krishnaiah | 
| 
6 | 
The
  Evils of Patriarchy  in  Mahesh 
  Dattani’s  Plays                                                                   
   | 
Prof. Mayurakshi Mitra
   | 
| 
7 | 
Narratives
  of Despair: Globalization, Diaspora and Transnational Labour in Kiran Desai’s The Inheritance of Loss | 
Dr. Paromita Chakrabarti | 
| 
8 | 
In Quest of 
  Better  Insights: A Case for
  Language Through Literature | 
Dr. Poonam Sahay | 
Paper
Presentation Session 4
Date: 30.11.2012
Time: 02.00 pm – 04.00 pm                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              Time:
11.30 am – 01.30 pm
Hall: Mini
Auditorium No. 1
Topic: “Contemporary Indian Literature in English: 
Dimensions & Directions”
Chair Person: Dr. Jayashree Palit
| 
S.No. | 
Title of the Paper | 
Presenter | 
| 
1 | 
‘Body
  of Evidence’: The New Breed of Indian Crime Fiction Writers: Cares and
  Concerns. | 
Dr. Jayashree Palit | 
| 
2 | 
The
  Spirit for Revolution in Badal Sircar’ Stale
  News | 
Dr. Shailaja B. Wadikar | 
| 
3 | 
Marginalisation of 
  Women Characters in Kiran Desai’s Inheritance
  of Loss | 
Prof.
  Trupti Sabharanjak | 
| 
4 | 
The Businessman-Politician Nexus as the
  Cause of Socioeconomic Disparity and Injustice: A Realistic Portrayal of
  Contemporary India in Adiga’s The White Tiger | 
Dr. Vinaybhushan V. Deshmukhe | 
| 
5 | 
Analyzing David
  Davidar’s The House of Blue Mangoes
   
as a depiction of
  the socio-political aspects of Indian society | 
Dr. Joji John Panicker | 
| 
6 | 
The Divided Self- Buried Desires in Anita Nair’s Ladies Coupe | 
Prof.
  Vijaya Krishnan | 
| 
7 | 
Ecofeminism in Arundhati Roy’s God of Small Things  | 
Mr. Vineet Radhakrishnan | 
| 
8 | 
Nature as a Protagonist and the Impact of
  Geophysical Condition on Indian Diasporic Writings | 
Dr. Shikha Dutta | 
Date: 30.11.2012
Time: 02.00 pm – 03.00 pm                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              Time:
11.30 am – 01.30 pm
Hall: Class Room
Programme: Poetry Writing Competition
for Students
Date: 30.11.2012
Time: 02.00 pm – 04.00 pm                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              Time:
11.30 am – 01.30 pm
Hall: Mini
Auditorium No. 2
Programme: Poetry Reading
Chair Person: Prof. T. V. Reddy
| 
Sl. No | 
Names of Poets | 
| 
1.    
    | 
Prof. T. V. Reddy  | 
| 
2.    
    | 
Prof. I. K. Sharma | 
| 
3.    
    | 
Mr. Aju Mukhopadhyay | 
| 
4.       | 
Mr.
  Jayanti M. Dalal | 
| 
5.    
    | 
Prof. Rajkamal
  Shiromani | 
| 
6.    
    | 
Prof. K. V. Dominic | 
| 
7.    
    | 
Dr. Jaydeep Sarangi | 
| 
8.    
    | 
Mr. Girish H. Joshi | 
| 
9.    
    | 
Dr. Ratan
  Bhattacharjee | 
| 
10.                       
    | 
Ms. S. Barathi | 
| 
11.                       
    | 
Dr. Itishri Sarangi | 
| 
12.                       
    | 
 Prof. Preeti Vaswani | 
| 
13.                       
    | 
 Mr. Rama Krishna Perugu | 
| 
14.                       
    | 
 Mr. Jacob Isaac | 
| 
15.                       
    | 
 Prof. Renuka Devi Jena  | 
| 
16.                       
    | 
 Prof. Swati Vaidya | 
| 
17.                       
    | 
 Prof. Satyendra Gaur | 
| 
18.                       
    | 
 Prof. Sibasis Jana  | 
| 
19.                       
    | 
Ms. Chandraben
  Shrimali | 
| 
20.                       
   | 
 Ms. Taniya Chakraborty | 
| 
21.                       
   | 
Mr. Santanu Halder | 
Date: 30.11.2012 Time: 04.30 pm – 06.30
pm                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              Time:
04.00 pm – 06.00 pm
Hall: Main Auditorium
GIEWEC’s Executive and General Body
Meeting
DAY
TWO – SATURDAY, 1 DECEMBER 2012
Date: 01.12.2012
Time: 09.00 am – 12.00 noon                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           Time:
11.30 am – 01.30 pm
Hall: Main
Auditorium
Programme: Workshop on Research Methodology and MLA
Style of Documentation 
Chair Person: Prof.
K. V. Dominic
Date: 01.12.2012
Time: 09.00 am – 12.00 noon                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           Time:
11.30 am – 01.30 pm
Hall: Mini
Auditorium No. 1
Programme: Poetry Reading
Chair Person: Mr. Aju Mukhopadhyay
| 
Sl. No | 
Names of Poets | 
| 
1.    
    | 
Mr. Aju Mukhopadhyay
   | 
| 
2.    
    | 
Prof. I. K. Sharma | 
| 
3.    
    | 
Prof. T. V. Reddy | 
| 
4.       | 
Mr.
  Jayanti M. Dalal | 
| 
5.    
    | 
Prof. Rajkamal
  Shiromani | 
| 
6.    
    | 
Dr. Jaydeep Sarangi | 
| 
7.    
    | 
Mr. Girish H. Joshi | 
| 
8.    
    | 
Dr. Ratan
  Bhattacharjee | 
| 
9.    
    | 
Ms. S. Barathi | 
| 
10.                       
    | 
Dr. Itishri Sarangi | 
| 
11.                       
    | 
 Prof. Preeti Vaswani | 
| 
12.                       
    | 
 Mr. Rama Krishna Perugu | 
| 
13.                       
    | 
 Mr. Jacob Isaac | 
| 
14.                       
    | 
 Prof. Renuka Devi Jena  | 
| 
15.                       
    | 
 Prof. Swati Vaidya | 
| 
16.                       
    | 
 Prof. Satyendra Gaur | 
| 
17.                       
    | 
 Prof. Sibasis Jana  | 
| 
18.                       
    | 
Ms. Chandraben
  Shrimali | 
| 
19.                       
   | 
 Ms. Taniya Chakraborty | 
| 
20.                       
   | 
Mr. Santanu Halder | 
Date: 01.12.2012
Time: 12.05 pm – 01.00 pm                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              Time:
11.30 am – 01.30 pm
Hall: Main
Auditorium
Programme: Valedictory Function
