– Saghar Ada, BBA I am Saghar Ada, a 22 year old girl and a BBA-third-year student of St. Josephs College of Commerce, Bangalore. I have had many different experiences studying in India. First, it has made me mature. The context of Indian mixed society made it possible for me to meet and learn from…
– Saniha Swaroop Hegde, I B.Com “Today, being satisfied with yourself and your life is considered lowly and contemptible. People who are comfortable with their current state of affairs are labelled incompetent and even lazy.” We live in a world of constant and cut-throat competition. But the question we need to stop and ask ourselves,…
– Aasim Pasha, III B.Com This post was originally published in The TV Ratings Guide, a blog run by Aasim Pasha of III B.Com. Visit the blog to read more such reviews. Ever since I was a child, I was fascinated with food, but only for its consumption. Regardless of any situation, the desire for…
As the sky grew dark The clouds turned grey The world cried Heartbroken
In a world of beauty and spite, There lives a person bony and white, A parasite is he, living amongst us all …
– Vishesh, II B.Com It’s a startling realization that if the system was actually even close to being fair and equal, I probably wouldn’t be where I am today. Having benefited from a system that has been working in my favour at the cost of others, the least I can do is question the status…
– Samyukta Kamat, II BBA Respected Indian Parents, This is an open letter to you. This is not to humiliate you (read the whole letter before you jump into obvious conclusions or are quick to take offence, as you normally do) but to inform you on what we feel our relationship has turned into. To…
– Shreya Chopda, II B.Com “Patriotism is, fundamentally, a conviction that a particular country is best in the world because you were born in it.” – George Bernard Shaw Patriotism is not a tool for nation building. Each nation feels superior to other nations. This inevitably breeds patriotism – and war. What should have fundamentally been…
– Puneeth A P, II B.Com I had remained indoors all day as the weather had taken a sudden turn to rain. With my body on one chair and my legs upon another, I had surrounded myself with a cloud of fiction books. None impressed me, but one. I took my newly purchased iphone from…
Divergence Debates is a debate series, organized as part of the intra-college literary fest Ellipsis, in which the students of St. Joseph’s College of Commerce will debate on issues ofcontemporary relevance. Divergence Two – 2016 The Motion: In the contemporary world conditional freedom is just another form of policing.
Ellipsis is the intra-collegiate literary festival of St. Joseph’s College of Commerce. Ellipsis, a sequence of three dots, can express what a lot of words can’t. Imagination begins after ellipsis. The reader becomes the author after ellipsis. Literature lives in the minds of readers after ellipsis. The festival has three sections: Breaking Waves – Speaking events Drifting…
– Leeanne Patel, III BBA (Written for my grandfather, who has been suffering from Parkinson’s disease for more than twenty five years) The bees are at it again They are thoughts, and his mind Is a locked up beehive, no way out Swarming, buzz, constant murmur He sits, stares, waits for slumber — Bony Body, toothless…
