Solan, Sept 25
A 3-day international conference of the Society for the Study of Multi-Ethnic Literatures of the World (MELOW), being held at the International Centre in Goa, was inaugurated by Shoolini University Vice Chancellor Prof Atul Khosla on Friday.
The 22nd International Conference on ‘One Hundred Years of T.S. Eliot’s The Waste Land is being attended by over 50 delegates from India and abroad.
Prof. Atul Khosla, while inaugurating the conference, called for poetry to be brought back into our lives. In her Presidential Address titled, ‘Many People, Many Tongues: The Plurality of Perspectives in The Waste Land.’ Prof. Manju Jaidka, President MELOW, traced the critical reception of The Waste Land to when it was written. She observed that the many voices in the poem may be seen as different personas of the poet.
She also welcomed Professor Sripad Bhat, Department of English, University of Goa, Goa to the conference. Professor Roshan Sharma, Central University of Himachal Pradesh, Dharamshala proposed the vote of thanks. Professor Manpreet Kang, Indraprastha University, New Delhi, compered the inaugural session. The Isaac Sequeira Memorial (ISM) prize was awarded to Sreejit Datta, Assistant Professor, Rishihood University, Sonipat for his paper titled ‘Reading T.S.Eliot’s The Waste Land as a Cross-Civilisational Dialogue.
