The second edition of the annual Hindi literary fest Jashn-e-Manipal, organised by Manipal’s only Hindi literary club ‘Goonj’ took place on Tuesday, March 27 at the Manipal Institute of Technology (MIT) library auditorium. Noted poet Shambhu Shikhar, orchestrated his excellent oratory skills to produce a spellbinding...
Aniruddha Roy Chowdhury, a well-known director in the Bengali film industry and the director of the Bollywood hit “Pink” interacted with an enthusiastic audience at School of Communication on February 9, the second day of the college's core communication event, Article 19. Chowdhury, often referred to as Tony Da...
InkHigh, a community forum for literature, organized an open mic night at Hide Out RestoBar, presenting an evening packed with talent on 25th January. Organised by Karthik and Ashwitha, third-year students at Manipal Institute of Technology (MIT), the event was an initiative taken by members...
Our generation has reached a point where stand-up comedy is considered as an actual career option and not just a mere pastime. With fame and money to gain, stand-up comedy has become an ideal profession for our fun-loving generation that believes more in having a...
UDUPI: A sea of saffron emerged on the roads to witness the culmination of the three-day Dharma Sansad and the Virat Hindu Samajotsav on November 26. With women seemingly outnumbering men, enthusiastic crowds waving saffron flags, tableaux and people in costumes took part in the “Shobha...
Manipal: Arunaraje Patil is a writer, editor, director and filmmaker. The first woman technician to have graduated from Film and Television Institute of India (FTII) forty-nine years ago, she recently published her autobiography, Freedom: My Story. Her movie ‘Rihaee’ was screened during Manipal International Literary and...
The final day of Manipal International Literature and Arts Platform (MILAP) began with practitioners of Indian and foreign languages discussing several aspects of literary translation and the transcendence of boundaries in language at the Gangubhai Hanagal Auditorium. The five-member panel consisted of Aleix Ruiz Falques, Kamala...
With the Manipal International Literature and Arts Platform (m.i.l.a.p.) kick-starting on the 15th of September, The Manipal Journal got in touch with a few members of the organising committee to uncover how the very first international literary fest of Manipal came into being. Conception Dr H...
Literature has served as a record for the constantly developing and transforming cultures all around the world. Be it the Indian Vedas, the Greek epics, the Latin poems or the innumerable literary pieces in a plethora of languages, we have them well within our reach....
Literature gives a reader the ability to experience the world through new and often unknown perspectives. It is, in and of itself, a public forum, allowing anyone and everyone the ability to understand a story or situation through another’s eyes. Hence, when it comes to...