Department of English

 

Departmental Prizes/Scholarships

• Paresh Nath Sen Memorial Prize: Student of the institution who scores highest marks in English Honours in the B.A. Examination from Bethune College.
• Prasanta Kumar Guha Memorial Award for Leadership &Social Awareness: Awarded to a deserving student of English Department.
• Rina Ghosh & Shyamal Chandra Ghosh Memorial Silver Medal (initiated in 2007): Awarded to the best all-rounder of the Department of English, Bethune College.
• Debkumar Gupta Memorial Prize (initiated in 2016): Two Prizes Awarded for securing the highest marks in the first two and the Final Examinations in M.A. English in Bethune College
• Sayantani Adhikary Foundation Award (initiated in 2023): Two prizes awarded to the Best All-rounders among the UG & PG students
• Staff Prize for highest proficiency in B.A. English Honours.
• Bijay Kumar Dutta Smriti Purashkar (initiated in 2023): Prize for the best talent in literary ability (in English or Bengali).

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Extension Activities

Seminars/Lectures/Webinars organized by the department

Funding Agency	Date	Name of Speaker, Designation	Topic	No. of Participants
Bethune College	02.03.2023	Dr. Oindri Roy, Assistant Professor, Department of English, Aliah University	Cartographies of Desire (ability): Reading Gender, Genre and Historical Subjectivity in Fanny Burney's Evelina	40
Bethune College	29.11.2022	Dr. Aparna Bandyopadhyay, Associate Professor, Department of History, Diamond Harbour Women's University	A Vindication of the Rights of Woman	123
Bethune College	23.04.2022	Dr Sandip Mondal, Associate Professor, Dept of English, University of Calcutta	The Politics of Fear in Sholay	110
Bethune College	09.04.2022	Smt Indrani Ganguly, Retd Interpreting Officer, Calcutta High Court	Amrita Pritam	60
Bethune College	07.10.2021	Shri Vinod Kapri, Noted Film Director	The Craft of Documentation in Film	250
Hooghly Mohsin College & Bethune College	28.09.2021	Dr Pinaki De, Noted Illustrator Associate Professor, Dept of English, Raja Peary Mohan College, Uttarpara	Herge, Son of Tintin	230
Bethune College	21.05.2021	Ms Keka De, Instructional Designer and alumni of the college	A Career Conversation on Instructional Design	80
Bethune College	04.07.2020	Sri Somnath Chakraborty, Head, Dept of English, Lalgola College	Webinar on Literature Through Music: Rendition of a Section of Abhijnanashakuntalam and Kubla Khan on Violin	502
Bethune College	04.02.2020	Sri Ashok Pande, Eminent Translator and Author	Literature and Translation
Bethune College	15.11.2019	Dr. Siddhartha Biswas, Associate Professor, Dept of English,University of Calcutta	Harold Pinter's The Birthday Party	65
Bethune College	29.3.2019	Dr. Subir Dhar, Former Professor, Dept of English, Rabindra Bharati University	The Plays of Mahesh Dattani	47
Bethune College	11.3.2019	Prof Indranee Ghosh,Former Associate Professor, Bidhannagar College	Questioning Reality and Unreality through folk myths	66
Bethune College	11.3.2019	Dr. Nandini Bhattacharya, Professor, Dept of English, Burdwan University	Questioning Reality though Tagore's novels	61
Bethune College	26.2.2019	Dr. Sisir Kr Chatterjee,Associate Professor, Dept of English, Hooghly Mohsin College	Phillip Larkin's Poetry	38
Bethune College	11.12.2017	Sri Manosij Majumdar, Former Associate Professor, Sri Chaitanya College	Renaissance Art and Monalisa	117
Bethune College	08.3.2017	Dr. Anwesha Sengupta, Assistant Professor, Institute of Development Studies	Breaking up Bengal	45
Bethune College	08.3.2017	Dr. Tista Das, Assistant Professor, Bankura University	Women's Experiences of Partition	53
Bethune College	09.12.2016	Dr. Chinmay Guha, Professor, Dept of English, University of Calcutta	T.S. Eliot and Modernism	127
Bethune College	05.05.2015	Ms. Asmita Das, Research Scholar at Media Lab, Department of Film Studies, Jadavpur University	Reinterrogating the Apu Trilogy	21
Bethune College	27.04.2015	Dr. Pradipta Mukherjee, Assistant Professor, Vidyasagar College for Women, Kolkata	Shakespeare's Film Adaptations	23

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Results

U.G. Results 2023

No. of Students Appeared : 40
No. of Students Passed : 37
No. of Students Not Cleared Semester (Fail) : 03

U.G. Results 2022 

No. of Students Appeared : 44
No. of Students Passed : 44
No. of Students Not Cleared Semester (Fail) : 01

U.G. Results 2022  under CBCS

No. of Students Appeared : 44
No. of Students Passed : 43
No. of Students Not Cleared Semester (Fail) : 01

 

U.G. Results 2021

No of Students: 47

 

U.G. Results 2015-2020

P.G. Results 2023

No. of Students Appeared : 10
No. of Students Passed : 5
No. of Students Not Cleared Semester (Fail) :5
 

P.G. Results 2022

No. of Students Appeared : 14
No. of Students Passed : 14
No. of Students Not Cleared Semester (Fail) :0
 

P.G. Results 2021

No of Students:15

P.G. Results 2015-2020

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Students' Section

Achievements of Present Students

Academic:

Students' Seminars organized in the Department

Date	Topic	Participants
26.04.2022	Romantic and Victorian Literature	UG Semester IV
24.7.2019	Reading Canto I of The Rape of the Lock	UG III and UG Semester III
18.9.2017	Romanticism and William Wordsworth	UG I
12.9.2017	Interrogating Orientalism II	PG II
23.9.2016	Interrogating Orientalism	PG II
8.8.2016	Reading Texts Critically	UG I
30.9.2015	Reconnaisance with Mahesh Dattani: Reading Tara and Bravely Fought the Queen	PG I&2, UG III

• Four PG Semester 4 students of the Department of English, Nilanjana Mukherjee, Sutapa Roy, Arusha Paul and Shampa Bhattacharya presented papers at a Workshop on Research Methodology for Migration Studies, organized by Centre for Studies on Borders and Movements in collaboration with Departments of History & English, West Bengal State University & Women's Studies Centre, Rabindra Bharati University, Kolkata in October 2022.
• Pratyasha Sen, a final year undergraduate student presented a paper at the Two-day National Conference organized by the IIT Roorkee in association with the Ministry of Culture, Government of India in December 2021. She had also presented papers at Student's Webinars organized by the Department of English, Adamas University, Kolkata (July 2021) and Sister Nivedita University (July 2020).
• Soumashree Mukherjee presented a paper at the 2nd International Interdisciplinary Conference on Postmemory and the Contemporary World (online) organized by Inmind Support, Gdansk, Poland in February 2021. She also won the Heldrich Dvorak Travel Fellowship Award for presenting her paper titled 'Aftertaste of Apocalypse: Fragmenting the Dystopia in The Umbrella Academy' at the Southwest Popular/American Cultural Association's 42nd Annual SWPACA Conference during 2020-21 session.
• Soumashree along with another PG student, Oindrila Dey presented a paper in an Interdisciplinary Workshop by Centre for Memory Studies, IIT Madras in November 2021.
• Sayanti Chakraborty and Sisilia Banerjee of UG Semester IV presented papers at the Undergraduate Students' Seminar organized by Sister Nivedita University in February 2020.

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Achievements of Ex-Students

Students' Progression to Higher Education

Mukulika Choudhury (UG 2016) completed her MPhil from the Department of Comparative Literature, Jadavpur University during 2021-22 session.

Soumili Das (UG 2017) joined PhD programme in English, Visva Bharati University during 2021-22.

Namrata Paul and Amrita Das who completed their graduation in 2019 have joined PhD programmes at the Department of Humanistic Studies IIT (BHU) and IIT Guwahati respectively.

Bhaswati Bhattacharjee (PG 2016) joined PhD programme in English, Dr. Harisingh Gour Vishwavidyalaya during 2021-22.

Dripta Sarangi (UG 2019) is pursuing M.Phil in Linguistics at Jadavpur University, Kolkata.

Pratyusha Pramanik (UG 2016) has been researching at IIT, Varanasi for her PhD degree since 2018-19.

 

Year	Number of students enrolling to Higher Education	Programme graduated from	Department graduated from	Name of Institution joined	Name of Programme admitted to
2022	28	B.A. in English	Department of English, Bethune College	01- University of Tubingen, Germany	M.A. in English Literature
				02- Calcutta University	M.A. in Linguistics (02)
				01- Loreto College (CU)	M.A. in English (01)
				01- Basanti Devi College (CU)	M.A. in English (01)
				02- Bagbazar Women's College (CU)	M.A. in English (02)
				01- Shri Shikshayatan College (CU)	M.A. in English (01)
				02- Jawaharlal Nehru University	M.A. in English (01)
					M.A. in Linguistics (01)
				05- Jadavpur University	M.A. in English (02)
					M.A. in Comparative Literature (01)
					M.A. in Film Studies (01)
					PG Diploma in Mass Communication (01)
				04- RabindraBharati University	M.A. in English (04)
				02-St. Xavier's College (autonomous)	M.A. in English (02)
				01-University of Hyderabad	M.A. in English (01)
				01- Benaras Hindu University	M.A. in English (01)
				01-Christ's University, Bangalore	M.A. in English (01)
				01- Sarojini Naidu College (WBSU)	M.A. in English (01)
				01-IGNOU	M.A. in English (01)
				02- WBUTTEPA	B.Ed
2022	3	M.A. in English	Department of English, Bethune College	03 (WBUTTEPA)	B.Ed
2021	18	B.A. in English	Department of English, Bethune College	01- EFLU, Hyderabad	M.A. in English
				02- Pondicherry University	M.A. in English
				03-Rabindra Bharati University	M.A. in English
				02-Sister Nivedita University	M.A. in English
				05- Sri Shikshayatan College (under C.U.)	M.A. in English
				01- Christ University, Delhi campus	M.A. in English
				01- Christ University, Bangalore campus	M.A. in English
				01-St. Joseph's College (autonomous), Darjeeling	M.A. in English
				01-Lady Braboune College (under C.U.)	M.A. in English
				01-University of Calcutta	M.A. in Comparative Literature
2021	01	M.A. in English	Department of English, Bethune College	01-Dr. BR Ambedkar Institute of Education	B.Ed
2020	28	B.A. in English	Department of English, Bethune College	09- Calcutta University	M.A. in English (06) M.A. in Linguistics (02) M.A. in CIL (01)
				01- Bethune College (CU)	M.A. in English
				01- Bhawanipur Education University College (CU)	M.A. in English
				01- Basanti Devi College (CU)	M.A. in English
				01- Pune University	M.A. in English
				01- Jawaharlal Nehru University	M.A. in English
				01- Miranda House (DU)	M.A. in English
				03 - EFLU, Hyderabad	M.A. in English Literature
				01- University of Delhi	M.A. in Linguistics
				02- Jadavpur University	M.A. Film Studies (01) M.A. in Comparative Literature (01)
				01- St. Xavier's University	M.A. in Mass Communication
				02- EFLU, Shillong	M.A. in English literature (01) M.A. in Linguistics (01)
				01- IGNOU	M.A. in English
				01- University of Hyderabad	M.A. in Applied Linguistics
				01- Adamas University	M.A. in Journalism
				01- ICFAI Business School, Mumbai	MBA
2020	07	M.A. in English	Department of English, Bethune College	02-WBUTTEPA	B.Ed
				02-Sri Shikshayatan College	B.Ed
				01-Manbhum Institute of Education and Social Science, Purulia	B.Ed
				01-Sidho-Kanho-Birsha University, Purulia	Diploma in Women's Studies
				01-Alliance Francaise	Diploma in French Language
2019	27	B.A. in English	Department of English, Bethune College	10 - Calcutta University	M.A. in English (08) M.A. in Comparative Literature (02)
				02 - Coochbehar Panchanan Barma University	M.A. in English
				01 - Delhi University	M.A. in English
				01 - Savitribai Phule University, Pune	M.A. in English
				01 - Loreto College (CU)	M.A. in English
				04 - Jadavpur University	M.A. in English (01) M.A. in Linguistics(03)
				01 - Jawaharlal Nehru University	M.A. in Linguistics
				01 - EFLU	M.A. in Comparative Literature
				01 - Jindal Global University	LLB
				01 - Asian College of Journalism	PG in Print Journalism
				01 - L.V. Prasad Film & Television Academy	Diploma in Film Direction
				01 - IGNOU	M.A. in Women & Gender Studies
				01- Bagbazar Women's College (CU)	M.A. in English
				01 - Bhairab Ganguly College (WBSU)	M.A. in English
2019	03	M.A. in English	Department of English, Bethune College	01-IGNOU, Delhi	PG Diploma in Folklore and Culture Studies
				01-University of Calcutta	PG Diploma in French Language
				01-Burdwan University	B.Ed.
2018	23	B.A. in English	Department of English, Bethune College	08- Calcutta University	M.A. in English
				02 - Jadavpur University	M.A. in Linguistics (01) M.A. in Comparative Literature (01)
				01 - Rabindra Bharati University	M.A. in English
				04 - Bethune College (CU)	M.A. in English
				01- Bhawanipore Gujarati Education Society	M.A. in English
				01 - Viswa Bharati University	M.A. in Mass Communication
				01 - Madras School of Social Work	M.A. in Development Management
				02 - IGNOU	M.A. in English (01) PG in Public Administration (01)
				02-WBUTTEPA	B.Ed.
				01-Burdwan University	B.Ed.
2018	08	M.A. in English	Department of English, Bethune College	01-Jadavpur University	2 years Diploma in Spanish Language
				01- Alliance Fran?ise du Bengale (01)	B.Ed.
				04-WBUTTEPA	B.Ed.
				01- Adamas University	B.Ed.
				01- Loreto College, Kolkata	B.Ed.
2017	19	B.A. in English	Department of English, Bethune College	01-University of Bristol, UK	PG Programme in English Literature
				07 - Calcutta University	M.A. in English(06) M.A. in Linguistics (01)
				02- Bethune College (CU)	M.A. in English
				02-Moulana Azad College (CU)	M.A. in English
				01- Presidency University, Kolkata	M.A. in English
				01- EFLU	M.A. in English
				01-IISWBM, Kolkata	MBA in Human Resource Management
				01- Xavier's College	PGDM (HR, Marketing)
				01- Madras School of Social Work	Diploma in Management
				01- GLOBSYN, Kolkata	MBA in Marketing
				01-IGNOU	M.A. in English
2017	06	M.A. in English	Department of English, Bethune College	01- IIMC,New Delhi	Post Graduate Diploma in English Journalism
				03- WBUTTEPA	B.Ed+M.Ed.(01) B.Ed. (02)
				01-Jadavpur University	i)Diploma Course in Translation and ii) Japanese Language Course
				01- MACE	CTTC- Comprehensive Teacher Training Course
2016	19	B.A. in English	Department of English, Bethune College	10- University of Calcutta	M.A. in English
				04 - Jadavpur University	M.A. in English
				01- Presidency University	M.A. in English
				01- Banaras Hindu University	M.A. in English
				01- Amity University	M.A. in English
				01-EFLU	M.A. in English
				01-IISWBM	Diploma in Management
2015	27	B.A. in English	Department of English, Bethune College	13 - Calcutta University	M.A. in English
				02- Jadavpur University	M.A. in English (01) M.A. in Comparative Lit (01)
				02 - Delhi University	M.A. in English
				02 - Bethune College (C.U.)	M.A. in English
				03 - Presidency University	M.A. in English
				01- Shri Shikshayatan College	M.A. in English
				01- IGNOU	M.A. in English
				02- COMMITS, Bangalore	PG Diploma in Journalism & Mass Communication
				01 - Aptech	Diploma in Graphic Designing

Students qualifying in State/National/International level examinations during the year (e.g. NET/SET/SLET/GATE/GMAT/CAT/GRE/TOEFL/Civil Services/State Government Services):

Year	Item	No. of students selected/qualifying	Name	Roll No./ Reg No. for the Exam
2021-22	State Government Services	1	Urmi Gayen	Lecturer in Humanities at Ghatal Government Polytechnic, Paschim Medinipur under West Bengal General Service
	NET	3	Ashmita Saha	NET-Dec 2021 & June 2022 combined, WB10670057
			Dripta Sarangi	NET-Dec 2021 & June 2022 combined, WB10100023
			Propa Ghosh	NET-Dec 2021 & June 2022 combined, WB08670156
	GATE	1	Shreya Das	GATE 2022_XH22S46501072
2020 -21	NET	4	Amrita Das	NET- Sept 2020-WB0650900054
			Pragati Ray	NET- Sept 2020-WB1150300013
			Diayasha Barman	NET_Dec 2020 & June 2021 combined- WB10013817
			Shreya Das	NET_Dec 2020 June 2021 -WB10013166
	GATE	1	Namrata Paul	GATE 2021- XH21S74046271
	Civil Services	1	Ishita Chatterjee	Recruitment in Junior Associates (CS & S) 2020, State Bank of India
2019-20	NET	2	Mukulika Choudhury	NET Dec 2019- WB1005222554
			Bhaswati Bhattacharjee	NET+JRF Dec 2019- WB1005221247
2018-19	NET	17	Pratistha Das	NET July 2018-91027449
			Debdatta Saha	NET July 2018-91029037
			Shreyashi Chakraborty	NET July 2018-91030153
			Ishita Roy Chowdhury	NET July 2018-91023533
			Sanjukta Das Bhowmick	NET July 2018- 91031253
			Ipshita Barik	NET July 2018- 91026997
			Bhaswati Bhattacharjee	NET Dec 2018- WB1004524879
			Madhabi Chatterjee	NET June 2019-WB04501156
			Sangeeta Chatterjee	NET June 2019- WB10502537
			Ritwika Das	NET June 2019- WB10520638
			Medhasree Talapatra	NET June 2019- WB10516648
			Triparna Chattopadhyay	NET June 2019- WB10507355
			Soumili Das	NET June 2019- WB10507355
			Tamali Roy Choudhury	NET June 2019- WB01502919
			Priyadarshini Chatterjee	NET June 2019-WB10508900
			Purna Pahari	NET June 2019- WB10525563
			Ananya Sasaru	NET+JRF June, 2019- WB10512948
2017-18	NET	2	Pratyusha Pramanik	NET -Nov 2017- 85019508
			Saptaparni Sadhu	NET -Nov 2017- 52001887
	SET	1	Pratistha Das	SET- Dec 2017- 0207995

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Co-curricular and Extracurricular Activities

• Srijani Ghosh, UG Sem4 won the 2nd prize in Reading Shakespeare Contest, DESNU in April 2022 and first prizes in Mockingbird, Literocracy 2021 and Wordsworth, Aalap 2021. Recently she participated in a Workshop on Public Writing through the Lens of Environmental Justice organized by Department of English, Jadavpur University in February-March 2023.
• Madhusree Das, UG Sem4 won 2nd position in Literary Quiz, Transcendence of Characters, Literary Society of Sri Shikshayatan College, 2022. She was also awarded the first prize for International Creative Writing Competition by Heramba Chandra College (HCC), Department of Economics during 2020-21.
• Bidisha Acharyya of the same batch secured the first position and was selected as the Best speaker of Debate Competition, Aalap 2020, Bethune College. She also won the third position in Melomania held by Artriq Foundation, 2021 and second position in the quiz competition Fire Dekha: Raja Rammohan Roy organized by Bethune College in June 2021.
• Esha Das (UG Sem 2) won the First prize at 'Impulse' organised by HCC (Heramba Chandra College) Economics department in January 2021.
• Amita Hembram of UG Sem 2 won the Third Position of the event SIYAAHI (English) of the SATRANGI' 21 organised by Heramba Chandra College , Department of Economics in collaboration with IQAC in January 2021.
• Ashmita Saha (UG 3, 2020) was selected as Programme Announcer at All India Radio, Yubabani Channel and she continues to conduct regular programmes of All India Radio.
• Bidisha Dutta (UG Sem III) won the Second Prize in the Inter College Debate Competition to commemorate the 200th Birth Anniversary of Pandit Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar organised by Vidyasagar College for Women on September 11, 2020. She was also awarded a Certificate of merit from Kendriya Vidyalaya Sangathan for securing a position in the top 1.5% of KVS students in AISSCE 2019. She also received the First Prize at an event felicitating the meritorious students of the 2019 batch of AISSCE.
• Sayantani Mandal came second in Recitation as part of West Bengal Inter college Competition organized by Charuchandra College in August 2020.
• Debalina Sahu (UG Semester V)holds a Bachelor's degree in Fine Arts (Painting) under Pracheen Kala Kendra, Chandigarh.
• Saheli Chatterjee (UG 3, 2020) has a YouTube Channel of books and personal growth with 449K subscribers. She has received the Youtube Silver Play Button Award for crossing 100k subscribers on YouTube. Started a Marketing Business dealing with International Clients, and has been featured in The Telegraph and Women's Web.
• Pratyusha Chakraborty (UG 3, 2020) besides being a professional artist is also the Art Moderator & Instagram Admin at Last Page Doodles (Kolkata's first and biggest art page with 24k likes on Facebook) . She is also the Admin and Founding member at ShareNGrow, a similar online art community that promotes budding artists. She has designed posters for a great number of college events, has significant contributions in college exhibitions and departmental wall magazines. She has contributed an essay in Prohor Punthi: Otimari 2020, a collection of essays published by Bethune College, documenting the period of lockdown in the country since March 2020.
• Soumashree Mukherjee (UG Sem III) had her book of poetry The Dusk between our Dawns published by Amazon in March 2020.
• Rupsa Das (UG Sem III) won the Third Prize at Xavrang - Dance duet competition held on 2nd March, 2020. She has the certification of being a Compiler in two anthologies, "The Alluring Tales" under Reasons and Laughters and "The Enticing Scribbles" under The Indian Writers '11. She is the Co-author of 4 anthologies, The Alluring Tales- under community, Reasons and Laughters, Delhi based Publisher (Reasonsandlaughters.com) -published under Fanatixx.
• Simantini Sarkar (UG 3, 2020) stood First in Group Choreography at the annual fest Ispat Ignium 2019, organised by Presidency University, Kolkata. She stood Second in the Eastern dance(group) at the Inter college fest Sanskriti , organised in Jadavpur University, Kolkata. She also stood third in Fashion Show at the inter college fest Rhapsody 2018 , organised by NRS College, Kolkata. She got selected as the Young Panel Vocal artist at All India Radio in 2018.
• Debroti Saha (UG Sem III) won the 8th position at the State Level "Rabindrik- chetanay rabindranath vabnay rabindranath". Organizer- Himansu Datta, Date - 30th April to 6th May 2020.
• Mehuli Das (UG Sem III) won the First Prize at Calcutta Youth Meet, Group Dance, Script Productions, 24th October, 2019.
• Priyadarshini Chatterjee of PG Semester IV and Debanjana Roychowdhury of PG Semester II won First Prize in the Debate competition 'Calewars' organized by Scottish Church College, Department of Business Administration held on 29.3.2019. Priyadarshini was also declared the Best Speaker in the event.
• The Department of English became Departmental Champions jointly with Chemistry department in the Intra College Competitions, 2018.
• Trisrota Datta made it to the Final Four poetry performers, in Apeejay Kolkata Literary Festival. She was also one of the coordinators of the Apeejay Kolkata Literary Festival, 2018. She was the Assistant General Secretary of the Students' Union of Bethune College.
• Ahendrila Goswami of UG III stood first in inter-college essay writing competition (English) called 'AgamiNirman' conducted by the Ramakrishna Mission in 2018. She has contributed as author and editor to the college publication Mahasweta Nivedita and college magazine Adiganta. She has completed her internship at Voices, The Statesman.
• Sayantani Adhikary began her start-up called 'Photo_Scene_Thesis.' She had worked as a photographer and editor at Apeejay Bangla Sahitya Utshob, 2017 .
• Shalinee Das of UG III, won 2nd Prize in All Bengal Debate Competition held in commemoration of Sister Nivedita's 150th Birth Anniversary. She was 3rd in Debate held in the National Institute for Locomotor Disabilities. She also represented our college in a panel discussion on the occasion of World Values Day on October 20, 2016 at Ramakrishna Mission Institute of Culture, Golpark.
• Aklanta Pain Majumder of UG II performed classical, semi-classical, creative, and Rabindrik dance forms, in several shows, dance festivals, in and out of West Bengal, under Kohinoor Dance Academy and Bhabna Dance Troupe throughout the year. She has also done Anchoring, recitation. Her audio CD on recitation and video CD Rabindrik Dance form were released.
• Sukanya Bagchi, UG III, represented our college in a panel discussion on "Priority of Planning a Career at high school and the dilemma of the learners" held at Vivekananda Hall, Kolkata on July 30, 2016 organized by the Institute for Inspiration and Self Development. She also delivered the students' address on the occasion of Bethune Day in the college on August 12, 2016.