English Language

The Department of English was established in 1994.

Committee Members

Following are the members of the department.

Mr. Dhiraj K. Chouhan
Mr. Amol Ukhardu Bavaskar
Mr. Shivaji Kawale

e students. The sheets with forty circles were distributed among the students and asked to draw different shapes out of those circles. The work done by the students was exceptionally tremendous and subtle. The bright ones were identified but student came forward with exceptional creativity which generally absent in routine examination assessment.

The second test was designed to identify the linguistic prowess and unconventional imagination along with personality evaluation. The test was called “I Can...”. The students were asked to write sentences beginning with ‘I Can’. Students came with brilliant ruminations covering personal habits, college, skills, relationships, and society. Some sentences were startling, however positive. These two tests identified creative minds on the one hand and the rigid and monolithic curriculum’s failure to admire and accept what students really need on the other.

The winners, out of the 300 students, were Neha Jain, Swadha Pandey, Reshma Mandal, Sharad Nair, Rahul Patra, Pooja Yadav, Mozima Chouhan, Shwetangi Vora, Sneha Sagvekar, Sarswathi Singh, Sweta Pathak, Asha Kad, Komal Chhangani, Akshata Ralkar, and Sonal Dhuri.

The department organised a brand new concept of Virtual Lecture Series (Edition I) this year in the month of February 2015 between 11th and 14th. The prime idea behind the lecture series is to positively expose students to the finest speakers of the world. The department went through hundreds of lectures online and selected Five for the series on topics ranging from Higher Education, Ethnic Bias, Slow Television, Barefoot College to the Death of Creativity in schools. It was inaugurated by the college principal and Mrs. Kalpanatai Mhatre on 11th Feb. 2015. The schedule was as follows:

Date	Name	countries	Subject
11/02/2015	Mr. Bunker Roy	Tiloniya, Bihar, India	The Only Barefoot College of India.
12/02/2015	Sir Ken Robinson	Monterey, California	How School Kills Creativity?
12/02/2015	Mr. Thomas Hellum	Apendal, Norway	The World’s Most Boring Television...Why it’s hilariously Addictive
13/02/2015	Verna Myers	Massachusetts, USA	How to Overcome our biases..Walk towards them
14/02/2015	Sir Ken Robinson	Monterey, California	How to Escape Education’s Death Valley?

The valedictory ceremony took place at the hands of Dr. Madhavi Nikam, Member, Senate, University of Mumbai, Shri Rohidasji Patil, Chairman, SNET, Mr. Mahesh Mhatre, Secretary, SNET and Member, Senate, University of Mumbai, and Principal Dr. V.N.Yadav. Dr. Nikam spoke at length on the importance of communication skills and specifically on accent correction. The prizes for the winners of creativity tests were given on the same occasion. The representatives of all the first year commerce classes assisted and coordinated with the teachers in the department to make the events successful and constructive.