Senior symposium presentations

The countdown to graduation is now in single digits for the Senior students, but there is but one piece of work left to do: as per usual tradition, the last assignment/project for the Seniors was the English Symposium. The presentations for the Symposia were held between 14th-21st of May.

The Senior Symposium is a final English project where each of the Seniors writes a detailed thesis on one or more literary works (novel, novellas, poems), and in their groups, take part in oral presentations about the themes involving their piece of literature.

The themes this year included: Social Conformity in Inflexible Societies, Literature of the Disturbed Mind, Novels and Novellas of John Steinbeck, Prose and Poetry of Lewis Carroll, Literature of West Meets East, Dystopian Literature, Literature of Social Mobility in New India, and many others.

The Seniors read several classic and modern masterpieces, such as

• Life of Pi: Yaan Martel
• Nineteen Eighty-Four: George Orwell
• Of Mine and Men: John Steinbeck
• Alice in Wonderland: Lewis Carroll
• Tales of Edgar Allan Poe
• A Clockwork Orange: Anthony Burgess
• Brave New World: Aldous Huxley
• Frankenstein: Mary Shelley
• White Tiger: Aravind Adiga
• Love at the time of Cholera: Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Senior student Pema Rapten read Truman Capote's novellas Breakfast at Tiffany's and Summer Crossing for her Symposium. "I really enjoyed the experience, especially because we were allowed to choose our own themes, books, and groups," said Pema, "I liked Capote's work - it was about exploring individualism in 1950s America, a genre that I hadn't read about before. It was very interesting to do a detailed analysis of the novellas."