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'There is no way that we as a community will ever be able to forget what was done to us in the three days of 1984...what we as a nation should derive of it, is a lesson to not rule with division and violence.'

Today marks the anniversary of the anti Sikh riots in 1984. JSJC Student, Aanchal Poddar writes for the Wire

We are so happy to welcome our alumni back to campus today!
They are in various roles in both, news media and corporate communications and they are doing exciting things!

Satvika Mahajan is a political reporter with the Hindu.

Asawari Jindal is an anchor with NewsX

Chetna Vasudevan is an Assistant Producer with India Today .noi

Ish*ta Dang is a Junior Digital Producer at MoneyControl *tadang_

Harleenn Agarwal was most recently, a multimedia journalist with PTI’s newly launched digital arm.

Himanya Chadha is an Associate (Corporate Communications) with RBI Innovation Hub.

Students of JSJC Elective, Reading Cities, go for a city-walk at the industrial area of Patel Nagar/Kirti Nagar. *taasonii7

Adil Hussein tells JSJC students the story of how a young man from Assam lands up at the Edinburgh International Film Festival to perform Othello and gravitates to international fame. “Do what your heart wants, not what your parents tell you,” he says.

You are cordially invited to our seminar, “Western Music and Indian Modernity” hosted in collaboration with the University of Oregon . Please DM for the programme. See you there!

Happening Today!!! Our faculty and admissions department are touring the country spreading the good word about communication education.

A few minutes ago: Our event with filmmakers ended with a lovely conversation with the duo that covered their body of work, the challenges of - and how modern film technologies can sometimes be a double edged sword! It’s been an honour and a pleasure to have you with us, Ritu Sarin and Tenzing Sonam! .india

Filmmakers Tenzing Sonam and Ritu Sarin interacting with JSJC and JGU students.

On Thursday, 17 August, filmmakers Ritu Sarin and Tenzing Sonam will be spending the day with us at JSJC. We will begin with a screening of The Sun Behind the clouds at 3:00 pm followed by The Sweet Requiem at 4:40 pm. Expect some good tea breaks. Discussion is at 6:30 pm.

We are happy to welcome our first-year students, who have settled in, and are now busy with classes and extra-curricular activities.

Happening right now: JSJC’s Dean Prof.Kishalay Bhattacharjee is moderating a panel discussing , & at the .jgu-organised conference on !

The discussion features Ms.Soni Sori, activist; Mr.Yashovardhan Azad, IPS; and Prof. Virginius Xaxa from IIHD.

Happening right now: JSJC’s Prof. is moderating a panel discussing & at the .jgu -organised conference on !

The discussion features Ms.Meera from ; Ms. Stella Tamang from ; Me.Bhaskar Bhuyan .4fm ; and Dr. Madhe Gowda from .

Mr. Raghu Rai addresses our students and delivers our seventh Commencement Lecture.

Our seventh Commencement Lecture! Thank you to Mr. Raghu Rai for starting our academic year with his thoughts on creativity and the mind-body-soul connect.

Picture Credits: N Ramakrishnan and Ashaawari Datta Chaudhuri

It’s been a hectic welcome week, and now it’s time for the real deal -academic orientation on the 1st of August.

The Dean will meet all new students today.

For all first year students, JSJC Batch of 2023-2027.

Another exciting announcement! Supriya Shukla is joining our faculty to teach Acting.

Supriya Shukla is a theater practitioner and an actor. She has been working in the field of performance for 19 years.
She has worked as an actor, dramatist & translator,where she has regularly collaborated with theater directors,artists, filmmakers and dancers on different projects.
Some of her widely performed play-scripts are “Baghdad Burning”, “Jameela : an Autobiography of a S*x Worker”, and “Trojan Women” by Jean Paul Sartre (translated into Hindi by her).
In 2015 She was awarded a year-long fellowship at international research center, Interweaving Performance Cultures (Freie University, Berlin.) for her doctoral project.
She has previously taught at Dept. of Theatre Arts, University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad.
Her research & Performance interests are –Women&/in Performance, Feminist Identity in Performance, Michael Chekhov Technique for Training of the Contemporary Actor, & Applied Theatre.
She has worked with renowned theater practitioners, directors, actors and teachers like Adil Hussain, Anuradha Kapur, Rob Claire, Kirti Jain, Abhilash Pillai, M.K.Raina, Zuliekha Chaudhary, Naseeruddin Shah, Bansi Kaul, David Zinder, Ramgopal Bajaj, Robin Das, Rashid Ansari, Maya Rao, Ulrich-Meyer-Horch, Craig Mathers, Cynthia Aspherger, in more than 50 productions as part of training and as practice.

Save the date! 3rd August 11 am! The legendary photojournalist, Raghu Rai will be delivering our Commencement Lecture.

We are thrilled to welcome Dr. S. Krithi to our faculty.

Dr. S. Krithi holds a PhD in Economics from Centre for Economic Studies and Planning, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. She has worked extensively in the field of environmental economics. Her areas of current research include Economics of Forest Restoration and Mitigation Policy; Natural Resource Valuation and Allocation; Women and Work. In addition, she is interested in gender politics and economics. Previously, she worked as an Assistant Professor at Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Hyderabad where she taught multiple courses specializing in development and environmental economics. At JSJC she teaches both economics and environment related courses with a heterodox perspective.

We are thrilled to welcome Sarah Zia who is joining our faculty.

Sarah Zia is a journalist and independent researcher with interests lying at the intersection of media, mobilities, identities and urban cultures. Previously, she was an assistant editor at HT Media Ltd. Additionally, she was visiting faculty at NLSIU, Bangalore where she taught a media elective to LLB, LLM and MPP students. She is also a qualitative researcher and her work has appeared in peer-reviewed journals and as book chapters. Most recently, she was awarded a research grant by the Centre for Internet and Society funded by the Azim Premji University to conduct an ethnographic study of ride-hailing drivers in the platform economy.

This semester, we welcome Dr. Ritika Pant to our faculty. Ritika Pant has a doctoral degree in Cinema Studies from the School of Arts & Aesthetics, Jawaharlal Nehru University. Her doctoral thesis explored the transnational linkages of contemporary Indian television. Her work has been published in the Economic & Political Weekly, Bioscope : South Asian Screen Studies, South Asian Popular Culture and others.
A gold-medalist from the AJK MCRC, Jamia Millia Islamia, Pant started her career as a Television Producer with Star Plus where she worked on non-fiction projects like Masterchef India, Aap ki Kachehri, Sach ka Saamna etc. For the last decade, she has been teaching Journalism to undergraduate students at the University of Delhi.
She has received research and travel grants from the UGC (JRF), ICSSR, Charles Wallace India Trust and Sarai - CSDS for various projects. Her research interests include transnational television cultures, media and gender, digital cultures, small-screen stardom and fandom.

We thoroughly endorse our Dean’s article in the July edition of Outlook, “Why Liberal Arts?” Often we get questions like “Will we get jobs?”, What are the average packages?”. We have had students getting excellent placements but that’s not the point. The point is that we train students to think critically and to change the world around them. Change makers are valued everywhere.

Instalive on tomorrow at 6 pm with Prof Suruchi Mazumdar and Prof Venu Arora

JSJC remembers Dilip Kumar (1922–2021) on his birth centenary: Born as Mohammed Yusuf Khan in Peshawar in British India (now in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan) on 11 December 1922, Dilip Kumar emerged as a leading man in the Hindi film industry in the 1950s. After his debut in ‘Jwar Bhata’ (1944), he found box office success with ‘Jugnu’ (1947), ‘Andaz’ (1949), ‘Aan’ (1952), ‘Daag’ (1952), ‘Devdas’ (1955), and ‘Naya Daur’ (1957). He was considered to be arguably the finest actor of this generation, winning the Filmfare Award for Best Actor a record 8 times. In the 1960s, his spate of successes continued with ‘Mughal-e-Azam’ (1960), ‘Gunga Jumna’ (1961), and ‘Ram aur Shyam’ (1967). He was called “Tragedy King” for his tragic roles and “Abhinay Samrat” for his acting prowess. His contribution to cinema was recognised by a Padma Bhushan in 1991, a Dadasaheb Phalke Award in 1994, and a Padma Vibhushan in 2015. He also served as a member of the Rajya Sabha from 2000 to 2006.

Last minute frenzy in the Edit Studios .joshi_

End-of-semester production for television .with.kk ._.goswami

1. JSJC students interact with Prof. Thomas Tufte, Institute Director of the Institute of Creative and Media Studies at Loughborough University, London.
2. Prof. Tufte meets the JSJC faculty.

Wishing our Dean the best as he addresses the students of the Millennium School in Amritsar.

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We are delighted to invite you to the final day of the Satyajit Ray Retrospective film festival.

Today’s schedule:
5:00 P.M.: Keynote Address: Pablo Bartholomew
6:30 P.M.: High Tea
7:00 P.M.: Today’s Show: Shatranj Ke Khiladi

Venue: Performing Arts Studio

Keynote address:
Renowned photographer Pablo Bartholomew, who worked with Satyajit Ray, on the sets of Shatranj Ke Khiladi(1977), will deliver the Keynote Address and the 1st JSJC Satyajit Ray Memorial Lecture.


Today’s Show: Shatranj Ke Khiladi (1977)
The only full-length Hindi/Urdu film Ray made in his career, Shatranj Ke Khiladi, adapted from the eponymous story by Premchand, depicts the lost world of Awadh on the eve of 1857. The film explores many of Ray’s favourite themes — modernity versus tradition, the march of history, a lost world.

The film had a star cast comprising Amjad Khan, Sanjeev Kumar, Shabana Azmi, Saeed Jaffrey, Farooq Sheikh, Victor Banerjee, Barry John, Farida Jalal, Tom Alter, and Sir Richard Attenborough. Amitabh Bachchan is the narrator of the film.

The film went on to win the National Award for Best Hindi Film, 1978, and Filmfare Award 1979 for Best Film (Critics) and Best Director for Ray.

Today's show: Mahanagar (1963)
Venue: Performing Arts Studio
Time: 5 P.M.

About the film:
While Satyajit Ray's Pather Panchali was praised for its authentic representation of rural Bengal, the director himself was a city man, born and brought up in Calcutta (Kolkata).

Film scholar Amitabha Bhattacharya in his essay, "Satyajit Ray's Calcutta: Friend or Adversary?", writes: "Calcutta appears often as a frame of references, sometimes as an adversary, often in the background and sometimes as dominant." While the city where he lived and worked would feature in many of his films, including the famous Calcutta Trilogy, Mahanagar (The Big City, 1963) was the first film he shot completely in Calcutta.

Adapted from Bengali novelist Narendranath Mitra's short story "Abantika", the film depicts the struggles of an urban, middle-class household. When the daughter-in-law of the family, Arati (Madhabi Mukherjee) takes a job as a salesgirl to make ends meet, it plunges the household into a struggle between tradition and modernity.

The film was well-received both in India and abroad. Critics such as Pauline Kael and Roger Ebert praised the film for its "serene narrative style" and "sensitive performances by cast members". Philip French has described it to be one of Ray's greatest films after the Apu Trilogy.

Today’s Show: Pather Panchali (1955)

The release of Satyajit Ray’s debut Pather Panchali (1955) is considered as a landmark event in the history of Indian cinema. “Nobody knew what had hit them,” says filmmaker Shyam Benegal about watching the film.

Adapted from Bengali novelist Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay’s eponymous novel, Pather Panchali depicted Bengali rural life and human relations like never before. Inspired by Italian neorealism, Ray shot the film mostly on location and used amateur actors. Pather Panchali went on to win several awards such as Best Human Document at Cannes 1956 and Best Film at the Berlin Film Festival 1957. It also won the National Award for Best Film in 1955.

This festival has been organised in collaboration with the National Film Development Corporation of India and the National Film Archive of India.

Curtain Raiser: Is Ray Still Ray-levant?

Before we enter Ray’s cinematic world, three experts will tell us why Ray remains relevant for us even now.

Jai Arjun Singh, author and adjunct faculty member, JSJC
Jai Arjun Singh is an independent writer and critic. His books include The World of Hrishikesh Mukherjee: The Filmmaker Everyone Loves (2015) and Jaane Bhi Do Yaaro: Seriously Funny Since 1983 (2010).

Sandeep Chatterjee, independent filmmaker
Sandeep Chatterjee is the National Award-winning director of Sundar Jeebon (2002). He has taught cinema for 29 years at Film and Television Institute of India, Pune and Satyajit Ray Film and Television Institute, Kolkata. He has lectured in Taipei, Moscow, Toulouse and has served on the jury of various Indian and international film festivals.

Madhulika Liddle, novelist and blogger
Madhulika Liddle is a writer of different styles: she writes short stories, novels, essays, and is passionate about classic cinema. Her most recent novel, The Garden of Heaven, is the first book in the four-novel series The Delhi Quartet, which spans 800 years of Delhi's history. She writes extensively on Indian cinema for her blog.

High Tea: 6:30 P.M.

The wait is finally over! The Satyajit Ray Retrospective film festival starts today.

Japanese filmmaker Akira Kurosawa once said: “Not to have seen the cinema of Ray means existing in the world without seeing the sun or the moon.” And Martin Scorsese described Ray’s films as “treasures of cinema” that should be watched by “everyone with an interest in film”.


Time: 5 P.M.
Date: Monday, 7 November 2022
Venue: Performing Arts Academy

The Schedule for the Satyajit Ray Film Festival is out! Tagging our speakers Madhulika Liddle , Jai Arjun Singh and Sandeep Chatterjee. Our keynote speaker is the renowned photographer, Pablo Bartholomew . Join us on all five days, November 7-11.

Collaborators: National Film Development Corporation of India , National Film Archive of India

*Save the Dates*: JSJC is delighted to invite you to the Satyajit Ray Retrospective Film Festival on Nov. 7-11 at the Performing Arts Academy. This festival is being organised in association with the NFDC and the NHAI. Renowned photographer Pablo Bartholomew, who worked with Ray during the shoot of Shatranj Ke Khiladi (1977), will deliver the keynote address at 5 PM on November 11. More details about screenings and other events will follow soon!

Please apply by tonight!!!

Hrishikesh Mukherjee (1922–2006) is one of the most influential filmmakers in post-Independence India. In a career spanning four decades, he made 42 films many of which are considered to be classics such as — Satyakam (1969), Anupama (1966), Guddi (1971), Anand (1971), Abhimaan (1973), Namak Haraam (1973), Chupke Chupke(1975), Gol Maal (1979), and Khubsoorat (1981). His social films, focussing on the middle class, have been classified as “middle cinema” by film critics and scholars. Mukherjee also served as the chairman of the Central Board of Film Certification and the National Film Development Corporation. He won eight Filmfare Awards, and was conferred the Dada Saheb Phalke Award in 1999 and the Padma Vibhushan in 2001.