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Jai Hind CollegeAddress : "A" Road, Churchgate, Mumbai - 400 020 Maharashtra, India. Tel: (91-22) 2041095 Fax:(91-22) 2886483
| Department ofEnglish
The Department achieved its present status because of a number of teachers of standing- the Mistris (now in Purdue), Prof. N.A. Modi, the late Prof.Mrs. A. Chaubal. The present head, Prof. Mrs. V.R. Balaporia is the Dean ofthe Arts faculty in the University of Mumbai and the Chairperson of theBoard of Studies in English. She and Profs. Roshan and Govind Shahani arerecognized teachers at the post-graduate level, being Ph.D. Guides with half adozen research students registered with them. The Department offers papers in emergent areas of interest such as PostColonial Theory, Popular Culture (which involves a semiotic analysis of popularculture forms) and The Art of Writing & Description of Language. The Departmenthas been aided in its endeavours by an impressive collection of books in the library. TheDepartment guides the activities of the English Association which actively promotesseminars and dramatic activity among students.
English AssociationThe English Association more academically inclined in all its activities, butnevertheless jubilant in organization and participation. A mandatory event, every year, isthe Academic Seminar (late January) - whose topics take the student beyond thesyllabus. Chairperson: (Prof.) Dr. Govind Shahani
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