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Bhargavi Narayanan
I am from Chennai and have finished my Bachelors in English Literature. I have a twin sister and an elder brother and I enjoy reading, taking long walks and listening to music. As each day brings new encounters and experiences that constantly redefine who I am, these are the only pertinent constants I can add as an introduction to myself.
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Divya Cowasji
The paint on my toes is electric blue. Does that mean anything to you?
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Jyotirmay Das
I am a small town boy from Assam. I have done my graduation from Delhi University. Now I am at TISS and looking forward to another 2 years of fun.
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Kaustubh Chandar
Kaustubh. 20 years. Shimmer. Smiles. AppleJuice. Rings. Dress. Kriyayoga. Novels. Luck. Happiness. A few tears. Loads of love. And for some inexplicable reason, these days obsessed with 'pink'.
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Lynne Henry
I have a Bachelor’s Degree in Mass Media (Journalism) from the University of Mumbai. I have worked as an Assistant Director and an Associate Director on political documentary films for Associated Cinema and Television since 2004. My filmography includes Final Solution (2004) and Khedu Mora Re, Chet’ta Rejo and the yet untitled film in a series called Final Solution Revisted (2007).I am a member of Vikalp: Films for Freedom (www.freedomfilmsindia.org). I am a programmer and coordinator of the monthly film screenings organized by Vikalp:Films For Freedom in collaboration with Prithvi Theatre. I have also trained in Bharatanatyam and Jazz dance. As a dance instructor and educator, I’m passionate about working with children to explore environmental, political and personal concerns through the medium of dance. I’m also interested in Legal Research, Anthropology, Music, Psychology, Healing through the Arts such as Theatre and other performing arts.
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Manasi Pareek
I did not decide my name, my gender or my nationality. I speak the language that my parents speak at home. Hence, there are very few things, I would like to believe, I have chosen in life, that constitute the central part of myself. I am passionate about theatre and films, I often write poems to express my thoughts. Laughing, dancing, traveling and interacting with people makes me happy. I dream, think, reflect and introspect. I constantly try to explore the inner and outer world.
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Parool Sharma
I come from Dehradun and have graduated in English Literature from Miranda House, Delhi University. Through the course I’m currently a part of, I hope to develop a critical sense of the world around me while at the same time engage with the various discourses that I will get exposed to. Music and creative writing are the two driving forces of my life. An avid foodie, I also love traveling and photography."
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Ram Krishna Ranjan
My worldview has been shaped by the experiences I have accrued in course of my journey from my village in Madhepura to the Economics class room of Kirori Mal College, Delhi and now CMCS, TISS. The exposure to the wider world that I have been privileged to receive has motivated me to strive for greater accomplishments while keeping my roots deeply entrenched in my native soil. Music speaks to me. I speak through my poetry and films. My documentary on livelihood and urban poverty “Jalmagn” made in won the best film award at the Ahwaan Film Festival. I wish to understand and study the complex nature of relationships that constitute society and determine its cultural bearings. I carry in me a great zest for life and aspire to fight against all odds to reach my goal. In a capsule I believe “Chhip Chhip Ashru Bahane Walon, Moti Vyarth Lutaane Walon, Kuch Sapno Ke Mar Jaane Se Jeevan Nahi Mara Karta hai......”
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Romit Chowdhury
I have a bachelor's degree in English literature from Presidency College, Kolkata. Alongside my undergraduate study, I contributed extensively to The Statesman. After my graduation in 2007, I worked in the capacity of assistant editor with Orient Longman, in Delhi. I also freelanced with Goyal Brothers' Prakashan and Charles Baker Books, scripting graphic novels and retellings for children. I am keenly interested in creative writing, reading and cinema. I envision an editorial career in publishing to be a culmination of my varied interests and abilities and hope that the MA programme in Media and Cultural Studies at the Institute will enable me to consolidate these professional aspirations.
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Sharanya Gautam
I recently graduated with a degree in statistics. Some of why I wanted to come here was because I love the sea .I also like markets and the colour green. I don’t quite like writing about myself because I can never find anything much to say.
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Shilpi Gulati
A mindless mind. Twenty-one years of being. And an undying hunger for more. Maybe a little more than that.
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Ajinkya Shenava
I am constantly struck by my own insignificance when I survey the enormous canvas of academia and art that has preceded me. This thought, however, acts as a brilliant source of inspiration and I just can’t wait to explode onto this arena of ideas spread out before me.
I have rarely felt the ecstasy that I experience while singing or listening to dhrupad, in any other realm. Writing comes close. Apart from these, I am passionate about theatre, poetry, film, Marxism, postmodernism, sabudana khichdi, table tennis, cricket, rasam vada and film posters.
I am highly confused and uncertain about my future. But well, to quote Stoppard,
“Uncertainty is the normal state.
You are nobody special”
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Ajit. S. Gagare
“The most beautiful thing about the world is the world itself.”
The space is infinite, innumerable Galaxies, thousands of Universe and millions of stars surround us and we tiny human beings, perhaps all alone, perhaps not (because then it would be an awful waste of this unbounded space.) Explore the world around us and question, Who We Are?
This feeling of solitude on whilst living on this densely populated planet fascinates me.
My small town Shrirampur acquainted me with the power of Co-operative movement, the tumult of rural politics, and the notion of Bhakti though Warkari Sampradaay.This was how I was indoctrinated into the great Indian social realities.
Here at TISS, I have to decide whether to do all the bak-bak about equality, social change and chase an MNC salary or to take up a road less travelled and do something constructive for my native soil, where many Ajit’s wait for me...
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Arindam Banerjee
“Dreams are not born in a day, only when you dare to dream, You turn them into reality”
I’m a tireless dreamer… I think… I introspect… I get angry when I read about Dr Binayak Sen, the Nandigram Massacre, Sharmila Chanu, the atrocities of Salwa Judum, the role of Army in Kashmir… I think of changing the way people lead their lives... But I feel helpless. My only tools of expression are writing and the Visual Medium… I love to travel and communicate… Literature is my best companion… I enjoy Editing, Music, Poetry, Table Tennis and football… My hometown ’ Burnpur’ and school ‘St.Patrick’s H.S. School’, Asansol have nurtured me… Graduating in ‘Comparative Literature’ from Jadavpur University has rationalized my perspectives.. With the memories and nostalgia of the bygone days and aspirations for the future, I am looking forward to my time in CMCS, TISS…
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Ayesha Maria Mualla
A Hyderbadi born in Chambal, with Delhi ka dil and a soul of a Mumbaikar. A true Foodie, I often dream of Hyderabad ki biryani, Nizammudin ke kabab, nahari, vadaa pav, sol curry & fried fish.
My appetite is also satisfied with the literary works of Manto, with sufi overtones of Salman Ahmed, and different ragaas and shades of travelling across India.
I believe in hard work and optimism. I would like to share some inspiring lines from Allama Iqbal’s poem Sitaron Se Age -
tu shahin hai parwaz hai kam tera
tere samne asman aur bhi hain
isi roz-o-shab mein ulajh kar na rah ja
k tere zamin-o-makan aur bhi hain
(You are a falcon, flying high is your creed,
There are many skies to soar for you to be triumphant.
Not to be bogged or bothered by this earthly routine,
There are other times and places, however far and distant.)
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Daisy Levon
Growing up in a small town like Imphal, I’m happy to say that I’m lucky. The exposure there and the kind of exposure I have experienced has helped me in being a more independent person and grounded, not forgetting my roots and culture.
As a person I feel that I’m open towards changes, which sometimes could be challenging. I like experiencing different things in life. I’m passionate about travelling and writing. Writing for me is a medium to express my thoughts and emotions. My family and friends are my strength and they have always been my support.
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Dev N. Chaudhuri
Cynical and confused are the words that define me the best. And someone once told me that confusion is the precursor to clarity. And now seems like I am in progressive route. Coming from the Scotland of East i.e. Shillong and being here in a city like Mumbai, the transition has been very different.
So far the process of self discovery has been quite interesting and hopefully after two years in TISS, this journey will find its destination.
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Isha Pungaliya
It’s not easy to write about oneself. Even more difficult if one wants keep the seeming subtlety of one’s character intact. But I don’t mind trying very very hard.
All I want to do in life is not something I can fit in the given word limit. They are not high ambitions, they are just too many. Essentially I suppose I have no clue of what I see in my future.
Although my past tells me things about myself.
I love climbing hills at dusk, playing badminton makes me feel free and happy, acting on stage is exhilarating, I have small eyes and feel a kinship to the Chinese. I love Chinese food. Apart from this I like to read, write, click pictures and watch films.
All this is me for now, I hope to grow
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Ishani Dasgupta
Recipe for the Ishani Cocktail:
1 part imagination, 1 part wanderlust, 1 part passion for art in any form: art, drama, poetry, jazz, photography, interminable Russian novels, subversive animated films. Add a generous sprinkling of empathy, and to go with it, a hint of anger at existing injustices in the world (Tibet, Burma, North East, Kashmir, Tiger poaching). Mix with two drops of impatience with rigidity, xenophobia and small-mindedness.
Stir briskly. Add a cup of independence and a cup of unbridled love for the people I’m close to.
Serve in a tee shirt and comfy harem pants along with a side of shows on Discovery, National Geographic and Travel and Living.
Store in a cool, sunny place.
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Jamaluddin Quanet
I was born in 1974 in Takhar, one of the most beautiful provinces of Afghanistan. As I grew older my childhood had a dreamlike quality. By the time I was in primary school however, things changed. Russia attacked Afghanistan. The seemingly endless battle found us emigrating to Pakistan. We lived there for a few years and I studied in a school for immigrants. Returning to Afghanistan, I completed my schooling and went to university. After graduating from university, I worked in some official and some non-official organizations. Right now I’m in CMCS, TISS.
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Jenisha Borah
That ‘mind’, that ‘thinking’ piece of me is a messy, dingy closet stuffed with souvenirs and future models of thoughts that frequently has to say ‘Hello you, do know me’. It plays a zillion seemingly blurred thoughts just like soccer players. These psychobabbles sometimes, make me feel like a ‘runaway train, wrong way on a one way track’ and still at others am like ‘The great Alexander’; sometimes it defines my Religious orientation as ‘agnostic’ and at others it’s ‘Rastafarian.’ Its like going to a `one dollar shop` and not knowing what to buy because you have just one dollar. It’s a beautiful letdown. And again it’s mine – an unkempt, dingy and utterly messy closet that still makes me ask often ‘who am I?’
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Manasi Pinto
"Late Mornings. Men Lost Grain. Aam Panna. A Paan Man. Prime Numbers. Spin Ur Member. Indian Fiction. I Find Inaction. Thai Curry. Hairy Curt. Development. TV Men Eloped. And a recent taking to Anagrams."
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Maryam Fatima
I was happy. I was cheerful. Life was sunny. Life was bright.
I loved my parents. They loved me too. Freud made me suspicious.
I loved school. I enjoyed my homework. Foucault made me smell repression.
I liked being the centre of attraction. Derrida said the center was outside.
Life riddled me. Questions of existence excited me. Camus said life was meaningless.
Confusion became paramount.
But, 'after such knowledge, what forgiveness?’
I drink coffee. I read poetry. I write fiction. I walk. I buy cotton. I experience ecstasy. I escape the whirlwind of thought.
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Meera. A. Khokani
A sociology graduate (honours) - purely by choice. Five years at St. Xavier’s, Mumbai makes that better. Dance runs in my veins. To me, it's life. Obsessed with my hair, I get paranoid with the absence of a comb and mirror. I love the camera - only if I'm in front of it. But now it's time to explore it the other way around. Hoping to enjoy every bit of TISS.
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Chandrakiran Raju M.
Every attempt to understand myself seems futile. Every attempt to understand the ‘other’ gives my ‘self’ a relative meaning. I wonder what it is to be an ‘other’ to my other. I wonder what meaning we create together.
When I take a break from my wonderland I capture moments of beauty, and tweak them to my satisfaction. Take a peek at www.flickr.com/photos/rajuk7
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Shruti Dhapola
My name is Shruti Dhapola and most people mispronounce not just my surname but also my first name. I've done my graduation from St Stephen's College, Delhi in History. I like to wear big earrings and I've got Kajal in every the colours blue, glittery blue, green and brown and yes I intend to buy more kajals in colours red, gold and pink. My ambition also includes collecting earrings from every part of the world.
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Shweta S. Vyawahare
Curious, talkative, versatile and mentally active. The best part of “ME” is “ME” because all that I am is because of” Me” and no one else is responsible for making “ME” the way I am. I know it's a bit confusing but sometimes things are not like what they seem to be. I’m not so complex. My mind bounces around from one topic to another with great ease. Always confused when asked to take any decision. I want to be successful in my life by working hard as ‘Success’ never comes to one accidentally. It’s the result of high intention with sincere efforts.
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Uma
Uma in Persian means birth. I was born on 20th Oct. 1988. A fresher at TISS with a strong hangover of Xavier’s. A serious looking cheerful person.
A non-violent karate black-belt.
Uma in Japanese means a horse though I love dogs. An adventurous trekker, an amateur photographer. Passionate dancer with a surilee awaaz.
Uma means Goddess Parvati though I am an atheist. A submissive person with firm beliefs.
Creative mind and a sensitive heart.
Uma to me just means me. What that is, don’t ask!!!
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