Former Kurukshetra University VC Discusses Shakespeare at MCM

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Chandigarh 19^th February:- The Post Graduate Department of English of MCM DAV College for Women invited Prof. Bhim Sen Dahiya, former Vice Chancellor, Kurukshetra University and Chairman, Shakespeare Association for two day extension lecture on "Shakespearean Revenge Tragedies" and "Modernism and Post Modernism".

Prof. Dahiya held interactive session with undergraduate and postgraduate students to enlighten them about various nuances of Shakespearean tragedies, revenge as a theme of psychological indecisiveness, morality as a theme in Shakespeare and Shakespeare in Bollywood on the first day. On the second day, the students were apprised of the historical circumstances leading to modernism and postmodernism and their ontological and literary ramifications.

Principal of MCM DAV College, Dr. Nisha Bhargava lauded this effort of the English Department and urged the students to cultivate the habit of reading in order to widen their horizons.