LITERARY CLUB

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INTRA COLLEGE MULTILINGUAL Poetry competition

Metanoia by the verses

Club In-charge:
Student Coordinators:
Poetry, Poetry gives rhythm to silence, light to the darkness. In poetry,
we find the magic of metaphor, compactness of expression, use of the
five senses, and simplicity or complexity of meaning in a few lines.

We organized the first event of the Literary Club of DSU, for the semester Jan
2021-May2021. Metanoia by the Verses was an intra-college Poetry competition, in three
languages – Kannada, Hindi, and English.
The competition was open for all students at Dayananda Sagar University.

A snip of the poster

The event was held on the 23rd of January 2021, virtually. Every participant and the panel of
judges were invited to a virtual meeting for the poetry contest. Starting from the registration,
to poem submissions, and then the actual event, it all went graciously virtually, keeping in
mind today's normal.

As mentioned earlier, the Poetry contest was held in three languages – Kannada, Hindi and
English. The topics were chosen and released to the students four days prior to the event and
submissions were accepted until the day prior to the actual event – At this point, each poet’s
submitted poem was screened for plagiarism manually.

Topics for the poetry contest: (English – Hindi - Kannada)

1. A New Morning - एक नई सब ु ह - ೂಸ ಮುಂಾ
2. War and Peace - ु और शांत - ಯುದ ಮತು ಾಂ

Each participant was free to choose either of the topics as the theme to base their poems on.
Each language-oriented session saw a bag of lovely poems for both the topics; You can find
the poems archived and saved in this shared folder: Poems Archive - Metanoia by the Verses.
An order was allotted to the participants prior to the event, and Every participant was allowed
a maximum of 5 (five) minutes to present their poem to us; during which each student had to
enable their cameras and microphones on the virtual meet, while their poem was displayed on
the shared screen.
Each participant’s poem was judged majorly on two fronts:
1. Poetry Writing
● Relevance to theme
● Creativity
● Originality
● Poetic devices
● Figurative Languages

2. Poetry Recitation
● Accuracy
● Presentation
● Voice Articulation
● Expressions
● Dramatic appropriateness

We were esteemed to have our own teachers and highly qualified and experienced external
judges to help gauge our skills at poetry and their respective languages.
 KANNADA POETRY CONTEST
“ಎಚ್ಚರ, ಎಚ್ಚರ ಮತ್ತು ಗುರಿ ಸಾಧಿಸುವವರೆಗೆ ನಿಲ್ಲಿಸಬೇಡಿ”
~ ಸ್ವಾಮಿ ವಿವೇಕಾನಂದ

“Do not stop until you are alert, alert and aiming” ~Swami Vivekananda

The Judging Panel:

Mrs. Sridevi T – HOD Kannada Department, National Public School, Yelahanka.
Prof. Karthik S B – Of the Mechanical Department, with his strong grasp on poetry and the
Kannada language.

We had a total of 8 participants who presented their poems, with extreme grace and
enthusiasm.

Name of the
Name Poem
Ramya M ಮನಸ್ಸುಗಳ ಯುದ್ಧಾ
Pooja V Kumar ಹೊಸ ಮುಂಜಾನೆ
Natesh S ಸ್ಫೂರ್ತಿ
Deepthi S ಯುದ್ಧ ಮತ್ತು ವಿದ್ಯಾರ್ಥಿ
Santosh Gumaste ಶಾಂತಿ ಮಂತ್ರ
Manjunath Muniraju ಹೊಸಾ ಮುಂಜಾನೆ
Ankhita SM ಯುದ್ಧ ಮತ್ತು
Varun ಯುದ್ಧ ಮತ್ತು ಶಾಂತಿ

We had the pleasure of having our judges interact with the participants to give us their
insightful views after each recitation. Advice and valuable lessons learned from the judges
and this competition are significant valuable take-aways for each participant that always
motivate us to continue this path of discovery of poetry, the poets in us, and the language
further.

Re-watch this event here: Metanoia by the Verses - Kannada Session.

One of the student coordinators, Sathwik J R handing over the moment to our
judge Mrs. Sridevi T
 HINDI POETRY CONTEST

कबीर दास जी इस दोहे में कहते हैं कि अगर हमारे सामने गुरु और भगवान दोनों एक
साथ खड़े हों तो आप किसके चरण स्पर्श करें गे? गरु
ु ने अपने ज्ञान से ही हमें भगवान से
मिलने का रास्ता बताया है इसलिए गुरु की महिमा भगवान से भी ऊपर है और हमें गुरु के
चरण स्पर्श करने चाहिए।

The Judging Panel:

Mr.  Sourav Chaturvedi – A known, established poet, also the Head of Customer Support at
an IT firm.
Prof. Mukti Chaturvedi – Of the Electronics and Communications Department, with her
strong grasp of poetry and the Hindi language.

We had a total of 8 (eight) participants who presented their poems, with extreme grace and
enthusiasm.

Name of the
Name Poem
Vidhya Sagar Bharadwaj कविता
Aman Kumar Jha एक नई सब
ु ह
Avantika Mishra जागरण
Bhagyalaxmi N Kulkarni एक नई सब
ु ह
Anchal Singh एक नई सब
ु ह
Kaushal Yadav श्रेय
Rutuja Ghavalkar एक नई सब
ु ह
Divya D Kulkarni एक नयी सब
ु ह की ओर चलें

We had the pleasure of having our judges interact with the participants to give us their
insightful views after each recitation. Advice and valuable lessons learned from the judges
and this competition are significant valuable take-aways for each participant that always
motivate us to continue onto this path of discovery of poetry, the poets in us, and the
language further.

Re-watch this event here: Metanoia by the Verses - Hindi Session.

A snippet from Metanoia by the Verses - Hindi Poetry Contest
 ENGLSH POETRY CONTEST
“Poetry is ordinary language raised to the Nth power. Poetry is boned with
ideas, nerved and blooded with emotions, all held together by the delicate,
tough skin of words.”
- Paul Engle, from an article in The New York Times

The Judging Panel:

Dr. Pauline – Assistant Professor, Kristu Jayanti College.
Dr. P C Deshmukh – Our own teacher, the Dean of Science and Humanities Department.

We had a total of 10 (ten) participants who presented their poems, with extreme grace and
enthusiasm.

Name of the
Name Poem
Raye Haarika The Last One
Shubhashree P A New Morning
G Jhanvi War in Peace
Ekta Agarwal New Morning
Deeksha J Reddy Duality
Prem A The struggle of Kashmir
Siddhi Salokhe War and Peace
Shambhavi Chavan An Unglorified Glory
Srutha Keerthi Break of Dawn
Ayesha Malaika A moment of Truth
Vaibhavi Akshita Reddy T Believe in Today
Nithyasree V A new Morning
Harshhitha Divakar The Soul of Existence
Ivan Reni Varghese Hell on Earth
Kapil Adarsh S A A New Morning
Divyanshu Kedia Let the Sunlight in
Kunika Mathur The First Light
Syed Hannan The Eloquent Epistle
Spoorthi V K Kreig and Paix
Arsal Imtiaz Si Vic Pacem, Para Bellum

Re-watch this event here: Metanoia by the Verses - English Session

A snippet from Metanoia by the Verses - English Poetry Contest

Some visuals, created by our participants to recite their poem

After a round of a delightful poetic journey we embarked on, healthy competition, fun,
applause, and compliments from the judges, The Judges had to pick a winner and a runner up,
The first and the second position, for each language – section of the competition!

Kannada:
1. Deepthi S 1st Year, CSE, ‘B4’
2. Varun N 1st Year, CS-DS, ‘B4’

Hindi:
1. Bhagyalaxmi N Kulkarni 1st Year, CSE, ‘B3’
2. Kaushal Yadav 1st Year, CSE, ‘B1’

English:

1. Ivan Reni Varghese 1st Year, CSE-AIML, ‘A4’

2. U Shambhavi Chavan 2nd Year, CSE, 'F'

*insert pictures of the mementos from Shubha ma’am*

The Coordinator team that made this event possible:

From L to R: Shylesh Suresh, Vaishnavi A Punagin, Dr. Monica Singh, Srishti Ranjan, Dr.
Anuradha Bhattacharjee, Mrs. Komala B, Sathwik J R.