Introducing Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie  Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie is a Nigerian author whose works include novels, short stories and works of non-fiction.   She was born on September 15, 1977 in Enugu, Nigeria. She was the fifth of six children of her parents. In her early days, she was highly influenced by the fellow Nigerian author Chinua Achebe , more specifically by his work Things Fall Apart . In her works, she extensively deals with the Nigerian Civil War or the infamous Biafran War. Her novel Purple Hibiscus received the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize in 2005 for Best First Book (Africa) and that year’s Commonwealth Writers’ Prize for Best First Book (overall). It was also short-listed for the 2004 Orange Prize. She has also done a series of famous TED Talks including The Danger of a Single Story and We Should All Be Feminists. Introducing briefly her major works: 1) Purple Hibiscus : A novel narrating the coming of age story of a girl named Cambili. She lives w

Culture, language, tradition and way of life of a society are best preserved in the repository called stories. In our childhood, in starry nights, we listened to stories from our grandmother.   They always enthrall us, bringing us to the lands of ancient fairies and unicorns or opening the passageway to a world where we witness the eternal woes and pains of human beings, enlightening us with morals to have a balanced life. Department of English, Furkating College successfully organized a storytelling event  Galpakatha  on 28 September, 2019. The invited narrators were Atanu Bhattacharyya, a renowned Assamese poet, writer, an editor of the Assamese literary monthly  Satsori  and Mitali De, a famous Assamese singer.  The programme started at 11 am after a short introduction of the narrators by Dr Debashis Baruah, HOD, Department of English. For the next two hours, the duo narrated stories from countries like India, France, Bangladesh etc, mixing them with hypnotising waves of

Introducing V S Naipaul  V. S Naipaul was a writer of British diaspora . His full name is Sir Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul, but he is popularly known as V. S Naipaul. Naipaul was born in Trinidad on 17 August 1932. His grandparents were from India who migrated to the Caribbean Islands to work at the sugar plantations there as indentured labourers. His father was a journalist. Naipaul was influenced a lot by his father to become a writer as he mentioned in A Prologue to an Autobiography. In a vast array of novels, he dealt with his Indian origin, life in the Caribbean Islands and issues like idea of a home, identity, race etc.  Naipaul won the Booker Prize in 1971 for his novel In A Free State . I n 1989, he was awarded the Trinity Cross, T rinidad and Tobago 's highest national honour. He received a knighthood in Britain in 1990, and in 2001, the  Nobel Prize in Literature . He breathed his last on 11 August, 2018.  Briefly introducing Naipaul’s major works:

Event: Galpakatha   Department of English, Furkating College is organizing  Galpakatha, a storytelling event on 28 September, 2019. The venue of the program is Furkating College Auditorium. The program will start at 11 am. The storytelling journey will be conducted by Atanu Bhattacharya and Mitalee De.   Watch the video to know more about the program Galpakatha by Atanu Bhattacharya and Mitalee De.