Arts colleges begin online orientation for freshers
The Hindu
MaduraiA few of arts colleges in the city have started online orientation programmes for first year UG students for the academic year 2021-22 and are in the process of beginning online classes for the
Madurai
A few of arts colleges in the city have started online orientation programmes for first year UG students for the academic year 2021-22 and are in the process of beginning online classes for them in the coming week.
The American College which conducted its freshers’ orientation on Monday through online is set to begin online classes for first years from Wednesday. Its principal M. Davamani Christober said, “After the orientation programme, a department-level briefing and introduction session was also done. The online classes will begin on Wednesday and continue regularly as first year students aged below 18 cannot be vaccinated for now.”
Hampi, the UNESCO-recognised historical site, was the capital of the Vijayanagara empire from 1336 to 1565. Foreign travellers from Persia, Europe and other parts of the world have chronicled the wealth of the place and the unique cultural mores of this kingdom built on the banks of the Tungabhadra river. There are fine descriptions to be found of its temples, farms, markets and trading links, remnants of which one can see in the ruins now. The Literature, architecture of this era continue inspire awe.
Unfurling the zine handed to us at the start of the walk, we use brightly-coloured markers to draw squiggly cables across the page, starting from a sepia-toned vintage photograph of the telegraph office. Iz, who goes by the pronouns they/them, explains, “This building is still standing, though it shut down in 2013,” they say, pointing out that telegraphy, which started in Bengaluru in 1854, was an instrument of colonial power and control. “The British colonised lands via telegraph cables, something known as the All Red Line.”