Golden jubilee lecture

Amritsar: The Department of Sociology, Guru Nanak Dev University, organised the Shastri Indo-Canadian Institute’s prestigious golden jubilee conference and lecture (GJCLSG) 2020-21 commemorating 150 years of Mahatma Gandhi on the theme “Gandhian Thought and Practice: Perspectives from the Intellectual History of Communication.” Prof Biswajit Das, Centre for Culture Media and Governance, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi, delivered the lecture. Prof Das’s lecture addressed the importance of communicational perspective to understand Gandhi. He elaborated on the potentials of Gandhi as an intellectual and communicator, and for sociological and mass communication studies. Prof Das is a renowned scholar, educator and media policy maker, who recently published a book on “Gandhian Thought and Communication: Rethinking the Mahatma in the Media Age”, by Sage Publications. He is associated with various ministries and academic institutions of India. He is the principal investigator of e-PG Pathshala programme in media and communication studies, UGC, MHRD and INFLIBNET. As many as150 registered participants from 92 different varsities all over India attended the lecture with many others joining from Germany, Bangladesh, Nepal and Indonesia through various digital platforms.

Five DAV College students get jobs

Five final year students of DAV College— Ashutosh Thakur, Ravikant, Deepak Singh Rana, Ravish Sharma and Bhanu Sharma— have been selected in a placement drive at college campus by news-based organisations. Placement cell in charge Prof Vikram Sharma said that media institutes had become very professional. “In such a situation, it is necessary to present yourself as a package to make a career in this field and to establish yourself. Access reporting to a sensitive scene is a major challenge for the reporter,” he said. He advised the young aspiring reporters that by coming into the field of journalism, it is necessary that you are hundred per cent satisfied with the facts and figures while writing the news. TNS