Trichy :

The three-day inter-department annual cultural extravaganza of the St Joseph’s College, Trichy began on Thursday. This year, the college is celebrating the silver jubilee year of the cultural competition programme, which is titled INDEP.

Until 1987, the cultural festival, which was conducted as Fantasia with participation from other colleges in the region, became an inter-department affair due to certain student skirmishes, said its principal Fr Andrews.

St Joseph’s dean Selvakumar told TOI that the events were primarily aimed at building the communication skills of the students who had stage fright or inhibitions, a virtue that is largely seen as one of the prime employability skills in the job market.

There were elocution competitions both in Tamil and English and a programme titled, “We will meet” projected an imaginary conversation between two present day politicians at the diametrically opposite political ends.

source: http://www.articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com / The Times of India / Home> City> Trichy> Programme / TNN / December 14th, 2013