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National Seminar on IKS and English Studies- Learning Outcome

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National Seminar on Indian Knowledge Systems and English Studies About the Seminar The National Seminar–cum–Workshop on Indian Knowledge Systems (IKS) and English Studies , organised by the Department of English at Maharaja Krishnakumarsinhji Bhavnagar University and supported by the Knowledge Consortium of Gujarat (KCG), was held on 23–24 March 2026. The event brought together eminent scholars to explore how India's classical intellectual traditions — from Nyaya epistemology and Rasa theory to Tolkappiyam poetics and Indic translation frameworks — can be meaningfully woven into the teaching, research, and curriculum design of English Studies. In the context of the National Education Policy 2020, which encourages approximately 5% IKS integration in UG and PG programmes, this seminar provided a focused academic platform to move beyond symbolic inclusion toward genuine intellectual dialogue — positioning IKS and English Studies as equal participants in the broader domain of global li...

Voyages of Myth & Memory: Gun Island by Amitav Ghosh

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Voyages of Myth & Memory: Gun Island  by Amitav Ghosh About this Blog This blog is written as a response to the  Flipped Learning (FL) Activity  on  Gun Island  by Amitav Ghosh, assigned by Prof. Dilip Barad, Department of English, M.K. Bhavnagar University. The activity required students to watch a series of video lessons, complete two worksheets using Generative AI tools, and write a reflective blog embedding each video with critical notes. This blog fulfils all those requirements. The worksheet questions answered here are drawn from  Prof. Barad's blog on Gun Island . Introduction Why  Gun Island  Still Matters Amitav Ghosh's  Gun Island  (2019) is not simply a novel — it is a reckoning. Published two years after his celebrated non-fiction work  The Great Derangement , the book enacts in fiction precisely what that earlier volume argued: that literature must find new forms and new mythologies to honestly confront the pla...