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THE HINDU SATURDAY, JULY 9, 2016

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Admissions to second list close, colleges to release third list

Courses like B.Com, Economics, English still available
KRITIKA SHARMA SEBASTIAN
NEW DELHI: Though admissions to Delhi University on
the basis of the second cutof list closed on Friday, most
colleges will declare a third
cut-of list.
However, students should
not expect a huge drop in the
minimum percentage required. Most North Campus
colleges are expected to give
a relief of about one per cent
to two per cent in the third
cut-of list, to be released on
July 11.
There is a probability of a
higher dip in science courses
as compared to humanities
and commerce streams. The
same trend was seen in the
case of the second cut-of list
as well.

Popular courses
In terms of courses, seats
in popular courses like
B.Com (Hons), BA (Hons)
Economics and BA English
(Hons) are still available in
most colleges. However, Shri
Ram College of Commerce
(SRCC) may not come up
with a third cut-of list for B.
Com (Hons) since most of
the seats are already filled.
So far, 496 students have enrolled for B.Com (Hons) and
61 for BA Economics (Hons).
We might not come up
with a third list for B.Com
(Hons). But that depends on
the number of reserved category seats that we will be left
with. There will be a third
list for economics for sure,
said SRCC Principal Rajendra Rustagi.
Already unavailable in
many colleges, those looking

Confusions galore on Day One of ECA trials

cants for English debate. It
will take time for the process to streamline. The biggest hurdle we faced was
organising and directing
the students about the days
they had to come for their
trials.
Nachiketa Singh, who is
part of the university admissions committee, said:
Teething problems always
plague any new process.
The registration process
was a bit delayed. We are
sorting out problems to facilitate
smooth
functioning.

SIMRAN KHANNA
NEW DELHI: Trials under the

to opt for psychology have

been left with one less option
as Indraprastha College has
closed admissions to its BA
(Hons) Psychology course.
The college has also closed
admissions for other courses
including BA (Hons) Mathematics, BA (Hons) Hindi, BA
(Hons) History, BA (Hons)
Philosophy and BA Programme. However, there may
be a change in the status in
case of withdrawals or if
seats in the reserved category remain vacant.
There are plenty of options
for female students as seats
for all courses in Miranda
House are still available. Only half of the seats have been
filled so far and seats in major
courses like Economics,
B.Com and English are still
up for grabs. The only course
that Miranda House has
closed is BSc (Hons) Botany.
We are going slow with
our admission process.
Hence, only half the seats

have been filled so far. Students can expect almost all

courses to remain open for
admission in the third list.
However, in terms of the drop
in cut-of, I cannot say that we
will go beyond one per cent
to two per cent, said Miranda House Principal Pratibha
Jolly.
While most North and
South Campus colleges still
have seats available, of-campus colleges have closed
many of their programmes.
In fact, Sri Aurobindo College, which is located in
South Delhis Malviya Nagar,
has over-admitted students.
The college has admitted
1,100 students against the 970
seats available.
After the third list on July
11, colleges will release two
more lists. Following that, admissions will be done at the
level of individual colleges if
seats are still left, with the
colleges releasing separate
lists.

Extra Curricular Activities

(ECA) quota for admission
to Delhi University began
on Friday for dance, vocals,
theatre and debate categories.
Unlike previous years,
the university centralised
all trials this year and the
candidates gathered at a
common venue on a common date. On Friday, trials
were held at Hans Raj College (theatre), Kirori Mal
College (vocals), Sri Guru
Tegh Bahadur Khalsa College (debate) and Keshav
Mahavidyalaya (dance).
Sub-categories
Even as the university
had made it clear that students will be required to select sub-categories from the
list of activities available on
the admission portal, many
who failed to do so could be
seen struggling.
For example, a student
who failed to pick between
Indian classical, Indian
light (Bollywood/ ghazals)
and western in the vocals
category got disqualified
when he/she auditioned for
an unfamiliar genre.
Colleges lost out on future talent they could have
harnessed because many
students failed to distinguish between diferent categories of music and auditioned for categories they
were not familiar with. This
confusion extended to the
Indian classical and Indian-

DANCE FOR ADMISSION: DU aspirants seeking admission under the Extra-Curricular Activities
(ECA) quota strike a pose ahead of trials for Indian classical dance in New Delhi on Friday.
PHOTO: SANDEEP SAXENA

light (bollywood/ghazals)
categories in particular,
said Kirori Mal College
music society president
Dan Thomas.
Guidelines
Some students even
blamed the lack of clear
guidelines by the university for this debacle.
DU guidelines were not
updated till late on Thursday night. I prepared a
four-minute theatre piece,
but was informed at the
trial centre that each applicant will get just two minutes. Im afraid my act
wont make sense now,

said Aparajita Parashar,

who passed out from Ryan
International School in Vasant Kunj.
Another student added:
I failed to choose Indian
light, which is the category
I sing in, and ended up going for the classical trials. I
have been disqualified.
Confusion
The revised guidelines
for ECA rules were updated on the universitys oicial website, with detailed
instructions and rules for
trials under each activity,
on Wednesday.
At Khalsa College, there

was confusion over the

dates for English and Hindi
debate trials. Many students who had applied for
admission under the Hindi
debate trials also turned up,
only to be sent back by the
authorities.
I turned up thinking
that Hindi debate trials will
also take place today [on
Friday]. I found out that
trials were on only for English debate, said a student, who had come to
Khalsa College.
Smita Mishra, the associate professor for journalism at Khalsa College, said:
We received 1,300 appli-

Delhis guide to taking the perfect selfie

A workshop titled Self Portrait to Selfie: Redefining Image Making will be held at IHC

An overcast weekend ahead

STAFF REPORTER
NEW DELHI: It was an
overcast and humid day
on Friday in the city,
though many parts of the
Capital received rain and
water-logging led to
bumper-to-bumper traic
in many areas.

Humidity
The maximum
temperature recorded
was 35 degrees Celsius,
which was two degrees
below normal, while the
minimum was recorded at
29.8 degrees Celsius, two
degrees above normal.
The humidity oscillated
between 63 per cent and
92 per cent.
Safdarjung observatory,
which is considered the
oicial station of the city,
recorded 4.4 mm of rain
during the day.
The stations at Pusa,
Ridge, Lodhi Road and
Palam received the most
rain at 57.0 mm, 20.0 mm,
1.4 mm and 2.6 mm
respectively. No rainfall
was recorded at Ayanagar
observatory.
Cloudy
According to the
Meteorological
Department forecast, the
city can look forward to a
rainy weekend ahead.
Saturday is expected to be
mainly cloudy, with rain/
thundershowers expected
towards afternoon/
evening.
The maximum and
minimum temperatures
are likely to hover around
35 and 29 degrees Celsius.
CM
YK

NEW DELHI: Along with the evolution of photography have

come trends that have
changed the picture completely.
Once such evolution has
been the act of putting a camera in the hands of a generation that is constantly documenting its life and sharing it
instantly with the world. The
selfie has changed the face
the art of self-portraiture.
In fact, even professional
photographers have taken a
note of the trend that has become an integral part of
modern day life and photography.

Popularity
Habitat Photosphere, a
year-long photography festival initiated by the India
Habitat Centre, too has taken
a note of the popularity of
the selfie. It is organising a
workshop, titled Self Portrait to Selfie: Redefining Image Making, to be conducted by photographer and
film-maker Parthiv Shah.
The workshop seeks to address the conundrum surrounding the best way to take
a selfie.
Parthiv said: In 2013, selfie was declared as Word of
the Year by the Oxford Dictionary. Over the past few
years, the phenomenon has
emerged as one of the top
trends in this image-crazed
world, being appropriated by

NEW DELHI: To popularise com-

ic books once again, Comic

Con India has invited enthusiasts to join it for Indias first
Comic Book Celebration
Week.
The event, which is on till
Sunday, is an extension of the
Free Comic Book Weekend
initiative that began in 2013.
Through this event, Comic
Con India, in partnership
with online digital content
marketplace
Readwhere.com, aims to expand the
scope and access of comics
across India. The initiative
will also allow visitors to
download Indian comic book
samples for free of cost.
I am extremely excited to
flag of our latest initiative to
promote Indian comics and
creators. We are bringing the

ENGLISH:

THE SECRET LIFE OF PETS: PVR

(Anupam, Naraina, City Walk),
Movie Time (Raja Garden), DT
(Saket, Vasant Kunj, Shalimar Bagh,
Noida), Wave (Raja Garden, Noida),
Spice (Noida).

HINDI:

OH SNAP: The India Habitat Centre will organise the workshop as part of its Habitat
Photosphere festival, a year-long photography event. The workshop will be conducted by
photographer and film-maker Parthiv Shah. FILE PHOTO

The workshop will

trace the origins of
self-portraiture that
began during the
middle-ages
the common man, celebrities
and politicians alike. The
Age of Selfie, as it has come
to be known, might be the result
of
unprecedented
changes in technology and
the rise of social media.
However, it owes tremendously to the old-age genre

of self-portrait.
The workshop will trace
the origins of self-portraiture that began during the
middle-ages, as is evident in
the works of Rembrandt, Van
Gogh and Edvard Munch.
The interactive workshop
seeks to explore how questions of identity and selffashioning have been transformed by the modern ways
of image-making. Participants will also gain an insight
into the normalised distinctions of public and private
narratives, and newer cultur-

Calling all comic book fans

STAFF REPORTER

CINEMA
THE LEGEND OF TARZAN: PVR
(Ambience, City Walk), BIG
(Odeon), DT (Saket, Vasant Kunj,
Noida), Satyam (Patel Nagar), Wave
(Raja Garden, Noida).

STAFF REPORTER

MONSOON MAYHEM: A waterlogged road near following heavy rain in New Delhi on Friday.
(Below) Traffic jam on Ring Road. PHOTOS: PTI & SANDEEP SAXENA.

Judges
The judges called for the
Indian classical trials were
a mix of Delhi University
faculty
members
and
trained professionals from
the industry. The jury for
the English debate trials
comprised an associate
professor from Kirori Mal
College, a retired journalist
and an author. The panel
for the theatre trials was
kept under wraps as the
college feared pressure
from parents.
The final trials for various activities will be conducted between July 15 and
18. Those who have qualified in the preliminary
round will be called for the
final trial.
Admissions will finally
take place on the basis of
the trial marks, certificates
and Class XII board examination marks.
(The writer is an Intern
with The Hindu)

Comic Con India has

invited enthusiasts to
join it for Indias first
Comic Book
Celebration Week
latest and the best in Indian
comics to fans across the
country. In return, we hope
they support their local creators and not only download
the free comics, but also purchase them, said Comic Con
India founder Jatin Varma.
Featured titles
Among the titles featured at
Readwhere.com are VRICA:
Ascension Protocol, Angry
Maushi 3: Heavy Metal, Holy Hell 1, Rakshak, Kaamotsav, Birbal, Suppandi
7, Shambhu 7, Beatles,
DC Superhero Girls: Finals

es of memory-making in contemporary society.

Registrations
The workshop will be held
at the Experimental Arts
Gallery, IHC, on July 16 from
11 a.m. to 5 p.m. The fee for
participation is Rs.800 for
non-members and Rs.500 for
students, senior citizens and
IHC members. Participants
are requested to bring a capturing device (a mobile
phone or a simple point-andshoot camera). Registrations
for the workshop are open.

SULTAN: (New release: Salman

Khan, Anushka Sharma, Randeep
Hooda): Delite, Delite Diamond,
Shiela, Amba, Eros, Golcha, Regal,
Vishal, Milan, Samrat, Aakash,
Supreme, Ritz, Gagan, Seble, Suraj,
Batra Reels, Cinemax, G3S (Rohini),
PVR (Plaza, Rivoli, Priya, Saket, City
Walk, Naraina, Vikaspuri, Prashant
Vihar, EDM, Mahagun, Opulent,
M2K (Rohini, Pitampura), FUN (Moti
Nagar, Pitampura, Laxmi Nagar,
Karkardooma), Movie Time (Raja
Garden, Pitampura), DT (Saket,
Shalimar Bagh, Vasant Kunj), Wave
(Raja Garden, Noida, Kaushambi),
SRS (Aditya, Jaipuriya), Movie
Palace, Movie Magic, JAM Shipra,
Galaxie, Star X (Vaishali),
Chaudhary (Ghaziabad), Movie
World and Silver City (Ghaziabad)
Inox (Faridabad).
UDTA PUNJAB: (Shahid Kapoor,
Kareena Kapoor Khan, Alia Bhatt,
Diljit Dosanjh): PVR (Saket,
Vikaspuri), M2K (Pitampura), DT
(Saket, Shalimar Bagh, Vasant
Kunj), BIG (Vaishali, Kaushambi,
Noida),
THE LEGEND OF TARZAN: (Hindi):
PVR (Saket, Rivoli, Naraina,
Vikaspuri, Prashant Vihar, EDM), DT
(Saket, Shalimar Bagh), M2K
(Rohini, Pitampura), BIG (Vaishali,
Noida, Greater Noida), Wave
(Noida, Kaushambi), SRS Cinemas,
Galaxie.
(BOOKING ENQUIRIES: PVR
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012043890000; Satyam
Cinemas 25797385; Delite
23272903; Wave 51832222)

A scribes tale

Crisis, Avatar EX, Aghori,

Ravanayan and Shaitaan.
Participating publishers
The participating publishers include Amar Chitra
Katha, Chariot Comics,
Graphic India, Abhijeet Kini,
Campfire Graphic Novels,
Holy Cow Entertainment,
Meta Desi Comics, Saumin
Patel and Shamik Dasgupta.
Digital activities like art,
memes and trivia contests,
besides graphic novels, comic
books and merchandise from
Random House India, Planet
Superheroes, Simon & Schuster, HarperCollins and Hachette India is also available.
A section called Know Your
Creators is also being hosted
to allow people to discover
more about popular Indian
creators and publishers taking part in the venture.

WEEKEND RELEASE: Janata Dal (United) leader Sharad

Yadav releasing a book titled Belaag Bebaak,
authored by veteran journalist Vijender Tyagi (right)
at a function in New Delhi on Friday.
PHOTO: SHANKER CHAKRAVARTY

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