Poetree

Society for Poetree is a new forum for poets launched by Srishti. This is a report about their first ever meeting.

The inception of the Society for Poetree was conducted on the 27th of October, 2010. The Society of Poetree was set up under the umbrella of Srishti, the literary club of the Amrita School of Engineering. It was established as a forum for sharing contemporary poetry, written by the students of Amrita. Mukund P Rao of 3^rd year, Chemical Engineering, is the student in charge of Society. The first meeting was held under the auspices of Dr. Harini Jayaraman, the Head of the English Department.

The meeting was attended by a total eighteen poets. Eleven poets shared works in English, two presented poems in Malayalam, three poets rendered poems in Tamil and there was one recitation each in Hindi and Hindustani.

The event was conducted in the form of a stand up session wherein each poet took turns at presenting their works on stage. Niranjan Raghavan, a first year student presented an interesting array of poetry, showcasing works in three different genres of poetry namely fantasy, love and mystery. Atulya Varma, a third year Chemical Engineering student presented a ballad, which she sung out in Malayalam describing Radha’s love for Lord Krishna. A poem in Tamil, presented by Madhusudan S. explored the emotions of prisoners on a death parole and was heart wrenching to listen to. Anand Kumar, a third year student presented a poem titled ‘Burnt’ which dealt with the emotions of losing a loved one. Arun Sundar’s poem described a conversation between an injured soldier and a young boy. It put into words the irony that a soldier, once so strong, had been castigated to his death bed due to a small hole in his heart.

The evening presented an opportunity for the young poets to present their works to the world and feel confident in doing so. The meeting concluded with a pledge to continue this new tradition of poetry reading in the next semester too.


PS: Mukund has his own blog on blogspot. Please check the blogroll to go to his site and read his poems.


PPS: Anyone who has a literary-based not-so-personal blog can send the links to (srishti.amrita [at] gmail [dot] com) to have it appear on the blog roll ... Increases your blog traffic significantly :)

Aitreya '11

Hail Srishti-ians,


The blog is becoming active after a really long time. But it's finally active.


So, we have our flagship event - Aitreya coming up in the next semester. Unfortunately, dates haven't been finalised. But, since we were able to finalise the list of events, we thought we might as well put it up. Here they are:

• Quiz
• Declamation
• Drama
• Block and Tackle
• Short Story
• Short Film
• Persona
• Spelling Bee
• Crossword
• Treasure Hunt

I guess most of those events are self explanatory or at least familiar to anyone in the literary circles. Let me explain those which are not all that familiar.

Block and Tackle - Oratory event. Given a topic, the contestant has to change his stance on the issue as and when the judge says "block" or "tackle"; "block" being for and "tackle" being against. Pretty hilarious to see the contestant go from one stance to another within seconds :D

Persona - It is a collection of events which has many rounds and is a very motley collection including shipwreck, a written round and others. The full set of events will be released later.

Declamation - Oratory event where you can dress up as a historical figure and emulate one of their famous speeches. Examples include Martin Luther King's "I had a dream" or the all time favourite Marcus Antonius' "Friends, Romans and Countrymen!" .

Keep track of the blog for updates and dates when registrations start.