March 1st, 2019. New Concept Hall. Shiladitya Roy, an avid theatre buff unveiled the third edition of the BESC Theatre Festival in which more than twenty colleges participated. Live actors, presenting their take on an event live or imaginary, before a live audience, that too in real time is no easy feat to accomplish, pointed …
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Theatre Festival – Inauguration
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Carnival 2019
February 22nd and 23rd, 2019. The Turf. In ancient Greece, where the carnival is widely believed to have originated, Winter was thought of as the reign of the winter spirits; which needed to be driven out in order for the summer to return. Carnival was thus be celebrated as a rite of passage from darkness to light, …
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BESC picnic at Ibiza
February 12th, 2019. Before the winter departs and the sweltering sun starts to scorch its way through the horizon, the Bhawanipur Education Society College (BESC) is known to organise its annual picnic where members of the faculty and students drop their guards and spend a day renewing old bonds, forging new ones and mostly, just …
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Launch of Prime Secure
Once upon a time, long, long ago – before terms like “bootstraps” and “Angel investors” and “Incubation Centres” had gained currency (forget about becoming flavours of the day) and certainly way before the very term “start-up” was coined, the Bhawanipur Education Society College (BESC) was established – to provide students (read entrepreneurs) a chance to …
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TEDxBESC
TEDx events are organized by the curious: organisations, even individuals, who seek to discover ideas and spark conversations in their own community. The TEDxBESC, it can be said, has emerged as a force to reckon with in the little time of its being and is today a much sought-after event, not only for the speakers …
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Special Talk by Shri Jawhar Sircar
The Department of English and The Heritage Society of The Bhawanipur Education Society College had organised a Special Talk by Shri Jawhar Sircar on Tuesday, the 29th of January, 2019. Shri Jawhar Sircar, former Chief Executive Officer at Prasar Bharati, and a renowned scholar spoke on the topic ‘Kolkata- A Heritage City.’ The event was …
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The Modern Day Library
A Lecture Session was organised by the Library Committee on 21 st January, 2019.Mrs.Tilottama Dutta, Former Technology and Digital Services Manager, West Port Library delivered her valuable lecture on “The Modern Day Library, Transformation from Haloed Precincts to a Public Space. Emerging Trends and Game Changing Technology”. Her main focus was on the importance, maintenance …
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BESC Runs for a Cause
University of Kolkata, Maidan Ground, January 6th 2019. A contingent of sixty participants led by Prof Dilip Shah, the Dean of Student Affairs of the Bhawanipur Education Society College (BESC) participated in the half marathon which was organised to spread awareness about a number of just causes, including the need for physical exercising as a …
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Magic Box 2018 – Last Christmas I give you my heart!
How better can the birth of the Lord who was born in a stable and gave his life for his fellow men, but by reaching out to those who are not as fortunate as we are? An “reach out” the students of the Bhawanipur Education Society College (BESC), like the three wise men – the …
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ChicMode- The fashion Walk
“Fashion” they say “fades, but style is eternal”. And one has to admit that the Bhawanipur Education Society College – the BESC in general and BE-ites in particular have style, oodles of it. But as Prof Dilip Shah, the Dean of Student Affairs of the college pointed out right in the onset, the meaning of …
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ChicMode – Etiquette that converts crass to class
The Taj, the Radisson, Kingfisher – Vinay Sharma has worked there, seen it all. As a matter of fact, he has the rare distinction of having felt the sun from both sides – first as an insider in the hostility business and then as a faculty in the training side a vocation in which he …
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Mission Migratory Birds
Winters in Kolkata were once synonymous with the arrival of the migratory birds, who take the flight to leave their cold climes behind and have been our annual guests for eons. However, due to a number of reasons their numbers have been declining steadily over the years and ornithologists fear that such arrival will ultimately …
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