Students of the Hashmi Theatre Forum staged Jean Giraudoux’s 'The Madwoman of Chaillot'.
Credit: DH PHOTO
Bengaluru: St Joseph’s College of Commerce hosted its annual intercollegiate literary festival, ‘Vividha 2025’, from August 20 to 22.
Themed ‘Anatomy of Emotions’, the three-day event drew 355 participants from 15 city colleges.
The festival offered literary competitions, workshops, a student panel, and theatre performances.
Rapper and artist Pasha Bhai inaugurated the event with his talk ‘Dil Se Dakhini’, exploring performance and language identity.
Other sessions featured author Mala Kumar on children’s literature and imagination, poet Jiju Philip with an interactive poetry session, Maryanne Pais on inner narratives, Shruthi Anand with a doodle workshop, and Shabari Rao on dance as storytelling beyond words.
Theatre was central, with the Hashmi Theatre Forum staging Jean Giraudoux’s 'The Madwoman of Chaillot', directed by TH Lavakumar.
A special attraction was a curated museum titled 'The Wardrobe', where garments donated by students and faculty became vehicles of memory and storytelling.
"The events pushed us to think differently, the workshops opened new ways of perception, and the museum made me emotional. ‘Vividha’ felt like a celebration of both art and life,” said a participant from Christ University.