Invincia 2022, Biggest cultural fest of Presidency University Bangalore held
Press Release- Invincia 2022, Biggest Cultural Fest of Presidency University Bangalore was organized on 27th-28th May 2022. The grand endeavour was turned into reality, by the entire team of students and staff of the Department Of Student Affairs under the Guidance of the Hon’ble Chancellor Nissar Ahmed and the Vice President, Salman Ahmed.
Ashwini Puneeth Kumar, Producer (PRK Productions & PRK Audio) and alumni of Presidency School, RT Nagar, inaugurated INVINCIA’22 and declared the fest open. A special tribute was paid to the Legendary Actor Late Dr. Puneeth Rajkumar, whose memories are still cherished and celebrated. The ceremony was graced by all the key officials and the staff and students of the University.
INVINCIA was a culmination of 50+ Group & Individual events nurturing talents PAN India, with students having registered from 90 different colleges and universities and more than 2100 external student participation with a mammoth crowd of 20000 + Students
Divine x Gully Gang headlined Day 1 with spectacular performance. Various artists like Khanzaadi, Loud_silence, Jubilman, and others set the hip hop mood before the Arrival of Divine(Gully Gang).
Day 2 was inaugurated by Javed Ali which marked the start of the huge variety of competitions in the genres of dance, dramatics, music, and fine arts. EMCTruth and Arjun(DJ Quake) started the show for the mesmerizing, talented singer Ananya Birla, followed by DJ Dr. A which left the crowd rallied.
Madam Chancellor, Kauser Ahmed awarded the Overall Championship of Invincia’22 to St. Joseph College, Bangalore while the Runner’s Trophy went to Kristu Jayanti College, Bangalore. The two-day festivity of Invincia was attended by more than 20,000 students from across 90 colleges Pan India.
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Indian-origin translator Padma Viswanathan shortlisted for International Booker Prize 2026
New Delhi (PTI): Padma Viswanathan, a Canadian-American writer of Indian-origin, has made it to the 2026 International Booker Prize shortlist as the English translator of a Portuguese language novella.
"On Earth As It Is Beneath" by Brazilian author Ana Paula Maia, described by judges as a "brutal, haunting and hypnotic novella set in a remote Brazilian penal colony, where the boundaries between justice and cruelty collapse", is among the six worldwide contenders for the coveted literary honour.
The annual prize worth GBP 50,000, divided equally between the author and translator, was won last year by Kannada writer-activist Banu Mushtaq and translator Deepa Bhasthi for the short story collection "Heart Lamp". Each shortlisted title guarantees a prize of GBP 5,000 -- also split 50-50 between the book’s author and English translator.
"What struck us most is how spare, unflinching, uncompromising and relentless it is. Maia builds an entire moral universe out of very little: a remote prison, a handful of men, and the rituals of punishment that govern their lives.
"The novel reads almost like a dark fable about power, where brutality is ordinary and civilisation feels frighteningly thin," the judging panel, which also include award-winning Indian novelist and columnist Nilanjana S. Roy, said of the work translated by US-based Viswanathan.
The 58-year-old professor of creative writing at the University of Arkansas-Fayetteville is an accomplished playwright and author, whose novels have been published in eight countries.
The list, announced on Tuesday, is dominated by women, with five of the six authors and four of the six translators being female. The authors and translators represent eight countries -- Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, France, Germany, Taiwan, the UK and the United States.
"With narratives that capture moments from across the past century, these books reverberate with history. While there’s heartbreak, brutality and isolation among these stories, their lasting effect is energising," said author Natasha Brown, chair of this year’s judging panel.
The other books include "The Nights Are Quiet in Tehran" by Shida Bazyar and translated from German by Ruth Martin; "She Who Remains" by Rene Karabash and translated from Bulgarian by Izidora Angel; "The Director" by Daniel Kehlmann and translated from German by Ross Benjamin; "Taiwan Travelogue" by Yáng Shuāng-zi and translated from Taiwanese by Lin King; and "The Witch" by Marie Ndiaye and translated from French by Jordan Stump.
The announcement of the winning book will take place on May 19 at a ceremony at Tate Modern in London.
The International Booker Prize is awarded annually for a single work of fiction -- either a novel or a collection of short stories -- written in another language, translated into English and published in the UK and/or Ireland.
According to the organisers, the 2025 winner "Heart Lamp" –- the first collection of short stories to win the prize and the first translated from Kannada –- rapidly sold out in the UK in the subsequent days, with the UK publisher, And Other Stories, immediately reprinting 40,000 copies.
