Tuesday 15 December 2015



CELEBRATION OF COMMUNAL HARMONY
“Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony” – Mahatma Gandhi

India is a federal constitutional republic governed under a parliamentary system consisting of 29 states and 7 union territories. India is a pluralistic, multilingual, and multi-ethnic society; the country is also home to people with different culture and tradition.

Communal Harmony refers to the harmony, acceptance and love among the people of various communities belonging to different castes, races and religion. It is the most important pre-condition for feeling of Unity and National Integration in India.

The idea behind the celebration of communal harmony is to bring the youth of various communities, living in various parts of the city on one common platform to celebrate the spirit of peace and brotherhood. Songs on peace, humanity, unity and harmony was sung by the young sociology students. The students of Department of Sociology and Social Work enacted a street play stressing the significance of the spirit of communal harmony, in Fatima College campus on November 25,2015.

Rev.Sr.Francis Pauline, Secretary Fatima College presided over the function and Sr.Fatima Mary and Ms.Fernando Delishia Vice Principals, Fatima College. Faculty members of various departments and non teaching staff of the college, students of various departments of our college witnessed the programme and gave feedback that the performance of street theatre has made them to think about the purpose of life by leading the life with Communal Harmony.











Monday 7 December 2015




Significance of Health and Hygiene – Street Theatre Performance in
 Madurai Railway Junction

“A clean India would be the best tribute India could pay to Mahatma Gandhi on his 150 birth anniversary in 2019,” – Narendra Modi, The Prime Minister of India.
Swachh Bharat Abhiyan is a national campaign by the Government of India, covering 4,041 statutory cities and towns, to clean the streets, roads and infrastructure of the country. The campaign was officially launched on 2 October 2014 at Rajghat, Delhi. As a part of this campaign, The Southern Railways, Madurai Junction has organized a Special Cleanliness Campaign.
The Department of Sociology and Social Work has got a requisition from the officials of Madurai Southern Railways to perform a street theatre to create awareness about the significance of Health and Hygiene. The street theatre group of the Department performed the street theatre in front of the Madurai Railway Junction. More than 600 people witnessed the programme. The public including railway commuters, officials, workers of the railway junction police personnel, school and college students, nearby shop keepers, auto drivers and press people viewed the programme.
The cleaners of the railway junction felt quite happy about the theme of the street theatre as they play the major role in making the junction spic and span. The students of the theatre group being the social workers felt that they have made a start for gradual change from dirtiness to cleanliness in the junction.
The students are highly appreciated by the Railway officials and the students are awarded with Rs.5000.