Feroze Gandhi College

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0112197
Current Date and Time

0112197

फ़ीरोज़ गांधी कॉलेज, रायबरेली

FEROZE GANDHI COLLEGE, RAE BARELI

(Estd.: 1960)

A U.P. Govt.- aided Post Graduate College associated with the University of Lucknow, Lucknow

'ज्ञान, शांति एवं प्रगति'

'Gyan, Shanti evam Pragati'

('Knowledge, Peace and Progress')

फ़ीरोज़ गांधी कॉलेज, रायबरेली

FEROZE GANDHI COLLEGE, RAE BARELI

(Estd.: 1960)

A U.P. Govt.- aided Post Graduate College associated with the University of Lucknow, Lucknow

'ज्ञान, शांति एवं प्रगति'
'Gyan, Shanti evam Pragati'
('Knowledge, Peace and Progress')

Achievements of Faculty and Students

1. Online Interview- cum- Interaction Session with Prof. McDonald, Professor of Philosophy, Ashoka University, Sonipat, Haryana conducted by Prof. Nilanshu Kumar Agrawal, Professor, Department of English, Feroze Gandhi College, Rae Bareli.- 25.10.2024

       Prof. Nilanshu Kumar Agarwal, Professor in the Department of English in the College conducted a thought provoking online interview- cum- interaction session on 25.10.2025 with Prof. William Mcdonald, Professor of Philosophy at Ashoka University, Sonipat, Haryana. Prof. McDonald is an internationally renowned philosopher and a Kierkegaard Scholar who has extensively published books articles and papers on Socrates, Plato, Hegel, Nietzsche, Heidegger and Foucault.

       In the course of his discussion, Prof. Mcdonald dwelt upon the dialectics of subjectivity and objectivity. He also elaborated upon the concepts of irony, existentialism, nihilism and social robots etc. and unravelled the abstract epistemological ideals in a highly unambiguous manner.

2. Online interview- cum- literary interaction with Prof. Rajnath, senior literary theorist and former Professor and Head, Department of English, University of Allahabad conducted by Prof. Nilanshu Kumar Agarwal, Professor, Department of English, Feroze Gandhi College, Rae Bareli- 08.06.2025

       On 8.6.2025, Prof. Nilanshu Kumar Agarwal, Department of English in the College, had an enriching discussion with the senior literary theorist, Prof. Rajnath, former Professor and Head, Department of English, University of Allahabad. Prof. Rajnath has extensively formulated on literary theory and criticism. Raj Kamal Prakashan has also brought out the Hindi version of some of his essays in the volume entitled ‘पाश्चात्य काव्यशास्त्र की नई प्रवृत्तियां’.

       In his ‘Journal of Literary Criticism’ and ‘Essays of Modern Criticism’, Prof. Rajnath has published internationally established scholars such as M.H.Abrams, Jonathan Culler, Terry Eagleton, Murray Krieger, Norman N. Holland, Christopher Norris, Jonathan Hart, Y. Sahai, V.Rai and P.S.Sastri etc. In the course of the interview, Prof. Rajnath dwelt at length on his long and variegated journey as a literary critic. He enumerated how his focus has shifted from formalism to cultural criticism. He also elaborated how literature is the interplay of romanticism/personality and classicism/objectivity.

       He also discussed contemporary critical theories such as Chicago Criticism, New Criticism, Postmodernism, Deconstruction, Postcolonialism, Phenemonology etc.Prof. Rajnath also talked about his literary associations with eminent scholars such as Dr. Namvar Singh, Dr. Nagendra and Dr. Vinod Sena etc. He elaborated the abstract theoretical formulations in a simple and lucid manner.