Arthotsav BTS: Literary Arts Department

Team Literary Arts- The pedantic prescriptivists.

The Literary Arts is a department where a bunch of introverts weave words and create magic. They are the Shakespeares, the dictionaries, and the Wren-and-Martins of Arthotsav.
The ones who take interviews of all other departments were evidently late for their own interview. (not complaining).

After a long wait they all finally show up; meekly.

Literary Arts efficiently puts Arthotsav in words; and everything that is to be made to sound beautiful while reading. It plays the ‛ink’ part in Arthotsav.

One of the Heads, Prajakta says "LA doesn't only write but also does a vital role of connecting the thoughts and ideas and vision of all the departments of Arthotsav and representing it to the people as one."

To this, Miloni, one of the volunteers, adds, "LA has a sizable chunk in bringing in people, along with PR and Social media in a way, while the other two rely on communication skills and great media handling skills, we use our words to draw in the crowd." Aakansha, another volunteer continues, "we bring everything together in more of a wordly
form."

The Literary Arts Department doesn't just indulge in captions for the post but majorly handles the Economica blog. When asked about the maintenance and consistency of the blog, Aakansha says, "Oh it's super tough to maintain the consistency of the blog. You have to write it nice and properly with all the correct facts and words. It's not an easy job to be honest, it takes a lot of ideas and efforts to maintain a good blog that people enjoy reading."
Maitreyee (check spelling!), one of the volunteers, continues, "the Blog allows us to get in touch with current affairs related to Economics and many other topics. Language usage is a very conceptual
thing that is to be handled with precautions."

Along with the blogs 'Ecoscope', one of the most fun and major activities of Economica, is also looked after by the LA.
While sharing incidents and anecdotes about funny Ecoscope stories, one of the volunteers says, "Ecoscope is a great opportunity that lets you interact and discuss different perceptions with strangers around the big green campus of Ruparel.

"Some answers are funny, some put us into long contemplating minutes and some are very lame too tbh." Siddhi adds, "although it was a great experience, very few people can answer questions related to popular novels or the economy, which I found bit strange." To which the other Head Isha adds, "we crack up as we listen to the answers of the questions."

Remembering one incident, she continues, "we approached a group of students and asked them questions. When I asked who their favourite fictional character was, one of the guys said Ganesh Gaitonde; on asking why, he, before I finished my question, replies... kyuki apunich bhagwan hai hahahaha" she laughs. They all laugh and chat!

To bring them back in the interview we asked the "Literary Wizards" what Writing is to each of them. Miloni, in the spur of the moment, replies, "Writing a piece, even out of context of LA is always special. There is a certain type of satisfaction that only finishing a piece within its word limit and no mistakes can give you."

Aakansha adds, "I've always been into writing, that is, I think, one of the major reasons I got into LA. It's always a good feeling when you write something and other people appreciate it and enjoy or connect to what you've written."

Maitreyee continues, "Writing a piece reckons to writing up everything that pops into your mind. Letting a piece of mind open to all sorts of paper and ink."

We asked the same Question to Param, The Mentor of Literary Arts and Param, the master of words (not literally, only literary) says, "Writing cannot be explained in mere words." HUH?!

Finally, calling themselves the Ross of all the departments they concluded by saying "We turn you into words so you live on for Eternity"

Lastly, Isha adds, "we put words on a paper in a way that they are more than just words on paper".

WHAT NERDS!

Team LA's spilling words gathered and curated by Aishwarya A., S.Y.B.A.