 Creative arts are a viable option for literature students. Obviously I think for literature students, creative arts can do something which no other field can do. Suppose I take an example of a play, Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot. Now if you get into the dramatic society or you take up dramatist and you try to enact the character Vladimir on stage, you think that any other student can understand Vladimir the way you will understand. Because when you get into the character, you will understand the emotions. If you read Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot, I am sure master students, first year students would have read it. You will find out that the play makes no sense. But when you enact it, when you research why the characters are acting in the way they are acting, you will find so much sympathy with those characters. So it's a beautiful option. It is going to give you a totally different genre to explore. Also at the same time, just like that Inox cinema's tagline goes, live the movie, you actually start living the character. You start living the book when you act, when you work on that. So definitely if you get opportunities, you should grab it. That would be the best thing. That's great. I'd like to ask you how do people react to your choice of literature now, now that you have cracked net? And how did they react earlier? Okay, so that's my favourite. I know. See, in life, you'll meet two kinds of people. One is those who belong to this particular professional category, CA's, engineers, doctors. They will consider you stupid right now. I'm telling you. They used to say, what literature? Who reads this? Literature? Do you read novels? Do you give exams on novels? They don't know what is the depth. They have read Twilight, right? So they judge us on that basis. Okay, Twilight, they're reading. Their life is fun. You don't need to do anything. Just pick up a book and read it. That's it. Give the exam. And on the other hand, you have people who are going to appreciate your career choice as well. I have a few relatives who literatures are both inspired here. So when they saw that I'm studying literature, they congratulated me and they asked me that, why don't you go abroad study in Cambridge, study in Oxford? It's a beautiful field. You love so much. So you'll find both kinds of people. But then now the situation has changed. It has altered after I've cleared the net. Why? Because now I have established myself. I have reached a particular milestone. So now people know that okay, it's not that only engineers and doctors can create a career of their own. They can earn money. Even professors, dignified professors, they have an option to make it very big in life. So once you establish yourself, once you come to a stand in your life, people will change their mindset and people are going to definitely appreciate your career choice. So in spite of the career you are choosing, if you are the best in that, there's no one who can stop you. So I think that, yes, people and their views are going to change with time but then you have to prove your worth for that. Amazing. What does being a Xavierite mean in the real world? Does it have any ramifications to the brand name? Totally. I think Xavier is one such institution which is internationally known. So you always know that you feel confident when you go for a job interview and you have Xavierite written on your CV. Because that definitely is going to create a very different kind of impact. And it's not just on paper. Even your personality is affected. For example, if you are graduating from Chhadjumal college, so can you feel that you can approach people with that confidence, an interview where people have come from big colleges, where even you have knowledge, you might feel you are lacking somewhere. So Xavierite being a very good I would say a redefining moment for your career because this is where you have a different aspect of your personality coming out. It is going to transform you all together. When you interact with people it matters a lot. See, there was this very good soft skill trainer who said that you are a by-product of five people with whom you spend your day. So think about it. If you are spending time with someone who doesn't want to do anything in life, then how will you suddenly think that you will do something big in life? I never had friends. I am telling you very frankly, I never had friends. Xavierite came for the first time, I met people. I am proud today to call my friends because they share my wavelength, they share my thinking pattern and that is how you develop as a person. These people whom today I address as my friends, they have helped me to achieve my goals because they were there with me. If there were people with me who don't want to do much in life, then maybe even today I would be somewhere in that circle. I would not have been here. So it matters a lot. It has a very good impact on CV overall it has an effect on your personality. And as well as you will feel proud to be a Xavier after you come out of this institution. Xavierite develops you as a whole so be proud to be a Xavierite. It can be argued that literature is universal. But what do you think of English literature specifically the language? Okay, see English as a language is beautiful, definitely. Because if you look at the origin of English language, there are a lot of inflections in the entire language system. French, German, all these languages, they have given their words to English. For example we all literature students are very familiar with the word Carpatium. Now it's not actually English word but then they have adopted it from different languages. So English is beautiful in its own way but then at the same time I would never say that any other language be it Bengali, be it Hindi is inferior. Because see all languages are beautiful. My father used to give a very beautiful analogy that all these words of different languages they are like pearls. They play pearls in your hands. You should know how to make those pearls a string and a necklace. So all languages are going to play in your hands but then only if you play with these languages, if you take out time to write or draft an essay and you write or draft that essay thrice or five times you will find out that your first draft and your fifth draft were totally different. If someone else will read it, they might say that this is not written by one person. That is how you grow. Because you keep on looking at different words, different phrases that you can use in order to make that article better every time you write. So English is no doubt a beautiful language. Totally true. Since you've been a Zebraite, you're pretty much aware of the curriculum we have. Seeing the vastness of curriculum, you think that it is sufficient? Not at all. Literature is a field which is like ocean. You can never get enough of it. I'm telling you I am currently doing my PhD and when I meet other fellow scholars who are doing PhD, there are scholars who are working on Hamlet for five years and still if you ask them how much have you understood this character, they're going to say we've failed to understand what Hamlet is. Literature is a field like that. You can work on one play for five years and still you can feel that you've not yet done justice to that particular work. And for exams you can read the summary of that play for three hours and you can write a fantastic answer and get the marks. So literature is that kind of thing. It totally depends on what you want to do. You want to take a shortcut, that is also possible. There will be marks but you will never become a good teacher. Because if I have so much knowledge, I will be able to say so much in front of you because of the language barrier, because of the time barrier. If I have so much knowledge then I will be able to say so much. You can understand the difference. A teacher should have a lot of knowledge from their students. Only then will he be able to play a good teacher. Only then he will be able to do justice with his profession. So make sure Karikulam is all fine. We all want to change the world but then we want to change the world by telling other people what is their fault. Where we are getting wrong. We want to see that there is a problem in Karikulam. It's fine. Let's not blame the system. Let us do what we can do at our end. Everyone has internet access. It may take two minutes to download the Karikulam. After downloading it, you can start studying on your own. We have all these brilliant teachers who will help you out. But then the person will help when the other person asks for help. So that is important. A teacher cannot force you to study something not a part of your Karikulam. But then you have the option to study it on your own and you have the option to take your knowledge to a next level. Since you mentioned, Diu would like to ask you one. Fortunately, Rajasthan University is not up to date with the present Andhra Vajit. What can our students do to be toe to toe with their peers from Diu or say M8? See, the most important thing that Rajasthan University is missing in their curriculum of English literature is contemporary literary theories. Because if you look at Delhi University, Mumbai University or all the good colleges across India, they are teaching eco-feminism. They are teaching theories. They are teaching structuralism and deconstructionism in an entirely different manner. Now as a student, you can start with some really popular websites. That is how I learn literary theories because in net national eligibility tests, this time more than 30 questions were asked from literary theories. It is very important because you cannot understand the text unless and until you apply a theory and look at what comes out. So as a student, it is very important for you to get acquainted with these literary theories. You can get some good Indian writers books. I would never prefer you go for foreign journals because at this level you will not understand. I started with a book called David Deci's History of English Literature and when for the first time I was reading it for net, I read 100 pages and I was only able to understand one. That was my level. I am telling you very frankly. Why? Because that writer, he is a brilliant scholar and he has talked about different works of Shakespeare but he has not introduced the characters, neither the plot. Now if you don't know the story of Merchant of Venice and I am giving you a paper on the analysis of the character Portia, you will not understand anything. So if you want to get ahead of the students who are studying in Delhi University or Mumbai University, the first thing that you need to do is to go to internet and research about the latest theories. There are a lot of websites like Shmoop, Lit charts, e-notes, Great Saver, Cliff Notes, all these websites, they are giving articles in a very understandable and a very conversational manner. Once you read it, you will exactly know what the theory is talking about. What they have tried to do, they have kept all the technical jargon away and they have tried to simply tell you what structuralism actually means. It's as simple as that. What feminism it is. What are the different waves of feminism and what is the difference between all these waves. So you need to do a bit of research out of the classroom. If you want to stay ahead or at least stay in touch with the syllabus that has been taught across different universities in India.