Principal, Director SFIL with the International Dignitaries
SFIL Guests having a nice chat . . .
. . . and enjoying snacks
SFIL
News!!!
Amidst
8 International
delegates, fresh
flowers and hopes….Ramjas
College oriented
its students
to the School
of Foreign and
Indian Languages
(SFIL). The following
delegates were
welcomed by Dr.
Babli Moitra
Saraf, Director,
SFIL, to the
first inauguration
of courses:
- Mr.
Francois
Goldblatt
(Minister
Counsellor
in
the
French
Embassy)
Chief
Guest
- Mr.
Patrick
Beck (Attaché for
cooperation
in French
language)
- Ms.
Ursula Schwarzenberger
(Max Mueller
Bhawan)
- Dr.
Sergey V.
Cherkas
(Deputy
Director,
Russian
Centre of
Science & Culture,
Cultural
Department,
Embassy
of the Russian
Federation)
- Dr.
Giannina
Perrucchini
(Italian
Institute
of Culture)
- Prof.
Do-Young
Kim (Korean
Visiting
Professor,
Dept. of
East Asian
Studies,
University
of Delhi)
- Mr.
Toshio Yamamoto
(Counsellor,
Embassy
of Japan)
- Mr.
Abdullah
Fal (Head
of the Information
Section,
Royal Embassy
of Saudi
Arabia)
- Dr.
Srimati
Chakravarti
(Head, Dept.
of East
Asian Studies,
University
of Delhi)
This
is the third
year of the school
as it exists
today. In 2004,
in the form of
the School of
Foreign Languages,
Ramjas began
modestly with
370 students,
4 languages and
a very determined
Principal. Only
170 of those
students took
the final exams.
27 secured first
divisions with
5 students scoring
distinction marks.
In
the
short
span
of
two
years
the
School
expanded
to
offer
10
foreign
languages.
In
addition
to
the
4 languages
offered
in
2004
which
were
French,
German,
Spanish
and
Italian,
we
had
Chinese,
Japanese,
Korean,
Russian,
Persian
and
Arabic
in
2005.
The
Indian
languages
offered
at
that
point
were
Bengali,
Tamil,
Marathi,
Urdu
and
Sanskrit.
This
component
was
introduced
primarily
to
give
our
foreign
students
access
to
language
learning
and
for
everyone
else
willing
to
formally
learn
an
Indian
language.
In
2005,
SFIL
student
strength
was
about
900
at
both
the
Certificate
and
Diploma
levels.
The
unique
quality
about
SFIL
is
the
opportunity
it
provides
for
cultural
interface
with
the
contexts
in
which
language
is
born,
develops
and
panes
into
usage.
To
this
end
efforts
have
been
made
to
network
with
the
cultural
centres
connected
to
the
languages
offered
by
SFIL.
SFIL
has
been
received
very
warmly
everywhere
and
the
response
to
its
specific
needs
has
been
extremely
favourable.
Our
students
and
faculty
have
been
assured
access
to
the
cultural
centers
and
opportunities
to
participate
in
programmes
organized
there.
Material
support
in
the
form
of
films,
videos,
newspapers
and
magazines
etc
will
be
made
available
to
us.
Some
of
that
is
already
here.
Ramjas
SFIL,
on
its
part,
would
be
a willing
host
to
visiting
and
resident
scholars,
artists,
musicians
and
students
from
various
countries
and
it
has
the
infrastructure
to
back
up
those
visitations.
