2022-2023

UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH GRANT 

• Madhusmita Devi and Prerona Barman of 5th semester received the Centenary Decade Undergraduate Research Grant for their project titled Creating a 'Home' in the City through Food: Belongingness in Humayunpur under the mentorship of Dr Rituparna Patgiri.

• Ananya Sharma and Vanya Jain of 3rd semester received the Centenary Decade Undergraduate Research Grant for their project titled Deaths during the COVID-19 Pandemic: An Ethnographic Study of Disenfranchised Grief under the mentorship of Dr Priya Ranjan. 

UNIVERSITY POSITIONS

1. Prerona Barman, BA Hons Part II, 2nd position 

ALL-ROUND EXCELLENCE

Sarah Shaan, a 3rd year student was awarded the Smt. Mohini Virendra Singh Memorial Prize for All-Round Excellence instituted by Mrs. Mira Pradeep Singh. 

COLLEGE EXCELLENCE AWARD

Kanak Suyal (3rd year)

SADBHAVANA PURASKAR

Sarah Shaan, a 3rd year student was awarded the Sadbhavana Puraskar instituted by Dr Sushila Jha for the Most Active/Devoted Student of National Service Scheme. 

DEPARTMENT AWARDS

Rifah Sharmeen and Sudiksha Samanta, 3rd year students were awarded the Shri Pradeep Virendra Singh Memorial Prize Instituted by Ms Mira Pradeep Singh for the Best All Round Students of the Department. 

Afrin Jahan was awarded the Smt. Kishori Devi Memorial Prize instituted by Shri Ashwini Shanker for securing highest CGPA in Part I. 

Prerona Barman was awarded the Major General Virendra Singh Memorial Prize instituted by Ms Mira Pradeep Singh for securing highest CGPA in Part II. 

Namrata Sinha was awarded the Shri Dwarka Nath Sondhi Memorial Prize instituted by Smt. Shivangi and Shri Ashwini Shanker for securing highest CGPA in Part III. 

MEMBER OF COLLEGE SOCIETIES

Anwesha Ambalika Sarma - Assistant Editorial Head, North East Society

Dhritimona Bharadwaj - Sub-Editor of Oghma - The English Editorial Society, North East Society and Project Noor  

Ishikaa Malhan - Treasurer of Afroza - The Western Dance Society

Kashika Singh - Head of Event Management, National Service Scheme

Kritika Banerjee - President of Alaap - The Indian Music Society 

Shivangi Darad - Quiz Head of Ananta - The Science Society 

Srujani Mohinta - Creative Head at Afroza - The Western Dance Society

Aaliya Poswal - Ananta - The Science Society, Eco Club and Izhaar: The Poetry and Elocution Club

Anandita Kumari - Ananta - The Science Society, Eco Club, Izhaar: The Poetry and Elocution Club and Project Noor 

Ananya Sahoo - Project Noor 

Anne Lipir - Afroza - The Western Dance Society

Annu Priya - Project Noor 

Ananya Sharma - English Debating Society

Anwesha Ambalika Sarma - Oghma 

Arkita Sengupta - Project Noor, North East Society

Arunima Paul - Croydon - Fine Arts Society

Asmi - Mridang - The Indian Dance Society

Astha Bharti - Afroza - The Western Dance Society

Barenya Bishruti - Eco Club, National Service Scheme and Project Noor 

Chandhana A S - Alaap - The Indian Music Society

Jahanvi Shah - English Debating Society

Kajal Kumari - Izhaar: The Poetry and Elocution Club, Project Noor and Ananta - The Science Society 

Manya Diptam - Project Noor

Neetu - Project Noor 

Preksha Betala - Project Noor 

Sanya Sharma - National Service Scheme 

Swastika Patnaik - English Debating Society, Project Noor 

Taro Ampa - PR Head of North East Society and Simulacra: Film and Photography Society

Vanya Jain - Women's Development Cell 

OTHER AWARDS AND RECOGNITIONS

• Anandita Kumari won first prize in the treasure hunt competition organized by the Eco Club of IPCW on 21st March 2022. 

• Amisha Singh of 2nd year was part of the team that won first position in the cricket competition that was organized during Tejas - the annual sports event of IPCW on 27th April 2022. 

• Palak Singh of 3rd year won first prize in Indepedia 2.0: The Epic Indian Saga organzied by Quest: The Quizzing Society, College of Vocational Studies (CVS), Delhi University (DU) on 16th November 2022. 

• Sarah Shaan of 3rd year was awarded a free International Sociological Association (ISA) Membership Grant in December 2022 for her commitment towards research and community service at the undergraduate level. 

• Sudiksha Samanta's of 3rd year published an essay titled Reflections of an Undergraduate Sociology Student in Applied Worldwide on 9th December 2022. 

• Palak Singh of 3rd year won third prize in the Atul Krishna Binodini Devi quiz competition organized by the English department Association in collaboration with Inquizition - The Quiz Cell of Janaki Devi Memorial College (JDMC), University of Delhi on 21st January 2023.  

• Anne Lipir, Ishikaa Malhan and Srujani Mohinta of 2nd year were part of the team of Afroza - The Western Dance Society that won second prize in Step Up 23 - a Dance Crew Competition organized by Rudra - The Western Dance Society of Bhim Rao Ambedkar College, University of Delhi on 1st Feb 2023. 

• Sudiksha Samanta of 3rd year won the second prize in the 3rd Inter-University Undergraduate Urban Seminar on The City and The Margins organized by the Department of Sociology, IPCW on 2nd February 2023. 

• Sudiksha Samanta of 3rd year won first prize in the essay writing competition at the G20 Conclave 2023 organized by Sri Aurobindo College, University of Delhi on 8th February 2023. 

• Ananya Sharma of 2nd year won first prize in the debate competition organized by the Department of Sociology, Bharti College, University of Delhi on 14th February 2023. 

• Kritika Banerjee (2nd year) was part of the team of Alaap - The Indian Music Society that won first prize in the Inter-College Folk Orchestra Music Competition organized by the Culture Council, University of Delhi and hosted by Indraprastha College for Women on 14th February 2023. 

• Kritika Banerjee (2nd year) and Sarah Shaan (3rd year) presented a paper titled Navigating a Segregated Urban Space: An Ethnographic Study of Chitli Qabar Area in the Inter-University Students Seminar organized by the Department of Sociology, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi on 15th February 2023. 

• The Department of Sociology, IPCW won 1st prize in the inter-department cricket competition organized by the IPCW Sports Union on 17th February 2023.

• Ananya Sharma (2nd year) won 3rd prize in Alacrity, the annual flagship conventional debate organized by the College of Vocational Studies (CVS), University of Delhi on 11th April 2023. 

• Kritika Banerjee (2nd year) secured second position in the paper presentation competition (Utopia'23) organized by the Department of Sociology, Miranda House, University of Delhi on 19th April, 2023.  She presented a paper titled Frame of Fame: The Authenticity behind Influencer Culture on Instagram.

• Kritika Banerjee (2nd year) has been chosen for the Vice Chancellor's Internship Scheme (VCIS) 2023. She is the only Sociology student out of all DU colleges and one of the only three students from IPCW to have been selected for the prestigious VCIS.

2021-2022

PROJECT KHAIRIYAT

Project Khairiyat has been started by a group of 3rd year BA Honours Sociology undergraduate students under the UN Millennium Fellowship and United Nations Academic Impact. This project aims to work on SDG 3 - Good Health and Wellbeing. 

Founders:

Anisha Kashyap, Sanjukta Baishya, Sarah Shaan

Core Team Members:

Content Heads - Rifah Sharmeen & Kanak Suyal

Graphics Head - Madhusmita Devi

Public Reach Head - Debolina Saha

Research Head - Sanya Sharma

Social Media Head - Disha Khungri Mushahary

ALL-ROUND EXCELLENCE

Namrata Sinha of Part III has been awarded the Smt. Mohini Virendra Singh Memorial Prize for All-Round Excellence instituted by Mrs. Mira Pradeep Singh. 

COLLEGE AND DEPARTMENT AWARDS

• Shri Pradeep Virendra Singh Memorial Prize Instituted by Ms. Mira Pradeep Singh for the Best All Round Student of the Department of Sociology was awarded jointly to Ann Terin Saji and Anushka Chayani of Part III. 

• Shri Dwarka Nath Sondhi Memorial Prize instituted by Smt. Shivangi and Shri Ashwini Shanker for scoring highest CGPA in Part III awarded to Mrinal Kaushal.

• Major General Virendra Singh Memorial Prize instituted by Ms. Mira Pradeep Singh was jointly awarded to Jinjiree Kakati and Shristi Baruah for scoring the highest CGPA in Part II.

• Smt. Kishori Devi Memorial Prize instituted by Shri Ashwini Shanker for scoring the highest CGPA in Part I was awarded to Yaiphabi Mayengbam.

• Saroj Kishore Merit-Cum-Means Scholarship instituted by Ms. Usha Kishore for the Most Deserving Student of B.A.(H) Sociology awarded to Manvi and Varsha Jaiswal of Part III. 

• Alumnae Association Merit-Cum-Means Scholarships awarded to Kathryn V. L. Mawipuii of B.A. (H) Sociology Part III.

• Smt. Kamla Rani Ram Kishore Memorial Scholarship instituted by Shri Brijbans Kishore for the Most Deserving Student was awarded to Geeta of Part I.  

UNDERGRADUATE RESERACH GRANT 

• Praapti Sarma and Trishna Choudhury of 5th semester received the Centenary Decade Undergraduate Research Grant for their project titled Gender, Identity and Representation through Schooling: A Study on Construction of Gender through School Textbooks in Assam under the mentorship of Dr. Madhulika Sonkar. 

OTHER AWARDS AND RECOGNITIONS 

• Aarti Nitharwal (3rd year) won the 1st prize in the inter-college slogan writing competition organized by the Department of Sociology, IPCW under Azadi Ka Amrut Mahotsav in 2021 . 

• Anuska Chayani (3rd year) won the 3rd prize in the inter-college slogan writing competition organized by the Department of Sociology, IPCW under Azadi Ka Amrut Mahotsav in 2021.

• Rifah Sharmeen and Sarah Shaan (2nd year) won the second prize in the 2nd Inter-University Undergraduate Urban Seminar on The City and The Pandemic organized by the Department of Sociology, IPCW on 7th March, 2022.

• Ananya Sharma won the 2nd prize in the Alacrity debate organized by the College of Vocational Studies, University of Delhi on 19th April, 2022. 

• Ananya Sharma was declared the Best Speaker against in an online debate organized by Pahal welfare Foundation on 8th May 2022. 

• Jahanvi Shah was among the top five Speakers in the debate organized by Pahal Welfare Foundation on 8th May 2022.

• Jahanvi Shah Broke in the Asian Parliamentary Debate under Open Category organized by Bicol Intervarsity, Philippines from 27th to 29th May 2022.

• Ananya Sharma won the 3rd prize in the Smt. Durgabai Deshmukh Memorial Turncoat Debate organized by Sri Venkateswara  College, University of Delhi on 18th September 2022. 

• Ananya Sharma won the 3rd prize in the Inter College Debate organized by the Department of Political Science, Lakshmibai College, University of College on 30th September 2022.

MEMBER OF COLLEGE SOCIETIES

• Ananya Sharma - English Debating Society

• Jahanvi Shah - English Debating Society and National Service Scheme

• Kritika Banerjee and Chandhana A S - Indian Music Society

• Ishikaa Malhan - Western Dance Society

• Srujani Mohinta - Western Dance Society 

• Vanya Singh - Abhivyakti, The Dramatics Society

• Aaliya Poswal - Eco Club

• Arkita Sengupta - Film and Photography Society and North East Society

• Dhritimona Bharadwaj - English Editorial Society and North East Society

• Vanya Jain - Women's Development Cell

• Barenya Bishruti - National Service Scheme and Eco Club

• Arunima Paul - Croydon - Fine Arts Society 

• Anandita Kumari - Eco Club, The Poetry and Elocution Club and Project Noor 

• Sanya Sharma - National Service Scheme

• Sarah Shaan - National Service Scheme

PUBLICATIONS

• Kanak Suyal, Photograph titled Hectic Pace of Modern Life published in Voices and Visions Journal in 2022. 

• Sudiksha Samanta, Essay titled Reflections of an Undergraduate Student published in Applied Worldwide in 2022. 

2020-2021

COLLEGE EXCELLENCE AWARDS 2020

Shatarupa Paul 

Sonali Rastogi 

PRINCIPAL's HONOUR ROLL 2020

Aarti Yadav

Akanksha Singh

Gultosh Mishra

Misbah Fatima

Shristi Baruah 

DEPARTMENT AWARDS

Shri Pradeep Virendra Singh Memorial Prize for the Best All Round Student of the Department: Jahnvi Jha

Major General Virendra Singh Memorial Prize for scoring highest CGPA in BA Hons. Part II: Mrinal Kaushal 

Smt. Kishori Devi Memorial Prize for scoring highest CGPA in BA Hons. Part I: Namrata Sinha 

Saroj Kishore Merit Cum Means Scholarship: Preeti Meel 

Smt. Janki Devi Memorial Merit Cum Means Scholarship: Tanisha Bisht

OTHER AWARDS AND RECOGNITIONS

Kanak Suyal (2nd year) won the First prize in the Essay Writing Competition (Inquilab) organized by The Competitive Society, Rajdhani College, University of Delhi in 2021. 

Kanak Suyal (2nd year) won the First prize in the Essay Writing Competition organized by the Hindi Editorial Society and Hindi Literary Society on 12th August 2021. 

Namrata Sinha (3rd year) won the Third prize in the Essay Competition organized by Applied Worldwide on 1st April 2021. 

Namrata Sinha (3rd year) won First prize in the Open Letter Writing Competition organized by the BA Program Department, IPCW on 31st August 2021. 

Sarah Shaan (2nd year) has been chosen as the General Secretary of National Service Scheme (NSS), IPCW from 2021-22. 

Prerona Barman (2nd year) has been chosen as the Editor of Izhaar: The Poetry and Elocution Club in 2021. 

Kanak Suyal (2nd year) won First prize in the Essay Writing Competition (Meaning of Freedom to You) organized by National Service Scheme (NSS), Jesus and Mary College, University of Delhi in 2021. 

Prerona Barman (2nd year) has secured the second position in the Moodboard Designing Contest organized by the Security Council, Global Youth in 2021.

Sarah Shaan (2nd year) has bagged the third position in 'Reflections: A Photo Essay Competition' organized by Maitreyi College, University of Delhi under Avgahaan - their International Interdisciplinary Annual Fest in 2021.

Sarah Shaan (2nd year) was awarded the first position in the Blog Writing Competition organized by Campaign YOLO in April 2021.

2019-2020

COLLEGE EXCELLENCE AWARDS 2019

Rhea Jain, a Final Year student of the Department of Sociology, was awarded the Smt. Mohini Virendra Singh Award for All-Round Excellence instituted by Mrs. Mira Pradeep Singh. Rhea has maintained a consistently good academic record and has excelled in several extra-curricular activities. She has presented academic papers and has an ethnographic film to her credit for which she received an award. Her work with the NGO Pratham has been impressive, demonstrating her willingness to engage with social issues. As a former student president of the department academic society Hypatia, she initiated a number of activities which have since then become integral to the functioning of the Department. 

PRINCIPAL'S HONOUR ROLL 2019

1. Three students from the department were among the 22 Millennium Fellows recognised and awarded the Millennium Fellowship for their contribution to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) and the College Outreach activities. 

The students are:

Aadrika Pant, B.A (Hons) Sociology

Sonali Rastogi, B.A (Hons) Sociology 

Rolishree, B.A (Hons) Sociology 

2. For her exceptional talent in Odissi dance, and performances at the international level, Amrita Sivaram, B.A (Hons) Sociology was made a part of the Principal's Honour Roll.

UNIVERSITY POSITIONS

1. Anupama Saxena, BA Hons Part II, Second position

2. Pardeepika, BA Hons Part II, Third position

DEPARTMENT AWARDS

Smt. Kishori Devi Memorial Prize for scoring highest CGPA in BA Hons. Part I: Jahnvi Sharma

 2018-2019

STUDENT PRIZES AND ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENTS

1. Devanshi Srivastava, student of BA(H) Sociology Second Year, presented her paper titled “Now Mother, Once Daughter: Mother-Daughter Relationships amidst Domestic Violence” at Jesus and Mary College’s Research Conference organised by their Woman’s Study Center and won the prize for best paper in her section. Apart from this, Devanshi also presented her paper “Mother Daughter Relationships amidst Gendered Domestic Violence: A Cinematic Analysis” at O.P. Jindal’s Third Annual Undergraduate Research Conference 2019. She also won 1st prize in ‘Rangeen Syahi’ an inter-college poetry cum painting competition.

2. Bhuvna Arora, BA(H) Sociology Second Year, presented her paper titled ‘Fanatomy: Studying the Micro-Celebrity Fan Culture of Youtube’at O.P. Jindal’s Third Annual Undergraduate Research Conference 2019. 

3. Muskan Sinmhar, BA (H) sociology Second Year, presented her paper titled “The Question of Identity: A Study of North East students in Delhi University” at O.P. Jindal’s Third Annual Undergraduate Research Conference 2019. Muskan also presented her paper at Jesus and Mary College’s Research Conference organised by their Women’s Study Centre. 

4. Bhuvna Arora and Sandra Elizabeth Joseph, students of the department, received participation certificates for taking part in the Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies (CIDS) student-seminar series on 'The Great Reservation Debate' on the debates around caste-based reservation in higher education, political representation and government jobs in India.

5. Raagini Bora, BA (H) sociology Second Year, has done a research project on the Sociology of Gender and subsequent literature review alongside Dr. Sawmya Ray at the Department of Sociology, Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati. 

6. Anoushka Pawar, BA (H) sociology Second Year, who had been a long-term mountaineer participated in the Skiing Nationals in Gulmarg, Indian Institute of Skiing, Govt. of India. She also took part in the Winter Skiing Expedition and skiied down for 30 kms from second phase Gulmarg. 

7. Raagini Bora won the first prize at Lady Hardinge Medical College, Deen Dayal Upadhyay College and achieved second prize at Akhilesh Das Gupta Institute of Management and Technology College as a part of the western choir group of Cadenza. She also held the post of President of Cadenza Society for 2018-19.

8. Rhea Jain, Vrinda Dabas, Amrita Sivaram and Bhuvna Arora (Second year students) won third prize in the Short Film Competition organised by the Sociology Department as part of its annual festival- Prism’19.

9. Deepali Chaudhary, first year, achieved the 2nd position in the abstract painting competition organised by Shri Ram College of Commerce. She also received the 1st position in wall-painting organised by IIITD.

10. Rolishree Tiwari, first year, has won a swimming competition at the college level.

11. Aashi Pareekh, first year, was a teacher volunteer at the Wordsworth Project and was awarded the 'star volunteer of the month' during the internship.

12. Piyushaa Hazarika, first year, has been an active member of Alaap, the Indian Music Society of the college. She has also won the first prize in the Indian choir competition in SGND Khalsa college, Ramjas college and Daulat Ram College and has also been placed second in BR Ambedkar college.

13. Preeti Meel, first year, participated in a competition held by Kirori Mal College’s Physics Society-TACHYON and ranked first.

STUDENT INTERNSHIPS 

1. Proiti Das (Second Year) has worked as a volunteer-teacher and operations head manager with the Wordsworth Project between August 2018 to April 2019. She worked as a reporter-journalist (Summer Intern, June-July, 2019) with The Citizen- India’s first independent digital daily.

2. Rhea Jain (Second Year) has interned at Pratham Educational Foundation both in the winter and in the summer break 2018-2019.

3. Priya Sarma, (second year) has worked as a research intern with The Kootneeti. She has also worked in a Youth Marketing Programme at Cashkaro. Priya has also interned with The Assam State Commission for Women in the summer 2019.

4. Nivedita Singh Parmar (Second year) has interned with the Mash project. She has also worked with the 'Rapporteur in India Volunteering Conclave 2019' (United Nations Volunteers India).

5. Anisha Banerjee (second year) worked as sub-editor in the Editorial Board of Oghma: English Editorial Society of Indraprastha College for Women.

6. Apoorva Srivastava, second year, interned for 1 month at the All India Society for Electronics and Computer Technology (AISECT) , Bhopal during May-June 2019.

7. Amrita Srivaram, second year, interned with Child Rights and You (CRY) during the summer 2018. She headed a grassroots NGO project- Navshrishti, in Nangloi Jat village in Delhi. She also worked as a junior analyst with Qrius (August- December 2018). She also worked with MASH project foundation for the Ashoka Changemaker project- as a collaboration with MASH project (August- December 2018).

2017-2018

STUDENT PRIZES AND ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENTS

1. Rhea Jain presented her paper titled “Delhi Metro as a social system and it’s seat giving patterns” at O.P. Jindal’s Second Annual Undergraduate Research Conference 2018. 

2. Devanshi Srivastava completed a two month long, film based research program under the Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies on the theme of ‘Intersectionality of Caste and Gender’. Her paper was titled ‘The Ambivalence of Viramma: From the Personal to the Political’.

3. Anoushka Pawar, first year student, has bagged the second prize in the National level Mountain climbing competition.

4. Raagini Bora and Shreya Chakraborty won the first prize in Maulana Azad Medical college, Jamia Milia Islamia and achieved a special mention in Deen Dayal Upadhyaya College as part of the western choir group of Cadenza.

5. Rhea Jain, an active member of the English Debating Society of IPCW participated in over 10 inter-college parliamentary debates both at the national and university level, qualifying as both, debater and an adjudicator. She has been a part of the organizing team of ‘Vivaad’, the inter-college parliamentary debate of IPCW.