TRAINING AND WORKSHOP ORGANIZED IN THE INTEREST OF STUDENTS

TRAINING AND WORKSHOP ORGANIZED IN THE INTEREST OF STUDENTS

20-AUG-ENG 17

RAJIV NAYAN AGRAWAL

ARA---------------------------The Postgraduate English Department organized a training cum workshop session for postgraduate and undergraduate level students on August 18, 2025 under the aegis of IQAC Maharaja College. The invited guest was an eminent international corporate trainer and motivational speaker, social worker, Shri Rishikesh Pathak, who has trained and motivated more than 3.9 million people in 25 countries of the world. He has conducted sessions in the US, Canada, Singapore, Dubai, Australia, South Africa and all over India.

Principal of Maharaja College Prof. Kanaklata Kumari said that there is no limit to acquiring knowledge. Life can be made successful by associating with learned people, their messages, their teachings. College students need to take inspiration from them.

In her welcome address, Dr. Vandana Singh, Coordinator and Assistant Professor, Department of English, Maharaja's College said that success does not start from zero; it is the result of a strong plan and continuous effort born from zero. Being free from fear, taking small steps continuously, falling and then getting up again, is the right and easy way to reach the top. True wisdom is not to hate the success of others, but to take inspiration from them. First believe in yourself, then in your work, then in your goal - this is the sequence. By setting time-bound goals, you may achieve something, but it will have no impact on your life. Instead of setting goals for the whole year, decide just this one thing: by the end of the day, you should be a little happier, a little more advanced, a little better and more focused on your goal. Dream big and take small steps to achieve them.

During his training interaction, Shri Rishikesh Pathak told the students how an ordinary child, who has not yet started dreaming, can reach the top from zero. He shared strategies on how people choose great goals in life and make the impossible possible. He provided developing strategies to achieve it. We all have various goals for life. And we spend our whole lives chasing those goals. You will learn a holistic way to examine and set goals for your life. The insights and strategies he shared during his sessions with the students were highly appreciated by the students. Why do we want to set goals in life and then work towards achieving them? Because we want to move forward. We want to become something more than what we are at present. So we make a goal and try to achieve it. But while setting goals for ourselves, we think in only one direction. It is not just a statement but a life-view: Where the greatest obstacles appear, the greatest possibilities flourish. Everyone in life faces a state of nothingness at some point or the other—the absence of loved ones, the fear of failure, the blows of circumstances. But if that void is filled with hard work, patience and a positive attitude, it has no meaning—it becomes a platform from which we step towards the top. The upcoming projects proposed to select five students from the month of October, whom they will choose to develop their video editing skills. The event was attended by postgraduate and undergraduate students from various departments with all faculty members present. Dr. Shahnawaz Alam, Assistant Professor, English conducted the programme and Dr. Shraddha Singh, Assistant Professor presented the vote of thanks. Student volunteers and research scholars, Dr. Arvind, Assistant Professor, Department of Geography were also present in the training session. The programme was supported by Shailesh Ranjan, Head, Department of English.