Belles-Lettres J E Dastur Memorial GLC Short Fiction Essay Writing Competition 2020-21 [Cash Prizes upto Rs 18K]: Submit by Sep 27

20 Sep 2021

Categories: Essay Competitions

About the Magazine and the Magazine Committee, GLC

A perusal of the archives of ‘MéLAWnge’, as it later came to be known, will throw up the names of a galaxy of legal luminaries. Most of the country’s foremost legal practitioners and scholars, who completed their education at this esteemed institution, have at some point in their student careers, contributed to this publication. The first Indian Chief Justice of the Bombay High Court, Mr. M. C. Chagla, the country’s foremost legal stalwart, Mr. Nani Palkhivala, respected Senior Counsel, Mr. Fali Nariman, and current Attorney General of India, Mr. Goolam E. Vahanvati, to name a few, comprise part of the long list of distinguished alumni whose writings have been documented for posterity in the pages of GLC’s Annual Magazine.

Never willing to rest solely on its laurels and tales of past glory, however, GLC’s Annual Magazine has evolved over the years, from its nascent form as a simple paperback booklet, to a full-blown colour magazine in recent years, so aptly renamed ‘MéLAWnge’.

As its name would suggest, MéLAWnge is “a mixture of often incongruous elements”, a balance between articles showcasing the legal acumen of budding lawyers as well as their fictional flights of fancy. MéLAWnge is circulated amongst Supreme Court and High Court Judges, all law firms in Bombay, the prominent law firms in Delhi, various corporate houses, law colleges all over India and the top 40 international law schools.

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About the Competition

The Belles-Lettres J.E. Dastur Memorial Government Law College Short Fiction is a fiction essay writing competition that encourages students to exercise their creative writing skills. It is sponsored in memory of Late Mr Jal. E. Dastur, one of GLC’s most distinguished alumni. Mr Dastur loved literature and was a master of linguistic art.

The Magazine Committee of the Government Law College now invites entries for the same.

Topics

Conclude your story with the following sentence:

All the citizen sheep require is a shepherd to provide bread and circuses.

Incorporate the following objects in your story:

Compass | Wedding Invitation | Tape Recorder

Build you story around the following characters:

Ruth Bader Ginsberg, Julius Caesar and Elon Musk attend the same painting class.

Build a story revolving around the following image:

Eligibility

Participants must have passed their HSC/CBSE/ISC (10+2) or any other equivalent examination.
They must presently be enrolled in a graduation course in any field.
Post Graduate (Degree) course students are not eligible.
Post Graduate (Diploma) course students are eligible to participate, except those pursuing Management Studies.
Only single authorship is permitted. An entry co-authored by two or more students will not be
accepted.

Submission Rules

Each entry must be the original and previously unpublished work of the participant.
A copy of the entry should be e-mailed to melawnge@glcmumbai.com in both the PDF and Word formats with the subject “Entry for Belles-Lettres 2020-21”.
Participants must submit a short bio-data in the body of the e-mail containing the following information:
- Full name
- Year
- College name
- Telephone number &
- Postal address along with personal contact number,
- Email-id & postal address
In the body of the same email,participants are required to specify which topic they have chosen to write on. Such specification must not be included in the entry itself.
Participants must submit a scanned copy of their College Student Identity Card or equivalent Fee Receipt. Entries which do not contain the same, will not be accepted.
The entries shall be the property of the Magazine Committee, Government Law College, Mumbai, which reserves the right of publication of the same in any periodical,journal,book, electronic resource or in any other manner as it may deem appropriate.
The organising committee’s decision as regards the interpretation of rules or any other matter related to the Competition shall be final and binding.